What are your dreams? We all have our hopes and dreams. To have a spouse, a nice house with a picket fence, a sports car, to play in the NBA, to meet Obama. These are just examples. But chances are, if your dreams are anything like mine, they are small. They may seem big to you… now… because we tend to think small. We all want material things, and if we get really greedy we say we want the world! There’s so much great stuff out there, right?! Well guess what… it’s ours. (Is. 61 and Eph 1)
It’s been given to us. The nations are our inheritance. Our old dreams… sure they seem nice, but let’s think eternal. Why dream our small dreams when we can dream God’s BIG dreams. The World Race will be over for me in July. I think that is when my alarm starts going off, and there’s no snooze button. It’s my time to get to work, because right now I’m dreaming. I’m living in someone else’s dream to spread Kingdom to the nations. To Ireland, Romania, Kenya, Uganda, etc. While I am doing this I am having dreams of my own and Gods. Kingdom Dreams.
I thought I had it all figured out. God wants me to work with youth. Pick up where He left me but much more prepared, working with a youth group. You know leading kids to Christ, woop woop, God’s proud and I’ve done my job. My dream keeps getting bigger. Now, it’s to create a lifestyle, a community of believers, who are constantly seeking more. Who love each other, support each other, are in constant prayer for each other. Who go out everyday and BRING IT. I’m in month 2. I’m scared to see what month 5 brings, much less 11. Be ready nations. This is one dream. There are 200 of us now, 180 more by January. Kingdom is coming. So I ask again… What’s your dream?
After I wrote this Jodi showed me a blog by Steven Furtick, who is amazing. He wrote this yesterday. Plus he is a better writer. Check this out.
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their forefathers to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.�
-Deuteronomy 31:7
Maybe as leaders we spend too much time trying to employ people to make our dreams come true. Now obviously, I believe God gives vision to visionaries, and assigns others to do their part in bringing it to pass. I also believe that if the vision doesn’t have its origin in the mind of God and its nexus in Jesus it’s worthless at best and potentially destructive.
But when Moses charged Joshua to lead the people out of the wilderness into the Promised Land, he approached it from an interesting angle:
The fulfillment of this promise wasn’t just for Joshua. God promised the land to them. To the people. Joshua was leading them into their inheritance.
As a leader, remember: you’re not the only one God has made promises to. The people you lead have dreams. They dream of impact. They dream of influence. They dream of maximized creativity and realized potential.
Lead them into their land. Develop them to be their best. Help them to establish ownership of their acreage. When you focus on calling out the potential of those you lead, you’ll usually find that your standard will become their standard. And your vision will come to pass as a byproduct.
