( photo is my Sister Christian and I in our 5 hr video chat, brainstorming and dreaming!)
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Jeremiah 29:11-12 NIV
Since I have been on my journey with Christ, healing and building my relationship with God; I have committed to living day to day in obedience to God’s will for me. In doing this I have not thought about my future or had any dreams of it.
I was truly ok with this because God was working so hard restoring my health, my spirit, my mind, and providing me with instructuctiins to teach me, test me and strengthen me. After two years of this process a conversation came up with a dear sister Christian.
She had spent the previous ( more than a month) in isolation, as she worked on her personal journey. As I totally understood the need for going into such an isolation so to draw nearer to God, I had limited contact with her. Only sending brief text or voice messages to let her know I loved her and my prayers continue for her. Eventually she came back…we resumed our video chats! It was amazing, silly , fun….and we veered off to dream a little.
For God is working in us separately but through it all we undoubtedly know that God has brought us together to serve Him together. This is where we drempt about the possibilities of his plan. We dream because we are uncertain of the bigger plan God has…but as we dream we pray and ask that God lays on us His will for us.
This is significant for both of us. Although our journeys look different , deep in our core, we both have given ourselves,our obedience,to God’s will. And that looks and plays out differently in both of us. For her, she is working on time management and not over extending herself, fine tuning and discovering God’s ultimate plan for her and she is working to conform to that plan.
For me…I wake each day ( and untill recently) I had NO idea what my day would bring. I pray, I read, I write. For during that time I did not have a job. ( God has blessed me and now I do!) So during those days I simply let God lead each step, each word, I relied on God for every aspect of every waking moment( I still do but One part of my day I do have planned is taking care of the sweet baby that is my job) So I never dreamt about my future. What did it hold? What is it to be or could be? But, when my Sister and I let loose we dreampt! And thats not a bad thing, it was fun! The key though, we know and pray that the dreams we have are the ones God wants us to have.
Over all what I have learned is that dreaming is fabulous! I had missed dreaming and having someone to share dreams with. My lessons along the way are that when I do dream, I do it in such a way that I fully invite God into them by asking him to guide my dreams and that was where the true joy of dreaming had made them better than I had ever experienced!
So dream away….ask God to lead your dreams and see what they show you!
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:1-2 NIV
Colleen Moore
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