A dream is a seed that God plants in the fertile soil of your heart. In order for a seed to produce fruit, it must go through a process of development.
The first stage is conception. Conception is when God places a vision or a dream in your heart. Once the dream is in your heart, it must go through the second stage—development—before you can give birth to the fulfillment.
The time of conception until the time of fulfillment is the most important time to protect your dream.
This is the time when the enemy, other people, and even you, may try to abort your dream through unbelief, discouragement, and impatience.
But we all need to remember that once God has planted a dream within our heart, He has every intention of bringing it to pass. “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.”
First Thessalonians 5:24 says this,
As with a baby in the womb of the mother, your dream must be nurtured, cared for, and protected against the forces that would try to abort it.
God gave Abraham a dream: He would be the father of many nations. Even though in the natural, it was impossible to see it come to pass, Abraham believed. He did not abort his dream.
In the book of Romans it talks of the fulfillment of Abraham’s dream:
He staggered not at the promise of God (dream) through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
(Rom. 4:20-21)
This is the type of faith that will cause the dream God has given you to come to pass.
There have been some dreams in my life that I have lost. I have never been to the place where I wanted to quit—that’s not an alternative to me, but there have been some times that I have had to go before God and recapture my dream and not let it die.
The Seed Will Always Be There
Sometimes we get so excited about our dreams, and we tell everyone about it and how we are going to do it; we pray about it, we sow seed for it, but later when the first obstacle comes along, we say “forget it!”
The Lord shared with me one time,
You’ve planted seed, and you’ve let weeds grow up around it, but the seed is still in the ground, it’s still there—I DO NOT ABORT SEEDS! You planted that seed, and My Word says that your labor is not in vain. I keep record, and there’s still seed in the ground that you are entitled to harvest, and if you’ll recapture it, I’ll bring it in!
Praise God!
So, don’t give up! If you have planted seed for a dream God gave you, it’s still in the ground. IT’S STILL THERE! Just start pulling the weeds up around it, and begin watering that seed.
There’s A Lot You Can Do
Start speaking the Word over your destiny, begin calling those things that are not as though they are, confess scriptures over your life, and pray in the Holy Spirit. Think about it, talk about it, pray about it, and sow seed for it.
It’s time for the harvest of your dreams to be fulfilled! Start naming your seed to “recapture your dreams.” Water that seed with the Word of God.
Then, watch it come to pass!
Excerpt permission granted by Jerry Savelle Ministries International
Dr. Jerry Savelle was an average, blue-collar man who was struggling and needed God's help. While he considered himself a "nobody," when he became a believer God told him not to worry about it because He was a master at making champions out of nobodies. God has since taken Dr. Savelle from being a constant quitter to a man who knows how to stand on the Word of God until victory is experienced. Because of the life-changing combination of God's faithfulness and Dr. Savelle's "no quit" attitude, his life is totally different than it was thirty-eight years ago.
Since 1969, Dr. Savelle traveled the world teaching people how to win in life. Dr. Savelle ministered in more than three thousand churches and in twenty-six nations, and has overseas offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
God used Dr. Savelle to impact people who are burned out on religion and who have backslidden in their walk with God, as well as Christians who have a need to hear the Word of God presented in terms applicable to their lives, dreams, and destinies. He hosted the Jerry Savelle Ministries television broadcast which airs in two hundred countries worldwide.
Dr. Savelle authored more than forty books, including his bestsellers, If Satan Can't Steal Your Joy, He Can't Keep Your Goods and You're Somebody Special to God. He served as one of the founding Pastors of Heritage of Faith Christian Center in Crowley, Texas.
Jerry J. Savelle, 77, went home to be with the Lord on April 15, 2024. He spent his last day on earth fulfilling his purpose teaching people the Word of God