Moving Past Regreat to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore

One thing I realized that my yesterday ended last night.  Today has so much more to offer and I most look ahead and prepare cause to look back and regret will not add anything to my life.  Life can be understood by looking backwards.  Hind sight is 20/20.  You have seen what happened.  You experienced what happened now what are you going to do with that experience?  You must live life forward and pull from all those experiences good and bad.

I read in "believe you can" by John Mason that experience is at best yesterday's answer for today's problem.  Your past is not your potential.  Never build your future around your past.  yesterday is gone and never to be relived.  To reach your maximized potential you must shake off every part of your previous life and strive to be all that God called and equipped you to be.

Failures are boot camp experiences.  You are like that private that enlisted and through those 6 weeks of camp experiencing the ups and downs.  Going through the failures, hurts, loneliness and sometimes despair but at graduation you are able to see how every experience made him/her into what is needed for their military journey.  I believe our experiences can shape and mold us into the General God has created us to be.

Have a "Miraculous Monday".  Love you Guys

Teresa D. Niles
CEO/Founder/Pastor
I am a D.R.E.A.M. (DETERMINED, RESPONSIBLE, EMPOWERED, AMAZING, MATURE)Woman

What I have to Offer is Valuable

What I have to Offer is VALUABLE

As I sit here thinking about my departure from one job and moving on to the next I began to think about what I bring to the table.  Whatever you think you have to offer, I’m relatively sure that it’s one thousand times bigger and more important to the world than you think it is.  We look at things are small when the world is saying this is exactly what we need and GOD is say that is your reason for being in the earth.  You were put here to solve this problem.  I have equipped you with everything you need to do just what I created you to do.  But often WE look at other people's gifts and talents and seem to think we don't have as much to offer.  You have just as much and more because GOD gave it to you. 

Step 1
Step back and remove yourself from the negative chatter and the hustle and bustle of your life to gain an empowered perspective of who you are, and to make fuller use of the talents and strengths you possess.

Step 2
Mark 6:31  "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest." Get alone with God share with Him your issues and concerns.  Seek Him for direction for God Given Dreams. REMEMBER....You possess the power and the responsibility to determine your future and destiny. Remember, you were created to accomplish something that no one else can accomplish. As you hear God know that his dreams are always bigger than you can see. Joseph was given a dream of the palace when he was in the field. David was called a man of valor when he was hiding in the cave. Abram was a father of many nations when he was childless. When all said and done, note this one thing Jeremiah 29:11 says For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Step 3
Believe GOD and Get Up, Move out,  pursue your GOD given Destiny.

CRAZY ENOUGH TO DREAM BIG DREAMS

We serve a God of abundance not scarcity. When you are serving God, you shouldn’t use zero sum math. God creates, he doesn’t just manage what is. If we will trust the words of Jesus enough to lose our life, we will find it. If we will dream a God-sized dream and cast a big vision, we will find God still multiplies loaves and fishes as people hear a compelling vision large enough to sacrifice for. I’m convinced we have untold resources in our churches waiting on a vision grand enough to unleash them.

1 Samuel 26:25 Then Saul said to David, "May you be blessed, my son David; you will do great things and surely triumph." So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.

God says in his Word that everything we undertake will prosper, the first big question is: What are you undertaking or starting? There are some people that only wait in the Lord but don't do anything at all, they don't have plans; if there is someone that ischallenged enough to dream big dreams, it is the born again believers because we know that God is powerful.  God is just getting started with what He has in store for our lives. Greater things will come if you learn to be brave and trust God to open the doors. 

I have to remind myself Teresa you are not in charge of opening the doors. I am in charge of being ready when God opens them.

If there is no dream, no challenge, in your heart, you will become dissatisfied.  God made us to want and expect more; God wants to bless you at a higher level. What have you begun in order for God to bless it? God made us, He knows what we are capable of.  He is our maker, He made us like himself, according to His image, He knows our potential, and you have in you, all that you need to see open doors before you, God put it all there and He knows you can do it.

In this passage, Saul his worst enemy acknowledges David's qualities.  Saul wanted to kill him, he had been hunting him down and in previous chapters you can see how David spared his life, so then Saul acknowledges David's qualities and says to him "no doubt, you will undertake great things". Whenever there is a man or a woman who is an undertaker that dares to believe God and decides to prosper in everything they do, even enemies have to admit God is with that person and that He is taking him by the hand guiding him from one victory to the next.

What are you dreaming about? Just don't survive.  Daily just making an effort to get through.  Accept the potential that you hold on the inside of you. 

Dreams of blessing, prosperity, a house, a career, a family, God gives you dreams, not small ones, big ones. God wants to give you dreams, trust him, He has expectations in you, He's counting on you, because the dreams you hold inside were placed there by His own hand. That is why if you want to see things you have never seen before, you are going to have to do what never did before. God's dreams make you do crazy things, God doesn't speak to you with logic, He speaks to you with his might and power, the language He uses are dreams and visions, if you have a dream, it is God speaking to you. When God pushes us to do crazy things, it is because those crazy things activate God's Word. This is what we call prophetic acts; if you dream about a house, go and get yourself a Home Magazine start reading about the feature, cost, locations, and etc so you know what to do when it's time to go mark your territory,  if you dream about traveling go and get yourself a passport. Unleash your faith, with prophetic acts. God will reveal to you, He will give you dreams, don't be afraid to be called crazy; God will prosper and bless you.

Evangelist Teresa D. Niles, CEO/Founder of I am a D.R.E.A.M. Woman Ministries. Evangelist Niles is available to travel and be a blessing to the body of Christ.  Pray you enjoyed.  God Bless

In the Birthing ROOM

Birthing your DREAM is like birth a baby, When you’re right there in it – it’s messy, awkward and uncomfortable. But one thing I I know that if I just keep PUSHING through it – I’ll birth. It doesn’t have to make sense right now. I don’t have to know what I’m doing. WHY? Because I have a Doctor, Nurse, and other staff in the room.   But because they are trained in this area I don’t have to see how it’s all going to work out but I know it will. CASE IN POINT! Get a mentor, coach (Stephanie Stephanie M. Kirkland) or friend that has already gone through it to help you through it. Allow them to use their skills, experience, and training to help you birth your DREAMS!

I am a D.R.E.A.M Woman Conference -Rice Chapel AME

I just want to praise God for all that HE did this weekend during the conference.  I believe people actually tapped into their potential.  I believe people actually began to believe in their GOD who is the giver of dreams.  I believe that we are more Determined, Responsible, Empowered, Amazing and Mature People.  Can't say Women because we have about 6 men this weekend.  Now isn't my GOD good.  He allowed us to conceive  (defined) – To become pregnant with; to form in the mind; to think or imagine.  GOD gave some dreams and visions this weekend.  He reminded some of us dreams that we had allowed to die.  He assure some that you can dream dreams and have visions.  You dreams and visions has to be of GOD! They are GOD given. Joel 2: 28 and Acts 2:17 – Old men shall dream dreams; young men shall see visions.  Whatever God says, He does it!

Please view the link below.  It's a snippet of the message from Friday night.  Be Blessed and continue to strive to be all God called you to be.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WL583x1z6U

The Church Teaching Center Workshop

The first session of I am a D.R.E.A.M. Woman workshop was held Sunday, April 14, 2013 with 14 participants. We had lunch, icebreaker, door prizes and fellowship. This week we complete our dream boards. We are following Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.. Visualizing not only where I am but where I am going. With these boards really go out on a limb. If you want to live on the ocean in a beautiful house, find a picture of that house on the ocean. Look for pictures that really light you up inside when you look at them. Where I am can't even contain where I am going. Inseebmy future and it's much brighter than my past. Session 3 we will review our boards and hold one another accountable. session  4, now that we know where we are going we prepare ourselves mentally and physically. Branding yourself makeovers in session 4. Creating the total package to complete everything God called is to do.

Believing Beyond My Circumstances

I believe in the sun, even though it doesn’t shine,

I believe in love, even when it isn’t shown,

I believe in God, even when he doesn’t speak.

What are you believing for today?  Do you believe God can and will heal every hurt?  Do you believe that because His word says He will supply every need that He must meet your needs today? Why? Because He is a GOD of truth and can't lie.  He is GOD that cannot fail.  So I came to encourage you that in spite of what you are experiencing you must continue to believe God.  When the sun doesn't shine do you say there is no such thing as the sun?  No! You wait for the clouds to pass and the sun shine through.  Well the same is true when it seem like you are not going to make or GOD is just not going to do it this time.  Keep believing the sun will shine through those clouds.  We must believing that my GOD will never leave nor forsake us. Max Lucado said he believes in love even when it isn't shown.  I believe in love when people are rude to me.  I believe in love when my hubby and I disagree.  Because I have had one negative situation does not cause me to turn away and lose faith in love.  With this said, you must continue to believe in your purpose.  You must continue to trust GOD in your situation.  I promise you that He will come through.  Last but not least.  I believe in GOD when He doesn't speak.

Daniel 3:17-18 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. 18 But even if he does not, we want you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

Finally to the point that I am like the Hebrew boys if the circumstances are bad I will worship GOD who is faithful in all situations.  I will worship GOD who knows my end from the beginning.  I will serve my GOD that loves me in the midst of it all.  Serving GOD is a wonderful thing

D.R.E.A.M (Determined, Responsible, Empowered, Amazing, Mature) Woman keep believing in your dreams because our GOD is faithful.

1 Corinthians 2: 9-10

However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”^[a]—
    the things God has prepared for those who love him—

¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

If you are a little confused on this journey, the scripture is saying that His plans are little beyond or own comprehension but are revealed by the HOLY SPIRIT! If you want to know your next instructions get in His presence.

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