What Dreams have you had lately?

What Dreams have you had lately?

All Things are possible through God as Abraham and Sarah would surely discover for themselves after many years of dreaming and hoping for a son, they just were not patient enough to wait on the Lord! They had to try and do things on their own and force the issue – thus came forth the son Ishmael. God shared with Abraham his vision and promise to him – His dream for Abraham as it were. But somewhere along the way, Abraham and Sarah began to lose faith in the dream that God had for them, and decided to speed things up – to do things their own way instead of God’s way and in His time.
We all need to have a dream. Without a dream or vision for our lives – we lose hope, we quit, we give up, we may even eventually perish!

“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

What dreams do you have for your life? What about dreams for your family or your church? Or even for your worship time with God?
Do we sometimes give up on our dreams too soon as Abraham and Sarah did trying to do things on our own? And what usually happens when we try to make our dreams happen too soon? If you’re like me, I usually mess something up somewhere and have either start over or give up in my effort as something goes wrong that I didn’t plan on.
A few years ago – I stood by and watched, helplessly as a once proud and noble church in our community slowly fell apart, crumbled, withered and died. A long time ago God gave the people of that church a dream – but some within the church chose to do things their way – rather than wait on the Lord and his timetable to work things His way. God gave Noah the vision to build a gigantic boat – but what would have happened if Noah had quit waiting for rain and given up building a boat just because it was just taking too long? God gave Joseph dreams of the future, but Joseph had no way of knowing that those dreams would save lives and shape the future of two entire nations! Dreams take faith to bring to reality. A faith that means not holding on or looking back at the past or worrying only about the present – but a strong faith to see the possibilities that God’s promise holds for the future!

What dreams have you had lately?