BIRTHING YOUR DREAM 18 June 2010
There are times when God places a desire or dream in your heart, it starts out as a seed and just like the seed of an embryo it starts to grow and develop until finally the child or dream is birthed and your harvest becomes a reality! This is how the process develops:-
“Dreams are made of this, seeds that I drop in your heart, water them, nurture them, feed them and they will grow into a harvest.” SJ
“When you have a big dream, small minded people will always be jealous and will criticize. Don’t be distracted by what people say and don’t waste time trying to win over your critics. The enemy fights you, not for your present but for your future and will try to get you to give up on your dream. You must be willing to press through opposition, remember the greater the pain, the closer you are to birth!” Joel Osteen
“Write the vision and make it plain so that the one who reads it may run” Hab 2:2. If you write the vision it will come to pass, you’ll make it happen! It’s not enough to think about it, you have to commit it to writing – if you write it down you will make it happen. Then confess your vision and rehearse it daily in front of the mirror, the mirror being the Word of God. Begin to read it as if it’s prophecy – begin to declare it and decree it “thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established and light shall shine on your way” Job 22:28. You have got to rehearse your vision on a daily basis until it becomes so internalized and becomes such a part of you that you cannot separate yourself from your dream. If you will persist, confess, decree and declare there will come a day, because of the laws of faith, travail and attraction, that stuff will begin to show up in your life and you’ll start checking off every dream, every vision, every desire.” Mark Chironna
1. Conception - when God deposits His vision in our spirit.
2. Believe - this is the first trimester and is very fragile (just like when you first plant a seed you have to nurture it, watering it twice a day until it becomes stronger and more mature). In this period you will fight doubt, unbelief, double-mindedness (to keep changing your mind) and wavering (doubtingly question, indecision, divided interests, unsteady, to sway to and fro – going from faith to fear) James1:8, 4:8, Rom 4:20, Prov 4:27.
3. Envision - seeing your dream without evidence! This is the part where you have to focus on your dream and visualize it! Focus means to put blinkers on (like race horses) and place your concentration in one direction, not allowing any distraction Prov 4:25. Focus – “the point at which concentrated light, heat or sound-waves meet. When we concentrate and centre our attention and activity in one direction, light (revelation), and sound (inspiration), begin to make a clear and distinct image. Once the image is clear, visualization can now be effective, bringing the dream to realization! If you can see it you can have it! The creative power of God, He saw it first, in His imagination, then spoke it into being! Our focus must not be on what we are going through but on what we are going to”.
4. Position - who we hang out with! Make sure you stay very clear of negative, naysayers who are dream blockers! Negative and critical words, if you listen to them and receive them can make you lose focus and abort your dream very quickly!! Sometimes it’s important to keep the dream to yourself, especially in the early, fragile stages to avoid abortion!! Don’t share your dream with just anyone, wait for the right people that God will place in your path to be able to share your dream with! You will eventually need to speak your vision into being but wait until it is well and truly established in your heart first.
5. Endure - waiting!! One of the hardest trimesters as waiting and not seeing results can cause you to doubt, waver and faint (give up, cave in, lose heart or quit) Gal 6:9. This is where patience, endurance and standing firm are vital 1 Pet 5:9-10, James 4:7, Heb 6:12, James 1:3, Rom 5:3-4, 1 Pet 1:7, Rev 3:10. In Greek the word “Patience” means to be constantly consistent, the same way all the time. Consistency is the place where the power is manifested.” “The word is a seed, plant it and keep it in the ground with patience”. Creflo Dollar.
6. Enlarge - stretching and feeling very uncomfortable! Ps 4:1 This is where fear, panic intimidation and overwhelming feelings of inadequacies and insecurities will overtake you! Your dream is always much bigger than you and your abilities and this can cause you to retreat but “if you act (obedience and humbling yourself in yielding to the H.S. and allowing Him to do the work through you, not you trying to do it yourself.) on what God said fear finds if difficult to defeat you. Obedience is required to experience forward motion. See yourself as God sees you, go to the Word and meditate on what God says, cast down vain imaginations (what ifs) 2 Cor 10:5, Eph 4:23. Right believing brings right actions. Our greatest challenge is to let go and let God!” Ray McCauley. “Fear = False Evidence that Appears Real. Fear and faith are mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed and cannot exist in the same heart, mouth or mind, at the same time.” Rod Parsley. “Fear tolerated is faith contaminated. Faith works by love and fear operates by selfishness. Fear is perverted faith. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God Rom 10:17, fear comes by hearing the devil’s words which are contrary to God’s word. Faith and fear is a law which comes in through by images, words and through your mouth. The greatest fear we face is the fear that what God has said won’t work, we have no confidence in His word and also when we doubt His love for us 1 Jn 4:18, 2 Tim 1:7” Creflo Dollar. It’s very important here not to allow fear to come out of your mouth through your words, as we have seen that words are the second stage of creation – for the negative or positive. If you do slip in this area be very quick to repent so that your words will not produce a negative result! Sometimes fear will remain but we need to continue anyway “Doing it Afraid”, courage is doing something even in spite of and in the presence of fear Josh 1:9, Deut 31:6, 1 Chron 28:20, Isah 41:10.
7. Prepare - get ready for it! Action! Start taking positive action towards your dream. The second step of faith is action as “faith without works is dead” James 2:20. You need to act on what you believe and begin to move in that direction, despite negative circumstances, and unseen evidence Heb 11:1, until you see the result.
8. Labour - overwhelming feelings, great pain and travail, opposition, rejection and obstacles – you need to jump over your obstacles, the devil will try his hardest to get you to abort your dream with fear, distractions, persecution and trouble. You are to push through the pain of difficulties and remember the battle is not yours it’s the Lords 2 Chron 20:15,17. Don’t give up just before your breakthrough, as this is when it is the toughest, but persevere through the pain and obstacles and you will receive great joy! Isah 66:9, Ps 126:5.
9. Realize - Dream is finally born and becomes a reality! Take time to celebrate and honour God for you success. Remember to give God the glory and don’t forget to testify of His Goodness! Rev 12:11, Deut 8:17.
Something To Live For
You must have a hope to inspire you. You must
have a path to pursue. You must have an object
to work for, a plan and a purpose in view.
You must have a sense of direction or lost you’ll
go drifting along. You must have a faith that
will guide you when life holds no light and no song.
You must have a stake in the future. Though
swiftly the years may depart. You’ll always
have something to live for – if you have a
dream in your heart. Patience Strong
