30 Steps to a Dream (based on "The Dream Giver" by Bruce Wilkinson)

1. You start off as an ordinary, normal person living a familiar life
2. Then begins the holy discontent: a nagging feeling something is missing
3. You have a big dream to meet a big need in the big world
4. You tell someone and they doubt you, so you keep it to yourself
5. It builds up and you will burst if you don’t share it—you realize you were born for this
6. You decide to do whatever it takes to go after your dream
7. You tell everyone about your dream
8. You make sacrifices and changes for this dream, leaving your comfort zone
9. To do what you love most, you have to do what you fear most
10. You hit a wall of fear
11. In God’s strength, you pass the fears and enter into freedom
12. You run into obstacles: people who want to protect you, people who don’t believe in you, people who don’t want you to rock the boat, people who want to stop/destroy you
13. You meet kindred spirits: people who dream with you and help you understand truth and kill doubt
14. You enter a time when you cannot see your dream and things go on and on and you can’t see God. You feel alone
15. You become angry with God—where are His promises?
16. God gives you faith to go one step at a time without seeing/feeling more
17. You begin to see how God was working all along and you feel Him close
18. You walk in the light and God reveals impurities and washes you clean: you feel one with God
19. God asks you to give back your dream to Him: your dream or God
20. You struggle and walk away from the dream knowing God is enough
21. God gives you back the dream in a new and real way
22. You face more problems and obstacles before you are ready for your dream
23. God gives the Holy Spirit and His Word (truth) as your weapons as you begin the spiritual battles
24. You have fellowship with other Christians who are fighting alongside you
25. You learn to fight or others and take on their giants in Christ
26. You feel a certain need and begin to try to help—it hits your heart and you can’t ignore it
27. You realize THIS was the big dream you had all along
28. You work hard and are fulfilled doing what you love to do the most
29. You are joined by other dreamers and teach others how to dream
30. You are called away by God to begin the whole process again…leaving everything familiar and digging deeper, finding a new facet to this amazing dream/life God has given you