Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of our post today is

Put God in the mix. Abraham was a dreamer, maybe one of the greatest ever. God liked that about him.

At that time in history, he desperately needed a dreaming friend. The Lord had

been waiting for him to come along, a man he could partner with to recapture his dream of family.

The Redeemer would be born through this man's family. Their story begins in Genesis 12, where God initiates his plan by

instilling a dream in Abraham. The passage says, the Lord said to Abraham, go forth from your country,

from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land which I will show you.

And I'll make you a great nation and bless you.

Notice that God began his journey with Abraham by speaking to his dreaming nature.

How fascinating is that? I'm going to make you my partner

in rescuing my dream, Abraham, and I'm going to begin by giving you a dream. Why? Why, when looking for

someone to help him recapture his dream, would God approach it this way?

He could have just demanded that Abraham do what he wanted.

But the Lord is well aware of the strength of our dreaming nature.

He placed it there, after all.

With this in mind, God knew that the partnership for the partnership to endure for a lifetime, Abraham, would need the freedom to release

this God-given nature. It couldn't be a one-sided dream. Therefore, God began by placing a dream in

Abraham's heart regarding the birthing of a great nation and announced the partnership.

I'll make from you a great nation, Abraham's dream, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. God's dream, the partnership.

Since God gave us our dreaming nature, and since he has a purpose and destiny for each of us,

it seems obvious he would want a voice in our choice of dreams.

There's a verse in scripture that addresses this and has meant a great deal to Cece and me over the years.

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