Dreams From Above

When you surrender your own dreams to God, and ask Him to lead you, guide you, and direct your life, then He will reveal His dreams for your life. Dreams are, for some people, the achievements they most want to complete in this life.

Dreams Through Time
A common dream for elementary school students, is to be able to drive, date, stay out late, and be like the celebrities and sports stars. High school students dream of a faster car, a modeling career, going to college, and being the most popular girl or guy in school. Once the college years begin, many begin to dream of marriage, a lucrative career, a large home, and luxury vehicle. Newly weds begin to live many of their dreams, only to find more dreams to chase. They long for more time to spend together, less work, and more vacations. They birth the dream of having children, and soon embark on the path to parenthood. Once they become parents, a new multi-faceted dream scheme emerges, as they dream of family adventures, and the lives they hope their children will live. They dream about how to provide better for their families, and dream of when to expand their family and to what extend. They dream of weddings, grandchildren, and the pride of watching their offspring succeed. Grandparents dream of spending time with their family most of all. They dream of the days gone by, and dream with hope for the days ahead.

Dreams From Within
Dreams, for others, may be messages that bring healing or change to their lives. Depression sufferers dream of finding joy again. The lonely dream of fellowship, comfort, care, love, and comrade re. The barren dream of new life. Grief breaths dreams of memories, mostly good, and chases them. Those with cancer dream of cures. Addicts dream of the next buzz, and freedom from their chains. Employees dream of raises, promotions, and recognition-some dream of a different job. Dreams change who we are, and who we are becoming.

Dreams Come True
God is part of who we are today, and who we will be tomorrow. He wants to be our everything. He wants to make life run smoothly by carrying us through the rough spots. He dreams of us.
Your dreams for this life and eternal life come from God when you ask Him to give you His greatest blessings. When you surrender all of yourself to Him, then He will reveal His dreams for your life. If deep down in your heart you have genuinely asked Him to take all of your hopes, dreams, plans, and goals, then whatever the thoughts and dreams that come into your mind after that will be from Him! -If you continuously seek Him on a daily basis, and maybe even more than daily --maybe hourly if you have a lot of distractions around you...maybe even moment by moment.

Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit speaks to us all the time. When we listen and follow His directions, then we can hear Him more and more distinctly. However, if multiple times in a row we hear Him, but do not follow through on His message to us, then the voice of the Holy Spirit within us will grow softer and softer, until we don't hear it anymore. This is when life begins to take turns towards pain, and recklessness. We lose our direction and begin to wander around with no purpose in life. We begin to lose sight of our goal of being Christians (Christ-like), and lose sight of our destination of eternal life. Eternal life is not earned --it is the gift of God when He gave Jesus as the payment of our debt of sin. However, as Christians we are called to live a certain way, and are only able to live this way by the leading of the Holy Spirit. If you do not feel like your life is following the plans God has for you, it's OK. --Stop what you are doing now, and pray to God to help you. Tell Him that you want to follow His plan for your life, and you want Him to bless your life. He wants you! Nothing you have ever done or will do is too much to keep Him from loving you. NOTHING!

Follow the dreams God give you. Seek Him, surrender to Him, ask Him for help, guidance and direction today. Then continue to spend time reading the Bible and praying, knowing that God has promised to draw near to us when we draw near to Him.

"Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up!" James 4:8