THE POWER OF DREAMS

“The ability to dream is the greatest power in the world”
Sam Adeyemi.

Several months ago, as I was thumbing through a book. I stumbled at the story of a great dreamer that inspired me, which I will like to share with you.

It appealed to me because I’ve always been interested in helping people to identify, develop and fulfill their God-given dreams and visions.
Henry Ford is a man who identified and lived out his dreams. He asserted, “The whole secret of a successful life is to find what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”

Ford’s dream grew out of his love and interest in anything mechanical. From boyhood, he had a passion for studying and tinkering with machinery. He taught himself about steam engines, clocks, and combustion engines.

He traveled around the countryside doing repair work for free, just so he could get his hands on machines. He became a mechanic and watchmaker. He even worked as a night engineer for the Detroit Edison Company.

Ford became increasingly intrigued by the idea of the automobile, and he devoted more and more of his attention to it. In 1896, he built his first car in a shed behind his house. After that, he continue to think about how to improve his early efforts, and he studied the work of other car builders, including that of Ranson E. Olds, who manufactured the first Oldsmobile in 1900. Out of his love for machinery and intrigued over the automobile grew Ford’s dream, the creation of an inexpensive mass-produced automobile. Until then, the new horseless carriage had been an expensive luxury item, available to only the rich.

But Ford was determined to put the automobile within the reach of the common person.

In 1899, he helped form the Detroit Motor Company. But when his fellow organizers balked at the idea of manufacturing their product inexpensively in order to sell it to the masses, he left the company.

However, he held on to his dream, and his efforts finally paid off. In 1903, he organized the ford motor company and began to produce the model T. The first year his new company produced just under 6, 000 cars. But only eight years later, they produced more than 500, 000. And they managed to reduce the initial retail price from $850 to only $360. Ford’s dream became a reality.

Ford has been called a genius and has been credited with the birth of the assembly line and mass production. But no matter what he had going for him, his asset was his dream and his willingness to devote himself to it.

HAVE A DREAM!
When we were growing up as a child, we were asked,
“What do you want to become in the future?” We all said something; some said a doctor, a lawyer, a singer, a pastor and so on. As we grew up we tends to forget all what we said due to circumstances and challenges.
What is a dream? A dream is a mental picture of a preferable future. It is the pictures of the future that God has put in our hearts. It is a clear blueprint of our desired future. A dream is what God has communicated to us through the Holy Spirit. He primarily communicates to us through dreams. He paints pictures of the future in our imaginations. Whenever God wants to package a new future for you, He puts it in a picture knowing that these pictures will eventually paints a future for you.

I believe that we all have a dream placed in our heart. I’m talking about a dream deep inside that speaks to the very soul. It is the thing we were born to do. It is what we love to do.

The ability to dream is the greatest power in the world. Without a dream, it will be so difficult to achieve anything on this planet. Your dreams today are the realities of tomorrow. Your dream today is the raw material with which God will use to construct your future. The poorest person in the world is someone without a dream. A dream is the predictor of our future. Dreams are the raw materials with which God used to create this universe. (Genesis 1: 1-2) In the midst of impossibilities, God saw possibilities. He saw man, animals and plants in the midst of impossibilities. The only thing that can take us to the next level is a dream from God. Have you ever know a person who didn’t have a clue concerning what she wanted in life, yet was highly successful? I haven’t either. We all need something worthwhile to aim for. A dream provides us with that. What is your dream? What do you imagine yourself doing? Where will you be five years from now? What are you living for? Are you really doing what you want to do with your life? Consider these questions before moving to the next phase in this book.