I don't know if you've noticed, but for some reason, more than any other year, it seems there's an intense optimism the world over about the year 2012. You know, apart from those people who think the world is going to end - I guess that's as pessimistic as you can get in 2012 - but for the rest of us, everyone's loving 2012.
Maybe it's got something to do with the intense summer that we're about to have here in London.
The Queen is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee...
...The Olympics are about to take place and everyone is gearing up for that...
... Euro 2012 is happening - and you know how optimistic us English people get about our football!
The joy! (yep, Euro'96 was the last time there was any) {via}
... and the pain (of which there is lots!) via... and well, 2012 is a cool number, don't you think?
But it does seem that everyone I speak to is expectant of great things this year, and so am I. I've written them down, I've started strategising. I spent the afternoon in a coffee shop dreaming with Mr D. about what the year might hold for us personally, for us as a family and for us in our careers.
So, if that's what you've also been doing; if you're hoping that 2012 will be the year that your dreams will come true as well - even if you don't quite know what they are, maybe you feel like you're on the verge of something incredible, something great; that just over the hill is something beyond your wildest imaginations... if that's you, let me encourage you with something I learnt today:
"You {God} crown the year with goodness, and your paths drip with abundance" ~ Psalm 65:11 {NKJV}
The New Living Translation says "You crown the year with a bountiful harvest" - which means that whatever seed you have been sowing in years gone by, this year is crowned with the harvest of that seed. Isn't that brilliant that you can trust God with the year ahead because you know that he's already crowned it, framed it, with his goodness?
And whenever I think about making plans, dreaming or strategising about the future Ephesians 3:20 always springs to mind:
"Now to Him Who, by the power that is at work within us, is able to carry out His purpose and do super-abundantly, far over and above all that we dare ask or think - infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams!" ~ Ephesians 3:20 {AMP}
Wow! So, if you ask God for your wildest dreams (assuming your wildest dreams line up with His purposes!) then He will do super-abundantly over and above that? That makes me want to ask for the outrageous! Why limit Him? As my Pastor would say: Ask for the moon!!
What are you dreaming about this year? Or if you're a Christian, what are you believing God for this year? Don't limit Him!
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