I was having a little Twitter chat with a friend of mine yesterday – one who has been a big cheerleader in my life. After sending me a bit of encouragement about the roads I’m taking, and ones I am considering taking over the next six months to a year, he said this:
Go after the biggest dream in your heart.
I don’t know about you, but I know for me, the biggest dream in my heart is scary. It’s crazy! It doesn’t make sense.
I find myself asking, “God…is that really you?”
And yesterday I heard Him tell me, “If it doesn’t make sense, it probably is me!”
God asks us to do things that don’t make sense.
In fact, a preacher chick I admire once said to me, “there is NO NATURAL way a supernatural destiny can be mapped out….”
So as my friend said…Go after the biggest dream in your heart.
Especially the ones that don’t make sense.
God’s your provision. Get out of the way and give Him a chance to prove it to you.
What’s the biggest dream in your heart?
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25 responses to “Go After the Biggest Dream in Your Heart”
To be used by God to change the nation of Lesotho with Christ’s gospel
Our family willl all be praying for you as you go for your dream.
And we know what it’s like. When my youngest daughter was 5, we decided to do something I thought was probably entirely impossible. In fact, I only agreed after that quiet voice asked me “If you don’t try, and someone else does, and succeeds, how will you feel?” Then a year later he stepped in and told us “If you’ll do this for my kingdom, I’ll help you.”
We did. He has. Dramatically. Over and over.
Tell you more when we can. Not quite time yet.
But we will be praying God will work in your life, and open doors for you, as well as he has for us!
thank you for writing this. very encouraging, very challenging.
my husband and i have been talking this week about this fear that comes with dreams. people preach about it all the time…”do it afraid”…but when its ME, it feels different because its…scary! :)
I’m gonna bookmark/print up this post!
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Great question
The hard part for me is not my the dream of my heart all about me.
Wanting fame and fortune and a name that people know over wanting fame and a the name of God spread throughout the world.
I would like to say my dream is sharing the word of God to thousands through teaching and writing, but really that just comes back to me wanting that fame. It is almost like I am using God as an avenue to get what I want.
What is my biggest dream? To stop focusing on my desires and wants and focus on God
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Biggest dream in my heart — you’ve already spoken it into my life, Anne. The book. It’s in the hands of editors now. Probably out early fall. YOU encouraged me to believe in me and the call of God on my life to DO IT, whatever it takes.
Now I’m in that scary place of “what if”….
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Thx for this! There are times when I say to myself, what are you doing??? My dreams are waaaaay bigger than I can sometimes humanly fathom, and hearing encouragement like you’ve written only confirms it to my heart!!! Great post!
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Oh my….my dreams are a bit of a jumbled mess right now. I have a few:
1) To train worship leaders all over the world, thus encouraging worship all over the world and connecting worship leaders all over the world. What we could learn from each other! (presently working on this)
2) To write on how brokenness can revolutionize your life as a leader in Christ (presently working on this) What I’d LOVE to see come of this is to actually do retreats, services, etc where I could actually minister to leaders. I’d love to plan worship services where we could interweave teaching on brokenness, worship, prayer, ministry, etc. (after all, this is what I do!). So that is a dream that I just can hardly imagine coming true, but yet it’s what it really on my heart.
3) The other thing that has always, always been on my heart is to write a book addressing the issue of women in ministry leadership. I have no desire to argue theology or doctrine, but to point out the very real issues the attitudes have caused and also to encourage men and women alike to take a different path, and that is one of unity. I’d love to encourage the women in ministry to courageously answer the calling of God on their life no matter what other voices they hear.
What do these things have in common? I guess nothing but the fact that they all speak to leaders.
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Anne, once again, I find you on my brain wave. This past week has been hell on my dreams & it’s left me quite discouraged. I talk a big game when it comes to pursuing dreams, but when I get down & dirty with myself? I have nothing to show. Thanks for the reminder that we are nothing without Christ & through HIM our dreams have a heartbeat.
That the Lord would use the gift he gave me my Art to help those that need it..that he could use my little life to glorify him, help those who are living in the dark come to live in the light. My biggest dream that he would put me exactly where he needs me doing exactly what he made me to do, always praying and working towards whatever that dream might look like through him.
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this really spoke to me this morning. earlier this year i took steps towards piecing my life back together. i wrote my GED, applied to university, and finally heeded God’s call in my life. these past few weeks have been discouraging as i wait for news re: my applications. I had been starting to ‘rationalize’ my dream away, so thanks for the kick in the pants. God is bigger than my “but” :P
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You know what Robert de Baudricour said to Joan of Arc, don’t you?
“Those thoughts are just your imagination … They aren’t from God.”
Her response?
“Of course they are. That is how messages of God come to us, through our imagination.”
Breathe, Spirit, Breate.
The biggest dream of my heart scared the heck out of me too and definitely didn’t make sense! But after 3 years of serving the Lord in Kenya, I don’t regret selling my business, the big house, the foreign car or the closet full of designer clothes & shoes (ok maybe that one pair of really cute Gucci’s!). And I have a whole new understanding of what God’s provision truly means!
Seriously though, the abundant life we are promised manifest itself fully when we are walking in the purpose for which God created us…and that “dream in your heart” is the first clue as to what that purpose is! Your preacher chick friend is right…go for it!
To utterly change the lives of the street children in Medellin, Colombia, and around the world. I don’t know how this is going to happen, I’m just an ordinary kid who lives in a small town in West Virginia, who is a constant dreamer, and can’t stop feeling overwhelmed with passion for the kids of the world.
I will go after the biggest dream in my heart. God willing.
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I’m a BIG fan of dream chasing. By the grace of God, so many of my dreams have come true. And now that I type that, I am convicted about how unthankful I can be.
My biggest dream right now is to see one of my screenplays become a movie. It seems almost impossible, but so did writing one!
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great post anne. love it and very encouraging.
I am reading “To Be Told” by Dan Allender, Ph.D. In the book he asks if you are willing to risk and bleed for your dreams? I answered a loud “YES”, but then had to ask, “What are my dreams?” My dream is to bring God glory, but I am still working on the details of what that means.
“We must nourish the truest desires of our heart then risk the bold act required to give our dreams the ground to grow.” (“To Be Told” page 192)
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My big, scary, makes no sense dream is to be a missionary, or in missions somehow full time. With small children, dependence on an income, and the special needs of one of our children….it seems impossible, but I keep dreaming and I continue to be open to hearing God.
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Nice Reminders. I need to get away and dream a little.
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There’s a part of us that wants our (fill in biggest dream here) so bad. But what if we actually get it? Then what? Or what if we persistently pursue it knowing/hoping/wanting it to be God’s will, only to discover a Mother Theresa type internal emptiness as we get closer to its realization? Plus there’s that dang Dip we have to get through. But you seem to have the persistence, personality and tenacity to pull it (i.e. whatever it is you’re dreaming up) off. All the best to you in your pursuit!
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Love this. Absolutely love it.
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Thanks for sharing this Anne! It is so funny how God works. I was having a day where I have had incredibly strange requests from the Lord…and I have buried dreams because of what the world has told me about those dreams..too big, no doors will open, how can that happen…etc….and God used your post to affirm in me that My BIG DREAM IS FROM HIM!!! I will keep dreaming….off I go! Thanks!
This seems to be a common thread right now. God seems to unleashing something in many of us that is pulling at the core of who we are and who He wants us to be.
Some time it’s neccesary to leave all those fears that don’t let us be, in order to meet all our goals!! ;)
Regards,
Lorena
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The biggest dream in my heart that I believe was put there by God is to see Him raise up a generation of young men and women that will preach and teach the Word of God, in season and out of season like Pauls encouragement to Timothy in his epistle. I’m praying that this will happen and also that more bible colleges like Moody Bible Institute will be started all over the world to help reach that end. I don’t care what part God has me play in this, to be the head of the whole movement or one who simply prays for it to be a reality, I am open to being used by Him however He wishes.
This hit home today. My fiance’ and I are in the midst of seeking God about what He wants to do through our lives. He has given us both dreams, and they are pretty big. I believe that the dreams that He has Given for my Fiance’ are exciting and I can’t wait to make the journey with him in reaching those dreams. My own dreams however, I feel sometimes are too out there and a little crazy. I felt God speaking to me today about a dream I had a while ago. He brought it back to light and I decided not to let it go. I will give this dream to God and trust that he will help me bring it to pass. You’re right. It doesn’t make sense… When I read your post, I was even more encouraged. Thanks!:)