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December 2010

Dream Busters

12/30/2010

 
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream;
and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. 
Jeremiah 23:28a 

I often find it easy to get knocked off course and become sidetracked in my walk with the Lord whenever I am not as discerning as I should be. Sadly, when it comes to having hopes and dreams of being used by God, there have been those who almost succeeded in taking my hopes and dreams from me and destroying them...
And whenever this happens I will find myself feeling downcast, depressed, and in deep despair until the Lord intervenes and lifts me out of such negative thinking.

And it hasn't been only my enemies who've tried to take my dreams from me. Many times it has been well-meaning Christians who have tried to impose their own wills and plans upon me. But I will not go into details here.

Nevertheless, as I was pondering the things of God earlier, I came to the realization that there will always be dream busters, both within the church, and outside it. This is just the way it is. Yet today the Lord asked me to continue to dream, anyway.

If the Lord has placed various dreams and hopes inside my heart, then I am to believe that in due time He will bring these things to pass. I'm never to stop dreaming and hoping. No Christian is.

D.B.

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