God-sized Dreams

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God-Sized Dreamers Link-Up

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It was last January when Holley Gerth kicked off a year of God-sized dreams with these words,

“I’m inviting you to open the door to a God-sized dream in 2013.”

Scary words.  What did it mean?  Did we have a God-sized dream?  Were we capable of acting on that little seed of hope in our heart?

But we did just that.  Some, cautious at first, merely cracking open the door to glance at what might stand on the other side, and others, throwing open the door wide.  Throughout the next six months, we joined together on Tuesdays to write about our journey.

In the middle of our stories of setbacks and success, of fears and fearlessness, of trust and terror, we saw God work.  In each of the stories, God showed up in dreamers lives.  Regardless of whether we understood the reason or the end goal, each and every dreamer stepped out in faith.

God sees that faith.

God-sized dreams isn’t a gimmick.

God loves dreams.

And He loves dreamers.

Isaiah 64 says that He’s ready to blow your hair back:

For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,
you came down,
and the mountains trembled before you.
Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
Isaiah 64:3-4 (NIV)

He acts.  On our behalf.  So today we invite you share your God-sized Dreams stories from 2013.

For some of us dreamers, the dream was more than we could ask or imagine. For others, the dream changed entirely.  And for yet another group, God said wait, for now, dear one.

As Holley says, “The happy, the hard and everything in between.” 

The God-sized Dream Team is joining us today and we hope you will too!  It’s simple.

Write a post on your blog and link up below.

For those who don’t have a blog, you can share in the comments or on Facebook.  

Let’s all display the link up photo so we can find each other! (Click here for link)

And link up again every Tuesday as we write about our dreams.

We’ll be taking our weekly prompts from Holley’s Devotional, Opening the Door to Your God-Sized Dream.

Next Tuesday, we invite you to share about giving words to your dream.  Has it been a struggle?


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Every day this week, we’ll be featuring a special daily giveaway!!

Today it’s Holley Gerth’s devotional, Opening the Door to Your God-Sized Dream, 40 Days of Encouragement for Your Heart!!

You can enter via the PunchTab link below. We’ll keep all the giveaways open until Friday, 1/03/2014 at 11pm, to give everyone lots of time to enter! We’ll email the winner and you’ll have 48 hours to respond, or a new winner will be drawn.

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  3. I love the idea of this site. I love Holley’s books and her advice. After about a year of writing in a journal as I read her words and as I read the Bible, I found myself called to start my own encouragement blog. It has become a time of worship for me as I share with others how I see God in the world around me. I have been blessed with positive comments about how my readers are starting their day with my words. I feel like God is working through me and it’s so rewarding and humbling. Thanks for continuing Holley’s work through a website. I look forward to being a part of it and reading the stories of “God Sized Dreams” realized and in progress.

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  4. How has my dream changed over the past year? I have realized my dream, finally! I always knew it was there, a deep down and most of the time stuffed desire, and through my healing journey (the end of a many-long-years fight) over the past four (almost five) months, I have realized my dream and what God has asked me to do. Now, the “get down and dirty” part of my dream. Action!

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  5. How has my dream changed in 2013? Well. as my 2 boys got older (one graduating from homeschool highschool and one a senior this school year) it was time to pray more for me and my next direction – so God gave me a dream of going back to college for counseling. So my dream is still in dream stage but taking steps towards it!

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  6. My God-Sized dream that changed me this year was to start writing again. I have been so blessed at how God has used my words to share with others. I have been spending a lot of time over the past few days thinking about and praying through what my dreams are for the new year.

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  7. Thanks for the invite, Holley!

    Count me aboard! 🙂

    I’m excited to see my dreams, your dreams, ALL of our dreams set sail in 2014! 🙂

    God bless you!

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  8. I’m sorry, did Christine Wright author this blog post?

    I meant to address this to you, Christine if you wrote this post, not Holley! But since you and Holley are on the same team, take it as a message to both of you. 🙂

    Sorry for any confusion.

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  9. Congrats Christine and the rest of you dreamers that made this site reality! What a wonderful example of following your heart and stepping out on faith.

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  12. In 2013, I began to believe that the dreams I wrote down in 1990 perhaps were not dead but dormant. It’s still fledgling belief, but it’s real.

    Deb Weaver

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  13. My dream has changed focus on “being a missionary abroad” to being a missionary at home” …. right where I am… to my family.

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