We need to be awakened to start dreaming again. And I mean dreaming real dreams. Too many have been caught up in the place of dreaming the supposed dreams that were adopted from their parents or the responsible voices of society and we’ve allowed such suggestions to become limitations to those true dreams we were born with. Too many of us find ourselves in a place where we might feel we’re ‘dreaming’ but it’s mostly just feeling stuck in a box of boundaries, responsibilities, and hindrances.
And so it’s time for a breakthrough, out of that false dreaming that keeps us stuck in a place of mundane routine and passionless living. The awakening comes when we destroy the fear, insecurity, and doubt that are holding us back and begin diving into the depths of burning inspiration and authentic, God-given, live-shattering dreams for this world.
Put simply, we just have to get over ourselves. The truth of the matter is that our dreams really have nothing to do with our own abilities and have everything to do with the all-encompassing power of the Living God. We will always be called to do the things that we cannot do and never just to the things we can do. The real, God-birthed dreams will always take us beyond ourselves and beyond our abilities into a realm of total dependency and complete empowerment by the Lord alone.
It’s time for a movement into that large-scale, world-changing dimension of dreams where we go in knowing we could never do it on our own. Right now it seems that fear captures us when we enter the land of unknown and way-over-the-head dreaming. But I wonder what would happen if we changed our perspective. What if we became less terrified by the fact we’ve entered a place beyond our own ability and more exhilarated by the possibility in that moment that it could only be done by the presence and power of God manifesting itself?I wonder if when we began living face-to-face with those dreams, if all of a sudden more orphans than ever would be loved and cared for, if girls involved in the sex industry of Thailand would be rescued out like never before, if forgotten, neglected children would come under the love of fathers and mothers ready to love them into a land of true kingdom identity and security.
Really, it’s about sowing – sowing into a generation that is arising, sowing into a world that is desperately crying out for His sons and daughters to come alive, sowing into demonstrating the power of the real God who is living and moving all over this world. So I challenge you to start dreaming in the way that goes beyond yourself and beyond your own gifts to begin living for something greater. Because let’s be honest….we all want to know that there is more to live for than just what we see day-in and day-out. We all want to believe that change can really happen in this world. And we definitely all want to play a part…don’t we?
