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The Devoted Dreamers Podcast


Whether you have a dream in your heart or aren’t sure what God might be calling you to, The Devoted Dreamers Podcast will encourage you on the journey. This space is dedicated to sharing stories every week of women who are following Jesus and pursuing their God-given gifts in beautifully imperfect ways. You’ll hear about the fears and challenges that threaten their dreams as well as the joy, courage and confidence that comes from following Jesus even in the unexpected…especially in the unexpected.

I’m your host, Merritt Onsa, and my prayer is that this show will meet you where you are in your walk with God. I hope you will come away from the podcast each week with encouragement to begin pursuing your own dreams even when you still feel flawed, imperfect, unfinished and not ready. Because if you wait until you are perfect, you will never take the first step. Join us!

Nov 28, 2018

In this week’s episode, I confess my most recent blunder related to the podcast – in real time – and use my mistake to share some reflections on the journey God has used in my life to uncover my God-shaped dream. It isn’t a formula; our dreams don’t really work like that. My hope in sharing these steps (beyond lacking an interview and still wanting to have something to post today) is that you’ll find yourself somewhere on this continuum and gain some insight about what you might need next in the journey toward your God-shaped dream.

Here’s the list I reference throughout the episode. You’ll find timestamps for each item in the show notes here: http://www.merrittonsa.com/podcast/102

Steps to Uncovering & Pursuing Your God-Shaped Dream

  1. Know your value and worth in Jesus
  2. Believe He created you for a purpose
  3. Investigate your gifts, talents and life experiences that inform the identification of your dream
  4. Recover from the shame that keeps you in hiding or in fear
  5. Realize and own your true identity
  6. Build a set of internal and external tools to keep yourself returning to your identity in Christ
  7. Examine your dream and why you SHOULDN’T pursue it
  8. Pray with open hands about your dream
  9. Determine your next steps
  10. Consider where you’ll find the support you need to keep taking those steps
  11. Figure out what information and/or training you lack and where you might find it
  12. Be honest with yourself about what help you’ll need to recruit to keep going

Please jump over to my Instagram or the Show Notes page and leave your comment about where you think you are on this list and what might be helpful to you in getting through that step and moving on to the ones that lie ahead for you. I can’t wait to hear your reactions!

 

MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:

Celebrate Recovery

Not mentioned on the show, but these were all very helpful resources for me:

Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds by Beth Moore
Believing God by Beth Moore
True Faced by Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and John S. Lynch

  

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