240. Dreaming Big With God
Have you ever found yourself giving up on a dream or limiting what God can do in your life? In this episode, Caroline shares practical steps for dreaming big with God. Tune in for encouragement on how to move forward in faith, even when life’s challenges have made it difficult to dream. Get ready to start dreaming boldly with God!
Bible Verses:
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12
“When hope’s dream seems to drag on and on, the delay can be depressing. But when at last your dream comes true, life’s sweetness will satisfy your soul.” Proverbs 13:12, TPT
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Hoses 4:6
“So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.” Zechariah 4:6
“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.“ Proverbs 18:21
Topics Discussed:
Practical Ways to Dream Big with God
- Tend to the Soil of Your Heart
- Find healing from your current disappointment/delay.
- Don’t diminish your grief, pain or disappointment. Process it and deal with it.
- God needs to heal your pain and disappointment before you are able to dream big with God again.
- Get in God’s Word
- Through His word we see how wonderful and powerful our God is.
- We encounter God through His Word.
- If we don’t know God’s Word, we don’t know what He is capable of.
- Read God’s Word and you will be encouraged by the testimonies found in scripture.
- Reading God’s Word helps us understand his nature and character.
- Cast Some Vision
- Decide what exactly it is that you want to dream big with God about.
- Write your vision down and turn it into a declaration statement.
- Take the steps to prepare for receiving that vision from God.
- Dreaming big with God can’t just be an idea, you need to live this out.
- Take Hold of What is Available to You
- Once you have cast the vision, you must take hold of it.
- Start making declarations.
- Start making a plan.
- Renew yourself with the Word of God.
- What are your action steps?
- We must be led by the Spirit of God.
- Repent
- We have all limited God at some point.
- Repent for every area that you have limited God and put Him in a box.
- This not a condemnation. This is an invitation to change the way that you think.
- Start Speaking Life
- We get to dictate the course of our life by the very words that we speak.
- What are you speaking today?
- If you have been speaking death, today is a great day to turn it around and start speaking life.
- Use your mouth to start making declarations.
- Cast your vision and start declaring it out loud.
- Find Community
- Fine people who will partner with you in your dreams.
- Don’t do this alone.
- You need community that can encourage you.
- You need community that can dream big with you.
- Don’t surround yourself with people who have small thinking.
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Powerful Quotes:
“If disappointment and discouragement are not dealt with, it’s hard to dream with God.” – Caroline
“When we give up on God, we stop dreaming with God.” – Caroline
“If you want to dream big with God it starts first with acknowledging and dealing with your current pain.” – Caroline
“All who were sick and came to Jesus received their healing.” – Caroline
“We will miss out on all God has for us if we don’t know what is available to us.” – Caroline
“If you want to start dreaming big with God, you’re going to have to start using your mouth.” – Caroline
“If your dreams are something that you can fulfill on your own, then they are not God given dreams.” – Caroline
“Your dreams so be so impossible that the only way they can come to pass is if God comes through for you.” – Caroline
Resources:
Episode 109 Who Told You That?
Episode 211 Barriers to Breakthrough // Part 2: Overcoming Unbelief
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