November 23, 2008
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Why Have a Dream - Most Christians have been taught in church to identify with the vision of the house or to make sure all their desires are subservient to the "will of God." The result of that theological bent was a generation of Christians out of touch with their own hearts. People come alive spiritually and motivationally when they look into their own heart's desire and embrace a personal dream. Our purpose in writing Releasing Kings was to lay that theological foundation. We wrote Desire to Destiny to help Christians learn how to implement their dream. It's a big deal! The world needs you "alive" and filled with vitality and enthusiasm over your personal dream. What's even more satisfying is that you will only find the whole will of God when you implement that dream. He was the one that wrote your heart's desires into your DNA in the first place!
When all is said and done you will find that your dream is your ministry and it will make a difference in the lives of people and answer two questions, "Who do you want to help?" and "How do you want to help them?" (from Dream Builders - next week's interview.) Write the Vision - Christians are hearing this truth and taking action. It's fairly common to get so excited about the prophetic truth of dreams that we forget the practical ingredient of wisdom, and shipwreck a few times before we get it right. Here's the first thing you can do to keep your dream safe from tragedy. Write it down and break it into several manageable goals you can tackle and measure over time. Each of those goals probably has a few steps that can also be written down and implemented one at a time. The business world calls this process a business plan. It's spiritual to write down your dream and make adjustments over time as you progress toward implementation.
Mentors and Partners - The next step, as you write your dream and list the goals and specific steps to implement it, is to get help. You're going to find that you personally will be good ant parts of your dream and weak at other aspects. Once we hear something from God we're prone to try and do it ourselves, unless we're short of money and then we're prone to take an offering. In reality the people who have gone through this process successfully do it with a team. There are mentors to show us how and partners that add strengths we don't have. Our job (after the dream is written) is to network those contacts and find the people God has waiting to help us. They will be inspired by the dream because God has already written something on their heart to share it. Those partners might be investors, board members, contractors, consultants, employees or co-owners. They all have something in common: 1) their baby leaps when you share your dream, and 2) what you are doing overlaps with their dream. Is my dream too big? - Most of the literature on goal setting guides us toward goals that are measurable and attainable. Sounds like good advice. However, God isn't limited by the boundaries of what we can accomplish. See, He is actually one of our team members! Our fear of failure and embarrassment might preclude us from a "big dream." However, in the Kingdom, a big dream just means you need more help. There's no such thing as a dream too big to accomplish... so dream big and go get the help you need to make it happen.
Recommended Reading: At our last conference in Abbotsford, Maynard came up after one of the sessions and told me about a book by Steven K Scott entitled Mentored By a Millionaire. Scott is a Christian with a wonderful grasp of the things we've talked about in this newsletter... worth reading if you're interested in this topic. Love,
John & Sue (are dancing - Join us) Harold is dancing too ... with Linda You're invited into the vision to release Kings; communicate the message, make the money, and do the mission.
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