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The Power of a Dream

The first step to doing big things is dreaming big things. The reason we are fascinated by and engage in the study of history is because people were dreamers and their dreams made them a subject matter of history. Dreams always precede history.

Dreams are usually associated to night time experiences while you are asleep. But dreams are not limited to a night time experience only. They can also be an idea or desire placed in your heart by God or a direct instruction from God that can occur while you are awake, conscious of your environment, and even while carrying out other activities. As a result of this experience you begin to see things as they could and would be and this picture starts to pull you towards an actual realisation of that dream. You become compelled or inspired to live out what you see.

In most cases some people catch on to their dreams and live it out using every possible resource available and others out of fear, doubt or laziness just let their dreams fizzle out.

Dream from The Past

A 17 year old boy called Joseph had a dream twice and in both dreams saw his brothers bowing low before him. His dreams created some enemies – his brothers. As a result, his brothers plotted to kill him but changed their mind and sold him to a group of traders as a slave. The traders took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to a high ranking officer in the Egyptian army.

Joseph did an excellent job as the housekeeper for the high ranking officer. The officer was so pleased because Joseph had exceeded his expectations that he put him in charge of all his affairs. The officer’s wife was also pleased with Joseph, not just for his work ethics but for his looks. She wanted to have a sexual relationship with Joseph but he refused her offers out of respect for the officer and God. This upset her very much and she raised a false alarm that Joseph had tried to rape her. Joseph was arrested and sentenced to jail indefinitely.

While in jail, Joseph continued to work diligently and exceeded the expectations of the prison officials. During that time, he met two of the King’s workers, interpreted dreams they each had and not long after that the King’s workers were released and their dreams became a physical experience for them.

The King himself had a dream one night and no one in all the land could tell him the meaning. The King’s cupbearer who Joseph had interpreted his dream earlier in jail mentioned Joseph to the King and the King sent for him.

Joseph interpreted the King’s dream and gave him a solution to the meaning of his dream and as a result the King Pharaoh made Joseph ruler next to him over all Egypt.

Some years rolled by and the famine which Joseph told the King about spread into the country where his father and eleven brothers lived. The only place there was grain to buy was in Egypt were Joseph was ruler. His brothers set off to buy grain from Egypt. Since Joseph was governor over all of Egypt and in charge of the sale of the grains, it was to him that his brothers came. They bowed low before him with their faces to the ground. Joseph recognised them instantly but they did not recognise him. Herein lay the power of a dream and this was not the only time they bowed to him.

After all this time, the odds and challenges, the tough and the rough, the good and great times, Joseph’s dream became a physical experience!

Rethink Impossible

Being sold into slavery and later sentenced to jail indefinitely for a crime he did not commit did not stop him from living out his dream. You might be thinking, how did he live that dream out? He did it by giving 100% of himself throughout his journey from the time he had the first dream to his role and life as the number one leader of Egypt next to Pharaoh. He did not complain or question God through his journey despite the glaring difference between his dream and that which he experienced. He believed in his dream and I believe that is what enabled him to stay focused and give 100% in all he was required to do. You will need to believe in your dream big time to keep it going or keep you on the track to full materialization. Joseph did and so can you. I am sure the challenges you face are by no means little but your dream is bigger!

Most times your dream will cause you to go places not at all included in your plans. It will cause you to experience things you never expected. When Joseph had both dreams, he never expected to be hated by his own family, sold into slavery, end up in jail unjustly and become the number two man in a great country. Please understand I am by no means saying that having difficult times is a criterion for fulfilling or seeing your dream materialize. There will be good and difficult times but what is most important is how you deal with these times.

Joseph continued to give his best though the odds were stacked against him. When I read about the life of Joseph, the picture I see all the time is one of a happy young man carrying out his duties in a happy way. I am sure he had the skills and experience needed for the jobs he did but if you took two people with exactly the same skills and experience (good ones), one of them is happy and has a positive outlook about life and the other is sad and bitter with a negative outlook about life, the positive individual will always excel way beyond the negative individual.

Hold onto your dream, work at it, and enjoy the stage you are in now, enjoy the relationships you have presently in your life. Joseph did! When you believe in your dream like Joseph did, you will endure and excel in any given situation. These days people are so time conscious (nothing wrong with that) to a point that they would go as far as doing the wrong things just to make a dream become a reality. I encourage you do not fall into that boat! Joseph was in prison indefinitely and had no clue when he would be released but continued to give his best. Some people would have quit giving their best after one month, they say things like “I might be here forever. What’s the use of giving my best? No one will notice or give me a chance in here.” Not Joseph, he believed in his dream, the circumstances did not change his attitude and character. It was only a matter of time and he saw his dream become a physical experience.

21^st Century Josephs

Joseph’s experience may sound old and irrelevant to your modern day experience but there are men and women in the world today who have and still experience the power of a dream. Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr, the Wright Brothers, Edwin C. Barnes, Thomas Edison, Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates, John H. Johnson, Benson Idahosa, YOU and many others you know locally and globally that have and not been mentioned or recognised in the media.

There is power in a dream and we all have at least one. Water and feed yours! Do all you can to make full use of the available resources and experiences you encounter as you live each day. Most importantly, never, never give up on your dream. Stay committed and connected to your dream, it’s only a matter of time and your dream will became a physical reality!

Action Exercises

Here are two things you can do to activate the power of a dream

First, spend sometime today and think about a dream you have or perhaps have abandoned. Think about the rewards of pursuing that dream.

Second, take a step each day however little or big towards making that dream a reality.