Challenge # 1: Today, write your own "I have a dream" speech. Where do you see God's will for you in 5 years (March, 2026)?
Challenge #2: What must you do TODAY to begin / continue the path to achieve #1?
What needs to happen by April 1? September 1? March 1, 2021?
Write it down, then MARCH toward your dream. The journey to a dream makes the dream become reality.
Every step of your journey will be one step closer to perhaps even more and even better than your dream.
Each step will be your reality.
Don't expect all to be excited for your dream: "Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more." Genesis 35:7. But it is not their dream, it is yours. Do not be discouraged. Stay on the journey.
Don't expect it to be easy: Joseph's dream led him to rejection, slavery, and prison. You may have to go alone. But every hard step is one step closer. Stay on the path.
Don't expect others to remember. "Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him." Genesis 40:23. You need to remember and rehearse it in your heart and remind others who are on the journey with you. Stay on the map.
Don't expect it right away. "For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay." Habakkuk 2:3. Sometimes God's will happens while you are waiting for God's will to happen. Life is a journey and God will walk with you along the path, not just at the destination. We don't live in the past. We don't live in the future. We live in the moment. Enjoy the scenery along the way. Stay in the moment.
Don't say, "It's too late for me. God saves the best to last, remember the water turning to wine? "I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh...Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions." Remember God has put eternity on your heart, and God knows no age nor limitations of time.
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes 3:11. Stay with the dream until it is reality.
Don't doubt God may have placed it on your heart. God speaks through dreams. Who put that desire in your heart? Psalm 34:7 says, "Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart." Sometimes God tells you to reach for the sky, just to stretch you. No map is "as the crow flies"... sometimes the road will head east, west, and sometimes south, so that it can go eventually go north. It is never a failure to follow. Prepare and even expect and count on course adjustments. You don't need to see the destination to arrive there, you just must trust. Stay in the faith.
Finally, look to Jesus for your dreams. "For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ," Galatians 1:12. Jesus knows the way, just follow your headlights. Stay with the Lord.
