Week 6

YOU MUST HAVE A DREAM (Part 2)

By Sandra Clifton, D.Min.

 

Begin your study by reading “Hold On to the Dream” by Leslie Parrott, Ed.D. (SpiritLed Woman magazine, Aug/Sept, 2006).

 

Introduction

Do you have dreams? How big are they? Did you know that God Almighty desires that you not only dream regularly, receiving His visions for your life, but that you dream big? After all, He is a big God! His Word demonstrates it time and time again.

 

What God Says

Read  Prov. 3:5-6.

 

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 passage has to say about God being a big God, capable of fulfilling any of your dreams and prayers according to His great plans and purposes.

 

Jer. 29:11-13:_____________________________________________________

 

Jer. 32:17:_______________________________________________________

 

Jer. 32:27:_______________________________________________________

 

Matt. 7:11:_______________________________________________________

 

Application

Fill in the blanks of the Scriptures below (NKJV) taken from the previous Deeper Insight section. Check afterward to see how you did by looking up each one. Put each one on a 3x5 note card, memorizing them, as powerful reminders that God

Is a big God who is faithful to fulfill the biggest of dreams.

 

Jer. 29:11: “For I know the _____ that I think toward ____, says the ____, thoughts of ______ and not of ____, to give you a _______ and a hope.”

 

Jer. 32:17:”Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the _________ and the ______ by Your great _______and outstretched _____. There is ________too ____for You.”

 

Jer. 32:27: “Behold, I am the ____, the ___ of all flesh. Is there anything too ________ for Me?”

 

Matt. 7:11: If you then, being _____, know how to give good gifts to your ______, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give _____ things to ____ who ___ Him!”

 

For Group Study

Begin your group time by reading aloud Jer. 29:11 and Jer. 32:17. Discuss what each one means to any volunteers from. Name some potentially challenging circumstances that people find themselves in (like needing money for something or a healing or dealing with difficult family members, for example), and then discuss ways in which these two verses might help people in certain circumstances.

End the meeting by taking prayer needs and praying that each member will be able to rely more on a great God with great purposes for her life.

 

Prayer

Memorize Jer. 32:27 and thank the Lord that He is the Lord, the God of all flesh, and  there is nothing too hard for Him. Call out your needs and challenges and over each one, declare this truth from God’s Word as part of your prayer.