Living God's Dreams

Exactly 55 minutes before the weekend is over I am writing this blog. See... I kept my promise. I am blogging before the weekend is officially over. I love obtaining my goals.
Anyway, what I thought this was going to be about seems minuscule to what happened tonight.
Stirring is doing a series called "Living God's Dreams."
I was so excited before we started it. Just because the last series they did on dreams I was in a weird place in my walk with God and none of the messages really impacted me because I didn't know what my dream was or what God wanted me to do.
But this time around... I know. I know He wants me in Cosmetology and He is going to make it happen.
So last week was about "asking the right question." About how the question should not be "God, are you for my dream or against it?" but rather "God, what is YOUR dream? What is it that you want me to do? How can I bless YOUR picture?"
It was an amazing message and really stuck with me all week.
This week was about "Living in the Tension." It was all about the tension between what is and what should be. (Not COULD be... but SHOULD be)
Nate really focused in on hearing the cry and seeing the brokenness in your dream. And how when you are living out God's dreams with Him you see the world as He sees it.
He said that your deepest gladness should meet the world's brokenness. He also said that if your passions aren't answering a cry, then it is just a hobby.
This hit home SO hard for me. I really started thinking about cosmetology and how that is an answer to people's cries. God began showing me that it is so much more than a profession. It is the dream that He created for me so that I could share His life with these broken women. That as women are striving for a new hair cut or color that will fix their pain, I can give them words of life and words from God and show them how their true Father sees them. I can reveal to them the love that God has for every single person. I can help them discover their beauty.
As God was showing and telling me all of this the team of women from the Stirring that are going to Amsterdam for a mission trip came up and shared their vision of what they're going to do over there. Just talking about how women are treated over there and how women are objects and can't see themselves as God sees them and how they want to minister to those women. We then prayed for all of them and I started weeping.
God was finally giving me a heart for those broken women. This is not just going to be a hobby for me. This is my calling and this is what I am going to do. I want to see women come alive in their true identity within Christ.
I feel that God just added more wood to the fiery passion I already had for this. I now can NOT wait to start school and just start living this dream out.
Praise Jesus!