Big Dream or Status Quo? -- Part 1/3

Too many in the Body of Christ have gotten used to the status quo. But the Christian Life is more than this. If we do not dream a BIG dream with God, how can we be where we need to be. Christians who choose to live in the status quo are living out there walk in a rut. God wants more for His people than this.

The prophet, Samuel was birthed via the desperation of his mother, Hannah. She wanted to have a child so deeply that she faced years without any. Scripture says in Proverbs 13:6, that "hope deferred makes the heart sick." Year after year, Hannah, having no child, while Peninnah, her husband's other wife, was having child after child. Penninah would use Hannah's barreness to provoke her to tears, sobshe would not eat.

All Hannah knew to do was to lay her heart bare before the Lord. So she sought the Lord out. It's that type of desperation that often moves the hand of God. Hannah was in position for a miracle to happen. Like her, you must know where to put that desperation. Desperation is often that fertile ground that God uses to propel you forward into the destiny that He has for you.

1 Samuel 3:10-11says, 

"She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. And she vowed a vow and said, 'O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.' ”

Hannah was willing not to own, lay personal possession of the promise, but to give him unto the Lord God for service. Her dream, her desire, was placed in the hands of God. She wanted God's promise fulfilled His way.

1 Samuel 1:20

"And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, 'I have asked for him from the Lord.' ”

The Word goes on to say that when Samuel was three years of age, Hannah brought him to the temple to serve there, as fulfillment of the promise she gave the Lord, and in turn, the Lord gave her five more children (3 boys and 2 girls).

Like Hannah, we need to be able to release what God has placed within us. Every dream has to start somewhere. All dreams start with faith, faith that God has a plan for you, that you to know and believe He can do it, and to be obedient to His commands.  

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare (your good/peace) and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

First, we need to listen to the Lord and keep His Word--whatever He asks of us to do, for the promise will come.

Habakkuk 2:2-3

 "And the Lord answered me:

 'Write the vision;

make it plain on tablets,

so he may run who reads it.

 For still the vision awaits its appointed time;

it hastens to the end—it will not lie.

If it seems slow, wait for it;

 it will surely come; it will not delay.'"

God will make a way, where there seems to be no way. Just do as He shows you.