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Tuesday - 2/10/09 - We continue to believe God to touch & strengthen each of you. No really. - If this is your first time visiting, welcome, and we encourage you to also read the other 2 postings on Your B.I.G. Dreams to get the most out of this.

We are talking about B.I.G. dreams, the kind that Kingdom-minded believers need to have:

“B” - Beyond Human Ability, “I” - Inspired by God, “G” - Generation Serving

Here we go. Father touch the life of every single reader, not by clever words of human wisdom, but through the power of your Spirit.

B - Beyond Human Ability

Today let’s stir our faith as we unlock an essential characteristic of the God-kind of dreams. If your dream is the kind that if a few things fall your way, you might just make it - it is not the right kind of dream.

The dreams you and I should have - divinely inspired ones - are impossible without God’s power and ongoing involvement.

ATTENTION Business people, marketplace leaders, creative & aspiring individuals with God-inspired ideas, okay, all Christians in fact — NOTE: Don’t get caught just adding a few more zeroes, more influence or more success to your current heading and call it good, even if your aspirations are ’spiritual’ or ‘ministry’. It is okay to want these things as vehicles that help you in your role expanding the Kingdom but seeking them is not a catalyst for realizing B.I.G Dreams. However, daring to do exploits is part of being a Kingdom-minded Christian. No need to shrink away from expanding or prominent roles in society when God is the one bringing them about.

Though prominence, influence and visible success may be brought about truly supernaturally and are worthy of believing God for in your case, they are side notes to first having a heart for the Kingdom. (Remember that unbelievers create these things without relying on God, and we are talking today about the realm beyond human ability.)

Vital Key to Supernatural Outcomes

Look at it like this. Kingdom FIRST, then as you burn with its flame, God fans it further and causes visible fruitfulness as a byproduct of the mandate you are carrying. But the order of pursuit couldn’t be more crucial. Many of us don’t have this settled deep, deep down. Sure we’re Christians and if you asked us we have the right answer, but yet we are not seeing what we long for — results beyond human ability as we walk with God — and not just in ’special’ church services, certain ‘ministry’ events or faraway places. Here. Now. How I truly wish you could hear what I am saying and respond to it deep down.

Let this statement find a home in your heart. When you become fully set on reflecting His light rather than brightening your own, you become more able to conduct miraculous power and experience results beyond human ability.

Maybe you are already heading right and that’s great. Bravo-seriously. We need more like you. I’m still just getting it. Let’s keep going.

The Realm of Human Possibility

When we continually live our daily lives confined to the realm of human possibility, our role as change-agents for the Kingdom of God becomes more like fantasy than vision.

Our busy lifestyles combined with relentless influence from the world around us (some which we invite–aaargh!) have a subtle way of robbing us of divine potential. We start looking like the guy or gal who lives down the street with ‘a little God thrown in’, rather than a person empowered by the Spirit of God who dares to believe for things beyond human ability as we reach out to the world in Christ’s love.

Your dream MUST be more than that. Your dream has to bring heavenly possibility into the realm of earth by faith. Otherwise it’s far too small and ordinary. This goes for Christians who are pastors, full-time church staff, business owners, government leaders, gen ‘x’-ers & ‘y’-ers, grandparents, stay at home moms, missionaries, teachers, marketing consultants, professionals from all walks of life - you name it, EVERYONE.

Here’s how Paul puts it to the Corinthians:

2 Cor 6:11-13

11 “Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. 12 We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. 13 I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!”
(from THE MESSAGE)

The Source of Much Small-Mindedness

Sometimes it’s our very own small mindedness that’s holding us back. Do you hear what I am saying? Dream thieves even come from inside us. The old saying goes that ‘those who think they can’t and those who think they can are both right’. Jesus says it another way, directly addressing someone seeking a miraculous outcome, “According to your faith be it unto you”.

Paul is saying “I’m longing to see you see your own opportunity” and also, “open up your life to divine possibilities” — not to be mistaken with just starting to wish to become a movie star. (If you are called that way, however, then please start taking acting classes, develop your gifts and do us all a favor and have at it. Let us know so we can pray for you. :))

Let’s ask an important question. What is so far beyond your ability but so deep in your heart that you must believe God to see its fulfillment? — Now we are getting warmer!

Take the Limits Off Your Life

Might it be time to take the self imposed limits off your life and pursue a God-sized dream? A small-minded spirituality, which robs us of divine possibility and that is content-to-let-the-world-run-the-show-while-we’re-at-church-so-long-as-we-eventually-escape-to-heaven, really bites. Yes church is vital. I love relevant, powerful church and am serving locally in a great one. I’m not saying that, but church is a place to be strategically equipped for your divine assignment, not consumed by ’stuff’ or forced into a mold that is more about the personality, agenda and preferences of leaders than propelling the Kingdom and you in the Kingdom. Make sure you know you are in the right place.

While you are at it, however, also do what’s practical and live a solid life along the way. This simply means that in addition to doing all we know to do with all the strength we have, that we continue to cry out for the release of things far beyond human ability through us.

Knock. Knock. Are you available? Let it be done on earth as it is in heaven. For that to happen somebody has to have a vision to carry something from one place to the other - now, in this time! (Today’s earth could use more heaven, no?) May it be you.

Apart from God, That’s Crazy!

You are well designed by a master craftsman, but God never meant you to reach your divine potential apart from Him, even as wonderfully as He made you. The type of fruit born from purely human strength has an appearance of glory but it is the kind that fades. How then do we lay hold of something greater?

Part of the answer lies in what we are aiming toward with our lives. If we are willing to settle for mostly natural outcomes, that is what we will produce. If, however, we are willing to continually seek God for that which is beyond human ability, we are knocking on the door of miraculous outcomes. This takes humility and dependence but also boldness. Specific, faith filled prayer and Bible meditation that produces real faith is a catalyst, not to mention confessing and declaring the truth consistently with our mouth.

Until Thursday then, blessings to you, your family and upon your endeavors,

Rick Hubbell for Ti-MC

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