Destiny Empowerment Tool – Living Above Fear to Pursue Your Dreams

“I’ve got to dream big, dream big cause when it happens it’s gone happen real quick” these are the lyrics to one of my favorite songs these days. The song is called Dream Big and I for one can say that I’ve always been a big dreamer. I’ve always had plans to be the biggest, the best, and the greatest at whatever it was that I set my mind and my hand to. And believe me, I was on the right track but somewhere along the way, I almost let fear creep in and rob me of those dreams . I began to look at everything that I thought was stacked against me and the difficulty of the task at hand and took my eyes off the place I desired to be. When I did this, I began to focus on the problems, pressures and the opinions of people that stood before me and found myself actually beginning to believe the lies, self sabotaging and disqualifying myself before I had given myself a chance to be what I dreamed that I could be. I had allowed my fears and the unanswered what if’s to almost destroy my life. The sad thing is I stayed in this place of immobilizing fear for several years. No matter how great of a pep talk I would give myself, I would always find myself stuck at the crossroads of wanting to live my dream but being too afraid to do so.

It wasn’t until one day I made up in my mind that if I was to truly experience a fulfilled life, one in which I was doing everything I had ever dreamed of, I was going to have to challenge myself to live above the fear. I would have to do something to rise above the fear that wanted to constantly linger in my path and keep me at a halted place of paralysis. So how do you do this? How can you move on and cease to become a prisoner of fear? Well I had to first change my way of thinking. I had to daily remind myself that I was more than able to achieve anything that I set my mind to. I had to remind myself that God is a just God and He wouldn’t allow me to have these dreams only to keep them suspended in a fantasy land, out of my reach. Not at all! He gave me the dreams but He also equipped me with ability and a free will. He’s just waiting for me to make a move and do something to cause my dreams to come to pass. Secondly, I had to put some action behind my dream. I couldn’t sit there and wait for it to fall in my lap, I had to be proactive and be diligently looking for ways to make my dreams come to pass.

Now please don’t get me wrong with each new step and each new level of my journey, fear will try to show it’s ugly face. It’s scary trying new things and making moves that you could have only pictured in your wildest dreams. I say I have faith but is it stronger than my fears? I say that I trust Him completely and that He’s got it all in control and He’ll bring everything to pass, and if that’s the case then why do I continue to waver when things don’t turn out the way I expected them to? But that’s where faith comes in. Either I’m going to trust Him or I might as well give up on my dreams and give in to fear. I know it sounds tough but the fact is that faith and fear will never co-exist. They can’t because if they do, they violate Gods principle – and that will never happen.

Finally I had to speak my dreams into existence. My words shape my world so I chose to only speak what God had to say to and about me. I could hear Him saying to me, “The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy but I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. I’ve come that you might have dreams, BIG dreams and desires and that you have the courage to live above any of your fears and have the faith to believe that if I promised it to you, then it will happen for you.” The more I believed in me and believed His word, the more I saw myself living out my dream. If I can see it then I can surely be it and I”ll most certainly achieve it – I’ve just got to rise above and live above the fear and my dreams will become my reality.

Jacqueline D. Carter
Life Empowerment Coach