Our Thoughts Are Not God's Thoughts
Obstacles to the Fulfillment of Your Dream
1. The First Obstacle: False Belief
2. The Second Obstacle: False Love
3. The Third Obstacle: Fear of Failure
4. The Fourth Obstacle: Fear of Success
Lack of Faith
The Bonds of the Past
Rejection
The Poison of Rejection
The Fruits of Rejection
When our dream is not aligned with God's will, we will always have difficulties fulfilling it.
Regardless of the size of our dream, we must make sure that it is within the will of God. Isaiah 55:8 says:“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord, God.
This verse shows us the difference between our ways and God's ways.
We can understand this in the following ways:
God is infinite, but we are finite.
God knows the end from the beginning, whereas we see only a small part of our journey.
He already knows the reason and purpose, while we are still searching for that understanding.
Examples throughout Scripture clearly show that His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. But despite the difficulty of understanding God's ways and thoughts, in His mercy He has provided a solution: faith in His promises. As it is written: “If you believe, you will see the glory of God!” John 11:40
When we demonstrate faith in the face of our circumstances, God gives us wisdom instead of confusion and peace instead of anxiety. We also have the assurance that God is with us and that He is in control.
Whether we are embarking on a new change in life or seeking to discover the dream of our lives, we will all face obstacles along the way.
Often, we all embark on a heroic adventure to one degree or another. We are all heroes of our own stories, each fighting our own battles along our own path. The hero's journey is part of the universal mythical stories of transformation and awakening. It is filled with challenges and tests. It is the path toward true personal success, which inevitably produces positive actions in our own lives and in our environment.
But there are things that we must first face along the way toward fulfilling our dreams. Below, we will examine the main challenges that present themselves as obstacles and resistance. Here are four things we can identify:
The world around us teaches us from childhood that nothing is possible in this life. Members of our families or society in general teach us that it is impossible to obtain what we want. This constitutes the first and greatest obstacle.
If you cannot believe that you can have what you want in life, or dream of becoming someone special in this world, then you will certainly not be able to pursue your dream.
Always believe that what you desire is possible. It is possible because God has complete control over your life. Know that you are worthy of having what you desire in this world.
This kind of obstacle tests your strength and determination to the limit and can completely paralyze you to the point where you feel unable to do anything for your future.
We know what we want to do, but we are afraid of hurting those around us. We become so attached to the people we love that we cannot leave them or disappoint them in order to pursue our own calling.
We want to pursue the dream of our lives, but at the same time, we remain attached to people who do not truly love us but who always want us around to help them fulfill their own dreams.
We must make the effort to make difficult decisions in order to move forward in life. Understand that some friendships are only for a season and not for a lifetime.
Pursuing what you love does not diminish your connection and love for others. On the contrary, it can improve your relationship with those around you.
When you pursue your own dream, you develop a sense of mutual respect that is different from ordinary relationships. Your true friends and loved ones will respect your decisions because they see you as a person who is independent and capable of taking initiative. They will continue to be there for you, and you will therefore have more to offer them.
Anyone who abandons you because of your dream may be doing so because of their own fear, needs, or insecurities.
“Love that prevents us from fulfilling our own dreams is not true love.”
This is the fear of being defeated along the way. We are afraid of failure. We are also afraid of the future.
Fear becomes an umbrella over our blessings. It prevents us from stepping back in order to make a greater leap forward. It prevents us from taking risks and reigning with God.
We are afraid of looking bad. We do not understand that failures are part of the journey.
Often, the closer you get to your path of glory, the more difficult it becomes. You will face setbacks and failures and may not even know whom to turn to. Sometimes you may think that the journey was not worth taking or that you should never have started the project.
You must remember that everything that happens to you can become a great blessing. A pregnant woman understands that the pains of childbirth are part of the process of giving birth. But once the baby is born, she forgets all her suffering.
Learn to endure failure at times. The more you experience and overcome, the closer you are to success.
When you persevere and overcome your defeats, you gain a greater sense of confidence, worth, and purpose concerning your destiny.
With so many people around us who have not fulfilled their dreams, we sometimes feel guilty for fulfilling our own.
Many people do not live in pursuit of the deeper meaning of their dreams. Why should we? We may not feel worthy of truly achieving our dreams, and that is why we stop along the way without fulfilling them.
We must see ourselves as worthy of fulfilling our dreams. Again, if we can imagine it, why should we not be worthy of becoming what God wants us to be on this earth?
When our dreams are closest to us, they often feel the farthest away. The final stretch toward your dream may seem the most difficult. This will test your innate sense of perseverance, endurance, and faith.
We desire acceptance so deeply that we are sometimes willing to hold ourselves back in order to “fit in” with others. This is why we sometimes ask: “Things did not work out for others, so why should they work for us?”
We do not want to separate ourselves from the past in order to rise to the next level. “Who are we?” we often ask ourselves.
Instead, we should ask:
“Why not us?”
Do not compare yourself with others. What you choose to do has nothing to do with other people. When we follow what we love, we allow God to transform us as we walk with Him.
We become the heroes of our own stories, but we must first give ourselves permission to discover our own inner excellence and freely channel our potential.
“Follow your own uniqueness… therefore, be different in the service of God.”
So let yourself fly. Be a little different. And allow yourself to dream big!
Faith is a fundamental element of success in a person's life. The fulfillment of our dreams is built upon the principles of faith.
A person who has no faith cannot fulfill his or her dreams. Such a person is like a house built on sand, without a solid foundation; when the storms come, it falls.
Where do we place our faith?
If we place our faith in people or in the possessions of this world, we will fail. But if we place our faith in God, we will succeed in our endeavors.
Hebrews 11:6 declares:
“And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
We can please God only by living by faith. Like Abraham our father, we receive blessings from God when we put our faith into action.
We do not need to have a huge amount of faith to accomplish great things. The amount of faith we have is sufficient to accomplish extraordinary things.
Matthew 17:20 says:
“Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
The small amount of faith you have can be enough to help you rise above your circumstances and prosper beyond measure.
What you must do is remove the doubt that lives within you. Stand up and declare your victory!
Speak to poverty and say:
“Enough is enough! Poverty, your time has expired!”
You do not have to wait for a preacher to lay hands on you before receiving your breakthrough. Determine to take authority over your situation.
Command everything that is preventing you from fulfilling your dream to leave.
If it is sickness, command it to leave in the name of Jesus, and it will leave.
Many things can prevent us from progressing in life. To understand this more deeply, we need to understand the meaning of the word “past.”
Your greatest enemy can be your past. Your past can prevent you from moving forward.
We often find ourselves struggling with our past experiences. We tend to ask questions such as:
Why did I experience this?
I cannot believe this happened to me.
Did I deserve to go through these things?
Why did he/she hurt me?
When you constantly look backward, you can become like a pillar of salt.
The story of Lot's wife clearly explains the consequences of looking back. Genesis 19:24–26 says:
“Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities and all the valley and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground. But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”
Many times, we hide unresolved issues from our past beneath a multitude of disguises.
We try to overcome rejection and insecurity by losing weight, working hard, or appearing attractive and confident. We hide our pain behind a smile.
We say that we have forgiven someone for the harm they caused in our lives, but then we commit ourselves to never having anything to do with anyone.
We cover our shame through a series of church activities, hoping to earn God's love.
As long as we suppress the things from our past, the “infection” or “wound” of what happened to us will continue to destroy us from within.
It does not matter what happens on the outside of our lives; nothing will truly make us happy and fulfilled until we allow God to do His work within us.
At this moment, you may be reading this book without realizing that there is something inside you that needs to be uprooted, even though everything may appear to be “beautifully put together.”
Perhaps you are reading this book because you have reached a desperate point in your life and are searching for answers, hope, and help.
You may know that something or someone is preventing you from experiencing the hand of God in your life.
It is important for you to realize that you cannot change everything. You cannot change what happened. You cannot change how you acted. You cannot change yesterday. You cannot change yourself by your own strength.
However, God can.
God can transform the wounds in your life into a testimony for someone else.
He can take all the tears you have shed and replace them with hope, happiness, and abundant joy!
He can transform your sorrow into joy and turn ashes into beauty.
The spirit of rejection attacks anyone, regardless of their profession or background. It destroys self-esteem and even attacks the purpose of a person's destiny.
It is one of the most common tools the devil uses to destroy a person's life.
It is not God's will for us to feel rejected or abandoned.
It is necessary for you to know who you truly are in Jesus Christ and to realize how much God loves, accepts, and values you, so that you can experience the fullness of everything He has ordained for you.
The Word of God tells us that without being rooted and established in God's love, we cannot experience the fullness of God in our lives.
“And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” — Ephesians 3:19
Rejection has a way of destroying a person's life in a manner that few other things can.
The sad reality is that the number of people affected by rejection is staggering.
If we want to become everything God created us to be, we must make every effort to overcome rejection in our lives.
This is vital and indispensable.
Many people who have experienced rejection and childhood abuse grow up with unresolved emotional wounds.
Rejection causes emotional wounds that can eventually grow and develop into spiritual wounds, such as resentment, jealousy, rebellion against God, hatred, remorse, anxiety, witchcraft, and so forth.
These spiritual wounds can open doors to evil spirits, which may take advantage of these vulnerabilities.
The enemy's goal is to build internal emotional burdens and negative feelings in our hearts toward others, ourselves, or God.
Rejection manifests many different fruits, which can vary greatly from one person to another.
Some common manifestations of rejection include:
Rebellion beginning during adolescence: a state of chronic anger.
Identity imitation: being pushed to become someone you are not in order to be accepted by others.
Constant defensiveness: the tendency to reject others first because of the fear of being rejected.
Constant questioning when someone refuses you a favor: questions such as, “Why does this only happen to me?” or “Why only me?”
The need to adapt to every environment and every person in order to be accepted by others and become part of the same group.
The habit of blaming yourself after a failure.
An inability to accept or respond to constructive criticism: this can place you in a desperate need for affection.
A tendency to blame God: “Why did He create me with a large nose, large eyes, etc.?” or “Why didn't He create me as a woman or a man?”
A sense of pride that says: “How dare they reject me?”
Developing an argumentative or stubborn personality and feeling the need to always be right with others, even when you are wrong.
A feeling of worthlessness, insecurity, marginalization, inferiority, or despair.
Fear of confrontation: believing that your identity is based on what other people think about you.
Envy, jealousy, and even hatred can become rooted in rejection.
All these things can prevent us from fulfilling our dreams.The truth is that we were all created to be loved, accepted, and appreciated.
Rejection is an anti-Christ spirit because it opposes the nature that God created within us. Rejection deprives a person of experiencing acceptance and the love of God.
The problem is that when we turn to other people or to ourselves in search of love and acceptance, we expose ourselves to failure and rejection.
In God alone we can place our trust, because He is the source of our identity.
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