Excerpts from the first sermon of 2022 for January 9-16 time of prayer and fasting.
2022 Fast Days Devotional
Day 7 - Begin to dream again
Let your past experiences give you perspective for the future.
Dreams are a form of communication. Dreams are the unconscious expression of our hopes, desires and aspirations.
In the Bible, dreams are believed to be significant. It’s one of the ways that God communicates with people.
I believe that most of our dreams are simply helping us to know our own heart. But some dreams are also prophetic to lead us into our destiny. You can expect that if you turn to God as your source of life and love, that He will begin to communicate with you.
Isaiah 55:8–9 NLT
8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Change, beginning again, means thinking in ways that we have not thought before. Think about it - if you had known in the past what you know now, you would not have made some of the choices that you have made. Now project that into the future - if you are going to make different choices than the ones you are making now, you are going to need to realize something beyond what you already know.
That should cause you to wonder - what is there that I don’t already know?
I hope that the thought unsettles you enough to break out of whatever pattern or cycle you are in and reach for something higher. I want to always be learning. I want to always be growing. I want to always be reaching for higher things. If you have stopped doing this - then begin again.
I believe God has more for us than what we have experience thus far. And it’s the “more” that keeps me pressing into God to know Him more and to depend on Him more. The “more” is what teaches us to dream.
What are the dreams that God has given you?
What has God communicated to you that has given you hope and made you reach higher?
2022 Fast Days Devotional
Day 7 - Begin to dream again
Let your past experiences give you perspective for the future.
Dreams are a form of communication. Dreams are the unconscious expression of our hopes, desires and aspirations.
In the Bible, dreams are believed to be significant. It’s one of the ways that God communicates with people.
I believe that most of our dreams are simply helping us to know our own heart. But some dreams are also prophetic to lead us into our destiny. You can expect that if you turn to God as your source of life and love, that He will begin to communicate with you.
Isaiah 55:8–9 NLT
8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Change, beginning again, means thinking in ways that we have not thought before. Think about it - if you had known in the past what you know now, you would not have made some of the choices that you have made. Now project that into the future - if you are going to make different choices than the ones you are making now, you are going to need to realize something beyond what you already know.
That should cause you to wonder - what is there that I don’t already know?
I hope that the thought unsettles you enough to break out of whatever pattern or cycle you are in and reach for something higher. I want to always be learning. I want to always be growing. I want to always be reaching for higher things. If you have stopped doing this - then begin again.
I believe God has more for us than what we have experience thus far. And it’s the “more” that keeps me pressing into God to know Him more and to depend on Him more. The “more” is what teaches us to dream.