Hidden Dreams
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Are you in a season of hidden your dreams because of the setbacks in life? Living daily in the motion of how it should be rather than living a life that you’ve hoped for? I hope to help you seek out your childlikeness by sharing our Heavenly Father’s heart for you.
Children are the best examples of how life can be. Carefree moments of living in a creative play. The extent of their imaginations is far greater but unfortunately, they too faced too many “no” and “don’t”. It either helped them to define the truth and errors, or it sets them backward; traumatized to try again.
It may seems that many of us have given up the realness of what it means to live. Too many of us are living in foretells and old maid’s tales; chained by the mistakes of our parents’ parents for generations.
Some of us may not have had parents involved in our lives growing up, and we might have walked into bad companies. While we were in search of an identity and spiritual parents that could love on us and teach us how to dream again.
I’ve been trying to put words across to help people understand that our current issues and brokenness may have been sparked while we were young, missing the real parental expression of a beautiful life.
At twenty-one, my mom decided to leave the family. Coming round to it, I realize the reasons why she felt lost. She was looking for an identity as a mother. She was trying to find her hidden dreams. She was young when she had me, she was lost and did not have much heavenly support.
A lifestyle that I felt I had to break. A pocket moment of telling myself that I needed to live a life that is my own and not for the children or parents.
In those days, my dad and sister were hardly home. I guess it was a season of grief for all of us. I was fortunate to land a job that allows me to travel the world. There was space to grow myself and that was my only focus – to be a better me.
I was ambitious; meanwhile, trying hard to release myself from a toxic relationship. If you have been following my writing, you probably might have pieced my life together as quite a mess. Yet, in this mess, my dreams were hidden. The real me was hiding.
Who am I? What am I? Where do I go from here? At my twenties, I only wondered where will I be at thirty. I guess that was a healthy goal I’ve set. Simply looking forward to a decade ahead. I was full of hope to rule my own life.
Midway, I met God again. I am blessed to be raised in a big faith-filled family. Even without the guidance of my parents, I had grandma, uncles, and aunties. Also, I had fellow sisters and brothers in Christ whom I believed prayed for me. I may not know every prayer made but I knew God did not let me go so easily.
Fast forward, from the day I decided to try again and draw myself close to God. He drew nearer to me. He placed in my heart my one true identity – a child of God. Preparing me ready for my inheritance. Well, the journey did not happen overnight. It was years of making. Though, I was still very much living the worldly life,I held dearly to an eternal promise.
Looking back, I did not know slowlivecreate was birthing from my daily reading and writing down the words that God has spoken into my heart through sermons, songs, and friends. That’s where the unveiling of my hidden dreams begins. God was dusting off lies and restoring dreams. You see, the way God works is always beyond our imaginations. But our human minds, tend to fix our lives to how they should be rather than who God is.
Do you know who God is? Have you encountered Him, to know that He is a Father, a friend that never ceases to woo your hearts?
If you want to dream again. You have to first meet the dreamer of all dreams! God created us from His imaginations! He gave each of us a dream that matters. Under His breath, we are given purpose to live fully anew.
Here I found an article about King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. I’ve abstracted this portion from shereadstruth that explains why we need to know God first before knowing exactly the dreams we want to build.
In Daniel 2, King Nebuchadnezzar wanted a clear interpretation of his dream and threatened all the wise men, magicians, seers, and sorcerers with death if they couldn’t provide him with that interpretation. Nebuchadnezzar was so troubled by his disturbing dreams and so desperate for answers, which we see in his willingness to reward or punish those who could potentially unlock it for him.
But no one could—no mystical prophet of the pagan gods, no wise man, no medium. The Chaldeans even declared, “What the king is asking is so difficult that no one can make it known to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals” (Daniel 2:11).
But Daniel, a wise man who knew the true and living God who did dwell with His people, had a different response. He called on the name of the Lord, who responded by giving Daniel a vision of both the king’s dream and its interpretation. Then “Daniel praised the God of the heavens” (Daniel 2:19), reciting a true and bold prayer, with promises still true for us today (vv.20–23).
For Nebuchadnezzar, for Daniel, and for us today—only God can unlock the mysteries of wisdom and understanding because God is the true source of them. God answered Daniel’s prayer with abundant clarity, but He doesn’t always. Whether God writes His answer in the sky or (by our limited human understanding) seems to remain maddeningly silent, we can move forward with confidence and faith. The rest of Daniel’s story will testify to this truth and call us to a deeper knowledge of God whose answers we can always trust.
This is what I felt; what it means to have a portion of God’s dream. The enemy is trying all ways to steal, kill and destroy the dreams that God has set for us by distracting us from worldly success. Just how many of us fell victim to the rat race that was not part of God’s plans?
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 ESV says,
“Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.”
See also Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 NKJV:
“Do not be rash with your mouth, and let not your heart utter anything hastily before God. For God is in heaven, and you on earth; therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes through much activity, and a fool’s voice is known by his many words.”
Have you wondered how you’ve been praying? Are you still sending a petition request following a list or are you listening to His voice in your prayer time? Look, praying is a two-way street. It is not us talking but also having our spirit-man leaning into the Holy Spirit. Our beings have to be aligned with Heaven’s thoughts. Otherwise, we will just become fools of many words. Fools trying to make sense of an Instagram post. Fools trying so hard to make ends meet while God has already said worry nothing about tomorrow.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
My dear friends, you are allowed to dream dreams and visions are still available to you through Jesus Christ. But first, you need to open your heart and yield to Him, allowing Him to refine your character and heal your emotional void. In this refining process, it can get uncomfortable but it is for the greater good.
We need more child-likeness in our lives today, willing to come back into God’s creative play so that we can be involved in bringing Kingdom to the cities for generations. Dear friends, I pray that you may be conscious every day that you are God’s beloved child. May you receive the boldness to pursue your dreams again as you immerse yourself in the truth of God’s unmerited favor toward you today.
