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Lately God has been talking to me a lot about dreaming, especially dreaming for the impossible...

It started last Thursday when I was driving home to Whangarei. It was just me in the car so I had my music cranked, and was singing at the top of my lungs. The song "Mighty Breath of God" thats on the Jesus Culture album came on. The chorus of that song is "blow mighty breath of God, Move across this place." As I was worshipping I began to daydream about what it would look like if God moved across this nation. What would it look like to see a nation in revival. Then a bit of doubt crept in, and I thought of how the country is now, and was like, man it would take a lot for this country to change. I then looked more closely at the vehicle in front of me. A courier van. On the top part of the back of the van was a picture of a globe with a massive New Zealand flag coming out from it. I thought to myself "thats kinda cool." Then I saw a phrase written near the bottom of the van. "The impossible is not a fact, it is just an opinion." BAM! I then cracked up because God was hardout speaking to me through a courier van. As I began to think about it more, I realized its sooo true. Sometimes we limit ourselves, and limit God because of our own perspective of what we see as possible or impossible. 

I've been reading a book recently called 'Fire and Fragrance' by Sean Feucht and Andy Byrd, and heres an excerpt, that really spoke to me.

"The word perspective, though used much, is understood little and way to infrequently put into practice for a redemptive purpose!Everyone has a perspective. It is not a matter of having it or not. The question is, who is dictating our perspective, what determines out perspective and what values are shaping our perspective. 

Just think for a moment. This morning you woke up and you began to view your day and your life with a specific perspective. That perspective will determine the tint with which you view all of life. It will either release life or death, joy or depression, risk or fear. I believe this to be one of the greatest battles for Christians in this day. How will we choose to view life, hardship, potential and our purpose as believers on this earth?

For way to many, the primary shaper of our perspectives on life is our circumstances. We have become slaves to our circumstances and live most of our lives responding to what may come.The responses are not all negative, but result in a life of defensive move after defensive move after defensive move rather than a continual move forward as a disciplined army taking battlefield after battlefield on a road to sure victory! For many of us, we taken our perspectives from the recent headlines written from a primarily negative , ungodly and extremely humanistic news media. If this becomes our daily food, and report card on the well-being or the advancement of the Kingdom, then no wonder why the Body struggles with a sense of hope for the future. Often this only feeds our propensity towards cynicism and skepticism rather than stirring faith for the seemingly impossible."

He then goes on to talk about when the twelve spies were sent into the land of Canaan. In Numbers 13:2, God tells them to "...spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel..." God had already given them the land, yet 10 of them went in with the lens of taking the land through human possibility rather then the never-failing promise of God. 

I was really challenged by this. Do I see the problems around me with my own eyes and understanding, or do I see them with the lens of Heaven? 

A couple of weeks ago my hours at work got cut to hardly anything. My initial reaction was to panic, but then I thought about and God says in His Word that He is my Provider. It is in His nature to be Provider, so when I say to Him "God, be my provider." I'm simply letting Him be who He is. I think that this is looking through the lens of Heaven and what God says about a situation, rather than looking at it through human eyes.

So dreaming for the impossible. I think that it starts with a change of perspective. With God, nothing is impossible, so I want to start dreaming like nothing is impossible. I want to dream with the lens of Heaven.

Last Sunday, I was at church, and the song "Rain Down" by Delirious was playing. Its one of those songs that you know so well that you just sing without really thinking about it. This time though, one of the lines in the song really stood out to me.

" I FEEL LIKE IT'S TIME TO DREAM AGAIN."

God is so speaking this to me at the moment. Its time to dream again. What are the dreams I have for my life, my church, this nation? Its time to dream again. I feel though that this is not only just for me, but for others out there too. Its time to dream again. 

I want to encourage all of you to take some time out this week to begin to daydream with God. Take some time to dream the impossible.