Do you dream to enter into the fullness of the calling on your life ?
Do you sometimes make plans in your heart about the future, about that day when you shall be a blessing to others who are in need ? Do you hope to become successful in the area that you are gifted, and to become known as someone who can help influence this world ?

Let me encourage you. Its normal to have dreams in your heart. You are like every other human being living on this planet. God put into the deepest parts of our being the desire to enter into what has been prepared for us.
Now there are days that you feel ready to pay the price to get there, no matter what it costs, and you feel you’ve grasped that vision, of living your life to the fullness of its divine destiny.
“Wow its going to be great !” You think, you can see it already !!
Then there are days you hesitate, and you wonder if it is really possible.
You say : “is that vision really for me, or maybe for someone else to live”. You say : “I’m only dreaming anyway”, and then you let doubt come into your mind. Have you let yourself get discouraged ? Have you tried many projects but are still searching for direction in your life ? You feel like you don’t know what you want sometimes. If that’s so, it’s perhaps that your motivations are confused.

Let me ask you a question, and take your time to think about it : Are your dreams and ambitions formed out of a true and sincere search for the will of God for your life ?
I tell you, you will never be happy if they aren’t. You need to take the time to find the answer to that question. The Lord knows what is best for you, and he knows your heart’s desires. The answers will start becoming clear when you find peace with your identity in Him. Then he will show you how to be at the right place at the right time, doing what you are most gifted to do. You will also find that the self assurance we need to be able to hold on to the end, comes when we know where we are going. Isn’t that great !
When you catch the right vision in line with your destiny on this earth, and you add a good dose of faith in what God can do through you, then nothing, and no one can stop you ! It’s then you will know what satisfaction in life is. What the Lord meant when he said : “I want my children not only to have life, but to have it abundantly too” (John 10 : 10).
Do your dreams still correspond to the Creator’s calling on your life ?
Or have they taken you down another road, and wasted your time ? What was the origin of that good idea in the first place ?
Sometimes we don’t realise that we have been influenced by so many things, situations and people, that we end up just living out the actions of what life has programmed us for, and not what the Lord anointed us to live.

Maybe its time you need to come back and find the original revelation that you received from the Lord for your life, and if you have never asked his advice in that area then its maybe about time you did.
Do you realise that you were born with a personal mission to fulfil and it is engraved in every atom of your body, right from the beginning. Now your human life is a gift, given to you by God to live on this earth, and you only get one chance to live it down here, so you have to make the best of it.

I would like to share with you some things I found out about our motivations. How even with a sincere heart they can still sometimes get confused. Let’s sort out some hidden human thoughts that subtly affected our decisions and our ways of thinking. Where do your ambitions and dreams for your future come from anyway ?
Are they really what you want ? or have you been influenced by...
1) People you admire ?
2) Pressures, frustrations and failures ?
3) Maybe family expectations ?
4) Or subconscious revenge ?
5) Or just own selfish personal ambition ?

Do your dreams look, a little to much, like what someone else has already lived ? Who have you chosen as an example to follow ?
Has the success of someone you admire become a reason for you to want to become like them ?
Be careful, you can follow an example without having to try to live their life. Their life is not your life. Your path is unique, you don’t need to try to do the same exploits as so and so, just because it worked for him ! Always remember : A photo copy is never as good as the original anyway.
Sometimes you have to deal with people who would just love to impose on you what they think is best for you and your future, because they think you can’t decide for yourself, or maybe they just like to impose themselves. So they tell you what to do, and try to give you no choice in the matter. They decide for you, but without taking in to consideration who you are, or what you want.
Now I am not saying that you should not listen to good advice when you can find it, it can help us think things out, but that is not the case here. What I am trying to say is that if you aren’t sure enough of yourself, who you are in Jesus, and you don’t know where you’re going. You can be sure that there will always be someone ready to decide for you. Then you risk ending up spending the rest of your life trying to keep “them happy”.
You see people cannot see what God has shown you. They can’t look into your heart and see that glorious vision of who you will be tomorrow. Because it’s spiritual and it’s personal, and you only are the keeper.
Jesus told us to watch over our hearts and keep them safe, for it is through our hearts that his river of life flows. That’s why you must stay daily in touch with Him so that you won’t be shaken when others come up with a great new project for the next ten years of your life.
Now, when people want to impose their ambitions on others, That’s called manipulation. Even if it is done with good intentions, its still manipulation, and many times it can come from those we love the most : our family. I call that problem : “Great expectations”.
Now it’s normal that we hope and expect the best for our children (I have four myself), but we have to be careful that those expectations don’t become to “great a weight”, and they end up missing the calling on their lives. In that case we can end up become a stumbling block for them.

Who is expecting you to do what ?
Is someone in your family putting pressure on you to perform as they think you should - even a long time after you have left home ? You may be still trying to live out a dream that someone else imposed on you a long time ago, and you don’t even realise it.
Has a dear relative ever tried to put on your shoulders what they, themselves, were not able to accomplish ? Unfortunately parents sometimes don’t realize what they are projecting on to the next generation. Is that you ?
They could be unloading on you their guilty feeling of not having been able to do it themselves. That’s terrible ! They make you feel like you have to accomplish something for them that you would never have chosen to do by your own will, and as you are not sure why, but you’re confused and you do it anyway through a feeling of obligation. Well that’s no good, that’s not a right motivation. Can you see that !

Don’t fall into that trap, you are not responsible for their failures.
Don’t let others decide your future for you !
you must learn how to say, ”no” when you need to say “no” sometimes.
Let me go a little further on this subject. When people take upon themselves more than they can handle, It is either because they are simply unorganised or because they don’t know how to say “NO.” I know that for me both were true, until I got my priorities right, and it’s a long road.
Some people find themselves so weighed down by life and its obligations, they are so busy doing what they think is expected of them (Most of which the Lord never asked them to do in the first place) these dear ones end up spending their time running a frantic race of activism doing many good works just to please everybody instead of asking for God’s guidance.
It’s always easier to say yes to people than to say no. Isn’t it ? Anyway, they end up asking themselves : “how did I ever get into all of this?” They hope that they are pleasing God even though they are taking on more than they can possibly handle. Carrying on their backs, theirs and every one else’s burdens, they don’t know how to stop until they are completely worn out, and then they are no earthy good for anyone. I tell you they have wasted their time.
They have neglected their calling ! That’s why they are always feeling guilty somewhere that it’s never enough. Their hearts are sincere. But they’ve got it all wrong. They hope the Lord is happy to see their efforts anyway, but they never seem to find the time to build up their inner being, and that calling of the Lord on their lives which should have been their priority, will never get to be first place.
It will most probably always stay in the form of a dream, never to be realised. Their motivations are confused. Its so sad !

Are you wasting your precious life away trying to do what others think you should be doing, when it doesn’t correspond at all with who you are inside ?
If you want to know what you are capable of in your life, don’t ask your boss at work, or try asking your next door neighbour. How can they know ?
You have to ask the Lord, He will tell you the truth. He cannot lie. He will never ask of you something that you are not able to do, or something against your inner will, he knows your heart even better than you do yourself. It’s true he will always take you further than your human nature, but that’s ok, because you see, you are a spiritual being, and that you have been, since long before you ever were a human one.
I heard a Pasteur say : “We are not just human beings living something spiritual, but we are spiritual beings who are living something human.”
I think that explains it very well.
To often we accuse this miserable life of limiting us in what we want to do, but we are the only ones responsible for the limits we set for ourselves, and by doing that we limit God’s plans for us too. Its clear, we have to learn how to dream further than our eyesight. Ask the Lord !
He has put a vision in your heart, certainly much bigger than what you think you are able do by yourself. He will certainly stretch you. Higher than your present imagination (Ephesians 3 : 20). But when he challenges you in something, it will echo in your heart because, in fact, it was always there in you. It’s your born in divine potential, Just waiting to be freed by your belief.

Is someone still conditioning your dreams ? Does someone hope to hard on you ? Do your dreams depend on others ?
Don’t forget to look there where God has his plan for your life. It is blessed in advance, it is what your heart has always dreamed of. It’s over and above yours, or anyone else’s human imagination, but it is a dream that is possible to live, If you submit yourself to the Lord (James 4 : 7). For you have in you everything you need to accomplish it. He promised it and that’s that !!!
Do you still want to show somebody something ?
Do you still feel you have to prove that you are able ?
I tell you, get rid of that way of thinking, Its not the road to real success. Its not of the Lord.
Are your dreams still depending on others ?
Are you waiting for someone important to recognise your talent ?

Don’t say you can’t live your dream if so and so wont help you. That’s just an excuse. Your future does not depend on anyone else than you. You didn’t have to ask anyone permission to live or not, do you !!! When God gave you life as a free gift. Well you don’t need their probation to believe in the promises of the Lord ether. They can believe in you or not, that doesn’t change anything. You don’t need them to get where you need to go. All you need is faith in Jesus !
Its always easier if others believe in your vision with you, that’s always encouraging, but you can make it even if the whole world decides to be against you, if you have the Lord on your side. It is the Lord and Him only who can put your life in to order. Co-ordinate the time and the circumstance, that will make you a winner in life, but He won’t do it alone, you have to do everything you can to make it happen too, you must believe in what the Lord has shown you for your life.

You see, when we get born again, and we surrender our lives to Jesus, He then starts to reveal the fullness of his will for our lives here on this earth. We discover who we really are in him and who He really is in us. We can find an assurance in our new identity. Knowing what we want, and what we don’t want of life. That gives us the strength to go on.
It is such a fantastic adventure, and our time on earth is so short, that we don’t have time to waste with insecurity and indecision. If you are still fighting with that then really, I want to encourage you to get healing from the Lord as soon as possible, so that you can get on with the rest of your life. Only one life to live down here. So you don’t need to let anyone live it for you. Look for your Father in heaven, search for his kingdom, and he will be your guide.
The Lord thought it over before he chose the calling he put on your life. He knew what it would cost you, and He knew what it would cost Him too.

Don’t let anyone kill your dreams, by reminding you of your past, or where you have come from, saying : “You don’t have the right to dream for that (God’s plan)!“ Or saying: “You can’t do that !” etc.
Tell them that they don’t have the right to talk to you that way, because you know where your going. You have the Lord’s plan in your life. Then you can lift your hand and point your finger towards the horizon, and show them where your future lies.
Surround yourself with those who believe in the impossible for their own lives. Know that everything is possible for those who believe Christ Jesus !
He does not look at you like the world does, but he sees your heart, and he is looking for your real motivations.

May The Lord bless you and keep you all along the way !

Love Julia

Aggée 1:12 Zorobabel, fils de Schealthiel, Josué, fils de Jotsadak, le souverain sacrificateur, et tout le reste du peuple, entendirent la voix de l'Eternel, leur Dieu, et les paroles d'Aggée, le prophète, selon la mission que lui avait donnée l'Eternel, leur Dieu. Et le peuple fut saisi de crainte devant l'Eternel.