Today I would like to share the grace of God under the title, ¡°Have a Dream and Look into It.¡±
If we have dreams in our hearts, we need to look at ourselves as if our dreams have already come to pass, and make positive declarations with faith, then God makes our dreams come true. How precious our dream is! We must draw a picture of our dream in our hearts and keep looking at it. By continuously looking at it and declaring it positively and hopefully, amazingly our dream will come true.
There is a frame in our thoughts. Each of us thinks through his/her own frame. Even if we each look at the same thing at the same time, each of us judges it according to his/her own frame of thinking. Psychology says it a sort of window on the world.
If that window is rectangular, all things look rectangular. If the window is round, all scenes will look round. Even the same thing will look different according to the frame of the window. Likewise, if one has a positive frame of thinking, everything will be seen as positive by him/her. If one has a negative frame of thinking, he/she will always look at those negative things and think negatively. Reformist Martin Luther said, ¡°If we look into the world with glasses of fear, the whole world will be seen filled with worries and fear while if we look into the world with glasses of faith, everything will look like something to be thankful for and also good and even the hand of God will be revealed.¡± According to one¡¯s frame of thinking, every circumstance will look different along with its interpretation and result. Therefore, what we see is very important.

It would benefit us if we get to comprehend the law of seeing, by looking at the event of the Israelites¡¯ crossing the Red Sea. In Exodus, Pharaoh of Egypt mobilized his entire army and chased after the Israelites. The Israelites who saw the strongest army of Egypt were all in fear.

Exodus 14:10-12 says, ¡°As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD. They said to Moses, ¡®Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!¡¯"

The Israelites complained against Moses. However, Moses said to the Israelites, ¡°Look up to God who fights for Israel with faith! Do not fear the Egyptians who follow us to attack, but look up to God!¡± Then God drowned the whole army of Egypt in the Red Sea.

Exodus 14:13-14 says, ¡°Moses answered the people, ¡®Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.¡¯"

Proverbs 3:25-26 says, ¡°Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.¡±

We Christians live by faith so line or circle or plane which belong to the third dimensional world have nothing to do with us but only that which is beyond cubics and belongs to the dimension of the Holy Spirit relates to us; to believe is our start while without faith we can¡¯t work for victory.

Concerning the law of seeing and the twelve scouts, Moses and Aaron chose twelve scouts to explore the land of Canaan for forty days. However, ten spies among them looked to the armed castles and giants and gave negative reports that they could not conquer the land to the Israelites.

Numbers 13:32-33 says, ¡°And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, ¡®The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.¡¯"

When they gave a report, it would have been much better if they had given a positive report, but they concluded it with negative words. Ten spies first gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.¡±(Numbers 13:27) They showed its fruit in front of them. However, their report didn¡¯t stop at this. The next verse 28 started with the negative word, ¡°But.¡±
¡°But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.¡±(Numbers 13:28)

Even though the land flowed with milk and honey according to the Word of God, they could not enter it due to huge obstacles.
If they gave a positive report from the start, they should have ended positively to the end. However, they inserted a negative condition and denied the whole positive report. It is the same with us more often than not. The words of the Bible are true, but we doubt whether it will come to pass or not. Our problems seem bigger like the descendants of Anak while we seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes. Then how can the Word of God come to pass for me? We have doubts like this.

James 1:6-7 says, ¡°But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord.¡±

Don¡¯t doubt! When we move forward with faith, we shouldn¡¯t doubt at all. If doubt comes to us, complaints begin. No matter how many obstacles there are, we must believe that God will accomplish what He said. Joshua and Caleb followed the law of seeing and looked at the beautiful fruit and life in the land and reported it accordingly while the ten spies were negative in their report.

¡°Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes
and said to the entire Israelite assembly, ¡®The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good. If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.¡¯¡±(Numbers 14:6-8)

They began to fight each other. There were two results of the law of seeing. The ten spies and the people who grumbled and complained after hearing a negative report could not enter the promised land and lived wandering around in the desert for forty years.

Numbers 14:26-27 says, ¡°The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
¡®How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.¡¯¡±

God always listens to what we complain about and to what we say negatively.

¡°So tell them, 'As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say: In this desert your bodies will fall--every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.¡¯¡±(Numbers 14:28-30)

God was enraged at their wrong words. Nowadays emotional contagion is widespread like the flue and the contagion of the cold virus is very dangerous. Furthermore, human emotion is also contagious. Knowingly or unknowingly, we imitate others¡¯ facial expression or behavior and spread our emotion and we call it emotional contagion. Interestingly negative emotion is more rapidly spread than positive emotion. The Israelites responded more quickly to the bad report of ten spies than the good news delivered by Joshua and Caleb; complaints and murmuring instantly transmitted to the whole Israelite community. Nevertheless, Joshua and Caleb who followed the law of seeing by faith finally ate the fruit of faith.

Numbers 14:24 says, ¡°But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.¡±

Hebrews 3:7-8 says, ¡°So, as the Holy Spirit says: ¡®Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert.¡¯¡±

Do you have a dream? God is not pleased with those who have no dream in their hearts. If we have a dream in our hearts, we will see it by faith. Next, we can confess it with our mouths. God watches over us while we have a dream and look at it and confess it with our mouths and finally makes it come to pass! God loves you when you live a life with a dream in your heart.
When you look at your dream, God also looks at it with you and is pleased with you. When you confess it with your mouth, the Lord really loves it! He will say, ¡°I am listening to what you say!¡±

When Moses faced difficulty, He didn¡¯t rely on his strength but on God only. So he said to the Israelites, ¡°Moses answered the people, ¡®Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.¡¯¡±(Exodus 14:13)

Pastor Charles H. Spurgeon said that the end of humans is the start of God. Now you may say, ¡°This is the end of the world. I am ruined. Nothing can be possible.¡± Then God says, ¡°Commit it to Me. This is my start¡± Your end is the beginning of God.
However, if you say, ¡°God, please back off!¡± God will retreat, saying, ¡°You may realize only after suffering hardships.¡± Therefore, when we face the end of the world, please commit it to God. He will be a new start. When we confront difficulty, if we try to handle it on our own, God won¡¯t work at all. If we move forward saying, ¡°Whether life or death, prosperity or destruction, I will depend on you only.¡± God takes the whole responsibility and starts to work for us. God says, ¡°Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.¡±(Jeremiah 33:3)

When we pray God will work a miraculous thing for us.
Our dream can overcome any fear. When we have a dream, we can conquer fear. God gave a dream to Moses saying, ¡°So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."(Exodus 3:10)

As Moses had a God-given dream in his heart, he wasn¡¯t in despair no matter how menacingly the Egyptian army pursued the Israelites or how desperately the Red Sea was in their way but firmly believed that God would deliver them from them all.
As God promised to make Israel cross the Red Sea and to deliver them he held the dream for good and looked at it and boldly confessed it. Those who have no dream will be easily in despair and frustrated when they have to face difficulties. However, those who have a God-given dream in their hearts, they believe that God will make it come to pass surely and overcome all hardships and difficulties beyond what is expected.
When we face big or small problems in our life, we must draw a picture of our dream. After that, paste it in your bedroom or dinning room and keep looking at it while coming in or getting out. We must visualize the dream come true in our hearts and say it with our mouths. ¡°This year I will be happy. This year my plans will prosper. People will help me through what I am doing.¡± When we have a dream like this and see it and say it with our mouths, God will be with us. This is most important.
When God is with us, There is nothing to worry about. God wants to make our dream happen. As God promises that He will accomplish whatever we wish, He wants to make it happen through us. When you have what you dream in your heart and see it and keep confessing it with your mouth, the work of faith will manifest and the Holy Spirit will appear to make an amazing end result for us. Even though we can¡¯t see any evidence with our eyes, if we move forward relying on God, He will work for us.