Turning Dreams into Reality

Proverbs 29:18 NKJ
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint…
Philippians 3:12-14 NKJ
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press
on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid
hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but
one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching
forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for
the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Five Kinds of Dreamers:

1. Non-Dreamers: people who live day-to-day with no thought about
   their future
2. Empty Dreamers: people who live in a dream world without ever
   acting
3. Average Dreamers: people who dream small and settle for average
4. Dream Abandoners: people who charge out toward their dreams
   but abandon them when it gets tough
5. Dream Achievers: people who have the qualities to turn their
   DREAMS INTO REALITY

Process of Turning Dreams into Reality:

1. Believe that if God calls you He will equip you.
   1 Corinthians 1:26-29 NKJ
   For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to
   the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has
   chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and
   God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the
   things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the
   things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are
   not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory
   in His presence.
2. Decide to be faithful in everything God gives you to do.
   Luke 16:10-12 NKJ
   “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who
   is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore if you have
   not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your
   trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is
   another man’s, who will give you what is your own?”
3. Develop a strategy for your dream.
   Proverbs 16:3 NKJ
   Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established

Seven Questions to Answer:

1. Who am I? (Core values)
2. Why am I? (Purpose)
3. What am I supposed to do? (Mission)
4. What’s going on out there? (Environment)
   “Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp
   transformation has occurred. In a matter of decades, society
   altogether rearranges itself—its worldview, its basic values, its social
   and political structures, its arts, its key institutions. Fifty years later a
   new world exists. And the people born into that world cannot even
   imagine the world in which grandparents lived and into which their
   own parents were born.” – Peter Drucker
5. What am I called to change? (Impact)
6. What obstacles will I have to deal with? (Challenge)
7. How will I do it? (Strategy)

4. Live with a high-risk capacity.
   “Many people believe that you are really walking by faith when there
   is no risk, but the truth is the longer you walk with God…the greater
   the risk!” – Tommy Barnett
   Hebrews 11:6 NKJ
   But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to
   God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who
   diligently seek Him.