Dreams Unfulfilled

Dear Friend,

Thank you for taking the time to read this post.  I pray that you will be encouraged.

We recently moved to Cape Town , South Africa, after wanting do to so about 5 years ago. I am originally from the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

"Why did it take you so long to make the  move?" - you may ask.  Well, it is a fair question seeing that staying in one of South Africa's poorest provinces is rather an stupid thing to do.

Comfort zone, complacency, fear, caught up in someone  else's dreams and ideals...the list goes on.

Let me go back two years...

Have you ever wondered why you have been given this intense desire to do something, to be something, to make a change, to be counted, to leave something behind once your journey on this earth has come to an end?

At the age of 32 I was asking many question regarding the last few years of my life.
In one moment, my entire life came to a stand still and I was filled with anger, confusion, and many questions - the scary part of it was the answers to those questions, because those answers were there long before the questions came, but I was not willing to listen.

Everything I believed in, was  gone in one moment. That which I was advocating to my family of why I have looked away from good opportunities, has left me with a sense of shame, and regret; and the silent messages in their eyes of...."I told you so 11 years ago" made me want to hide away in my closet.

I think one of the biggest questions I had was  : Why would God tell me one thing, but tell someone else a different story regarding my life. 
The answer was there 5 year prior when I was in a specific situation, but I refused to see  it, because of a false sense of "honor".
God does not tell you something about your life and then go to someone else and tell them a different story. 

Firstly God does not gossip about you; nor does He speak exclusively to pastors, prophets ect.  He speaks to you - yes you the one reading here- first and will then speak to someone else just to confirm what He has told you.

At the age of 32 I was asking God, why He has given me so many dreams and desires if it is going to  be unfulfilled, because the people I had in my inner circle never truly recognized what He has placed in me.
I was angry with God for keeping me in a place of unfulfilled dreams.  What I did not realize at the time was that God wasn't the one keeping me in a place of unfulfilled dreams.  I was the one doing it, because I refused to see the answers before I even had the questions.  I ignored the red lights, because I was more committed to someone else's dreams and ideals than what I was to the dream God had been dreaming for my life even before time.
Don't get me wrong, I am  not saying that you should not help someone else build, but it should never be to the extend where you do not dream the dreams God has for you anymore.
When you help someone else build, your dream should come alive and be fulfilled whilest you do that.

God had to not just change my position, He had to relocate me to a new location in order for the dreams He has been dreaming for me to come alive in me again.

It is never to late, and I believe that God will restore that which the locust has eaten. It will happen suddenly.

Do not stay in your place of unfulfilled dreams.  Stop changing positions and start asking God to move you to a new location.  Start seeing the answers before you ask the questions; it will spare you alot of heartache and save you a lot of time.

Jeremiah 29:10-11  MSG

This is God’s Word on the subject: “As soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up and not a day before, I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. 

I believe that a place of unfulfilled dreams can become like a place of captivity; When you are in captivity every day is a day that you just need to survive - no hope of a better life, no hope of being free.
But God says that when we are willing to start seeing the truth of our position, if we would just heed His voice; He will show up and take care of us, and He will bring you in to a place of dreaming againg.

He is a good God and Father. His plans are good, it is to provide for us and to give us a hope and a future.
You see the moment you are in a place of unfulfilled dreams you become dispondent and without hope. You stop dreaming, because what is the use. You are living but you are actually dead.
God wants us to dream and dream the impossible dreams because He is the God of the impossible.


Move with God from unfulfilled dreams to fulfilling His dream for your life.


Blessings
Adele