BRINGING YOUR DREAMS TO REALITY

Text: Habakuk 2:2
You are welcome to the month of December the last month of the year. We blessed the name for seeing us through the year 2012. My prayer is that we shall all see end of many years to come in Jesus name.

At the beginning of the year, many dreamt of success, some dreamt of actualising their goals and many dreamt of achieving one or two things before the end of the year. They dream thinking come end of 2012 they most have bring those dreams to reality but here we are, those dreams are yet to be actualised and that brings a puzzle of how and when is those dreams are going to be actualised?

A dream is a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of our lives; either when sleeping or awake.  Usually whatever you dream about is related some way to your life and something that has happened or is going to happen, it can show you your feeling about certain things.

We have different types of dream.

1. Night dream:
This is the type of dream we have when asleep and is very common to everyone.

2. Day dream:
A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes. This is when you practice your life and you think things through in every direction before they happen. when you are very prepared in emergencies.

Martin Luther King Jnr. delivered a powerful speech on the 28 August 1963 to be precise, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. Where he says " I HAVE A DREAM" and his dream came to reality even when he was no more.

Your dream could be in form of a vision, plan, goal or idea but once you have one, do not brush it aside but write them down, dwell on it prayerfully and guide it to reality.  It is not all dreams that are good dreams but the Bible says "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17
Joel 2:28
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions."

In these verses we could see that good dreams only come from God. That means all good inspirations,
ideas and dreams are from God.

As we have good dreams so also bad dreams.
Every dreams, goals, vision that is not good and perfect is not from God but they are from satan.  By nature, we always begin with the distance between where we are and where we want to be and one of the ways we can narrow that distance until it no longer exists is by acting in faith in Christ Jesus.  To accomplish this we need to draw our goals and dreams closer while we simultaneously and prayerfully moving toward them.  Bringing your dream to reality is very important. You bring your dream to reality by acting on it and one of the ways you could do this is by constantly exercising your faith in Christ Jesus and putting your total trust in God whom every good and perfect gift comes from.


Without us fixing our eyes on Him - Jesus, there is no way our dreams can come to reality.
"To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" Colossians 1:27
The Bible says in the book of Psalm 34:5 "They looked unto him, and were radiant: and their faces were not ashamed."

You need to exercise your faith totally in Him.  In this case, I see Faith as that spiritual energy inside of you that brings your visualisation to realisation which propel your hope and destiny to manifestations.

Martin Luther King Jnr. Quotes that
" Faith is taking the first step when you don't even see the whole staircase"
How brave are you when it comes to putting your total trust in God in decision making?  Hebrews 11:1" Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  Realising your dreams and accomplishing your goals happens more faster by you chosen to draw up those goals and by you acting on them positively in faith.  Some people attempt to attract their goals without taking much action but the wise one take action by faith.

The bible says" But without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who come to Him must believe that He is" Hebrews 11:6.

In the book of Joel 2: 28 God has promised and He is not a man that He will not bring it to pass.  The more I study the Scripture, the more I’m impressed with how greatly it encourages us to be optimistic about realizing our personal potential.. Scripture pictures God as infinitely compassionate and infinitely powerful-intent on bringing about His best for our lives, and fully capable of doing it.
Jeremiah 29:11 says ""For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"

It teaches me too, that He has fashioned our personality and influences our desires. We have, in short, a reassuring basis for taking our personal dreams seriously. If we are intent on doing God’s will, and are taking care to seek his guidance, we may trust that our dreams are being inspired by him to an important extent. It only makes sense, then, to stay hopeful about achieving them.

MANIFESTING YOUR DREMS AND ACTUALISING YOUR GOALS
There are some of the components that deserve our attention before we can manifest our dreams and actualise our goals.

1. You need to write your dreams and your goals down. Habakkuk 2:2
By you written them down you are imprinting them on your own mind, you are painting the picture that no one can paint for you and by doing this you make it more clearer to your self and others that you wish to share it with.  It is what you write down that you can transmit to the future. What is handed down by tradition is easily mistaken and liable to corruption; but what is written is reduced to a certainty. Always have written materials around you, where you can scrap your God's giving ideas, dreams and goals on.

2. Know whom you share your dream with. Genesis 37:5
Dreams and goals are very powerful and very important. Whoever you share your dreams and goals with really matters. As we have dream makers so also we have dream killers.  Joseph share his dream with the people he though he trusted most not knowing that they are his closet enemies. Though his dream came to reality but he paid dearly for it.

3. You have to guide your dream or idea. Guide your dream jealously so that people you think you trust so much will not truncate your destiny. We have some Herodian spirit out there. These could be spirit, an individual or group of people and organisation that kill the Royal seeds. Mathew 2:1-23.

4. Work on your dreams and goals as fast as possible. Habakkuk 2:3
Not only will you write your dreams and goals down but you will also need to have a time frame to work on them as fast as you can through the help of the Holy Spirit.  Wether you have enough resources to start with or not, look around and see what you can start with.
Let us look at the story of Elisha and the wife of the prophet that died in debt in the book of 2 Kings 4:1-7. Elisha asked the widow what she has in her house. Use what you have to achieve what you want. You don't need to go far, that resources is around you there.
Do not let your dreams and goals died because you want to start big.
Habakuk 2:3a, there is always an appointed time so do not let this time pass you by. God has an appointed time for his appointed works, and will be sure to do the works when the time comes.

5. Be focused. You need to be focused at all time and be diligent in order to bring your dreams and goals to reality. Test and trial will come, always remember that one of the ways the devil could stop a believers from fulfilling God's giving promises is by distracting them.
Genesis 39:6 , 2 Kings 2:1-22 (Elisha was determined not to miss "once in a life time opportunity" to step into his dream by been focused.

6: Don't be a spectator you need to be involved: Habakuk 2:2d says"at he may run that read it.  In the book of Genesis 41:1-44. Joseph did not fold his arms but he participated.  Our action play a vital role in bringing our dreams and goals to reality.
Every action we take is by our own chosen. The tendency to see our dreams and goal in the future tense can accidentally fix them in the future. Because we never learn to relate to them in the present they can easily remain just out of reach. That is where the real power of visualization comes in. We can pull those future things into the present thus learning to experience them in the here and now. Doing so removes the limiting stigma of having a mental time stamp.  So, following your goals and dreams is a matter of choice, no matter how hard it may be at times. If we keep making choices towards our highest potential, we’ll reach it. Put yourself there, be involved and participate.

7. Differentiate between your deep goals and your surface goals. Your Deep Goals are the deep emotional reasons why your surface goals are important to you. Your deep goals are the things that make your surface goals matter to you: What you’re hoping to gain, at a deep emotional level from achieving your surface goals. Example of surface goal is you getting married and the pride that you will be a family man or woman is your deep goal. So you have to chose your surface goals in other to achieve your deep goals. Genesis 29:15-28.

8. By putting God at the centre of your dreams. Your dreams and goals determined your future and part of the ways to bring it to reality is by you making God the focus point of your dreams and goals. By you doing this, your future is certain and sure. So a life without Christ Jesus is a life without future.  Our dreams shaping our world and the type of dreams you have determined the type of future you get.

Psalm 127:1 says "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."

The bible says "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17

Yes! It might seems the year is just few weeks away to come to an end and you are yet to actualise those dreams. It is not too late, the God of a second chance can still make your dreams come alive.

Why not say this simple prayer today if you yet to known Him- Jesus Christ.

" Lord Jesus I accept you as my Lord and personal saviour today and I confess that you come and died for my sin so that I can live. This I prayed in Jesus name". God bless.

By Reuben Boboye Olisawo