Investment
Dream share & Associated Message:
For the sake of privacy I will not share the true names associated with this dream. Let’s begin…
Dream:
There was a father with two kids. He was saddened, he first lost his oldest, then shortly after he lost his second oldest. He said, “I lost both of my kids to basketball”. I was close to the two kids, but for some reason I didn’t feel sad to hear they had died, I was mostly saddened by how the father must’ve felt to have lost his kids to the very thing he introduced to them, as well as invested so much time and energy in them being the best they could possibly be at the sport.
Interpretation:
The father in this dream symbolizes God, our Heavenly Father. Much like the father in the dream, God has invested time and energy in creating us into who He desires for us to be. With this, He has created us with very specific desires. For instance, to love and be loved. So in a way, internally we were introduced to or given over to such a desire. Here is what the Holy Spirit allowed me to understand. It’s the desires of the heart that are in alignment with God‘s will for our lives that He’s referring to within this dream. God gives us desires, such as love, which we then become so consumed by the thoughts of obtaining that we fall for anything, and stand for nothing righteous. Like the father in the dream, God is hurt because the very desires He’s given us, have become the very things that pull us away from Him. Here’s why: we search for all the right things, in all the wrong places (much like my last dream share). We refuse to go to the Source of all things regarding obtaining the desires of our hearts.
Oftentimes we initially seek God regarding the desires of our hearts by making our request known, but in recognizing that God’s will does not fit into our own schedule, we take matters into our own hands; going about obtaining these desires in ways that “makes sense” to us, instead of being obedient to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. At this point you are driven by the desire, it has become your Lord; your idol.
Question:
Are you allowing the desires of your heart to govern your every step, or have you given them to God and allowed Him to lead you to them the right way, and at just the right time?
See, trials and tribulations, as well as the delay we experience after praying for the desires of our hearts to manifest, is what is meant to prepare us for the promises of God so that we may steward well over them when they arrive. The process is what causes many to lean on their own understanding and seek out a quicker route to their destination. Let me inform you that every other path outside the path of righteousness (through Christ), will inevitably lead to death, death to the promise, and death to the spirit man.
Think of this…
You are not only hurting yourself when you idolize the desires of your heart, but you are hurting your God.
P.S -
This was not a love message, but since we used love as an example. Here’s what I believe, you should love the Lord your God above all else, I believe the desire to love and be loved was given so that we may experience true relationships with Jesus Christ first and foremost. The love you seek is in Him, everything else and everyone else should be a plus or in addition to what you already have with Christ. Find completion and wholeness in Christ alone, not man.
Prayer points:
Ask God to highlight within you if there are any desires of your heart that you’ve allowed to be Lord in your life.
Ask God to give you the strength to surrender those desires to Him, then trust that when the time is right, if it’s according to His will He will allow these things to manifest in your life.
Pray that God gives you a heart that desires only what He desires for you, as well as the process it takes to obtain these things the right way.
Ask God to cleanse from you any desires that were not given by Him.
Ask God to grant you a supernatural contentment with His will, because at times the process may not always feel so desirable - A changed heart, changes perspective; a changed perspective, makes room for peace to enter in no matter how things may seem in the physical.
Scriptures to reflect on:
Mathew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Exodus 20:1-5
1) And God spoke all these words: 2) "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3) "You shall have no other gods before me. 4) "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5) You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
