We’ve all heard people say, “Whatever you can dream, you can have.”
While we desperately want to believe that it feels more like fleeting fable
than a reality for most. As a kid what
starts out as dreams often gets drowned and pushed aside by our experience in life.
I have many friends right now who have
lived a robust life and seen tremendous success in their lives. They have been
very fruitful in their career. They have topped the corporate world but yet
they’re not fulfilled. Something inside of them cries out for more. They have
had success but now they want significance. So how do we find and follow our
dream?
The first step to achieving your dream
is to have one! The best place to find a
dream is in the heart of God. The dreams that originate from heaven are the
easiest to fulfill on earth! If you have not been convinced by God what your
dream may be you’ll be easily talked out of your dream by well-meaning friends
and family members. Find your dream and believe in it.
A real dream takes real faith. If you
can achieve your dream by yourself, you’re thinking too small. The only dream
worth having is a God-size dream. You
have to envision your dream before you can actually live in it. When I was
in college I’d never flown out of my country in a jet. I’d never travelled internationally.
I remember sitting in economics classes drawing the logos of Pan Am, SAS and British Airways.
I saw myself flying across the world. At the time I was so broke that I didn’t even
have a dime in my pocket. But I never lost the passion to doodle airline logos.
Today I can humbly say that I’ve traveled to over forty countries ministering
to people and counting. Faith is to live
in tomorrow while it’s today! Visualize your dream.
If
you want to follow a dream expect some turbulence.
Joseph had a dream and it came from the heart of God. Joseph didn’t just go
from his dream to his destiny. In between, Joseph encountered some very
unpleasant things. He went from being thrown into the pit to being sold as a
slave to the prison and finally to his palace. You too will encounter some
resistance between your pit and the palace. Don’t be discouraged. Keep your
eyes on the dream. Keep your integrity. God has said it and He will help you
get there.
In
the pursuit of your dreams, you’ll have to overcome many excuses.
One of the main obstacles you have to overcome is procrastination. One of the biggest lies you’ll have to deal with
is the time is not right. Don’t wait
for a more opportune time. If you want to see your dream come true, you have to
take small steps right now. If you want to be free of $10,000 debt, don’t wait
until you win a lottery or for the IRS to send you a check. Discipline yourself
and decide to take at least 10% of every paycheck right off the top and start
paying off your debt.
Find your genius club. It takes one
person to dream a dream and thousands to fulfill it. When God gives you a
dream, it always supersedes your own capacity. If you want to see your dream
come to pass, surround yourself with people who believe in you. Follow people
who are already there where you want to go. Ask them to be your mentor. You’ll
meet dream-killers along the way but if you surround yourself with dream
releasers you’ll make it to the top.
I believe God has put a dream in your
heart that is about to give birth. Like Joseph, you will go from your pit to your
palace. Like me you will fly high in the sky. You’re made for more. God is
stirring you up so that He can fulfill the dreams He put inside you. Now is the
time, this is the moment. A Chinese proverb says, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Follow your dream and God will help you fulfill it.
"And afterward, I will pour out my
Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will
dream dreams, your young men will see visions” (Joel 2:28 NIV).
Hi Sandy - thank you so much for sharing this post. I loved hearing your story about seeing yourself flying across the world. Faith definitely brings those things from the spirit to the natural!
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