Home Groups Thurs 26th may and Tues 31st May
For a dream comes through much activity, (Ecclesiastes 5:3 NKJV).
Some where over the rainbow . . . . way up high, there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow . . . .skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
Someday I’ll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me.
That’s where many of us end up in life and in the church.
Somewhere . . .there’s a place better than I’m in now. Somewhere . . . there’s a place where my dreams are fulfilled. Someday . . .I’ll get there.
The problem is we have relegated this somewhere to heaven, and the someday to the rapture of the church or we die. But, what about NOW!
Are we destined to always live between somewhere and someday?
Are we saved to live in depression and discouragement, barely coping or simply making do and mending until Jesus returns?
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10 NKJV).
We’re not supposed to surrender our dreams when we meet Jesus. He saved us for a reason.
What happened to the dreams you had before you were saved? What did you dream of doing? Maybe God changed those or maybe He’s helping you to pursue the dreams you had with a new perspective; a perspective from which He gets the glory.
What would you dream of doing if you had no hindrances to your goal?
What would you dream of doing if all barriers could be overcome and you could reach that goal?
Me? I’d like to be a published poet. Hardly likely though if I don’t send them to an editor and publishers.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.� - Mark Twain
We all need to dream for all areas of our lives. We must have goals we are working towards other than just making it into heaven.
Our Christian experience consists of much more than our Saturday service and our home group meets, and maybe a few other meetings elsewhere that seem to contribute more to burnout than to our spirituality.
There are wonderful depths to Jesus that are available to all of us if only we search for it. Unfortunately many are content just to get what they can from the weekly service without looking and experiencing the real pleasure of doing the stuff.
We must choose to work towards our dreams, incrementally if need be and take large steps when necessary. That is why we have set up our easy to join in projects. Everyone gets to play!
Never underestimate the power of incrementally pursuing your dreams. A little bit here and a little bit there.
We discovered through the past couple of home groups that we are a product of our choices, fear and possible faithlessness to a certain extent.
We choose to be spiritual; we choose to better ourselves in life; we choose to work on relationships, etc.
We can live in the somewhere-someday mentality and never accomplish anything. We’re just coasting through life, letting things happen to us. God is interested in our dreams.
Some people have been in church for years; they’ve heard teaching and preaching for years; what have they done with it? Have they translated hearing into doing? Have they ever dared anything, big or small, for Jesus? And since, for the Christian, everything we do is for Jesus, have we ever dared anything, big or small in any area of our lives?
We have been commissioned to go and preach the gospel to everyone (Matthew 28:18-20), but notice Jesus didn’t tell us how to do it. Our gifts, talents and abilities that God has given us are all to be used for the fulfilling of the mission. And He does it differently through each of us.
A paradigm is a way through which we view something. Remember my teaching on the 5 step model of healing? It demonstrated a different way of approaching prayer ministry – a paradigm shift.
Paradigms represent the way things are supposed to be, according to our perceptions. In other words, we often see what we want to see according to our view of the world. Why do we have so much trouble dreaming big dreams? Because many times it fundamentally goes against the way we see things, or, our paradigms.
I wonder why God chose the age of 20 years old and upward to be the dividing line of those who would not make it into the Promised Land? Could one reason be that the young dare to dream big dreams while those who are older are less inclined to dream and dare?
Q: What would you dream of if you dared to dream outside your existing paradigms?
Q: What dreams are you going to dream? For your self? For PV? For Preston? For Jesus!!
Or, will you live between somewhere and someday – Over the rainbow?
Decide, today, that things are going to be different in your life. Then dream some big dreams and set some goals to achieve those dreams. Work at those goals, bit by bit if necessary and then bigger steps when you are ready, contributing to the whole of your life.
Let God use the talents and the gifts He’s given you to perform the mission He has given to the church. Dare something for God. Get a new paradigm. Don’t get stuck between somewhere and someday. Dare to dream big dreams.
Dream Big Dreams for a Big God and the dreams that you dare to dream really will come true!
