Have a dream

Throughout the Bible God uses ordinary people to share his dream and plans with the world - Mary, the

pregnant teenager; unsure, stuttering Moses; a crowd of scruffy fishermen from Galilee. In one story of the fishermen, they've been fishing all night and caught nothing. Jesus tells them, 'Don't be afraid! From now on you'll be fishing for the souls of men' (Luke 5:10 TLB)! And they did. Today's worldwide Church sprung from the mission given to those twelve men.

So, we can have huge dreams and God will just make them happen? Not quite. Paul tells us that because Jesus died for us, 'you are not your own; you were bought at a price' (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV). We can't just come up with any old dream, hoping God will come round to the idea. Giving our lives to Jesus means we ask him to work in our dreams or to give us new dreams. And, does it mean Jesus is going to take all of the fun out of our dreams? Definitely not! John 10:10 NKJV says, 'I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.'

When we put our dreams in God's hands and trust that his plans really are better than our human plans, we will see him work powerfully in our lives and in the lives of others.



So what now? Keep a notebook with you, and write down your dreams. Pray through what you've written often, and ask God to guide you to make them a reality.





— SCRIPTURE —

'From now on you will catch men.' Luke 5:10 NKJV
— SOULFOOD —

Num 32:25-33:56, Luke 9:1-17, Ps 134, Pro 4:5-13