Week 5

DREAM VENTI (Part 1)

By Sandra Clifton, D.Min.

 

Begin your study by reading “You Must Have a Dream” by Leslie Parrott (SpiritLed Woman magazine, Aug/Sept 2006).

 

Introduction

Have you taken time to dream lately? Did you know that God—being a big God—desires that you dream big? His Word shows you how this is so and how He will empower you to make your dreams happen!

 

What God Says

Read Psalm 37:4.

 

Write it out.

 

Deeper Insight

Read the following Scriptures (in New King James Version, as the exercises to follow will be based on that). Make brief notes of what each Scripture is telling you about how God prepares you and equips you to dream big and then to bring to fruition those big dreams!.

 

Ps. 37:4:________________________________________________________

 

Ps. 113:7-9:______________________________________________________

 

Ps. 121:1-2: ______________________________________________________

 

Ps. 139:13-14:____________________________________________________

Application

It is important to be able to memorize God’s Word—to get it in you so it can be part of your very being. Carrying God’s Word with you (in your memory) will equip you to dream big, relying on a big God who has big plans for you!

            Below are three Scripture listings. They are taken from the previous Deeper Insight section (using NKJV).

Match the letter of the location of the Scripture with its text (or partial text) in the blanks provided. When finished (and not a moment before!), look up the Scriptures to see what each says and how accurate you were in knowing where they were.

 

Scripture listings:

Ps. 139:13-14

Ps. 113:7-8

Ps. 37:4

 

______ “He raises the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap, that He may seat him with princes—with the princes of His people.“

 

_______”Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”

 

_______” I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”

 

For Group Study

Begin your group time by reading aloud Ps. 121—the entire chapter. Go through each line and discuss what it might mean and how it might apply to the Lord’s daily “venti”—or big—dreams and blessings for us.

            Close the group session in prayer, going around the group with each expressing faith for a “venti” or big dream of hers to happen. If some are too shy about this then the leader should make this a voluntary thing and conclude the prayer with asking God that He answer the spoken and unspoken prayers for big dreams to be answered.

 

Prayer

Read and memorize all of Psalm 121. Read aloud each verse, and as you do, pause and verbally thank the Lord for providing you with the blessing that it conveys. Thank and praise Him that He is a big God who helps you fulfill big dreams!