How do you achieve the dream God gave you?

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How do you achieve the dream that God has given you? The day I got baptized, I remember walking up the stairs and then down into the tank and as I was doing that, I felt God tell me in my spirit, "I'm going to give you your wife through this church." Well, here's the thing, I was visiting that church 9 hours away. In scripture, Abraham also received a dream or a word from God, "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you. I will make your name great and you will be a blessing." It's not crazy to sometimes receive these big visions from God. Visions of you publishing the book, starting the business, helping a lot of people on social media. And although it gets us really excited and it is in our heart, it is something that we'd love. How do we get to the point where that actually happens? So, imagine me, I'm back home 9 hours away from the church I got baptized at with this vision from God, "I'm going to give you your wife through this church." What am I supposed to do? Well, right before God tells Abraham, "I will make you into a great nation and I'll bless you." It says this, "The Lord had said to Abram, who is eventually called Abraham, go from your country, your people, your father's household to the land I will show you." So, he's telling him to leave everything behind, start going and then the Lord will show him the place he'll go to. So, God gave Abram vision and then one single step. Well, typically how we're wired, we would love to know the whole plan. Me being 9 hours away, I'd love to know the whole plan, but the single command he gave me was to start watching sermons from that church. Now, I did that, but I also tried to do all these other things to skip ahead to the part where I'd meet my wife, like applying for jobs in that area near the church or going down to visit that church more times. Have you ever tried to skip ahead to the vision that God gave you ignoring the little thing he told you to do because you don't see how it's going to connect. After making no progress on my own, I committed to just listening to as many sermons as possible from that church. Eventually, I got to one where I heard a story about how that pastor didn't kiss his wife until their wedding day and I felt like God gave me my next step, "Do not kiss anyone ever again until your wedding day." Have you ever been like, "Bah, I don't know about that, God." And just kind of put it off? Well, that same week, I got a random text message from a friend and it was an article about a husband and wife that didn't kiss until their wedding day. So, I'm like, "Okay, God, I get it." So, I made the commitment to myself and to God, "I will not kiss until my wedding day." Fast forward 6 months, I had listened to a few years worth of sermons from that church and my local church I was attending asked if I wanted to preach a message to the young adults group. I had no training in this, so I just got to piece together something from the sermons that I've been listening to from that church. Well, they asked me to do it again and again and one day this girl had moved from Texas, heard the sermon I preached, ended up giving her life to Christ, which is awesome, right? But then God told that girl that I'm supposed to be your husband and I'm like, I appreciate that, but God didn't tell me that. I mean, she was cool, but since I was in this place of I'm not kissing till marriage and told me he's going to give me my wife through that church, I shut it down in my mind. But then 1 week later, while staying up till 2:00 in the morning preparing a sermon for the next day, God revealed to me she is the person he was talking about when I got baptized and he used the sermons from that church to do it. Now, if God gave you a vision, a dream, a calling, holding onto that in your heart is great. Ignoring everything else he's saying to chase after it, not so great. There is usually one simple step he's asking you to take that will seem completely unrelated, but you know he's asking you to take it. I would say take that step and I'm praying today that God will make it clear, the simple step he wants you to take today. God bless you, friends.