How Big Are Your Dreams? | AllWorship.com

How big are your dreams?

Back up:
Do you still have dreams?

What is a dream? I am not talking about the kind you experience while you sleep. In this context, a dream is something you want to do, achieve, be, or become; it is something you held in a time when you believed it could be so.

The ability to dream is something God enabled in us. We have an imagination; He created us with the ability to imagine–to see in our mind beyond our physical circumstances. Therefore, it is a part of His nature and ability.

A dream, then, is the ability to see what has not yet become.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Eph 3:20-21 NIV)

In today’s Scripture passage, Paul says that God is able to do more than we can ask or imagine. Another translation says more than we can ask or think. Same thing. We have the ability to see in our minds what has not yet come to be. A dream, we call it.

We think of thoughts as intangible things. This is not correct. Thoughts ARE tangible. Thoughts form tangible, physical structures in our brains through chemical and electrical connections that become “permanent” (in a manner of speaking). The level of permanence determines whether the thought becomes a short-term memory or persists longer.

Think of a childhood memory. How long has it been since the event occurred? Ten years? Thirty? Seventy? Those memories formed structures in your brain that can be recalled by thinking. You can even “re-live” the memory in your mind. Another layer in the process? Yes.

Some thoughts become ingrained to the point that they are with us for the rest of our lives and even influence, or in some cases, control our behavior, e.g., strongholds.

Back to dreams: We could say from this verse that God’s vision is greater than ours, and consequently, His dreams are bigger than ours. He can see beyond our outermost limits. How? Because He is already beyond them. He always has been and always will be.

And then, it goes further. In fact, God sees our futures as already past. It is not that He controls what we will do. Not at all. We still have the free will to do what we choose to do. Otherwise, we could not be held accountable for what we do. It is that He has already seen what we have yet to do in this reality, this timeline. This is all in Scripture. Perhaps you have heard what God declares through Isaiah (especially chapters 42 and 43): “I know the end before the beginning.” (my paraphrase).

Perhaps you had a dream at one time. Is there something that you really wanted to be, do, become, or accomplish? Do you still have it? Or, has life, circumstances, limitations, and such quashed it?

If that describes you, I encourage you to dream again. Engage that part of you that is like God’s nature. If you still hold to your dream, refuse to let it go–as long as it is in agreement with God. In Phil Keaggy’s song, Dream Again (2006), he says,

“I must let go of all these reactions
Leave them far behind and dream again.”

“If ever I lose my step
If ever I should forget
I will, I will pray.”

“Help me to let go
All these distractions
Leave them far behind and dream again.”

God has not let go of the dream He put in you. Have you? He still holds it in His vision for you. What has distracted you from it? What is keeping you from it now? Whatever it is, let it go, and as Keaggy says, PRAY.

Dare to dream again in Him.