God-Sized Dreams: A 30-Day Journey of Faith and CourageSample

What's Your God-sized Dream?

The question comes quietly, “Have you ever shared your God-sized dream with anyone?”

It’s posted online in a group of ninety-nine God-sized dreamers. You can almost hear the nervous laughter spread throughout the thread.

A few answers appear: Yes, I’ve shared my God-sized dream with . . .

My husband.

My best friend.

Someone at my church.

But more common than those answers are the confessions that putting words to a God-sized dream is downright scary.

What if it doesn’t come true?

What if I fail?

What if this isn’t what God has for me after all?

I nod my head in understanding at these questions. It’s one thing to have a quiet desire within your heart. It’s quite another to let it have a voice.

And yet all the way back to the start of creation, God shows us words have incredible power. The story of Earth opens with creation being spoken into being.

Let there be light.

Let the land produce.

Let us make mankind in our image.

Let is a word of permission. It’s an opening up, an inviting in, a bringing forth. What is the “let there be...” that needs to be spoken in your life?

When God says, “Let there be...” the same response always follows: “And there was.” For the Creator of the universe, words and results always align. For us finite humans, the process unfolds differently.

First, it takes time for our God-sized dreams to fully come into being. We can get discouraged when the vision doesn’t instantly become reality. But only God has that capability. God-sized dreams take perseverance.

Also, what God envisions and what happens are one and the same because he has a perfect perspective. For us, our God-sized dreams usually turn out very differently from what we imagined when we began. They require flexibility as we let our original plan be reshaped to God’s will.

And for our dreams to become reality, our words have to be followed with action. Once we put words to our dreams, it’s easy to think that’s all it takes. But that’s only the beginning. Our words become the driver for what we do . . . again and again, day after day.

I glance once more at the responses from the God-sized dream team online. The fear is slowly giving way to excitement, support, and joy. As they share their hearts, I can feel the beat within their words. Like the first blip on an ultrasound when new life appears.

Small but powerful.

Full of promise.

The beginning of good things.

Let there be . . .

a God-sized dream in your life today.

What is your God-sized dream? Say it out loud or write it down.

Go Deeper

Read Genesis 1:1–5 to see God's creativity and his amazing ability to bring new things into being, including your God-sized dream.

God, thank you that you are the Creator of all things and all true dreams. It’s a little scary to put words to mine, but at the same time, I know doing so brings life and power into what you’re asking me to do in mysterious ways. Give me the courage to say yes to what you’re asking me to do, and most of all, help me to draw closer today to you. Amen.

What’s one truth you want to remember?

What’s the next small step you’ll take?