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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Do you want to fulfill your dreams?You need to surrender your dreams to God.Many people have<b> </b>taught<b> </b>you to <i>seek </i>your dreams,but very few have taught you to <i>surrender </i>your dreams.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Don’t  get me wrong. Seeking your dreams is important. I always tell people,  “You need to know your dream, define your dream, and pursue your  dream. You need to have a firm grip on your dream—to eat, talk, walk,  and sleep with your dream. I believe that if you don’t seek your dream  with fierce commitment, your dreams won’t come true.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">But there’s a second phase to fulfilling your dreams.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">At a certain point, after <i>seeking</i> your dream, you need to <i>surrender</i> your dream to God. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Or else you won’t have peace.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">In  the Bible, God told Abraham to sacrifice his son on the altar (Genesis  22). From personal experience, I’ve noticed that God asks us to offer  what is most dear to us. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXft2vJbAJiw38h2lhwvQzQ5WEKsQYyr4yhs93TOmihAf0XtyyLtxdJYMtgEZCkYuv5AFbsIl2DJgJZzqhjnnWdMP_YRiNgGbARdy1eaHPken0XmpoaLNrCyoTI-GDej6gMBp-VUeyZXlg/s1600/fullfill+your+dream.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXft2vJbAJiw38h2lhwvQzQ5WEKsQYyr4yhs93TOmihAf0XtyyLtxdJYMtgEZCkYuv5AFbsIl2DJgJZzqhjnnWdMP_YRiNgGbARdy1eaHPken0XmpoaLNrCyoTI-GDej6gMBp-VUeyZXlg/s320/fullfill+your+dream.JPG" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">God calls you to surrender your dream on the altar.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Let me say it in another way. There are two extremes that you need to avoid. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">First  is when we have no dreams. There are people I know who wake up in the  morning not knowing what to do.  Because they have no dreams. And a  person who has no dreams has already started dying.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">That’s  why every Sunday at the Feast (our weekly spiritual gathering), I teach  people how to dream. I teach people to write 7 dreams on their <i>Novena to God’s Love </i>(it’s a little booklet we give to all first timers)and pray for them everyday.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">The  second extreme is when their dream consumes their life, it actually  destroys them, or destroys their family, or destroys their health, or  destroys their relationship with God.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">These are people who say, “Unless I get a husband, I won’t be happy.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Or “Unless I get healed, I won’t be happy.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Or “Unless I get a baby, I won’t be happy.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Or “Unless I get a house, I won’t be happy.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Or “Unless I get a US Visa, I won’t be happy.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">How  do you know if you need to surrender your dream to God? When your dream  becomes more important than your life. When your dream steals away your  peace. When your dream steals away your God.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">What does surrendering your dream mean?</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I’m not asking you to give up your dream. I’m asking you to give up your attachment to a specific version of your dream. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">And that also means surrendering your attachment to a specific timetable of your dream.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Surrender  means trusting that God has the best version in mind for you. That  God’s best blessing will come in the best time and in the best way.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">When  you surrender your dream, you’re saying, “Even if I don’t get this  dream, I’ll still be happy. Because my trust is in you, Lord.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I  believe something magical happens when you put your dream on the  altar. When you surrender, you hear God speak to your heart and say,  “Child, will you still want your dream if I tell you that I have  something better for you?”</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I  want you to say this prayer to God right now: “Lord, I’m trusting  you. I’ll still seek my dream with joyful passion, but I will surrender  my attachment to the details of my dream. I will open myself to your  wonderful surprises.”</span></div><div align="center"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> God Will Allow Temporary Disappointments</span></b></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">       My mother wanted me to be a priest.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">        When I was a little boy, she told me, “I’m praying that you become a  priest.  I’m not forcing you. But I’ll be the happiest woman in the  world if you become a priest.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">       Talk about subtle emotional manipulation (Haha).</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">        When I was 16 years old, I took up philosophy for my college course, so  that just in case God really called me to priesthood, I’ll be  ready. (A.B. Philosophy is required for priesthood.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">After  college, I also took all the required subjects for a Masters degree in  Theology, again, just in case God really wanted me to be a priest. All  the Bishop had to do was send me to a seminary for a year or two—and  viola—I was ready for ordination.</span></div><div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">But God never called me to be a priest.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">When  Mom learned that I had a girlfriend, it broke her heart. Aside from the  fact that no woman was good enough for her son (Except for Mother  Mary), her dream for me to become “Fr. Bo” was slipping through her  fingers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I’m  sure there were many days when she imagined me to be a priest. I’m sure  she imagined me wearing the clerical garb, celebrating Mass and  consecrating the host. And one day, that beautiful picture was blown to  bits.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">But I also know that through many tears, Mom surrendered her dream for me to God. Like Abraham, she placed me at the altar.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">And God gave her another version of that dream. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I didn’t become a priest. But I became a preacher, an author, an entrepreneur, and a leader. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Today, when my mother thinks of me, she’s still the happiest woman in the world!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I  love being a lay preacher. I love sharing about how I raise my kids and  how I love my wife—stuff that priests will never be able to share. And  without the long robe, I feel a lot more irreligious people can identify  with me.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Friend,  God has a way of fulfilling the dreams in your heart in the best way  possible. He will allow you to be temporarily disappointed, but never  permanently disappointed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">You  don’t have to understand it all. Just surrender your dream to God. Just  let it go. Just let God. Enjoy your life today, even if that dream  seems to be so far away.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">In due time, you’ll see the best blessing coming your way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">       May your dreams come true,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">    <b>  - Bo Sanchez</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Source : <a href="http://bosanchez.ph/">http://bosanchez.ph</a><b> </b></span></div>

How to Fulfill A Dream by Bo Sanchez

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