When Your Dream is Yet Unfulfilled - Christ’s Commission Fellowship

When Your Dream is Yet Unfulfilled - Christ’s Commission Fellowship



Zechariah 4:6-10
6So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty. 7‘What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of “God bless it! God bless it!”’”
8Then the word of the LORD came to me: 9“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you. 10Who despises the day of small things? Men will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

When Your Dream is Yet Unfulfilled

When God has given you a dream or a vision and it is yet unfulfilled, what do you do? We can find at least three important principles from the passage that can help us walk through the difficulties in life when our dreams are yet unfulfilled.

1. Principle of Confirmation
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation… his hands will also complete it. (v.9)
Make sure that your dream is from God. Come before God and lay hold of His promises for yourself, your marriage, children, business, career, and ministry.
Keep your focus on God’s promises because your attitude depends upon your focus. Focus on God’s promises and not on life’s problems.
Follow this simple equation: Big God, small problems, small God, big problems. His promises will prevail over any problems to fulfill the dream He has given you.
When there is vision there is God’s provision, so don’t give up, don’t quit, you are never hopeless in God.
When life gets difficult as you pursue God’s vision, don’t quit but surrender yourself anew to God and lay hold of His promises for it is your sure foundation.

2. Principle of Confidence
“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the LORD Almighty. (v.6)
Don’t be discouraged by your lack of resources because God will provide. Our power comes from God’s strength, might and Spirit. When dreams are yet unfulfilled, we must go back to the word of God and lay hold of His power and promises to personally speak to our heart.
Our confidence comes with knowing God and His promises through His word. There is no substitute for being rooted in the word of God. Readiness is not a substitute for rootedness in Christ, in the word of God and in the doctrines of the church.
In the historical context of the book of Zechariah, it was about the people of Israel whose nation was in ruins at that time—their center of spiritual life, the temple was destroyed. They were people like many of us today who think that they were incapable to fulfill a dream.
It is not what you don’t have, but it is what God has. It doesn’t matter if you do not have military might like King David’s or wealth and power like King Solomon’s, because it is all by God’s Spirit after all. When our heart’s confidence is in God, we know that He will turn things around in order to fulfill His promises to make His dreams for your life a reality.

3. Principle of Consecration
Who despises the day of small things? (v. 10)
Depend on God’s timing for the fulfillment of the dream for you. Don’t despise the small things or small beginnings but consecrate them to God and watch Him multiply them.
God, in His timing will fulfill the dreams and the destiny He calls us for His purpose and for His glory. The key is we must learn to wait and trust in Him. To wait upon the Lord is not about doing nothing.
Waiting is an active word that expresses our faith in the Lord and is usually applied in the area of giving- our time, treasure and talent.
Giving expresses our faith. It is the action word of faith. God’s waiting room is the hardest place to be in. Oftentimes we grab and go ahead instead of waiting upon God’s provision. We grab because we don’t want small things but big things and we want them now.
The greater the dream God has given to you, the greater the obstacles you will face, but take courage and consecrate yourself as you wait upon the Lord.
Remember that in the darkest moment of your life, God does His deepest work. Don’t abandon God’s dream for you. Depend on God’s timing for the fulfillment of that dream.