Christmas time is the appropriate season for suspense and anticipation, again that is what ADVENT means.
ADVENT=A sense of ADVENTURE
I love unwrapping presents and being surprised on Christmas morning. How about you? The suspense is already killing me with a few interesting boxes under the tree.
Today, I want you to grasp that your dreams are much like a present.
The NEW YEAR is right around the corner and it leaves me with the feeling of suspense and anticipation as I begin to unwrap new surprises along the way in 2012.
God has your dreams wrapped up perfectly and He will allow you to unwrap a little at a time if you desire to walk with Him in 2012.
Your destiny and reason for living are wrapped up tightly in your dreams and desires, like the genetic information inside a seed. That dream in your heart contains your spiritual "DNA," the very blueprint for who you are.
Your dream is that idea, that vision for your life that burns inside of you--something you can't ignore for long. It keeps coming back to your mind because it is part of who you are; it will never leave you alone.
A dream doesn't drive you; it draws you. It is like a big magnet that pulls you toward itself. I don't believe that there is a man or woman without a dream, because God designed every member of the human race to have dreams. Without a dream, a person will be frustrated in the present and will miss his or her future.
Your dream did not even originate with you. It resides within you, but God put it there. He is the source of your dream. When people dream without God, they find it hollow and unsatisfying. Every person must come to Jesus for his or her dream to make sense. In fact, without Jesus, you might follow a dream for your life that God never put in your heart.
God so badly wants to fulfill our expectations and dreams in 2012. Allow Him to teach you about your dream.
What a great challenge for 2012!
God wants us to see our life so badly through His eyes that He extends so much grace in our natural disasters.
I have to admit...I caused all my BIG DISASTERS and was so stubborn and head strong that it still was not enough to turn me to God. My disasters always came from my shortcuts that I designed into my life.
My personal shortcuts always appeared to be a way of speeding up DREAMS and EXPECTATIONS.
Many times a roadblock would appear in my life and quench the spark of my dreams and expectations.
Did you ever feel like a vision or dream has been abandoned or blocked?
The past two years God has placed me on a fence and helped me gain NEW PERSPECTIVE.
He wanted me to put some dreams on hold.
Sometimes we can become so dream focused that we chase after it so hard and end up in places HE FORBIDS!
God wants you to step into the New Year with anticipation and great expectation. However, we have to Return to Him and deny all our shortcuts. I was so focused on Dreams at one point that I was unaware of how I was abandoning God.
When we return everything to God, He will bring a fresh perspective and NEW chances.
If God has birthed that vision in your heart, chance are you have already began exploring.
But in order to:
END UP IN THE RIGHT PLACE ON PURPOSE,
we have to maintain our relationship with GOD first.
He feeds the quality and destiny of the vision.
If we move ahead the vision will again evaporate and we will be left in another natural disaster.
I pray that you walk into 2012 with a heart of anticipation and expectation to Grow in your love for God.
This may mean you will be surrendering more, getting involved in more and stepping out your comfort zone.
When God moves its more POWERFUL then any shortcut.
Your dream is fragile, so thank God for the NEW CHANCES and CHANGES HE will bring in 2012!
Two years ago today, Goded asked me to lay down and surrender many things.
It has been two years of God changing and rearranging my life.
New friends
New church
New opportunities
New possibilities
Fresh perspective on dreams
New schools for kids
New ministry opportunities
The connections and supernatural ways of God moved in so many amazing directions.
He will row the boat and then ask you to step out when the timing is right and lines up with His vision for your life.
Will you allow God to row your boat in 2012?
I encourage you to STAY in THE BOAT, until He says "STEP OUT."
Enjoy the anticipation and expectation of this Christmas season.... BUT I challenge you to EXPECT and ANTICIPATE fresh vision for 2012.
Merry Christmas
