Do you know that God wants to dream with you?
Ephesians 3:20, “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work with us.” Some versions even use dream instead of imagine.
Dreaming and imagining are kind of the same thing, right? We all imagine in our minds the things that we wish we could accomplish, maybe for you it’s becoming a singer, or the president, or perhaps just a cool parent. Do you know that isn’t just your imagination? That’s your soul dreaming, creating a future that it desires to make known a reality. God gave us this gift so that we might dream with Him, and allow him to give us ideas and dreams that we can only accomplish through his help.
Not that we aren’t big enough or strong enough to accomplish those dreams. But, in terms of a God given dream, it does. I have heard it said that if your dreams are accomplishable with your own efforts, they’re not big enough. We serve a big God that Jesus spoke of in Matthew, “with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Are you telling God how big your dreams are, or are you telling your dreams how big your God is?
Yes, it’s cliché and will forever and always be written on high school graduation cards, but I will say it: DREAM BIG! Seriously. God and I have been dreaming a whole lot in the last couple of months. He has so much for me to do, and I want to do it all, but with Him. I can’t accomplish my dreams without Him. After all, the dreams that I have He has given to me!
Dreaming was not really something I ever allowed myself to do for most of my life. I imagined all these things I wanted to do, but I never thought they could be done. Not that I doubted God’s ability to help me, but I just never knew I could invite him into my dreams and allow him to speak into them. I also didn’t know who I was, I hadn’t quite realized my identity in Christ. But, this time on the Race has been so good for shaping me into the woman that God ordained for me to be, way before I was even a thought in my parents’ minds.
I know one of my beloved Boulder girls would so enjoy this, Angela is one who helped me cultivate how to dream with God. My dreams lately have been about the future. Business dreams, career dreams, family dreams, husband dreams, educational dreams, and more. I encourage you to begin dreaming with God if you never have. When he gives you ideas, write them down. Pray about them. Then dream some more, write some more, and pray some more.
And if you start dreaming with God and something happens that discourages your dream, turn to your community, to the Word, and to Jesus to encourage you through it. If you hear of someone doing something similar to your dream, don’t let it discount yours. If finances get in the way of accomplishing your dream, pray hard for support, and ask for it. If you feel like it’s taking too long and is never going to become a reality, remember that “hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently,” Romans 8: 24-25.
So, remember that God gave us imagination not just for our own fun, but so that we might be inspired to dream with Him. When we give him the opportunity to dream with us, He will give us things that we never thought we could accomplish, but can with Him walking us through it. And when adversity hits you, or Satan starts telling you those lies like ‘you can never do this,’ and ‘who are you to think of this,’ just flip him the bir…I mean, tell him to hush up, tell yourself to be strong, and focus on what God is saying.
Most importantly, never stop dreaming…
Sweet Dreams,
Hope
