DARE TO DREAM AGAIN

As a young boy, I had dreams. I wanted to be like the richest man from my hometown back in the days - Adeseun Ogundoyin. I would wear a native attire and stroll round this house. I would lift up my shoulders, and with a confident tone tell my parents, “I am Adeseun Ogundoyin”. When he died, as a young boy, I changed my mind, I looked for another wealthy man and started acting like my newly found model.

We are all people of dreams.

In Gen 39:5, Joseph had a dream

In Gen 39:6, Joseph had another dream

Gen. 39:19-20, his brothers said about Joseph, “Here comes the dreamer, let us kill him and see what becomes of His dreams”.

In Gen. 40:8, the cupbearer and the baker said to Joseph, “We both have dreams but there is no one to interpret them”

In Gen. 41, Pharaoh had dreams and was looking for an interpreter.

People have dreams. We all have dreams. We are all wired to dream big.

As a child, you put stones together to form a fireplace. You placed a tin on that imaginary fireplace for a pot, and the weeds nearby were your vegetables. You used sand as salt. You even smelled what was cooking. You cooked an imaginary stew. You were wired to dream.

Also, you wore your parents’ oversized shoes and attempted to wear their big cloths. If there was ever an abandoned tractor on your street, you must have climbed it and drove for some minutes imagining yourself overtaking other cars on a major highway. You were wired to dream.

You attempted to sweep the floor when your hands could barely grab the broom. You crewed to wash dishes when your height needed to be supported by a stool at the sink. You wanted more!

What happened to you? When did you get to that point in life when you look at your dreams and you see impossibility? Why did you get to the point where you settle for less instead of reaching out for more?

In this series, we will challenge ourselves on what to do in order to pursue that dream again.

I pray for you; your dreams will see the light of day. The scent of water comes upon your dreams afresh. It will sprout again.

““Even a tree has more hope! If it is cut down, it will sprout again and grow new branches. Though its roots have grown old in the earth and its stump decays, at the scent of water it will bud and sprout again like a new seedling.”

Job 14:7-9 NLT

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