Your Dream Is Your Responsibility

Create your own world There is blessedness on the hands of mankind, and a gift that allows us to create our own world. Somehow, we humans have the capacity to take a portion of a rugged, nasty swamp and turn it into a beautiful, refreshing, lovely park, all because we can use our imagination and dream beyond what our eyes can see. I’m telling you today; if you can dream beyond your eyes, you have it within your power to create anything that you desire. You are the executive decision maker of your dream; God has already gifted you with the ability to shape and create your own world. Picture the earth and all the beauty that we experience daily, some parts are natural beauties as a result of God’s imagination. Other parts of the world are shaped and landscaped from the imagination and creativity of humans. God has given us the ability to change what once was an ugly looking world after the fall, to a beautiful and comfortable home for human beings. Yes! We live in a fallen world, but it doesn’t mean our imagination and dreams have to fall. Earlier this year, God started to speak to me; He showed me that I have the creativity within myself to create my own world. People are given opportunities because of some sort of creative gift that they have. Before a gift is discovered, it must first be uncovered; before a gift can be uncovered, it has to start with a pursuit; before it can be pursued, one has to challenge themselves to birth it out of their imagination. Some of us never pay attention to the good things that come from our imagination. The reality is; we first came from the imagination of God. He pictured us within his mind before he spoke us into existence. This is why it’s hard for me to not believe that there is a God; the intricate details of our very makeup testify of God’s imagination. All you have to do is look in the mirror at the beautiful person staring back at you. As you do so day by day, remember, you first began in the imagination of God himself. How awesome and wonderful it is to know that you came from the imagination of God? Because God wanted you here, He took his imagination and spoke it into existence. Just like God, we have the ability to imagine our dreams and create our world. I see people who create all types of businesses, which would have never been thought of without a creative imagination; however, through the gift of imagination we have the capacity to create our world. We can even create our world with our own words. Whether you are aware of it or not, your imagination feeds your dream the food that it needs to stay creative. If you don’t use your imagination, you can’t have a dream; your imagination is the beginning of dreaming. Earlier in 2014, I put a sticker above my bed that said “Dream until your dreams come true.” I placed the sticker there to remind myself that no matter where I fall in this place called life, I never want to lose sight of the original dreams that were placed in my heart. Some of us are unaware of the fact that our dreams are connected to our soul; when your dream is stolen, it is a sign that your soul is in jeopardy. Your dreams uniquely sprout from the soul (mind, will, and emotions) of the person who imagined them. If you have a grand idea of being someone great, do not allow anyone to influence you so much that they discourage your imagination and steal your dreams. Your Dream is Your Responsibility If God has given ideas, inventions, businesses or ministries, to you, then they are your responsibility. Sitting around waiting on someone to give you an opportunity is not how God expects you to pursue your dream. You cannot be timid about your Dream. People who are timid usually have the mentality of “If it’s meant to be for me, it will happen.” In my opinion, this is a peasant mentality. The only way peasants receive is when someone else gives to them. Keep in mind; if you never pursue it, it will never happen. I’ve noticed that God has given me ideas in the past; instead of doing the legwork, I thought of every excuse to why I shouldn’t pursue it. If there is a ministry that God has given you, you mustn’t be afraid to pursue it. After all God has an appointed time for every dream. He gave it to you today instead of yesterday because that is the appointed time for you to start pursuing it. In 2013, I started getting speaking engagements and it was because people were contacting me out of the blue. God expressed to me that he had already released me to go forward, but I kept thinking it wasn’t necessary to stay connected with people or ask them for opportunities, because God will do it for me. This mindset kept me enslaved to believing that God doesn’t want me to lift a finger. We have it on the inside of us to make our lives whatever we desire them to be. No one is stopping us, if it isn’t happening it’s only because we are getting in our own way.