Dream Big or Go Home!

Ephesians 3:20-21 (The Message) ~ God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

I have always had an active imagination. When I was younger my mom couldn’t afford the barbie dream house, so I used my imagination. I laid out a blanket, threw a couple of Kleenex boxes and wash rags down and voilà, I had a barbie dream house. I would even turn the Kleenex box over and stuff my barbie down in it and she had her own barbie dream car! As I grew up, my imagination changed from barbie dreams to boy dreams. I could imagine an entire relationship with a guy I had a crush on, from first dates to marriage proposals, without ever speaking to him. I would imagine what my life would be like when I became an adult. It usually hoovered around the idea of being filthy rich and not having to work. There was always a great, loving man in the picture, along with fabulously well-behaved children. As you can well imagine, most of that did not came true. The only dreams and imaginations that have really came true in my life are the ones that God had a hand in.

There have been times in my walk with God that I have sat and wrote out vivid dreams and imaginings for my future that I believe came from God. When I first started ministry one of the God sized dreams we had was having a ministry in Panama that helped the Kuna people grow in their responsibility of sharing the Gospel with their own people. Soul Seekers Ministry is now doing that!! One crazy day God gave me a dream of having a seminary degree, and a long, long, long, term dream He gave me was being married to an amazing, God loving man. That particular dream took up a lot of my imagination over the years. Many journal entries were dedicated to all the intricate details of that dream.

Have you ever had a God sized dream that you looked at through slanted, sideways glances and thought, “WHAT?!? There is NO WAY I can do that! And to be honest I don’t know if I even want to do that!” Recently God has given me some dreams that honestly scare me a bit. Things that I’m not really sure I’m ready for or want to happen. They scare me to the point that I have almost looked away and ignored them, hoping they would go away. But still, I find myself in those twilight moments between awake and sleep, dreaming about what those new adventures would be like. I cannot help myself. Dreaming and imagining is a part of who I am. I think maybe that is why God asks me to do these crazy, off the wall things. He knows that eventually, after I get over the shock and fear, I will run full force into whatever He wants me to do because I have the imagination to see what can happen. He will quietly remind me that I told Him once, many years ago that I would go wherever He wanted me to go and do whatever He wanted me to do.

My prayer for all of us is that we DREAM BIG with God, even if it scares us. We are not limited by what He can do, we are only limited by what we are willing to allow Him to do in our lives. Go Dream my sister…Dream Big!

You have probably noticed that I usually have a perfect song for each post I make. Well just a little insight into my creative process. A LOT of my post come from me listening to these songs, not me going to find a song to fit my post. This is an oldie but a goodie!