GIVEAWAY and LINK-UP [Dream Again Day 31] Updated

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This 31 Days to Dream Again series was about bringing hope, igniting in you a passion to dream, a desire to dream, a belief that God has a dream for you. I believe with all my heart, God wants you to know who you really are in Him so you may LIVE FREE to accomplish your God-given purpose.

“There is tremendous power in a dream. When you believe a picture of the future, and that picture bleeds out of your heart — not because you have to or ought to accomplish it, but because you intensely want to — it blows wind in your snails and directs the course of your life. It can also direct the course of history. . .

Dreams are not about your self-fulfillment or self-actualization, and they have nothing to do with whether you become famous. God wants you to be fulfilled, of course, but only He knows the best way to accomplish that. He invites ordinary people to dream something so great that it would be impossible if God did not do it. He wants your heart to be filled with dreams that are far bigger than you are — His dreams for His purposes so that You and He can delight in them together.” —Chip Ingram, Good To Great in God’s Eyes

These words below I’ve taken straight from the pages of my journal — a dialogue between God the Father and I. Oh, friends, do you get to converse and commune with Him like this? You can. You are a friend of God.

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I say to Him…

I’ve resisted and dug in my heels.
This blog was not my idea, and it’s hard.
I never saw myself as a writer.
But You are asking me to.
You are telling me to stand up.
And I painfully feel I can’t.

What is the weight that holds me down?
You patiently wait for me.
But You are speaking strong.
Your Words telling me, “You’re stronger than you think.”

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I hear You say…

Will you rise and take your place?
Will you break through the invisible wall of fear?
Will you be who I’ve said you are?
Will you claim who I’ve said you are?
What are you waiting for?

It’s yours, gifted to you already, yet it remains unclaimed.

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I reply…

To believe what you know is already true.

Could it be me You are calling from the dark place?
Why is it so hard to believe I am a Daughter of a King?
And not just a King, but the King of Kings?

What is it that has kept my soul shroud in slave clothes — slave to fear?
Was it that You are doing to my heart, that it has broken so?

You are getting my attention because You are saying, “Now. Go.”
I asked you long ago to be used. I asked you many times to be used.
And now it’s time and You’ve come for me.
I have been paralyzed with fear, and You have met me where I am.

You are coming for me.

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I hear You say…

Rise and walk into the destiny I already have planned for you. Rise and walk into the Life I purchased for you. But you must know, with certainty who you are, for when the enemy meets you on the way, you must stand. How you stand — for whom you stand, you must know because what can be shaken will be. But I’ve already told you, you will have success. Don’t be like the 10 spies who did not believe and said they were grasshoppers and the giants were too big. They didn’t see from where I stood. Stand from where I stand. See from where I see. The earth is my footstool. Do you think those dreams you have are too big? Too big for Me? I have giving those dreams to you. Take them as your own. They are yours. Put action to your heart, put action to your words. When You ask according to My name, it’s yours. I’ve already told you My will. Ask and it’s yours.

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Dreamers, this I am saying to you…

Speak life into those who are dead in their sin.
So they would stand and be carriers of His glory, too.
To advance His Kingdom in this earth.

So stopping you means stopping the advancement of His Kingdom because God has chosen to use you, to be His body in the earth, so others would know that the Son was sent by God the Father.

The same Father who so loved the world He gave His only Son so that whoever would believe in Him would be saved. The same glory that was given to Jesus, He gave to us. (Matt 17)

And we are His hands and His feet — carriers of His message. If the devil can keep us immobile and mute he keeps us from showing the part of God’s image God has chose to display through us and the world misses out.

This is part of being chosen and it’s a holy calling.
A holy privilege we are not intended to live out alone.
We are to be one — as His body — so that world might know Him.

It’s not by might nor by power.
He is given us His Spirit.

He’s given us grace — His indwelling — His empowerment.

He’s chosen us.
He said, greater works will we do.
And it all comes down to this.

Knowing and believing it’s true.

The devil knows if he can keep you from believing this is truth —
he can keep you from fulfilling God’s dream for you.

I pray that you will live-out every DREAM He has for you.