INCUBATING YOUR DREAM
Every worthwhile dream takes its origin in God. - God is the One who gives you the dream. It was never yours to start with.
Many times, we run off and try to make things happen for ourselves; and all we get is heartache and frustrations. Psalm 127:1 - "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it" The most important decision you will make regarding the fulfillment of your dream is the decision to vigorously pursue your relationship with God.
Mathew 6: 25-33 - "Seek ye first...." John 15: 4,5
Psalm 37: 4-7 - That expression "delight yourself" means to open your heart to God. It means to render your heart soft and pliable in God's hands. When your heart is yielded to him, He will plant the right desires in it.
"Quiet down before God, be prayerful before him, don't bother with those who climb the ladder who elbow their way to the top" - Psalm 37:7 Message Bible
The desires that God puts in your heart are a key to what He has already empowered you to accomplish.
It's as if God is saying: "If I put the desire there, then I have already finished it."
So God is the One who gives you the dream - the desire. But in order for it to come to pass, you must receive it and nurture it.
In Mathew we learnt :Seek ye first the kingdom of God and in Mark 4: 26-29, the kingdom is revealed.
So God is the One who gives you the dream - the desire. But in order for it to come to pass, you must receive it and nurture it.
In Mathew we learnt :Seek ye first the kingdom of God and in Mark 4: 26-29, the kingdom is revealed.
Every dream from God is like a seed. According to this passage, for every seed to grow, it requires three things
1. The right environment
2. The right nurturing
3. Time
Your dream also requires these three things.
(1) The right environment: Mark 4: 26When God gives you a dream, it is not enough just to receive it. You need to put that seed in the right environment for it to become to pass.
A seed is a powerful little thing that is pre-programmed to be more than it is But a seed will not grow simply because it is a seed.
Your dreams need two types of environment for its incubation:
a. Internal environment which speaks of your heart condition. It must be one of faith and obedience.
b. External environment which speaks of the kind of company you keep, the books you read, the music you listen to etc.
(2) The right nurturing - I Cor 3:6
When you plant a seed, you need to water it. Your dream needs to be fed to keep it alive
Nothing stays alive all by itself. You must fight to keep your dream alive
What are you nurturing right now?
(3) Timing - Mark 4:27-29
Dreams do not come to pass the day God gives them - there is a process involved and the process takes time - Hab 2:2, 3
God's word will not necessarily come to pass the day He speaks it over your life
The prophesy of Gen 3:15 took 4,000 years to be fulfilled. But God was working on it all the time. And when the fullness of time came, nothing could stop it.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Everything in life has a due season and an appointed time.
The devil will try to use the element of time to discourage you, but God uses time to prepare you and to complete the process.
So get a Dream TODAY!!
3 comments:
Hi, that was a very wonderful write-up. When God gives you a dream, He enables you and He will lead you to it as seen in the life of Joseph.
God bless you.
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so, stay focused, beacuse the world need folks like u dt come once in a zillion years.
Your friend, Omolade
i keep wondering how much of God's wisdom is stored up in you. I really thank God for your life. This, as usual, has hit the nail on the head.I have discovered that God doesn't show you all his plans for you at once. He keeps showing them to you in bits and pieces. He waits to see your obedience in small things before he trusts you with the big assignments he has for you. Lately, God has been dealing with me on obedience.There has been two occasions now, that he told me to take some decisions that didn't make any sense to me at all. But i obeyed. And believe me, i have had no cause for regrets.
I also agree with you that dreams originate from God, so it will be foolish of us to leave God out of our dreams. And since he knows the end from the beginning, all we need do is rely totally on him to fulfil our dreams in life.
Thank you once again for this wonderful message.KEEP THE BALL ROLLING.............
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