Dare to Dream and PROPHETIC Word
There are some dreams that the Lord has planted within many of his people that he wants to bring to fruition in the year ahead.
DARE
TO DREAM BIG
Isa
54: 2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of
your dwellings. Do not spare; Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
Did
God ever put in you a dream that seemed so big that it was beyond you?
Excellent! God inspired dreams always exceed our expectations and our own
capacity. Sometimes trouble surrounds these dreams such that we are tempted to
throw in the towel and give up. Its time
to stop giving up and time to start looking up. God wants you to look to him
to carry out that dream that he has placed. He will allow things to look so
impossible that it will only take God to carry it through. Ask God to enlarge
your vision to see it as He sees it.
BE
CAREFUL WHO YOU SHARE YOU DREAM WITH
Gen
37:5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him
even more.
Not
everyone will be happy with your dream. Birthing
a dream requires faith (Heb 11:6). Faith requires stepping out of normality into
the radical. God may be calling you to do something so radical that it will not
fit with the status quo of some people. Do not be so quick to share you dream.
Talk about it and pray with those whom he directs you who have the same passion
to see you fulfill that dream
BE
IT UNTO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD
In Luke 1: 26-38 we find the story of Mary’s encounter with the angel Gabriel who announced to her that she would be carrying the Son of God. She responded with simple faith to be unto her all that the Angel, representing God had spoken. Such faith! How would you have responded if you were in Mary’s place to know that you would be carrying in your womb “the Word that was with God and the Word that was God” (John 1:1). It was custom in Jewish tradition that pregnancy outside of marriage was met with much disgrace upon the woman and her family and many times resulted in death. Tumultuous circumstances may surround the dream that God has placed within you. Respond in faith and say yes to God. He is simply looking for your agreement to bring to earth what has already been established in heaven.
PROPHETIC
WORD
I
hear the Lord saying do not put Me in a box.
Do not assume that because I moved and
worked in a particular way in previous times that I will use the same method
today. Today is a new day to seek Me afresh and to walk with Me by faith and let
Me lead you step by step by My Spirit. I am a creative God. I look
for new ways to express Myself within and through My people. Like My servant
Elijah on the mountain, many look to hear Me speak in thunderings, lightening
and in other spectacular ways yet fail to hear and listen to My still small
voice. Many have become so comfortable to passively wait to hear My Word through
My prophets that they do not seek Me for themselves. You are so used to doing
this that you have forgotten what My voice speaking to you sounds like.
Have
I not said that My sheep hear My voice? My beloved children, I will not shout or
scream above the noise and busyness of daily life. In order to hear My voice you
must be still and know that I am God. I will never force you into My presence
but I will woo you and usher you into the holy of holies even as a lover ushers
and woos his love into the inner chamber. I call and knock on the door of your
hearts, but it is up to you to respond to that call.
When
was the last time you listened to the birds singing, observed the wind rustling
through the trees or watched the ocean waters beat against the beach shores? Do
you not know that I also speak through My own creation. Has your life and
ministry become so busy that you have not stopped to marvel and wonder at all
that I created for you? I am calling you now to know My ways. In order to know
My ways you have to know and hear My voice. In order to hear My voice you must
be on the same wavelength with Me. Lay down all your plans, your preconceived
ideas about how I will move and just come and listen afresh. Behold I am
doing a new thing and I am looking for a people who are flexible, those who are
willing to bend when I bend, to proceed when I proceed, to move when I say go,
even as the children of Israel in the desert moved only when the pillar of My
presence moved.