Living The Dream

Maybe you’d be glad to Go Kid! and Get Real! if you had something that you thought was big enough to dream about.  What if you don’t know how to dream?  What if everything you face in life seems pretty mundane, and you feel like you’d be making it up if you acted like there was some big dream you had in life?

What do you do?  Does that mean you’re defective?  Is your dreamer broken?  Did God miss you when He was handing out the cool dreams, and you were left with blah? 

No, actually you may find that you just never stopped to listen or you weren’t in the place that you could hear.  Know this.  The dreams based on your design are as close as the God, your Creator, who desires to live in and ignite what He has caused to dwell in you.

As you dare believe for your created intent, here’s what you can know about you:

God has a design for you.  (Jeremiah 29:11)  

It is ultimately about Him and not about you.  (Matthew 6:33; 16:24, 25) 

It is bigger than you are.  (Psalm 2:8, 1 Corinthians 12:7)  

He’s created you with just the right potential to fulfill that purpose.  (Ephesians 4:7) 

If you listen to Him, He will free you to the spacious life of your design.  (Romans 8:6)

Being willing to do His will is an essential prerequisite for knowing it. (John 7:17)

The God who created you and set you apart for your purpose (who “sanctifies you”) is the power supply for accomplishing it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, 24)

A God-given dream is simply, “a compelling awareness of what could or should be, accompanied by a growing sense of responsibility to do something about it.” (The Dream Cycle, Steve More).  Or, as Bill Hybels put it, it’s a “Holy Discontent” – a discontent with a need, an unfulfilled opportunity, or a lack in the world.  And the cool thing is you don’t have to make it up.  You’ve been designed with it already intact.

God has given everyone an ability, a gifting.  You are no exception.  And with every gifting, He gives a God-inspired dream.  So go discover the God who created you.  Let Him illuminate your heart and design.

As you do, read Psalm 37:1-7, and listen not only to His promise to give and fulfill the desires he placed within you, but listen to the attitude he calls you to while you pursue His design.

So go find God, and Get Dreaming!