How Can We Get There?

Day 100
So how do you get from here to there? Do you have a destination -- a goal -- a dream? Have you spent time with Me regularly and believe that you have received a dream in your heart from Me? Have you forgotten? Have the worries of the world -- and people -- crowded out my dreams for you?

Come back to the place of vision. Come back to the foot of the cross, where everything new begins. I am able to take you there, and I am able to refresh and renew you so that you can begin again.

But I will take every wrong turn you have made, every bad decision, every wild goose chase and chasing after wind and pipe dreams, every side trip you have detoured on, and I will weave these dry, dusty paths into a tapestry of my beautiful grace, as you repent and turn to Me. Come back to the cross. Lay it all down. Trust Me. I will finish what I started in you.

Only I, Daniel, saw this vision. The men with me saw nothing, but they were suddenly terrified and ran away to hide. So I was left there all alone to see this amazing vision. My strength left me, my face grew deathly pale, and I felt very weak. Then I heard the man speak, and when I heard the sound of his voice, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees. And the man said to me, “Daniel, you are very precious to God, so listen carefully to what I have to say to you. Stand up, for I have been sent to you.” When he said this to me, I stood up, still trembling. Then he said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. -- Daniel 10:7-12 [NLT]

The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. -- 1 Corintians 1:18 [NLT]

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory. -- Romans 8:28-30 [NLT]

And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you. -- Philippians 1:6 [AMP]