What Does God Think About Your Dreams? A Biblical Look at Dreaming Big with God

What Does God Think About Your Dreams? A Biblical Look at Dreaming Big with God

You were not created to live small. Inside of you is a unique blueprint, a dream that belongs only to you, placed there by a God who is paying closer attention to your heart than you are. This is a look at what it means to dream with God, why so many of us have stopped, and how to start again.

Were You Created to Dream?

Being made in the image of God means something profound. It means you were created to long for something, to see something happen in the world that only you can see. Your dream is not the same as your neighbor's dream, your sibling's dream, or even your pastor's dream. That is by design.

Look at your own children. Same parents, completely different dreams. That is not an accident. God wired each person with a unique vision for their life, and He did it on purpose.

What Happens When Hope Is Deferred?

Proverbs 13:12 tells us that "hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life." When your dreams go unrealized, it does not just affect your mood. It affects your words, your health, and the way you see the world. You start speaking hopelessness. You start feeling powerless. The toxins of a deferred dream show up everywhere.

But when dreams are realized, you become like a tree of life to everyone around you. People notice. They want to know what you have and where it came from.

What Does Freedom Have to Do with Dreaming?

Slaves do not dream. Prisoners do not dream. But free people do.

When we come to know Jesus, we are like people released from captivity. Psalm 126 describes it this way: "We were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter and songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, 'The Lord has done great things for them.'" That is what freedom looks like. It is visible. It is contagious. The world around you notices when God is doing great things in your life.

Is God Really That Interested in Your Personal Dreams?

Think about how you feel toward your own children. If you had a great year and told your kids they could have anything they wanted for Christmas, and your child responded with "not my will but yours be done," you would be confused. You would say, "No, no, you don't understand. I want to give you what you want."

Jesus said it plainly: "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him." (Matthew 7:11)

We have been trained to believe that our personal dreams are somehow selfish or fleshly. But God is a better parent than we are. He put those dreams in you. He wants to see them realized.

What Is the Enemy's Real Strategy Against You?

Yes, the enemy wants to destroy families. But his deeper strategy is to strip your dreams away from you. To make your heart sick. To make you afraid of who you were designed to be. To get you to live a small, manageable life and then blame it on someone else.

Since before you were born, the enemy has been trying to snuff out your flame. And yet here you are. Still here. Still breathing. And still, somehow, afraid to be who God made you to be.

What Are the "Dogs of Doom" and How Do You Get Past Them?

There is a concept worth sitting with: the dogs of doom guard the door of your destiny. As you move toward the life you were made for, fear fires up. The voices get loud. You will fail. You will be humiliated. You will lose everything. Back away.

But here is what happens when you reach for that door anyway. A light comes on. And what you thought were massive, terrifying threats turn out to be chihuahuas with megaphones. The fear was never as big as it looked from a distance.

Ask yourself this: What if I knew there was absolutely no way I could fail? What if I were ten times more courageous than I am right now? How would my life look different tomorrow?

That is where your dream lives. Right on the other side of that door.

What Does Dreaming with God Actually Look Like?

There is a difference between dreaming on your own and dreaming with God. When you invite God into your dreams, the impossible becomes probable. What once felt like a big ask suddenly feels small compared to what He can do.

Romans 11:29 tells us that "the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable." He made a charitable donation to you before you were born, and He has never been sorry He did it. The question is: what have you done with that donation?

In Brazil, a man named Chad had not seen a single miracle during an entire ministry trip. Night after night, everyone around him saw healings and breakthroughs. Then a little girl was brought to him, her legs grown sideways from birth, unable to walk. He prayed. Her feet got hot. Her legs caught fire. And for the first time in her life, she walked. That night, her entire family came to faith.

That is what dreaming with God looks like. The impossible becomes the testimony. And the testimony spreads further than you ever imagined.

Why You Should Write Your Dreams Down

Habakkuk 2:2 says, "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it." There is something about writing your dreams down that makes them more permanent, more real, and more accessible to heaven.

Writing a list of a hundred dreams is a powerful exercise. Not a strategic plan. Not a five-year goal sheet. Just a list of what you long for, what you hope for, what you would love to see happen in your life. Then put it away. Revisit it. Watch what God does.

God is paying closer attention to your dreams than you are. He loves to show you that. He loves to let you open that drawer years later and say, "I wrote that down, and it happened."

A family reunion that seemed completely impossible, given decades of broken relationships and deep bitterness, was written down as a dream. Years later, on Father's Day, a Father, mother, and brother stood together on a stage for the first time. The only family portrait that existed came from a dream written down seven years before it happened.

What If You Have Stopped Hoping?

Some people reading this are older. And the older you get, the more things did not go the way you planned. The more things changed in ways that feel permanent and irreversible. So you lowered your expectations to protect yourself. You stopped dreaming to avoid being disappointed again.

That is understandable. But it is not where you were meant to stay.

Joel 2:28 promises that God will pour out His Spirit on all people. "Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions." Dreaming is not just for the young. It is for everyone who is willing to hope again.

Life Application

This week, sit down with a pen and paper or open a blank document and start writing your dreams. Not goals. Not tasks. Dreams. Write down what you long for, what you would love to see happen, what you would do if you knew you could not fail. Aim for a hundred. You may only get ten at first, and that is okay. Start there.

Then put it somewhere you can find it again. A drawer, a folder, a journal. Let heaven have a target. Let God show you that He has been paying attention all along.

As you do, ask yourself these questions:

• What dream have I buried because I was afraid of failing or being embarrassed?

• Have I been living a small, manageable life and calling it humility?

• What would my life look like if I were ten times more courageous than I am right now?

• Do I actually believe that God cares about my personal dreams, or do I treat Him like a distant authority rather than a loving Father?

• What is one step I can take this week toward the door I have been avoiding?

You are a child of the King. There are no small royal children. You were made to dream, to create, and to let the world around you ask, "Who is your Father?" Write the dreams down. Run with them. And watch what God does.