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Recently I posted 7 steps to achieve your dreams. I love helping people attain their God-given visions. It occurred to me that there may be a counter post needed here. This may seem like common sense, but I’m not sure it is sometimes. The fact remains that more people will look back on their life and wish they had done more with their life than they did. I heard someone once say something like, “If you’re not careful, your “hope to do’s” will become your “wish I had’s”. I have many of those areas in my life. I want the next phase of my life to be different.
Here are 7 reasons you may not be achieving your dreams:
I love and encourage dreaming, because I think it’s healthy emotionally and the process helps us accomplish great things personally and for God. We are told we serve a big, creative God, whose thoughts will always be bigger and better than ours, so dreaming should be natural to believers. Dreaming stretches the vision of churches and organizations, it fuels creativity, and many great opportunities develop first as a dream.
The reality is that more people have dreams than attain them. Perhaps you have dreams you have yet to accomplish. I certainly do. One reason dreams never come true is that we don’t have a system in place to work towards them. I love to be an encourager for people with great dreams, so with that in mind, here are some steps to help you move towards reaching your dreams:
And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you Luke 24: 5-6
Easter reminds me that I often make the mistake of those who were seeking the crucified Christ.
I look for the living among the dead…
I look at my past mistakes and think I can’t do better…
I look at my failures and think I’m defeated…
I look at those who cast doubt upon me and think they speak truth…
I look at my inadequacies and think I’m limited…
I look at my problems and forget that His mercies are new every morning…
I look for the living among the dead…
Are you looking for the living among the dead?
Let Easter remind you we serve a RISEN Savior!
The tomb is empty!
Live that way!
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