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Dream Encounters
Seeing Your Destiny from God's Perspective
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By Barbie L. Breathitt
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Adapting creative thoughts that are born in our imaginations are like planting a seed that becomes a plant and eventually grows into a stately oak tree that bears fruit. Everything can take shape through visualization; the final achievement is magnificent and gratifying. The four simple steps to success are to:-
Imagine grand things.
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Pray.
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Plan with a strategy.
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Work hard to fulfill your desired goals.
It is important to see your dreams as being obtainable. Each morning when you awaken from a dream, continue to lie in your bed for thirty minutes, to visualize and meditate on the images of the previous night before you get up. It is necessary to use this peaceful time of day to reflect, to arrange your thoughts, to plan and prioritize a productive day. When your feet hit the floor you should know exactly where you are headed so you can move forward with purposeful planning.
Believers should daily practice visualization following their time of prayer and Bible reading. We all need to take time every morning when we are energized, fresh and alert to read the Bible and pray out loud. Visualizing the stories in the Bible will empower the imagination to pull you into the setting to have a personal experience with Biblical characters, angels or an encounter with the Lord.
Accessing the Creative Realm
Mornings are the best time to access the creative realm of faith that has been released by the hearing and reading of the Word. Ten times the normal amount of creative energy is released during the night to bring us into a higher productive flow during the day. Once a vision is formulated it is important to capture the vision by creating a vision board or dream wall that displays the pictures and images that best communicate your dream. Collect photographic images as well as keepsakes to help your dreams come to life. Imagine yourself being there as you focus on the pursuit and apprehension of your life goals. Visualization is a powerful means that allows you to see the goal. What you focus your attention on, you empower. So stay focused on the dreams God has given you until they become a reality.
God is the creator of the universe. He is the architect of both the tangible, natural, physical realm; and of the intangible, invisible, spiritual realms. God has given us the power of visualization to see what has not yet occurred in our lives. Visualization is a God-inspired spiritual concept that can change and transform us. Jesus was the master at getting audiences everywhere to visualize the story characters and objects in the life parables He taught. Jesus' disciples grasped new concepts and the understanding of higher spiritual truths through visualizing the parabolic stories that compared the higher spiritual realm to the natural realm. Jesus used the tangible earthly elements such as pearls, coins, fishing nets, corn, sheep, and children, clouds, and wine to help equip people to understand the invisible realms of the kingdom of heaven. Jesus used the principle of contrast and comparisons of objects as an art form. He used everyday objects to empower the mind's eye to expand beyond the familiar things in life to see the intangible possibilities that awaited them. When we are able to see Jesus for who He is, our spirit man has faith to believe that with God nothing is impossible.
Using Your Image Center (Mind's Eye)
Men and women without any formal spiritual training gained knowledge by visualizing the stories God told by using their image center or mind's eye. Depending on the type of crowd Jesus was in front of He would choose the components of the parable He told to meet the specific needs of those people. To farmers and laborers Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to a mustard seed, or a woman hiding leaven in dough, and a man finding a pearl treasure hidden in a field. When He was in a fishing community He would compare the kingdom of heaven to a drag net cast into the sea to gather every kind of fish. When speaking to property owners Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to the head of a household who brought out his old and new treasures or a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Jesus encouraged His followers to be shrewd as snakes, and wise as a serpent yet He also said we must be innocent as a child to enter the kingdom and as gentle as a dove. He knew that people could not grasp the higher concepts of heaven if they had never been there. But they could understand how a seed germinated and became a fruit-bearing tree.
The power of visualization enables us to look beyond the tangible limits of the natural to grasp the certainty of the intangible realm of faith although it has not yet been performed. There is always a silent, unspoken tension between faith and the natural difficulties of producing reality.
God has used visualization throughout history to help people see what the future held for them. God is the author of visualization. It is a principle of God; not a New Age concept or a man made idea. It is a powerful creative principle found throughout the Bible if one has spiritual eyes that see and spiritual ears to hear.
Abram left the familiar and traveled toward an unknown Promised Land but in the process he became impatient and discouraged. Abram's dream was given clarity of a new home and promised child when the audible voice of God directed him to, "Look up into the sky and count the stars." God used visualization through the imagery of stars to strengthen the imaginary hope of a promise yet to be fulfilled. Abram saw his future painted in the innumerable brilliant stars that covered the dark night's sky. Abraham viewed the countless stars and grains of sand to understand the magnitude of the promises that had not yet occurred yet he believed, even though they had not yet been performed. To obtain spiritual promises it is necessary to accept as true that which has not yet been carried out as having already become a reality in another realm. Faith is the conduit that draws the hidden realities of the future into our now. In the kingdom of heaven everything takes place through faith so it is possible to use your imagination to see and enlarge the boarders of your future success.
God helped Abram imagine a grand possibility in order to strengthen the vision contained within his heart. Abram scribed what he visualized when he wrote down the promises God had given to him. His visual experience was recorded in Scripture so he could pass it on to future generations enabling us to glean from the God given spiritual principles of visualization (Genesis 15).
Believe in the Beauty of Your Dreams
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. The revelatory images that God gives us in our dreams cause us to stretch up to grasp our visual hopes of tomorrow. Deep inside we have a God given desire to possess our destiny. A vision is a dream that becomes so clear and plain that it is inscribed on the tablets of the heart; when this happens no one can take it away. Visions can propel you from where you are now by launching you into a freshly formed destiny. When we dream big dreams we can see where, when and how we are going to succeed. The power of the imagination is where ideas are born so it is a necessary ingredient to change your life, so dare to dream. Imagination gives us access to every possibility in existence; it is the foretaste of life's coming attractions. All accomplishments and the entirety of earth's wealth had their beginning in the visual dreams of the night.
But, where there is no vision to promote change and bring increase, people perish from boredom. King Solomon who was the world's wealthiest and wisest king said, "If a nation or person is not guided by a God given vision, they will lose self-control, become lawless and perish, but the nation that obeys God's law will prosper and be happy. If people can't see what God is doing, they stumble and fall; but when they attend to what the Holy Spirit reveals, they are most blessed." It is vitally important to give your vision substance to sustain the passion in your heart and mind.
The greatest power in the universe is love.
Dr. Barbie L. Breathitt
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