Dreaming in color

 

 I had the oppertunity today to visit Free Chaple church, which is about 15 minutes away from me. I was so excited because i had attended a worship service two wednesday nights ago and absolutly loved it. The holy spirit fills every corner of the building and takes over your heart like a flood. I stood hands raised, heart pounding drinking in the splendor of my King. I had never experienced somehting so pure before in a church and absolutly loved it. So i was pretty pumped to meet God in this way again this Sunday morning.

  I met Him differently today though. I met him not in full out pouring of emotion through worship, but in His truth that was spoken through the sermon. My heart was full of praise, and i thought that was all i was looking for. Just a time to replenish my soul, to allow the music to fill me and allow words of thankfulness and praise to form on my lips. But today my heart was being met on a different level, it needed truth,it needed life, it needed to remember!

 Th passage was Genisis 37, which speaks about Joseph’s dreams. Joseph, the younger brother that was hated for his dreams, hated for his position of favortism. He was choosen, he was given a gift that showed his status, that made him stand out among the others. And he dreamed dreams that allowed him to know all of this, to confirm it. We all have dreams. We are choosen, picked out as favorits, and wrapped in a coat of many colors that singles us out. It shows were not part of the norm. God gives dreams, ambitions and drives to those he is goign to use. He is goign to say “yes” to your dreams, because he placed them in you, even when others say “no”. Gods “yes” will always over rule any other “no”. Just like Joseph’s brothers wanted to get rid of him, to push him down, crush his dreams, so does the enemy. He doesn’t was us to discover our dreams can happen, He doesnt want us to know that when we put God on our side, by saying we want to persue the dream placed in our hearts, that we will succeed! That we will make it happen and indeffinatly shake up and rock the enemys world, this world that we are living in.

  As i sat and pondered all that was being presented to me in such a empowering way i realized and rememeber my dream…and i realized i was living it! I had a dream placed in my heart years ago to be a servant. Simple, almost too vague, almost to broad to even be thought of as a dream. But to serve my God with everything i had, to say yes when everyone else said no. I many times in the past few years hit times of drought, hit times of having my coat ripped off by my doubts and fears, but my dream was too deeply rooted in my heart to allow that coat that allowed me to stand out to show i was choosen, off for too long. 

  I had a dream about GA before i came here. It was the most vivid dream i have ever had. The colors were bright the emotions were strong, i could litterally feel the warmth of the sun.  It also came at the lowest point,filled with fear and uncertainty about going to Gainesville GA. I wasnt sure i was cut out for ministry. I was scared to leave my comfort zone and head out into the un known where God could ask me at any time to do something i wasn’t ready to do. That he could ask me to do something i couldn’t do. But this dream, this beautiful dream that he blessed me with allowed my heart to beat faster and for me to take up my coat of many colors that he had bestowed upon me and tightly wrap it around me.

  I am living out that dream that was placed in my heart 6 years ago. I have been pushed down, told “no” and had my moments of doubt. But god always made sure i was aware of the coat he had given me. My coat of bright colors that allowed me to stand out, to show i was different. He blessed me with dreams deep in my heart that he wishes me to live out. He lets me dream dreams, dream big with vivid color and feeling. And His “yes” has always out wieghed all other “no’s”. I have discovered my dream, and it is to serve His kingdom with every ounce of me, whether it’s here in Gainesville GA or the far corners of the world, i will live out my dream, my greatest desire to be His servant forever.

 

Isaiah 6:8