I believe Father has revealed to me on a new level the importance of dreaming like a child to open up the realm of the Kingdom of God, like opening a portal to a whole new world. To often we as adults are busy being serious, in control, attempting to handle everything, being religious, smart, and trying to look good when all the while Father is not impressed with our show. He knows underneath all this is a scared little boy or little girl, who just wants to be loved and play again. It was Graham Cooke who said, you don't inherit through logic but through your dreams. I am amazed at how few adults dream, they are too busy with all their responsibilities, duties, demands, and pressures to enter the child-like place of dreaming with God. The Lord recently showed me that orphan hearts have their dreams aborted by lies, unbelief, fear, lack, inadequacy, or in the name of being practical. I have experienced much of my life as an orphan heart, for most of my life I barely dreamed because if I dreamed I believe I had to accomplish my dream through my own effort. Since my sense of identity was very small, then it was a burden to dream. When our identity is unlimited because it is connected with our union with Christ, then we no longer limit the dreams that come forth. In Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]." We see in this passage that God wants to do beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams but also that the limitation for God working in us is the "power that is at work within us." In other words this power is working in us but we can limit this power by turning away from God to our own resources, feeble view of ourselves, and our sense of distance from God (apart from Christ's work on the cross). Paul has spent the last three chapters looking at our new identity and the power of Christ's finished work on the cross to transform us into sons and daughters of God, giving us joint seating "in Christ" in the heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). I believe Father is inviting us to see the world from His perspective, seated far above all ruler, power, authority, and dominion. Once the Lord gave me a vision of sitting in a floating throne over the earth, watching the battles that were on the earth from a safe place in the heavenlies. These battles seemed like little skirmishes when seen from this high place and throne, but when you are in the middle of one of these battles it can feel very overwhelming. It is through child-like dreaming, in a moment when my heart was open that I was able to have this vision of the floating throne. I am a little ashamed to admit that my carnal thinking entered quickly to try to destroy this, saying things like.... that's stupid, that's not for you, that's too good to be true, why would you get to sit on that throne. Notice that much of the carnal thinking is from an adult rational and skeptical perspective, rather than from a child-like place of faith and trust. Interesting that God has given us an amazing inheritance that we can only picture when we enter into a place of child-like dreaming but can only be handled by those who put away childish/immature ways. In the Kingdom of God truths that are seem as paradoxical and opposed to one another are reconciled by God through His wisdom and revelation. Will you enter into a place of child-like dreaming again? Will say "yes" to Father to be a little boy or little girl, entering into His Kingdom of dreams, visions, and impossibilities? Or will you continue to be an orphan heart, trying to be strong, handling everything by your own ability, cynical, untrusting, and serious. Joy is often mentioned connected to the Kingdom of God because I believe since the Kingdom is for those who are child-like in faith there is great joy in the Kingdom as there is with most children. Why should we strain in the adult world to get ahead, get what we want, and keep up with the Joneses when we can live in the Kingdom of God and dream incredible dreams with the God of the Universe.
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