Permission to Dream

Epic Journey Podcast

Epic Journey Podcast #17 – Permission to Dream

In this podcast, we (Sonny and Cindy), will encourage you to start dreaming again or stir up and keep the fire of your dream going!

We believe that God brings two unique individuals together with their own strengths and weaknesses, gifts, and talents to become one unified team and when on purpose with God will be an unstoppable force for good.

Every marriage has a purpose that will have eternal impact and God either has already or will stir your heart with compassion and invite you into fulfilling a dream that starts with you but depends on Him!

You were designed to dream big and have visions of faith to accomplish great things in life!

Join us we explore Gods plan for us to dream big and share the great accomplishments of others and their dependence on God to live out their dreams!

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Epic Journey Podcast #17 - Permission to Dream – Episode Notes

Proverbs 3: 11-12

11 My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline,

and do not resent his rebuke,

12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,

as a father the son he delights in.

Miriam-Webster dictionary – discipline is defined as this:

Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.

In an article by Earl Nightingale, How Big are Your Plans,

Nightingale-Conant Insight, Issue 89 he is discussing the power of our mind that influences the life that we live out.

He makes the comment that if the average person realized the power he wields over his own life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

He is free as his imagination; he is limited only by the fences he himself erects and maintains.

We came across an article written by Stan Cottrell, Fire and Jade, Nightingale-Conant Insight, Issue 86. He was an ultradistance runner and actually had a dream to run 2, 125 miles across China.

He accomplished this goal and averaged 40 miles a day for 53 consecutive days.

Cottrell made it a point to say that in the process of this adventure of a lifetime, what emerged was something far more challenging than the actual physical stress to his body, but that it brought him face to face with himself.

He states, “everything I believed came to the surface and I found meaning in a new way.”

Maybe that’s exactly what God is intending!!

Cottrell also shared this:

"Give yourself permission to dream – to dream greathearted dreams. Give yourself permission to not be frightened by the magnitude of the dream.

Dreaming is as natural as breathing. As the poet La Fontaine once said, “When the soul of man is on fire with imagination, impossibilities vanish.”

Nehemiah 1: 5-11

5“Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

6 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel.

I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you. 7 We have acted very wickedly toward you.

We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses. 8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’

10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.

11 Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.”

We believe God loves to put dreams and desires in our hearts through our compassion for others. We believe God will sometimes allow it to be a burden on your heart, to help stir you and move you to action.

Nehemiah 6: 8-9

I sent him this reply: “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.”

9 They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.”

But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”

Have faith in what God can do as you go after your dreams.

Nehemiah 6:15

15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.

Remember this, as you begin the good work, God is pleased with your faith and he will help you see it through.

Zechariah 4:10 NLT

Do not despise this small beginning, for the eyes of the Lord rejoice to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.

Phillipians 1:6 6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work [a]among you will complete it [b]by the day of Christ Jesus.

God is speaking to us today. We hope He is speaking to you as well, and we’re going to be praying for you and the fulfillment of your dreams!

We’re grateful for you and we’re praying for you!

Sonny and Cindy