What was God dreaming…?

God puts good dreams in our hearts

What was God dreaming for you when He formed you in your mother’s womb? It’s a great question, but unfortunately, we are born into a fallen world. So many wounds, traumas, and pressures distort your becoming your true self. God’s purposes in the cross are not just salvation of your soul but the redemption of the real you that He “dreamed about” in eternity past. He puts those good dreams in our hearts, just as He did with Joseph. They don’t always make sense to others in our world. Joseph’s brothers rejected them and him. But in time, he became ruler of Egypt, and they knelt before him, just as he had dreamed.

When I was a kid, I made a lot of weird noises, and I really liked to experiment with sounds. My mom thought that God had sent me to drive her crazy, but she eventually realized that God’s dream for me was that I would be a teacher of other languages and that I would travel to many countries and share the gospel in their languages. Have you discovered God’s good dream for you?

Glimpsing God in Worship

David knew how to shake’em down!

Worship is a natural love response to the God who loves us. It comes from the heart. I worship God sometimes when I am overwhelmed by a glimpse of who God is. Often that happens in church and often while I’m singing. In my most profound worship moments, I have been unable to speak, broken, my spirit sending gratitude to the Father.

I have worshipped in a lot of churches, but I can’t speak authoritatively about what was in the hearts of those around me. At times it has seemed that they–and I–were just mouthing the words, both from old hymns and contemporary worship. Sometimes we sounded like we were singing ourselves to sleep, especially with those hymns in which we are singing sermons, or doctrine, to ourselves. I’m not much into those. My concern is not whether we are singing but whether we are worshiping in spirit and in truth. There is no formula, no tradition or innovation that automatically produces “better” worship.

David knew how to worship, and it started in his gut. At least once, he danced before the Lord with all his might. It’s good to think about these things and seek to go deeper because I think we have only scratched the surface and only have a vague understanding of what is happening in Revelation when angels and saints worship God day and night.

You can surely glimpse God anywhere, but I think your chances are better when you stretch your heart and spirit out toward Him.

Praising God with the Scriptures

Today, while reading this book, I was reminded in the section “God gives” that He gives us: strength and power, wisdom, good things, His Son, the Holy Spirit, life and breath, all things for us to enjoy, grace, the victory, everlasting consolation and good hope, love, a sound mind, wisdom, scripture, eternal life, understanding, and a whole lot more.

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Praising God with the Scriptures

This book will teach you about who God is ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE on a daily basis.

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