Dreaming Big with God - Tricia Goyer

I often ask the question, “If you could do anything and knew it would succeed, what would it be?” For many people something immediately comes to mind. But there are also many people who don’t know. They wonder all the time, what does God want from me?

I think one of the problems with the “dream big” idea is that we let our human minds measure what “big” is. We think it has to be fame or success or a ministry or a huge blog. But what is “big” to God? (I’ll come back to this in a minute.)

What we do need to remember is that God has gifted us all differently. My pastor, Dr. Mark DeYmaz, talked about this on Sunday. There are some people whom God uses to dream. Some people are to manage. And some people just want to do the daily task He’s given them . . . and there’s nothing wrong with that!

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State of the Church 2013 (Part 2) – Mark DeYmaz

I can’t remember Pastor Mark’s titles, but the divisions went something like this. In God’s body there are the:

Big Picture Dreamers
Managers
Workers

I’m a dreamer (as if you couldn’t guess that!), but my favorite people are those who can help me live out what I envision! When I started a pregnancy center—or now working with teen moms—I could not do what I do without those who come alongside me.

Sometimes the dream God gives you just may be to work alongside someone else. If you could connect with one ministry, what would that be? What could you do to support it? Why are you so passionate about it? What is God telling you concerning this ministry?

When you think about it, the “big” thing to God is obeying what He asks you to do. You could become famous, make it big, and become well-known—and it would amount to nothing. Or you can ask God what is BIG to him. You might be surprised.

In the world’s eyes my writing is the most important part, but as we just opened our home to two more kids through an adoption, there have been many moments during the day as I’m playing cars or have kids piled on my lap and I feel God saying, “This. This is exactly where you need to be right now.”

What bigger dream can you have than that? He sees the future. He knows whom those kids will become. He knows the transformation that happens in my heart as I serve them as a mom and servant. And His dream is for me to trust Him in the path He sets me on.

*Photo credit: Image courtesy of David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Comments

Angela D. Meyer says

January 21, 2013 at 12:53 pm

I get torn between that big dream and the daily sized things. When in the middle of each one, that is the thing that feels the most important, but then it feels like they conflict with each other, and it’s hard to balance them. The only thing that gives me that balance is God in the middle of each one.

Tricia Goyer says

January 21, 2013 at 2:40 pm

Yes, Angela! We do have to trust God’s direction. There are times I wake up with plans to write and God speaks, “Focus on those kids.”

Then there are days when I’m going about my daily-life stuff and I feel God drop a message in my heart with the direction, “Write that NOW.” It’s amazing how many of my BOOKS have come out of those moments!

KM Logan says

January 21, 2013 at 5:37 pm

I had a lecture in college one time that the speaker said, “Every Christian Should have a dream so big that only God himself can fulfill it.” That phrase has stuck with me, especially as I realize my own inadequacies in even the simplest things. It’s my dream my children will be raised and come to love Christ with all their hearts. It’s sounds simple but truly only God can fulfill it.

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