Rick Warren's Daily DevotionalSample

God Builds Faith by Giving a Dream When God wants to work in your life, he'll always gives you a dream - about yourself, about what he wants you to do, about how he's going to use your life to impact the world. There are many examples in the Bible of this -- God gave Noah the dream of building an ark. God gave Abraham the dream of being the father of a great nation. God gave Nehemiah the dream of building the wall around Jerusalem. How do you know when a dream is from God or when it's just something you've thought up yourself? The Bible tells us that God, "by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of - infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes." (Ephesians 3:20 LB) In other words, if a dream comes from God, it will be so big in your life that you can't do it on your own. It also will never contradict His Word! If your dream is something that the Bible speaks against, it's not from God. He may be speaking to you now, but you just don't recognize it for what it is. That dream you have - the idea, the concept - that thing you've been thinking about doing and would be of real benefit to other people, where do you think that idea came from? God starts with a dream as he builds faith in you.