ACTIVATE YOUR DREAM
What Have You Done With Your Dream?
Dreams alone have never made anyone great. From time memorial, many have so many great and noble dreams but they wonder why none of those dreams have become reality. An old adage says “if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” They have dreams of living as kings on earth but in reality, they live as paupers.
Great men do not become great only by the quality of their dreams. It is the quality of work they apply to the quality of their dreams that produce quality accomplishment.
Dr. Schuller says you must never allow anybody tell you to take care (even though they may have good intention). To take care or take it easy means you are going nowhere. Matt. 11:2; “from the time of John the Baptist the heaven suffereth violence and the violent taketh it by force”.
For the achievers, life must have a sense of urgency; “can’t wait to touch lives”, “can’t wait to give the world something of value”, “can’t wait for barrier to be broken”, “new territories to be taken”, “new areas to be developed”.
Dreams are cheap, every idiot can dream, wandering out of the dream is a major work. There are too many dreams but an external work is the twin sister of dream. So work out your dream.
Somebody once said there are three kinds of people in this world.
Those who make things happen
Those who watch things happen
Those who wonder what is happening - this set is, in fact, the most pathetic because they do not even know what is happening.
We have computers today because somebody took a chance, we have airplanes today because somebody took a risk, we ride cars today because somebody somehwehere at some point woke up from their dream to activate and bring it to reality.
People go to the moon today because someone dreamt of it and didn’t stop there but went ahead to activate it. Today, we enjoy electricity because someone did more than dreaming. We have phones today and even Internet because some people somewhere didn’t just stop at dreaming.
Whatever it is we enjoy today is a function of someone taking a further step beyond their dream, someone somewhere at some point took a chance.
Jesus took a chance and risk, gave salvation to the world, he did not stay in heaven and just dream.
John 9:4 – I must do the work of him that sent me
You can make things happen; you do not have to be forever telling the stories of great men. It is not enough to read (his-story); it is time the world read your story.
I believe with all my heart that what gave David the throne of Israel is that he was found working. Unlike his so-called famous and matured elder brothers who sat all day at home whiling away all their lives. I Samuel 16:11
Can you imagine, David’s greatest USP (unique selling proposition) for the leadership of Israel was “Behold he keepeth the sheep…”
When David showed up with his dirty boots and smelly hands, Samuel said, “that is the man we are waiting for”.
Don’t sit at home like David’s brothers, go out and work. David’s elder brothers, Eliab, Abinadab, Shammah and for others were rejected because, they were at home, having siesta and disaster caught up with them. I always tell youths that I am privileged to talk to that, “siesta is a privilege of the rich and the achievers, young guys who fall in love with siesta usually marry disaster.”
Eliab lost the throne because of siesta
David had the dream in his heart but he was getting his hands dirty and his feet in the mud, this is what it takes to get your dream activated. Do not sit back and expect favourable condition, there may never be a favourable condition. You are the one to create it. Do not be a passive observer of events that affect your life and destiny. Take charge and take control. Stop saying you are unlucky, put your dream to work. Those who rely on luck never do anything meaningful with their lives.
HOW DO I ACTIVATE MY DREAM
1. First of, commit your life to Christ
2. Receive direction
3. Start small
4. Go to work
Job 1:10 – “the Lord will bless the work of your hands”, even satan knows this.
“I am not a failure, I have a dream to fulfill, I have work to do, as I go to work, my dream shall be achieved, I am an achiever, I am a success, the royal blood of Jesus runs in my blood, I am going places, I am making it, in Jesus name. The world is waiting for me to deliver.”
If God says I can, then I can, I can, with help of God.