How to receive the fulfillment of Divine Dreams and Visions

Messages for August 2016: Our Month of Dreams and Visions

Message for Sunday the 28th of August 2016

Theme: Understanding Dream and Visions in relation to God’s plan – Joel 2:28; Jer.29:11; Acts 2:16-17; Acts 10; Matthew 1:18-25; Lk.1; Jn.5:39; Matt.4:10 & Rev.19:10

Topic:  How to receive the fulfillment of Divine Dreams and Visions

Introduction: Last week, we saw the role dreams and visions play in the pursuit and eventual fulfilment of Destiny. We were also made to understand that on our destiny journey, dreams and visions would merely be reduced to fantasies if they are not fulfilled. No dream fulfills itself. Dreams and visions are made to happen by cooperation with God and His ways. This is why Apostle Paul told His protégé Timothy to wage war with the prophecies that has gone ahead of him. See 1Tim.1:18. This is the war we must win in life for the manifestation of the glory of God in our lives. To help us in this battle we must learn to cultivate the right attitudes for the fulfilment of our dreams oand visions which would in turn guarantee the fulfilment of our destinies. 

Right attitude for the fulfillment of godly dreams and visions: Attitude can be defined as a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways. While attitude may not be everything, it goes a long way to determine the extent to which you can actually fulfill your destiny. The good news is that the right attitudes that would guarantee that we run the race of life to the end in the fulfillment of dreams and visions are all encapsulated in the fruit of the spirit we bear. Therefore, anyone who would choose to walk in the spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh would in the process cultivate the right attitude for victory in the race of life. Below are some attitudes that would guarantee the fulfilment of our dreams and visions in destiny:  

1. Faith and patience: In Heb.6:12, we are enjoined to not be slothful but be followers of those who through faith and patience obtain the promise. I believe the author of Hebrews had Jer.6:16 in mind when he wrote this text to the Hebrews. God wants us to emulate good examples and faith and patience are excellent examples to follow in the fulfillment of our dreams and visions in our destinies. Faith enables you believe the visions and dreams of God to and patience enables you to stay believing until they are fulfilled. To cultivate this attitude, you need to walk in the spirit consciously living by doing the word of God. See Jos.1:8; Gal.5:16 and 5:22-23.

2. Humility: God’s intention is for us to be clothed with humility as it would protect us from the biting cold of pride which is a major destroyer of destiny. No matter the size of one’s visions and dreams, it can be cut off completely by pride. To overcome pride therefore, we are told to be clothed with humility. We are expected to put off pride from our lives and put on humility so we do not truncate out divine visions and dreams. I believe we do this consciously by requesting the grace to be clothed with humility from God. See Heb.4:16; Prov.22:4; Col.3:12 and 1Pet.5:5.

3. Obedience to divine instructions: To move from a lower level in life to a higher one demands obedience to instructions. This is why those who train people to fly are called flight instructors. You cannot really follow instructions when you do not hear them. This is why we are passionate about hearing the voice of God here at Kingdom Heirs. However, we must first see the written word as instructions to be obeyed and start to obey with what little understanding we have before we can graduate to hearing more from God. When we do not obey the one we know, God would not waste His time giving us new instructions. The result is that the person would become unfruitful and risk being cut off from the vine. The obedience that takes us up must be prompt and delightsome otherwise, it bears too much weight to lift us. Eli’s house lost their place of priesthood to disobedience and God blessed the Rechabites for their obedience to their father. See Jn.15:1-5; Jos.1:8; Lk.6:46-49; 1Sam.2:12, 17, 28-30; Jer.35:12-19 

4. Diligence: Diligence simply means hard work on a consistent basis. No dream or vision can deliver without this attitude because visions and dreams demand that you run with them and it takes hard work to run. If you are slothful, you will never fulfill your destiny. It is work that enables you to release and maximize your hidden abilities that would confirm and help you fulfill your visions and dreams. Apostle Paul did not frustrate God’s grace on his life but diligently took the entire Asia Minor in 2 years! [Acts 19:8-10 and 1Cor.15:10]. Also, it takes diligence to grow up spiritually [2Pet.1:4-11]. Spiritual growth is the main demand for the actualization of dreams and visions [Gal.4:1]. See Prov.22:29; 13:4; 20:4; Juges 18:9-10.

Steps to take to bring the visions and dreams of God to pass

1. Commit your visions and dreams to writing so that you will be able to keep it in view all the time. Also, when you do so, you can run with the vision. To run with the vision is to put effort in its pursuit until you are standing in your dream. See Hab.2:2; Jer.36:1-3; 21-24 and 28-32.

2. Pray and seek for knowledge, understanding and wisdom. See Prov.2:6; 4:7

3. To run with your vision, break it down into little workable bits. This will help you see the possibility of the fulfillment of your dream. It would also help you to build momentum that is required to give you staying power no matter what challenges come at you. Prov.24:3-6 and the example of Nehemiah

4. Then take the vision bit by bit and start to work it out until God finds you faithful enough to show you more until you complete the vision and He takes you to the next level. At that next level, you will have enough faith to pull another challenge through and on and on until your journey is done. See Isa.28:10-13 and Acts 1:8. For instance, the instruction the Lord gave to the Apostle was to take the gospel first to Jerusalem, then to Judea and from there to Samaria and finally the uttermost part of the earth. This is how we must all run with our vision. 

As we come to the end of our month of visions and dreams, let us understand that it is a month where this grace is triggered in us; it is not intended to stop this month. However, there are some people reading this resource who are not yet born again, please understand that like we have been saying, you must be born again before you can really live otherwise, you are yet to commence living. Should you desire to live by God’s definition, please say the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again and begin to really live:

Heavenly Father, 

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen. 

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Remain on top of your challenges in Jesus’ name!