Don't Lose Your Dreams(Part 1)

Don't Ever Lose Your Dream!

Jesus has a purpose for your life! YOU have a dream or a destiny that God has given you, and you are expected to hold on to it! Don’t give up—

• Even if it looks like your dreams are so far out of reach that there is no way they could ever come to pass.

• People who have no goals, no dreams, no vision, and no purpose. They’re miserable!

• They’ll pull you down to their level.

• If you’re not careful, you will end up just like them with “no reason to live”.

  
  

Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this PURPOSE, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee.

• When God gives you purpose, then He is also the one who will make it come to pass.

• Our responsibility is to hold on to the dreams!

• Even if you have blown it and made mistakes, had setbacks spiritually, and even let sin back into your life, (that is not a license to continue doing it) but you must remember that God is a God of restoration.

  
  

Acts 3:19 says, “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.”

• God wants to give us a time of refreshing.

• A time of refreshing is the “spirit of revival”

• How do you “catch the spirit of revival”?

• The Bible says that “in His presence is fullness of joy” .

• First, you need to go before God and repent that your sins may be blotted out!

• Second, you need to spend time in fellowship and prayer with the Father.

• Spending time with the Lord will produce joy on the inside of you, and that joy will give you the strength you need to get back on your feet and go after the calling God has put on your life!

• Nehemiah who accomplished a great thing in his life is telling the secret for achieving great things.

  
  

Nehemiah 8:10 says, “For the joy of the Lord is your strength”.

• Determine now to place yourself in this position: as you spend time in the presence of the Lord, you will be full of His joy, if you are full of His joy, you will have the strength of God in your life, with His strength, you WILL be able to accomplish His purpose and calling for your life.

• On the other hand, if you are not spending time with God, you won’t have any joy, if you don’t have any joy, you won’t have any strength, and if you don’t have any strength, you will never fulfill your purpose and dreams!

• “That is why it is so important to catch the spirit of revival in your life again—God wants to restore that JOY in your life! In other words, revival restores JOY! Revival restores HOPE for the future! Revival restores the excitement in waiting for your dream and watching it come to pass! God wants you to have that joy back in your life!

• The spirit of revival will produce a force within you, which will cause you to be DETERMINED to fulfill your purpose and dreams! Spend time with God and get “revival” in your life!”

Are You on Fire?

• Fire is a consuming force

• Fire is ignited first then it will intensify and grow.

• As we allow God to ignite within us His vision, purpose, and dreams for our life, it will begin to intensify and grow until it completely consumes our very being.

• In the same way your dream also needs ignition and fuel to burn. God will ignite a dream in your heart, but YOU must continually add the fuel of the Word of God to your dream in order to keep it burning.

• There will be opportunities for other people, the enemy, and even yourself to try to throw water on your dreams, but you must continually protect and feed your dream until it comes to pass. Be determined NOW to let that fire motivate you, drive you and consume you to keep your dreams alive!

Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

• People without a vision are nonproductive people! There is nothing more tragic than to let go of your vision and have no drive, no motivation and no fire!

• You can get around certain people and know in five minutes—that they have no vision! They have no fire! They have no drive! No motivation! They are just—existing! Their favorite scripture is “Come quickly, Lord Jesus!” They just want to get out!

• When you spend time in God’s Word and realize that God has called YOU for a purpose, there is a zeal or a fire that burns on the inside of you. Just knowing that God thinks so much of you that He called YOU to fulfill this calling should excite you!

• Some people have the attitude of “Well, I’ve tried this or that and nothing happened”. That’s not an excuse to give up!

• We need to constantly refresh ourselves in the scriptures (add fuel to the fire). Go out of your way to spend time with the Lord and read His Word. You have to stir yourself up in the Word.

• It is very easy to become relaxed and not go after anything, but you have to hunger for more of God’s Word and hunger for your dreams to be fulfilled. Don’t just settle for a life with no purpose! God wants to use YOU!

• God has called YOU for a purpose, there is a zeal or a fire that burns on the inside of you. Just knowing that God thinks so much of you that He called YOU to fulfill this calling should excite you!

• Will you let Him? God responds to hunger. He wants you to hunger and thirst for this vision.

• Don’t just say, if it happens, it happens. Go after it!

• Jesus said, When you are hungry and thirsty, you shall be filled.” Don’t wait any longer! God is waiting on you to get that fire back in your life and hunger to see this dream fulfilled!

Be Aggressive!

• Have you experienced the attacks of the devil? We all have. When you are under the effects of heat and pressure, the devil aims his attacks at getting you to lose your sense of direction and purpose. He will try everything to get you to GIVE UP! Satan does not want you to fulfill your divine destiny.

• Aggressive people never give up because of outside hindrances or attacks!

• We must be aggressive in our faith and actions to see God’s purpose and dreams for our life fulfilled. It will take the forceful energy of the Holy Spirit on the inside of us, our own initiative, and an energetic attitude in pursuing our dreams to see them come to pass.

• Aggressive does not mean obnoxious, unpleasant. It simply means you are energetic, forceful or initiative in pursuing your goals

• On the other hand, the Bible shares HOPE for the future. No matter what you are going through or what obstacle may be before you, HOPE will keep you at rest, firm and steady, when your mind is being bombarded with thoughts of giving up!

• The Bible paints images on the inside of your heart of who you are, what you are, and what you are entitled to possess as a child of the living God. That revelation knowledge from the Word gives you vision, dreams and goals, and when you know that God has given you purpose, it causes zeal to rise up on the inside of you, and you become AGGRESSIVE!

• After realizing what rightfully belongs to you, you can never again be passive about your dreams, you have to be aggressive and go after what God has called you to do.

• Once you find out that you have authority in the Name of Jesus, you can’t be passive about that anymore.

• Once you find out that by His stripes you are healed, you can’t be passive about sickness anymore. You attack that sickness with the Word of God! Once you find out that God has a PURPOSE for your life, you go after it! You have to fulfill what God has called YOU to do.

• Even though it may appear that your dream may never come to pass or it may not be the “thing to do” anymore—you better do what God told YOU to do! Success is fulfilling what God told YOU to do, not what God told someone else to do!

• There are many people who have dreams for their life, but why is it that so many never see them come to pass? The fulfillment or the failure of your dreams is determined by your attitude. Fulfillment comes by an aggressive attitude; whereas, failure is the result of a passive attitude.

• Since you became a Believer, I am sure that God has given you some dreams. There have probably been some dreams that you have followed through with, and some of which you have let go. I challenge you to give some thought to the dreams God has given you.

• Write them down, aggressively pursue their fulfillment, and check them off as they come to pass! Don’t just settle for a life with no purpose!