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Day Two: Dreams Come In All Shapes and Sizes

No one ever purposefully increases the size and scope and depth of their dream just to make sure it is entirely impossible! You wouldn’t look at your dream and say, “Let me make this even harder to achieve.” No, and neither would I. So then, why are all of our dreams so very large, impossible and “beyond us?” 

It’s because you and I didn’t come up with our own dreams. You may think you did. I may think I did. You may think that hunch, thought or conversation you had sparked your dream. But in reality, your dreams and my dreams come from Someone else altogether. Yes, they come from God. 

God is the one who made your dream so big. Because, to Him, it’s not very big at all. He can pull it off (and so can you, if you’ll trust Him). 

God is the one who put that deep longing in your heart. Because God is the Dream Giver. 

Your job is never to invent your dream. Your role is to discover your dream. Your dream has already been planted deep within you from the moment you were created. And all of your life up to this point has been one activity, experience, failure, success after another to prepare you to fully live out your dream when the time is right. 

Personal Reflection

1. Dreams come in all types and shapes. Some are only with us for a short time and they are accomplished in a short time. Other dreams (oftentimes the larger, more impossible dreams) pursue us for what seems like our entire lifetime. Have you experienced smaller-scale dreams that came about in a number of just a few months or years? 

a. If yes, what principles did you learn in the process of pursuing those dreams that you can now apply to your (possibly much larger) dream?

2. Compare Habakkuk 2:3 and Psalm 138:8. What similar theme do both of these verses share? 

In what way does this bring you encouragement in the path to pursue your dream?