What Has God Put in Your Heart That You’re Still Calling “Someday”?
What Has God Put in Your Heart That You’re Still Calling “Someday”?
There is something God has put on your heart to do.
You’ve probably prayed about it.
You may have talked about it with someone close to you, researched it, dreamed about it, or even started once and stopped.
But life filled up.
Responsibilities took over.
Other people needed you.
Work had to be finished.
There were meals and appointments, deadlines and decisions, people depending on you to keep things moving.
And that thing that mattered so much to you?
You started calling it someday.
🎥 What Has God Put on Your Heart That You Keep Calling “Someday”?
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Timestamp: 05:18 Ask God: “Is This Mine?”
Someday...
💖 When life settles down
💖 When you have more time or money
💖 When you know exactly what to do
💖 After you feel more confident
💖 When the people around you understand
Except life has a crazy way of filling whatever space we give it.
And someday keeps moving off into the future.
What If Someday Is Now?
I’ve talked a lot lately about laying down things God never asked you to carry.
You don’t have to do everything.
In fact, you shouldn’t.
Every yes requires time, attention, and energy that you cannot give to something else.
But there’s another side to that truth that we can’t miss:
What are you making room to say YES to?
Because the goal isn’t an emptier calendar.
The goal is to be available for what God actually created and called you to do.
There’s an important difference between doing good things and doing God’s things for you.
A need doesn’t automatically make something your assignment.
You may be perfectly capable of meeting that need and even doing a wonderful job of it.
That still doesn’t answer the question.
“Lord, is this mine?”
That question has become increasingly important to me.
Your time is finite.
So is your attention and energy.
When you continually spend them on things God never assigned to you, you must ask yourself what might be left undone that He has given you?
A Good Thing Isn’t Automatically God’s Thing for You Today
I had an opportunity to practice this again recently.
God often gives me a new opportunity to live out the lesson I'm trying to teach others.
I volunteered to bring a meal to a family from church. That was the commitment.
Then I remembered three other households that could also use a meal, and my mind immediately went where it tends to go:
As long as I’m cooking...
You know how that happens. 😊
One meal quietly became four.
By the time the day arrived, I wasn’t feeling particularly well. My throat hurt, I had a headache, and plenty of my own work was waiting for me.
It would have been easy to either push through, because I’d decided all four meals were now my responsibility, or feel guilty about not doing them.
Instead, I had to practice what I’d been teaching.
I asked God.
“Lord, are these mine?
If You want me to do this, please give me the strength, energy and time.”
He did.
I was able to make enough food for all four households and get the meals into the freezer.
But finishing four meals wasn’t the lesson.
Asking was.
Another time, His answer could be, “Not now.”
He could close the door completely.
He might show me that someone else is supposed to meet that need.
Or He may say, "Later."
Faithfulness isn’t doing everything you’re capable of doing.
Faithfulness is being obedient and available for what God actually asks you to do.
What Dream Have You Buried?
Now let’s turn that around.
While you’ve been faithfully doing everything else, what has been waiting?
Perhaps there’s a book you’ve wanted to write or a business you’ve wanted to start.
You can see yourself beginning a ministry, speaking, teaching, taking a long-dreamed-of trip, finishing something you started years ago, making a major change, or finally using a gift God put inside you.
Maybe you've dreamed of doing more than one of these!
No one else may even know about your dreams.
Maybe you shared a dream with someone a long time ago.
You opened your heart and shared this beautiful dream, only to have that person dump a bucket of ice water all over it.
So you didn't do that again.
After enough time passed, it became easier not to think about it very often either.
But it never completely went away.
If you’ve gotten caught up comparing your life, your list, or your results to someone else...
remember this:
God created you uniquely for His purpose.
What’s Keeping You Bound?
I can look back now at dreams God has graciously allowed me to fulfill and recognize something I couldn’t see while I was living through them.
Before some of those things could happen, God had work to do inside of me.
First of all, I needed to stop comparing my life with anyone else’s and trying to copy what worked for others.
Then, procrastination kept me researching instead of beginning.
And perfectionism had me convinced that I needed to have everything figured out before I could begin, and be able to do it at least close to perfection the first time I tried.
I also have a bad habit of wanting to know all the details, too.
If you've read the Bible, note that God rarely gave His people any details when He gave them a command.
God never promised to give the details to me, either.
Those things weren’t simply personality quirks...
I've come to realize they were chains.
As God freed me from them, I was able to move.
That realization has changed the way I think about so many of the things we’ve been discussing.
Comparison is not just unpleasant.
It's much more than that.
And that’s not its greatest danger.
Perfectionism will exhaust you, but exhaustion isn’t its whole problem.
Procrastination will frustrate you (and everyone around you!), and people-pleasing can fill every open space on your calendar.
But there’s something much more eternal at stake:
Those chains will stand between you and what God wants to do in and through your life.
Breaking free of these chains isn’t just about feeling better...
it’s about becoming free to be who God uniquely created you to be, and available to do what He created you to do.
And, fulfill His purpose for you.
Take Your Dream to God
Something important to remember that I've been saying over and over is, "Not every dream in your heart came from God."
There is no “name it and claim it” in what I'm saying.
I'm not saying that if you can imagine it, it's a promise that God intends to give it to you.
King David is the perfect example of this.
He had a desire to build a house for God.
Nathan immediately said, "That's wonderful, David! Go for it!"
But God said, "No."
David would not be the one to build it.
His son, Solomon, would.
That didn’t make David’s desire foolish or meaningless.
He was able to help by preparing abundant resources for the work his son would eventually complete.
He had to accept that his role looked different from the one he originally imagined.
We need to give God that same authority over our dreams.
Bring your dreams to God with an open hand.
I encourage you to go to God now; open your Bible. Pray. Sit quietly before Him and hold your dreams one by one up to Him and ask:
“Lord, is this from You?”
“Is it for now?”
“What would You have me do next?”
Then give Him room to answer.
He may tell you to go.
He may tell you to prepare.
The answer might be wait, or even no.
The goal isn’t getting God to approve your dream. The goal is discovering His.
There Are People on the Other Side of Your Obedience
You have no idea what God might do with your surrendered yes.
This is where the message becomes so much bigger than achieving something you’ve always wanted to do.
Your obedience may impact one person, and that person may then impact someone else.
Maybe the book you finally write will reach someone you’ll never meet.
The ministry you begin could change a family.
A conversation you’ve postponed might alter the direction of and change someone’s life.
You may never know how far the ripple will travel.
The little boy with the loaves and fishes didn’t know that day that the Lord would use his lunch to feed five thousand men, plus women and children.
He just gave Jesus what was in his hand.
And, Jesus did the rest.
Let me ask you, "What Is in Your Hand?"
Look at what He has already given you.
Your gifts. Your abilities.
Your personality. Your experiences.
Your testimony. Your opportunities.
Even the trials you would never have chosen are all part of the story He will use for His glory.
What dream keeps coming back to your mind?
Is there something He's saying to you?
What have you been saying, "Someday," to?
Is there a chain keeping you from taking the next step?
Don’t, like Moses, disqualify yourself and try to tell God what you can and can't do.
If you think you're too old, or you've waited too long, don’t know enough, don’t have the right personality, or you're arguing with God when He has put something on your heart...
Remember Moses.
He argued with God.
He didn't think he could speak. God got angry and said,
“Who hath made man’s mouth?” (Exodus 4:11)
God knows exactly who you are and how He created you.
It’s Not Too Late
Should you have a five-year plan after reading this post?
No. That's not the goal.
I just want you to go to God.
Take your dream and whatever you’ve been saying, Someday, to and offer it up to God again.
Ask Him if it's from Him...
If the time is now...
and what He wants you to do next.
Then listen.
Be quiet and still enough that He can be heard.
If He says no, trust Him.
If He says wait, wait.
And, if He says go, don’t wait for perfect circumstances before you obey.
There are people on the other side of your obedience, waiting.
Your part is surrendering.
So, look again at what is in your life from God.
What is in your hand?
Give it to Him.
And watch what He will do with it.
It’s not too late.
Dare to Dream.
Hello and Welcome!
