I love thanksgiving. I get to eat awesome food all day, sleep in between, and watch football, spend time with family and friends. What’s not to love?
Take advantage of the time God has given you with the people He has given you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
-Justin
First off I want to start off by thanking an amazing family friend, Katie Reine, who yesterday took Lauren and I’s engagement pictures. Look for kvrphotography on Facebook and #kvrphotography on Instagram. She’s pretty awesome.
So I have never been one to like taking pictures. I usually take one and then I’m done. Yesterday was a little differenent. I think it was because I realized the person I was taking them with was the very person God thought of when I was formed. We take what God does for granted so often. We look at circumstances as just that, circumstancial. When infact the things God has laid in front of us are precise and accurate.
We schew the things God intended us to see becasuse our vision is bad, not God’s. We forget the perfection God offers us. We need to stop blaming God for what we can’t see going on around us, and thank Him for what we do see. It all changes when we change our perspective. When we take on a godly view of this life, it looks different then our own. When we stop taking the little things for granted, and see them blessings, we begin to love our lives again.
Look for the beauty that is all around you, and begin to love the life you’re living.
Proverbs 13:19 NLT – It is pleasant to see dreams come true, but fools refuse to turn from evil to attain them.
To answer the main question, I think you have to hit a few other points. First, what are dreams? Second, what are YOUR dreams compared to God’s dreams for your life? Third, what is stopping you from dreaming outside the box?
What is a dream to begin with?
Dictionary version: A strongly desired goal or purpose.
My version: The desire to do, go, and chase something that is outside of your current standing. To go beyond your current limitations to reach a place with no limitations. To desire more.
What are YOUR dreams compared to God’s?
You have to find where your heart is being called. You have to open your eyes to God’s plan for your life and the dreams He has set in front of you. I don’t know if you know, but God dreams bigger and a lot more creative than we ever will. Now you know.
What is stopping you from dreaming?
Is what you’ve done, where you’ve been, your relationships, your thoughts, your job, just your life that is holding you back? Find the thing(s) that you think are stopping you from dreaming. There are so many things we let get in the way of dreaming. The one I have heard a thousand times… life. We let “life” hold us back from dreaming, when we should be dreaming about what we can do with the life we were given.
Dream bigger than you have ever dreamed. Start letting God take those dreams and make them even bigger. Make you dreams avaliable to God’s creativity, passion, love, and power and watch what happens. Let God set your heart on fire, and let your love and desire consume those around you. Dream to make a difference.
STOP DREAMING SMALL.
What are we doing dreamming small? What are we doing not dreaming at all?
We are becoming a society of lost dreamers, where few dream anymore, and most wait for the dreamers to tell them what to do, where to go , who to be. There are more people losing thier dreams every day. In turn, there are less and less dreamers.
We lose our dreams in this world. The world looks down on us, and we let it. We let this world push us around and tell us what we should and shouldn’t do, that a piece of paper, called a degree, that we pay thousands for will get us that “dream job” that we slave for. But for what? Money? We let the world and society tell us that we have to look and act a certain way to get where we want to go.
As christians, and christian churches, we dream to grow OUR church.
Here are some problems with that.
1. It is not our church to begin with, it’s God’s.
2. It is small scale thinking.
Instead of trying to grow our own personal churches, which aren’t ours to begin with, why are we not dreaming of growing the Kingdom?
Start dreaming, not about just growing the church, but about changing lives.
Check back in tomorrow for : Why Aren’t You Dreaming Big?
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