Dream Big

Dream Big

Never give up on your dreams and goals. God put them in your heart for a reason. Never let anyone put down your dreams as well. Make some mini attainable goals to help reach your goals.

Goal: is a desired result a person, a system envisions, palms and commits to achieve a personal or organizational desired end point. Many people endeavour to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.

A goal can be long term or short term.

Dream: images, thoughts or emotions passing through the mind during sleep or an involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake.
 
When I was younger focusing on my relationship with God and my dreams is what got me through. In grades 7 and 8 I was bullied a lot. I would pray every night that God would give me friends and also for a new school. I did get to go to a different high school than the kids I went to school with and I can honestly say God put some great role models in my life in those though years, and I now have some amazing friends I can count on.

Over the years I never gave up praying or gave up on my dreams! The devil will put obstacles in your way for you to give up. But whatever the dream it won't be denied. Don't stop till it comes to pass. In those tough years I discovered something that I enjoyed that was all my own. That was my love for horses. If I didn't go through that who knows what I would have discovered. God always has a plan. I've met some amazing people since entering the world of horses. With giving my dreams over to God and having the faith, I am now a horse owner at 25 years old. Don't get nervous about handing your dream over to God.
God really does care about the things that matter to us. Our dreams are important to him. Always pray and dream new big dreams. Something that will stretch your faith. Without a dream, you miss out on the adventure of trusting God and giving your faith a chance to work.

John 5:14-15
This is the confidence we have approaching God; that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask- we know that we have what we asked of him.

The world is full of haters, disappointments and mistakes, but don't let these things keep us from going after our dreams or from reaching our potential. Sometimes people say or do mean things to us and sometimes circumstances just don't go our way, but we have to push those things aside and keep pushing forward.

I believe God made us to be creative and innovative. - Christine Caine

Proverbs 31:25
She is clothed with strength and dignity and she laughs without fear of the future.

You were born to stand out and be a leader and not a follower. We have Christ in us. We were not meant to be on the side lines just pleasing people. We were designed to please God our creator. God put our dreams in our hearts. He knows our every desire. When we please man we stretch ourselves thin. People pleasing robs us of our Joy and has us wanting what others want; and we then are blinded with what god has blessed us with.

Proverbs 29:5
To flatter friends is to lay a trap for their feet.

God has so much planned for us beyond our wildest dreams.

Never stop dreaming big. Our dreams is another way God communicates with us. You don't have a dream that is too small or too big for God. You are a daughter of king, who loves you very much. You are in the same blood line as the creator of the universe. He is the ultimate artist and the ultimate dreamer. So it's time to wake up from our slump, and start dreaming big again.
Let's go beyond the Facebook and Instagram goals and posts we see everyday, let's step out bold in faith.

Queen Esther in the bible saved her people and she was young when she became queen. David was just a young boy tending to his sheep when he stepped out in faith. Everyone doubted him, and he brought the war to and end and slayed the giant with three stones and a sling shot. Joseph in the bible had dreams from God all the time and his brothers doubted him and he didn't let that stop him.
You are never too young or to old, don't let the nah sayers bring doubt into your heart.

If we step out in faith, God will lead the way.

Why wish upon a star when you can pray to the one who created them. He created the heavens and the earth, he has so much more in store for you.

What are your hidden dreams?

Only real champions (win or loose) and people of character and strength keep going past the point of wanting to give up.
 

Royalty

When you are a little girl, at least I know for me you dream of the day you get to be that beautiful bride. To be that princess for the day. To be like the beautiful Disney princesses we grew up watching or even Barbie as we dressed her up. When you go to  a wedding everyone looks forward to seeing the bride for the first time.  I remember even planning my own wedding it was a western theme but I was the princess, it was my moment to feel and be dressed like a princess, I had a tiara and everything. 

What we need to know is that we are already royalty we are princes and princesses of an almighty King. We are children of God. You are a son/daughter of the King of Kings, the creator of the universe. You are highly thought of. You need to remember you may have herd the words from parents or someone that you aren't planned or were a mistake. Well guess what the creator of the universe He planned you. He made you with a purpose and a destiny, and he doesn't make mistakes. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. 

We have all looked in the mirror at some point and not like what we see, or wish God did something different. Well you need to know when we think that we are insulting Gods work. We are made in the image of God, and God doesn't make junk. You are Gods original masterpiece. You have nothing to prove because you are already approved by God. It's not that you are no longer dirty as you stand before God.  What He did on our behalf does not make us spiritual neutral. Rather, He has made us righteous, and attractive. Those who cling to Jesus are beautiful to him. 

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exalt in my God, for he has clothed me with garnets of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bride groom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 

He makes us beautiful, even comparing us to a bride on her wedding day. Let this sink in: God uses that picture to describe how attractive we are to him. Even on that day you feel like there is nothing attractive about you, you have a Heavenly Father who still thinks highly of you and thinks your are attractive. He made us that beautiful. It's hard to imagine the creator of the universe looking at us with that kind of fondness. Some of us are over joyed just to know that he doesn't hate us! So it's a real struggle to believe that we are stunningly beautiful to Him. It's nothing we did, Jesus took away all of our ugliness at the cross. Once Jesus wiped away sin by dying on the cross for us then our "ugliness" went with it. When we believe and let it in our hearts all that God has called us and has for us, all that beauty and Joy shines right through us. Heavens beauty is a beauty like no other. When we have the Joy of the Lord, heavens Joy is an unexplainable Joy.  

It really opened my eyes when pastor Francis Chan, related sin to ugly.  In Song of Songs 4:7 is states that we are beautiful and that there is no flaw in you. Let that one sink in that the word of God sees you as beautiful and flawless and Jesus dying on the cross made sure of that. 

Your primary source of affection and attention should be God, and your sense of belonging should come from him. As we become familiar with the truth of God, we are able to identify the lies of the enemy. It is important that every believer be able to identify the real thing when it comes to the promises of God and what he says about his children. One of the highest priorities is to be led by what God says about me above everything else 

You are Beautiful, You are His Masterpiece, You are His Workmanship, You are Unique, You are Royalty, You are Worth more than Silver and Gold, You are More than the Clothes and Makeup you wear. Be nobody but YOU, the YOU God Created YOU to Be!

Value

It is important to know you have value. You are more precious than rubies, it even says so in the word of God. When you have thoughts like you aren't worth it or you don't like what you see in the mirror know that the creator of the universe is pleased and he doesn't make mistakes. You are made in his image. The value you have in knowing who you are in Christ and you were created to be is of utmost importance; it will help you navigate the course of your life. Jesus died for you because we cost something, you have value. We are of value to Him! If Jesus paid a price so we could be made whole, then it is important to remember that it was a price dying for on the cross because we have value.

How many people do you know would die for you, because they thought you were worth it?

You can not pay a price a for something that does not have value.  I am a horse girl and love them, it is where I can truly let loose and connect to God. Well this past December I bought my very first horse. I decided he had value and was worth the asking price of $600. I am agreeing that he has value and that I was willing to pay the price. Its the same when you are shopping and you are willing to pay the price for the clothes you are there to buy. In the same way Jesus was headed to the cross, he agreed that the price he was paying was equivalent to the value he was dying for.

You are Gods Masterpiece, You have Value, You are Loved, and You are Worthy, You were made with a Purpose and a Destiny!!

Genesis 1:31
The God saw everything that he had made and indeed it was very good.