The closer you get to the dream the
closer you get to your purpose, but
the closer you get to the goal which
God has in mind the tougher it gets.
The purpose of the dream is two-fold.
The first purpose of the dream is to
give you a sense of destiny; that you’re
not just here wandering through life.
There is a sense of destiny, purpose,
and calling that is upon your life when
you have a God-given dream. God has
a dream for every person. You have
a purpose and
the dream is
about a sense
of destiny on
your life.
The second
purpose of a
dream is to
inspire you
to reach for
it, to stretch,
to get out of
your comfor t
zon e , a n d to
go beyond
what you think
you’re capable
of doing. That’s
what a dream
God plants in
your heart will do for you.
Self-discovery and God-discovery.
The nightmare is about self-discovery.
You’re going to find out who you are.
You’re going to find out that your
security cannot be in what other
people say or feel about you, but it’s
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also about God-discovery. You’ll find
more about God in the darkness in
your life than you will in the sunshine
days. God said, “I dwell in thick
darkness.” He actually said that.
He said, “I dwell in thick darkness.”
In other words, if you want to know
more about God, then He allows you
to go through darkness.
Lastly, the nightmare is to shut the
devil’s mouth. When your nightmare
is over, like Job, it will shut the
d e v i l ’s m o u t h .
That nightmare
is going to shut
the devil’s mouth
when God turns
i t a ro u n d , a n d
I p ro m i s e yo u ,
He will t u r n i t
around.
Begin with the
End In Mind.
When
they
make movies,
sometimes they
shoot the last
scene first, so
t h a t yo u k n o w
how it’s going to
end. The director
and the cast
know where the story is heading all
the way through every scene. God
does the same thing with your life—
He takes you through every step with
the end in mind.
When God gives you a dream, He
doesn’t plant a dream in you and