5 WAYS TO KNOW WHEN YOUR DREAM WILL SURELY BECOME A REALITY
Everybody has a dream.
But not every dream becomes reality.
Some dreams die as wish.
Some dreams become a testimony.
How do you know your own dream will surely happen?
1. When you cannot stop thinking about it — even when you try to forget it.
Joseph tried to sleep, but the dream kept coming. Genesis 37:5-7
Real God-given dreams don't leave you. They disturb your sleep. They follow you. If after 2 years you still feel that same burden for that business, that ministry, that career — that's a sign God planted it and will water it.
2. When you are willing to pay the price that others are not willing to pay.
Every dream has a price tag.
Joseph paid with betrayal, slavery, and prison. But he kept serving with excellence.
If you are ready to wake up by 4am, to learn, to save, to be mocked, to start small in this Lagos and still keep going — your dream will be reality. Those who are not ready to pay will only watch others celebrate.
3. When God starts connecting you to people who speak the language of your dream.
You start meeting helpers you didn't plan for.
Suddenly someone mentions a training, someone offers you a small opportunity, someone gives you a book. This is not luck. It's alignment.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 — "Two are better than one."
When destiny helpers start showing up, your dream is close.
4. When you start growing in CHARACTER to carry the dream.
God will never give you what your character cannot carry.
Before God made Joseph a Prime Minister, He made him a faithful servant in Potiphar's house and a faithful prisoner in jail.
Is God teaching you patience? Humility? Integrity with money? That is training for your dream. When you stop cutting corners and start building character, reality is loading.
5. When you can see it clearly, even when no one else can.
Habakkuk 2:3 — "Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come..."
You don't need everybody to believe. You need clarity.
When you can write your dream on paper, explain it in 2 minutes, see the steps, and you still believe even when your account balance says "no" — that vision will speak. Reality always starts as a clear picture inside you.
Your dream is not too big. Your excuse is too big.
If you have been seeing these 5 signs, don't stop now.
Keep praying. Keep working. Keep growing.
Your Rehoboth is coming.
What is that one dream you have refused to let die? Write it below, let's pray for it.
Pst Edward Freedom
Lifeboat Rescuing Church, Bariga, Lagos.
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