Once you get that dream inside you, things will begin to change. No, all your problems won’t disappear overnight any more than mine did. But you’ll respond to them differently. When they rise up in front of you and threaten to defeat you, God’s dream will stir in your heart.
You’ll start saying, “Wait just a minute. I’m the head, not the tail. I’m blessed, not cursed. I don’t have to put up with this mess. I happen to be a child of the King Himself. He sets my table in the presence of my enemies. No weapon formed against me can prosper!” (See Deuteronomy 28:13; Psalm 23:5; and Isaiah 54:17.)
Once you start dreaming from the Word of God, you’ll start acting on those dreams and your faith will bring them to pass.
That’s what Dr. David Yonggi Cho did in Korea. He was a dying man, riddled with tuberculosis, when he came into the kingdom of God and started studying God’s Word. He didn’t have any religious people around him telling him not to dream. He just took his Bible and started building dreams in his heart things he wanted to do for God, for his nation, for his people.
He dreamed of building the biggest church in the world and of sending missionaries all over the world. Today, that dream is a reality.
Dr. Cho pastors a church in Seoul, South Korea, with over 700,000 members. Although the nation had no money when the church started, his church is able to send out millions of dollars a year to the foreign
mission field.
Just think, all that started with one man dreaming by the Word of God. Like Abraham, he hoped against hope. He wrapped his faith around the supernatural picture painted by the Word of God, instead of the impossibilities painted by the world.
Look at Romans 4:18 again. It says Abraham “believed in hope, (notice the next phrase) that he might become….”
What are you becoming? Abraham was 100 years old and still planning what he would become. He still had his eye of faith focused on something he couldn’t attain on his own. Something that couldn’t come to pass without the supernatural power of God. He set out to become the father of many nations at 100 years old.
You know, when you get right down to it, it doesn’t really matter much what you’ve been in the past. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve left a colossal mess behind you or 25 years of ministry what matters is what
you’re becoming today.
The Apostle Paul put it this way: “…this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13-14).
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
