What is the one thing that you dream about accomplishing in your life? That’s not a question that is often encouraged in the church. We often don’t relate the things of God and our dreams. But what if God has made you to accomplish the dream that he has placed within your heart? What if the dream that you have stopped dreaming was God’s dream for your life?
God has made us to join in his work. In that process God has given us passions and desires from his heart to ours. As followers of Jesus we must allow God’s dreams for us to become our dreams. Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalms 37:4 ESV)
As we connect with God in prayer we begin to trade our dreams for his. As we learn to dream with God in prayer, God transforms the desires of our heart. What happens then is we begin to dream large dreams; God sized dreams. We dream those dreams until we decide to come back to “reality.”
Instead of focusing on what we think is possible we should be focused on God’s dream for us. As we spend quantity time with God, he shapes our dreams. Yes, you read that correctly, not simply quality time but we must also spend quantity time with God. So often we think we can make up for the quantity of time we spend with God in some other way. However, there is no way around our need to spend time with our King.
As we spend time with God, he shapes our passions to come in alignment with his purposes. The problem we often face is we don’t spend enough time with God to recognize his voice in shaping our dreams.
Take the time to ask yourself hard questions. What is your God given dream and how are you joining with God in it? Then make the choice to allow God to drive your passions toward seeing his dream for you become reality.
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