Help Us to Dream
Your
Dreams oh
Lord!
Your
Dreams oh
Lord!
Reading Psalm 107 and I feel so incrediby loved by God and wonder if you would like to "blush with me" as we ponder together His incredible love for EVERYONE in the world, including you!
Here is a sampling of this very long song God sings over us: "Let everyone give all the praise and thanks to the Lord! Here's why-He's better than anyone could every imagine. Yes, He's always loving and kind, and His faithful love never ends. So go ahead-let everyone know it! Tell the world how he brought through and delviered you from the power of darkness and has gathered us together from all over the world. He has set us free to be His very own!" Psalm 107 TPT 1-3 I started out reading this song and ending up hearing a song from heaven healing my very soul and delivering me from religious ideations of God that have been all wrong. Who are God's kids? In a sense, everyone on planet earth are His creation and I believe His desire is for ALL of us to be His kids in a more personal way. While we don't get to choose who are earthly parents will be, we do get to pick our spiritual Father. God lovingly knit us in our mom's womb and saw our embryo as it was being formed. Did you know that before He did that, He wrote a book all about the dreams He dreamed over us before, during and after our lifetime on earth? He had plans for our eternity that bring out the best in us and dreamed up how we could best influence the world and all of eternity with our unique giftings that He created us to "do very well." Yet He is too good, to force us into "His dreams" for us. Every minute of every day He lets us choose. His dreams or ours. Some days we might "stay on task" for 10 minutes and He has a reward awaiting us for that. Other times we might actually spend an entire day letting Him guide us and we find that day most blessed and somethings take it for granted that He was leading us all the way and wants to do that for us every day of our life. God's fatherhood sacrificed His own willing Son, Jesus, to cover our failures to "dream the dreams of God" so that we not only could dream those dreams but that we would develop a taste to want "only His dreams." Jesus, dreamed those dreams with His Father and suffered for us so we wouldn't have to suffer the consequences of our rebellion dreams against God's perfect and beautiful dreams for us. He dreamed those dreams for us even BEFORE He knit us in our mom's womb. God is too good to push or force us to follow His dreams for us. I believe even Hitler had a chance to see the beautiful book of God's dreams for him. Whether he saw them on this side of heaven, I can only think in God's mercy, he had many opportunities. Yet I do know that on judgment day, God opens two books. One of those books is the book with our names on it. Hitler got to see when He stood before God's judgment throne all the good dreams he missed dreaming with God throughout his lifetime. This is what Calvary was all about. God wanted us to see what great lengths He would go to in order for us to have the freedom and ability to dream and accomplish God's dreams for us on planet earth and for all of eternity. I believe Hitler is spending an eternity regretting his choice of rejecting God's plan for his own evil plans for the world. Regret is what hell is about. Jesus taught us a simple rule to know if we are following God's dreams or believing lies about "following our heart's dreams." Jesus said, "The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy but I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly." The start of those "dreams of God" being fulfilled in our lives is believing that Jesus's dream was to pay the penalty of all the times we choose our wimpy dreams for our lives over God's rich and bountiful dreams for us. He died to cover our regrets, He rose to show demonstrate the glorious riches of God's dreams for us and He sent the Holy Spirit to live in the hearts of those who looked and believed and received Jesus's dream for each of us to be our dream too! I believe that when we stand on judgment day, whether we spent 2% of our life dreaming God's dreams or spent a lifetime dreaming His dreams, God is a rewarder of those who let God's plan-Jesus- save us from our own finite dreams. It is never too late to start dreaming, I've learned. I have believed in my mind about these dreams of God for me for many years. Yet in many ways and for many years I have resisted those dreams for me and those around me. I too often listened to the father of lies tell me his dreams of failure, screw-ups and the inability of myself or others to ever "achieve" God's dreams in our lives. I regret those many times I turned off those who have not yet choosen the Fatherhood of God and taken the "first step" into God's dreams for His son's blood to atone for their "limiting" God's dreams in their lives. Yet I am thankful this week for the reminder duing "Pass-over week" that the blood on the doorposts of Israel when they needed deliverance from the Pharoah in Egypt represented the blood Jesus shed to pass-over those failures and regrets. Reading through psalm 107 in the Passion translation this morning made me realize we are all on equal footing. We have all failed to dream God's dreams for at least a portion of our lives. But God promises to throw our failures and shortcomings into His ocean of forgetfulness and start dreaming the dreams of God today. No matter how badly we blew it yesterday, we can start this day "choosing His dreams, surrendering our schedule and our plans for His." Here is the song that welled up in my heart. I started by regretting conversations with a granddaughter and singing this over her wounded heart today but I really believe the whole world right now needs to hear this song. If you agree, share this with your friends today. I heard God singing over the world: "I love you, I love you, I love you, not for what you do, but who you are." It is what you are in His eyes, in His dreams for you! That is why He loves you, it is why He sent Jesus and why He had me write this blog today. What prompted this song? I believe it was my response to this portion of psalm 107, let it sing God's love for us over our soul, spirit and body today: "For we rebelled against God's Word and rejected the wise counsel of God Most High. So He humbled us through our circumstances, watching us as we stumbled, with no one to pick us back up. Our own pain became our punishment. Then we cried out, 'Lord help us! Rescue us!' And He did! His light broke through the darkness and led us out in freedom from death's dark shadow and snapped everyone of our chains. So lift your hands and give thanks to God for his marveous kindness and for his miracles of mercy for those he loves! Some of us were fools, bringing on ourselves, sorrow and suffering all because of our sins. Sick and feeble, unable to stand the sight of food, we drew near to the gates of death. Then we cried out, 'Lord help us! Rescue us!' AND He did! God spokes the words, "Be healed," and we were healed, delivered from death's door! So lift your hands and give thanks to God for his marvelous kindness and for his miracles of mercy for those He loves!"- BTW He LOVES you! He proved it by writing everything in your book of life before one day came to be. He lovingly knit you in your mom's womb and I believe He is drawing you to Himself as you read this. Don't let the father of lies steal one more day of your destiny. It is NOT too late, you are not "TOO FAR AWAY". If there is life, there is hope." If you are still breathing that includes YOU! Yet- you get to choose, He will NEVER force you to come to Him but He sure wants to welcome you with open arms if you do!
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