I am so grateful that God surrounds me with people who give me permission to dream.
I’ve been in meetings before where the leader will share a big vision for a new initiative.
And I’ve seen people in the meetings roll their eyes or give that sceptically look like "Are you sure?" And then immediately share their abridged version of seven reasons this might not work.
Or subtly point out to everyone how much work this is going to add to their already full plate.
But it must be the sheer favour of the Lord that in recent times, I am so surrounded with people who propel me to dream and dream big. I love to get in a room with staff members and ministry leaders who burst into flames with just a drop of vision kerosene.
I believe we have truly entered into that season of faith where we are believing God for the impossible and getting excited about the God who is more than able!
Last week, when my family was celebrating my son's 21st birthday, he told us his great dream about his future. It was so big and grand, I wondered if I will still be alive when it comes to pass. But none of us doubted it's possibility. We all gave him full permission to dream, by our responses, both verbally and non verbally.
A lot of husbands and wives, fathers and mothers have grounded their family members from dreaming big. This is sad.
I also love spending time with other leaders who, through their leadership approach and way of seeing the world, give me permission to dream in my own context.
I am attending a meeting Thursday night which to me is a permission slip for dreaming: to set audacious goals, speak them, pray our guts out, work hard, face the obstacles, do the uncomfortable, trust God through it all and give God the glory when it comes to pass, or try again if it doesn’t. It makes life so exciting. It gives me the reason to wake up every morning with fresh hope and joy.
We all need permission to dream.
To my Wife, my Children, my Staff, the Agape Guy's Ministry Core, the Heads of Ministry (Worship, Rays, Agapeland, Chinese), the Cell Leaders and the Council - thank you for giving one another the permission to dream and dream big for God!
Check this verse in Eph 3:20: Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
God is more than able to do more than we are able to imagine!
Permission granted. Go dream.
