Dreaming Big

Last Sunday, in Spanish Service the analogy of God closing doors and opening windows was discussed. I have always just assumed that when God closes a door, He will fling a window wide open that you can easily walk through. Somehow the analogy stuck with me this week and I have done a lot of thinking about doors and windows.

I have never walked up to a door or window that was just open in my spiritual life. I always seem to have to open the door or window. In Matt 7:7-8 it says, "Ask, and you will be given what you ask for. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Anyone who seeks finds. If only you will knock, the door will open.”(TLB) Jesus was not telling us to go about our daily lives and everything we want to see accomplished in the spirit will always be right there in plain sight! We have to act on our faith! Ask, seek, and knock are all action verbs that show that we are to be actively looking for what God wants in our lives.

Sometime last year I was standing at my kitchen sink praying and I felt the Lord impress on me that “You are standing at the threshold of miracles.” Whoa, was my first thought! A threshold? That is not where I want to be, I want to be in the middle of miracles! Yet, that was all He seemed to say, so I tucked it away in the back of my mind for a later date.

Since that time, I have felt bombarded by life with all sorts of emotions! Yes, my health is better, but still not where it really needs to be! Pretty much the rest of life has rocked along without seeing anything out of the ordinary in the miracle department. I am firm believer that every day that we have here on Earth is a miracle in itself, but you know nothing super God like! Actually I have been somewhat down concerning several areas of life, feeling quite left out, and almost stir crazy. Toby calls me a visionary that can see what I want and will go for the gold if I can possibly find a way. I really haven’t felt I have even had a mission lately to work toward!

This week, in conversation Toby has said several times, “Wow, this is bigger than all of us!” or “What God is doing is bigger than any one person!” In the past my dreams have been big, but through a set of closed doors, and not seeing any windows, I have become almost dreamless! Spiritually depressed, lack of vision, or without a purpose you might say! In the past, I have felt that I have dreamed dreams that were too big to ever see fulfilled. “Oh really,” God seemed to say to me this week, “You are on the threshold of something larger than yourself, dream big!”

Today the Scripture, “Jer 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”(TLB) almost jumped off the page at me! Plans for me…..standing on the threshold of miracles …….the window yet unopened, all seemed to make sense. He has definitely shut a huge door in my life at the present, but today I see a window. I have to be willing to open that window, climb through, and see the miracles that God has promised. Eph 3:20 says, “Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of-infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.”(TLB) must become my motto once more. I am standing at that threshold!

In the next few months I know that God will reveal even more of His plan! So, today, I am standing, watching, knocking, seeking, asking, and anticipating……..want to join me?

It is time to DREAM BIG!!!!!!!!