Dream on a tune many of you have probably heard by the band Aerosmith. I’m not here to talk about the song but I really liked the song title for what I wanted to talk about.

Over the last week God has been speaking to me quite a bit about dreaming and vision. But there’s a difference between the two or atleast there is to me.

- Dreaming is the outset of a passion or mindset in ones heart to see something amazing
- Vision is taking a dream and making it happen or knowing something needs to change and changing it.

Now there is also vision as like God shows people a vision but I’m not going to get into that right now.

I’ve had lots of dreams and many faded off into reality but I also have had dreams and they have spawned into vision and a lifestyle of my life.

I had a dream of being a youth pastor and that hasn’t faded. It’s kept going but I’ve changed my mindset and my passion. It no longer is a dream of mine but a vision cause I’m setting out to make that a goal.

But I don’t want to sit and talk about this and that and the difference. What I feel passionate about in saying this is that we need to quit dreaming.

Now I’m not saying that we need to just quit dreaming. What I mean by it is that we need to quit dreaming all the time and actually make it happen. We all dream about leading people to Christ but a dream is a dream we need to make it happen we need to make it a vision of ours to see it happen.

I’m all for dreaming but there comes a point when dreaming about one thing no longer becomes dreaming but it starts to fall under procrastination. We are never going to go any farther if all we do is dream about a breakthrough with God. We need to start making it happen. We know we have God cause we have asked him to be with us, we know we have the power of the Holy Spirit and we know our bible. We have everything we need to start making this change.

Now I’m just as guilty. I’ve dreamt alot of wanting to see God do amazing things in our city and community but it needs to quit being a dream. I need to make it a vision of mine and make it happen. I have everything I need and I know God will provide but I just need to step out.

It reminds me of a quote from Matthew Barnett,

Too often in the church we expect people to come to our world. We build an establishment, and then we expect folks to come to our party. I’ve learned that to reach your community, you have to put yourself in another man’s world.

If anyone knows anything about Matthew Barnett we all know how he started with a dream and made it his vision and then made it happen.

When we are no longer clouded by the clouds of our dreams and we begin to see the vision we start to see the vision unfolding cause our eyes are set to look through that vision. We begin to start seeing from our vision and no longer just the thought of “oh it would be so cool if stuff like this started happening”. When we begin to set out and make it our vision it starts to become our reality.

Now the next thing is something I’m going to be working on and I challenge you to also. Sit down and write a list but right down columns for your dreams, Your vision, And your ministry/outreach

Under dreams write out the dreams you have that God has given to you or that you wanna see.
Under Vision write out your goals for right now in life and what you would like to see God do through you.
Under Ministry and outreach write out what area’s of ministry you serve in and ways you outreach to your community.

Now take this list and pray.
Pray over the dreams that God would continue to pour into them and that the dreams he has given you will become vision in your life.
Pray over vision that God would increase your vision and passion. That he would give you the strength and his power to take on the vision he has given you.
Pray over your ministry and outreach that God would use you and the other leaders in that ministry to grow in him and grow out into them.

Now I want to challenge you to keep this list and keep praying over it and expand that list. If something seems to big for you to handle by yourself seek others with the same vision and conquer it together.

When we wanna see something change instead of saying we would like to see it we need to own up and say we are going to make it happen. If you see it it’s probably cause God wants you to see it and do it.

Much Love ~ Jeremy Newton

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