Dreaming Under Open Windows

Modern day Americans have forgotten how to dream. The average man or woman is so consumed with daily affairs—paying the mortgage, paying the car bill, advancing a career—that they have neglected to imagine what God Almighty could with our lives if His hand were revealed.
Early explorers who left the comforts of Europe in search of a New World dreamed of a land of riches and religious freedom. We are heirs of that dream. The great movement of America westward was spurred forward by the idealistic, dreamlike consciousness that our Manifest Destiny was to spread across the continent. We poured over mountain ranges searching for fruitful land and golden treasure with dreams of conquering the earth and bringing a vast wilderness into subjection.
Early inventors planned elaborate, time-saving devices which would bring electricity, railroad, telegraph, and telephone to shorten the spaces across the nation. John F. Kennedy gave the nation a dream of putting a man on the moon in his generation. Martin Luther King simultaneously dreamed of a nation of racial equality, where little black children would hold hands with little white children and sing the song Free at Last.
Dreams are the substance of nations. Dreams are the infancy of ministries, movements, revolutions, and reformations. Yet many of us have turned off our dream machines. We must allow ourselves to imagine the impossible.
In 2 Kings 7, the nation of Israel was experiencing a time of dire famine. The city was under siege, no food was to be found, and prices were unbearable. All hope was lost when suddenly the word of the Lord came through the prophet Elisha that tomorrow they would be able to buy anything for almost nothing because of such an outpouring of God's abundance. The message was unbelievable, and one of the king's lords remarked, "Even if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" (2 Kings 7:2)
Such doubt hinders God and mocks His position of Almighty. Such an attitude is found in those too afraid to dream. The prophet replies, "You will see it, but you will not partake of it." (v.2) Likewise in our days a miracle is coming. God says, “If I were to tell you about it, you would not believe it.” The time of outpouring and open windows of heaven is on the way, but the question for young dreamers is whether they will simply be spectators in this move of God, or will they partake of the fruit and be used of Him in the field. In order to be there, you must allow yourself to dream.
Join us on this journey of a dreamer that begins in the Book of Genesis, chapter 37. We will follow the dreamer line by line.

God, ignite my dream machine to envision things I’ve never seen.