POWER OF DREAM

LESSON 1

OBJECTIVES


This course will help the students to:

1. Understand what dream is.

2. Know how to dream

3. Raise a dreamful generation.

INTRODUCTION

How far can you see? Where have you fixed in your mind’s eye to land yourself?

Thomas Carlyle said, “There is a hero in every man” but it takes a dream to make the hero emerge. Don’t just be living, have a dream for living. This is what makes life worth living.

Life without a dream is dieing while you are still alive. Take time to dream, it is hitching your wagon to a star.

LESSON 2

DEFINITION

POWER - Ability to do anything
- Capacity for producing an effect
- The moving force of anything
- Potentiality.

DREAM - The picture you have in your mind
concerning your future
- A seed that God plants in the fertile soil of your heart
- Dream here should not be mistaken with what you see when you sleep. But a conscious picture you have in your mind concerning your future. - Genesis 37:5–10.

POWER OF DREAM - The ability to catch a picture in
your mind concerning your future.



LESSON 3

IMPORTANCE OF DREAM

a) It gives you a colourful picture of your future.

b) It makes you have a reason for living.

c) It shapes your life.

d) It keeps you on even when everything around seems not working

e) It establishes your expected end.

LESSON 4

SOURCES OF DREAM

The authentic source of dream is God. But He delivers it to us through the following avenues or channels:

a) The word of God. Genesis 15:4 - 6

b) Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

c) Through observation.

d) Creative curiosity.


LESSON 5

HOW TO BIRTH YOUR DREAM

The beauty of dream is not in having one, but in birthing it.

a) Be diligent: Proverbs 22:29
“Give it all it takes to get all it contains” - Bishop D. Abioye

b) Be focused: Acts 20:24

c) Be determined: 1 Cor. 2:2

d) Be hopeful: Rom. 4:17 - 22

e) Be disciplined: 1 Cor. 9:24 - 27

f) Encourage yourself with your word: 1 Sam. 30:6; Ps. 42:11


LESSON 6

KEEPING YOUR DREAM ALIVE

Habakkuk 2:2

Once God has planted a dream within your heart, He has every intention of bringing it to pass. 1 Thess. 5:24. But He needs your cooperation to make sure the dream is not killed.

a) Pin down your dream through writing.

b) Have a clear picture of your dream.

c) Run with your dream

d) Keep it constantly before you.