Dare to Dream Again

Remember what you once wanted and how you planned and dreamed about it? What made you give up? Did roadblocks and discouraging words turn you around? Perhaps life and an overload of responsibility blocked you. Sometimes it is the fear of failure and rejection that plagues and torments us. I encourage you today to dream again. It is amazing how God the restorer moves in our lives.

Through a series of untimely decisions in my youth, many of my early opportunities were bungled, lost, or vanished. I would later find out that no matter how lost my dreams seemed to be, they were not lost but awaiting me, hidden in my future.

I have learned through experience that God has the ability to restore dreams that appear to be lost. He can reach into your future and strategically place, and replace, experiences and ideas that seem to have vanished. He has revived and fulfilled dead dreams in my life. He has renewed hope and dreams that I buried long ago, and He brought them to fruition. He is faithful in all he does, and His word is true. He can restore health and cause our strength to be sustained. He can lengthen years and preserve life.

After burying my husband, raising children, and having four bouts with cancer, He has restored me and fulfilled many of my buried dreams. God can revive, or replace, opportunities in your life. You can trust God even in distressing times, understanding that He can, and will, restore dreams that seem to be lost. God has been faithful to his word in my life, and He will do the same for you. We can rejoice in trouble, knowing He has our lives and times in his hands. Psalm 31:15

“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— Joel:2:25