As we near the end of this year, today I want to create space to simply dream with God.

God has so many incredible plans for you next year.

He has so many dreams in his heart for you.

And today, as we create space for him, my hope is that he shares those dreams with us,

that we could partner with him and running after the abundant life he has for each of us.

May your heart be filled with the fruit of his incredible plans today.

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God longs for his children to dream.

He longs for us to set aside time with him to wish and wonder about what life could be.

I fear that many Christians have lost the art of dreaming with God out of a misunderstanding of his heart.

While God most definitely has a will for our lives, he also longs for us to dream with

him so that his desires become our own.

While he most definitely has perfect plans for us, he longs for us to want his plans,

that we might co-labor with him rather than being dragged by him like an ill-tempered child into what's best.

May we take time today as the

New Year approaches to dream with God that our hearts may be filled with his longings

and desires. The chief way in which God wants to lead you is by planting dreams in your

heart and then satisfying those dreams. Psalm 374 says, delight yourself in the Lord,

and he will give you the desires of your heart. Our father longs for us to be so delighted in him

that we would want what he wants. He longs to fill us with right desires and then satisfy those

desires in his perfect timing and in his perfect way. He longs to fill us with right desires and then satisfy those desires in his perfect timing

and in his perfect way.

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