God has placed in your heart a dream for what he intends your life to look like. Like Abraham’s dream, it’s a dream of a land of promise: close fellowship with God, life-giving community with other believers, and spiritual influence with the world. The dream is way bigger than what you are experiencing in the present; it’s way more than you need or even deserve — and it’s yours by Divine decree. But you first have to envision it, because you can’t possess what you haven’t pictured.
The Journey// Focus: Genesis 13:14-17
After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession. And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted! Go and walk through the land in every direction, for I am giving it to you.”
God has placed in the heart of every believer a dream and the desire for what he intends their life to look like—like Abraham, it is a land of promise: territory, influence, blessing that is theirs by Divine decree. And that promised land is way bigger than what any believer is experiencing in the present; it’s way more than they need or even deserve.
Yet God is a God of abundance, and his Son came to give the believer life more abundantly; life to the full!
Unfortunately, some of us have allowed God’s promise—the dreams and desires he has placed in our hearts—to be buried so deeply for so long that we have forgotten what our land of promise even looks like. God’s command to Abraham to look at the land, and even to walk the length and breadth of it before he possessed it, a great reminder to us that it is time to dig up what has been buried and envision it once again! As Abraham’s children (Galatians 3:29), God desires for us to experience his abundant blessing. If we are not, we are not living where God has called us to live.
Now of course, there may be a good reason why we are not currently living in God’s abundance. It could be that we are in a season of pruning, or tilling and sowing before the harvest. In that case, patience is called for. Or it might be that we are in a season of sin, and we are reaping the consequences of what we have sown. In that case, repentance is in order.
But sooner or later, God wants us to come into our land of promise. And an important first step is to call to mind the vision implanted in your heart for Divine abundance. Visible success for you will originate with the invisible realm of your soul. (See Psalm 37:3-4, John 15:7-8) Hebrews 11:1 reminds us, “faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:3 goes on to say that what is seen never begins with what is visible. Like Abraham, God places within you a heart full of treasure and talent, feelings and desires, in short, potential realities. And it could be that treasure has been buried for too long.
Dig it up today and visualize the future God has for you. One of the greatest acts of faith would be to dare to look ahead and imagine what you want to be, have and do! There is nothing wrong with that. That’s faith! God has placed it there; he has promised you land—a life of blessing. Now you’ve got to see it by faith before you can begin taking the steps toward it.
Do you have a dream that God has placed in your heart! Thank God, if it is there, he intends to fulfill it! Now cooperate with God and let vision become your victory!
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