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dreaming isn't optional


Today’s devotion is from our family devotion last night, and it spoke to me.  I thought you all might be encouraged as I was.  It comes from the youversion.com plan titled “Daring to Imagine”.  Read. Take it all in.  And walk it out.  I continue to try.

Ephesians 3:20 NLT
Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

God’s dream for your life is bigger than your dream for yourself. It’s exponentially bigger. It’s far larger. It’s eternally significant. 

I don’t know about you but I’m a pretty big dreamer. I’ve never been accused of small dreaming. I’ve never been accused of being a tiny thinker. Yet God says, “Rick, think of the greatest thing I could do in your life, think of the greatest way I could bless your life. Dream the biggest dream, the greatest vision, and I can top that!”

You have no idea what God wants to do in your life. You are living such a small fraction of what you’re capable of doing. God’s dream for your life is enormous. He says, “I can do more than you can imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams.”

God wants you to dream big. He wants you to use the imagination that he gave you because dreaming big honors God. It shows faith. It shows trust. You should base your dream not on what you think you can do, but on what you believe God can do.
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