jdrobidasI remember one afternoon i was jogging down the street and listening to my walkman. I was 17 at the time. Mp3 players were just coming out and I worked at McDonald’s so I didn’t have one. I remember as I was jogging I began to daydream about some pretty amazing things. I pictured stadiums full of people getting healed by the power of God. I dreamt of people getting out of wheelchairs and walking around in the stadium. I pictured whole rows of people being baptized with the Holy Spirit. Then I stopped and rebuked myself and… repented??? Yeah. True story. I repented because in the dream i was involved in calling people to action. So i repented and asked God to forgive me for such prideful dreams.
I believe the Lord spoke to me as I ran and said “do you really think you came up with that idea on your own? Are those the kind of random thoughts a 17 year old boy just thinks about as he runs?” The answer was obvious. Most of the time i was daydreaming about girls or sports or something else. But not those dreams. I realized something then that has been a blessing for me for 11 years now. When I dream like that it’s because God birthed that dream in my heart. I didn’t know it at the time but the Bible teaches that very thing.
For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:13
God is actually the one at work within me. He is the one that causes me to desire and to work for what pleases Him. It pleases God to reveal Himself as the healer to people who need healing. It pleases Him to display Himself as the deliverer to those who are bound. It brings Glory to God to fill people with His Spirit and give them a new life in Christ. He is the one that planted that dream in my heart that day.
That desire that you have for more in God isn’t just wishful thinking. Wanting to be used by God miraculously isn’t just pride at work. He puts desire in our hearts for the breakthrough that He intends to give.
Let me say it this way. It’s God at work in us, that causes us to want to do, and to do what He wants to do.
When you dream God sized dreams, just remember… It’s a God thing.
Ponder that.
