How many times in your week do you just want to give up?  The thought may last just a fraction of a second, or it may last for weeks.

Maybe you'd like to call this giving-up thought as,"counting the costs and getting out." I love a friend who a year ago proposed in her heart to raise the level of living in her new immediate family by meaningful thoughtfulness and gracious manners one to another. However, she was now counting the costs in her thoughts and setting herself up to getting out of her purposed dream. 

 

For me, I turned to God with tears falling to my bed saying,"I can't do this!" The tears were for utter release of holding onto a new pathway that the Lord had set for me since June. It was a big project with many areas to develop before I'd be generating any income. My fears were taking over and giving me an opportunity to count the costs.

 

Perhaps you have a desire in your heart that you've been working on for many years, a pet project that you've been working on at work,or some goal that seems to not want to transpire. Each one is a dream that you want to see happen. 

Sometimes it is time to let go. It was a dream for a time to move you to the place you are at now. Or it was a dream that you set for yourself without consulting your Creator who knows you better than you know yourself. He likes to plan too. Are you fighting His plans for you because you know better than He how to put that dream together?

 

Other times it's time to evaluate, yet not give up your purpose proposed in your heart. It's time to evaluate like an annual review of that dream and make some adjustments that got off from alignment. When my loving friend wanted to give up on her dream she had proposed in her wedding vows a year ago, I shared with her that God had told me, "She is reaching for something higher and I honor her for desiring that." In that moment of sharing His words, she renewed her purpose for her new family. And when I gave God all of my giving-up thoughts, He gave me absolute peace and then blessed me with joy for the rest of the day.

 

I got it! I learned from that experience. There are times that a dream purpose must go on no matter the disappointments, walls, or fears. God wants us to walk through it with His companionship. Walking out our dream is not a solo job. We are partners with Him. He loves what we propose in our hearts as we align ourselves with His purposes. So continue one day at a time! Do the things set out for today, for tomorrow can be too much to think about.

 

There are also times we just need to see our dream purpose as He sees it with His infinite resources and do it all for the glory of God. When we get our own status, pride, and limitations in the dream we muck up our dream. 

 

So the next time you are discouraged, disappointed or dismayed about your dream consider what's going on before giving up or getting out of it. There may be something else God is saying about your dream.

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