I had a dream last night that was so simple yet powerful.
In the dream I was with a group of people standing at a large bronze gate waiting to inspect and survey this dream property.
“What are we waiting for?” I ask.
“The keys to the gate” someone next to me said.
Then out of nowhere discouragement broke out and they began to say “This won’t work. It’s past its due date. It didn’t happen and it’s now time to let it go”
Suddenly a man in a tattered jacket takes out a thick document and throws it on the ground and walks away In utter despair.
They all left In a broken-down truck together leaving me standing there at the gate wondering what I had just witnessed.
I felt grieved because it seemed like they had poured their lives into this vision but they just felt done with believing for something that hadn’t come to pass.
They were over pioneering and stewarding prophetic words that didn’t come to any level of fruition.
I know the feeling. It can be painful and perplexing.
As I stood there at the gate I began to have my own moment of despair as it brought up some unfinished dreams and gates that had not been “UNLOCKED” that I had felt that God wanted us to pursue over the years.
“Yeh Lord didn’t you say………”
“Didn’t you give me all those dreams?”
“What about all the prophetic puzzle pieces over the years that lead to this? Now the gate just remains shut?”
I slumped to the ground feeling overwhelmed with the feeling of failure and like I had bought a lie and I knew this is what that group that left felt too.
Deep hope deferred and soul sickness..
But then the Lord began to speak;
“Get up! Get up! Shake off the dust! Pick up your building plans! Pick up the vision that you dropped!”
“For I am not a man that I should lie, and I am not one who gives false hope”
“I do not give dreams to string you along but to keep you fixed on the vision that I PROMISE TO FULFILL!”
“And just as despair and delay is causing my people to let go of what I gave them because the gate seems locked shut, Watch now as I BUST IT WIDE OPEN!”
“And this will be a season of SUDDEN PROVISION & DIRECTION to bring to pass what I gave you long ago”
“And you will see what has felt at arms reach come into your grasp so you can finally BUILD THE BLUEPRINTS I PUT INSIDE YOU”
“For you have said “I can’t go beyond this point without the keys and provision”
“And this is why the enemy has assaulted you on every side with lack, loss, debt, red tape and closed doors - so you would go back to survival mode and FORFEIT FAITH”
“But you aren’t empty handed and I am not late”
“Now watch me FINISH IT!”
When I woke up these scriptures came to mind;
"I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the
goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage;
Yes, wait for the LORD" Psalms 27:13-14
“This is what the Lord says to his anointed,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of
to subdue nations before him
and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
so that gates will not be shut:
will go before you
and will level the mountains[a];
I will break down gates of bronze
and cut through bars of iron.
I will give you hidden treasures,
riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the Lord,
the God of Israel, who summons you by name” Isaiah 45:1-3
PRAYER
Lord today I am choosing to FIGHT instead of FORFEIT the vision you have given me. Today I am picking them up again and choosing to believe that they are YOUR plans more than mine and that you will fulfil and FINISH them in Jesus' name!