Soar Like an Eagle, (but don't forget your family)

How are you guys doing?
I want to talk to those of you who, like me, have dreams of accomplishing long held goals and visions.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with being intense and single minded in your pursuit of great purposes. Really, this is where many people fall short of fulfilling their hopes and dreams. It is a definate key to answered prayer, to request things that are burning inside of your heart and not the stuff you would "kind of like to have." It is what sets your heart on fire that stirs heaven's blood when you pray. Also, getting that vision started requires an intensity that those you love and lead and provide for, are going to have to understand and be patient with the unusually intense person that you have become during this time of intensive prayer and work.
But, (and that is a big but) you must trust God enough to put your dream in His hands and while He is working in your behalf and usually in the unseen realm, you are taking care of the basic responsibilities of being a husband, a father, and a faithful leader in your CURRENT local church.
Keep a tight reign on the basics of fellowship, loving and leading your family, dating your wife and not leaving her with all the kid stuff and house stuff while you do the "important" stuff.
Do not become SO single minded that you get out of balance. What does it profit a man if he gains...?
Many people gain their dreams but they walk all over the people that they love. Their success is not God given, but self actuated and self maintained. They end up like the guy on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour who is spinning plates on a stick. He has to keep running back and forth and catching the ones that are about to fall.
We need God to breathe His Life into our dreams. What He starts, He maintains! It's still a lot of work, but when you do it in Him, you can sit down after six days of work and the world won't stop spinning and fall down around your feet. Remember Colossians 1: 17 NLT, "He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together." Or, in KJV... everything holds together in him. WOW!
Jesus is still saying... "If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted! When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father... When you obey my commandment, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father's commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow.
(Jn 15: 7, 8, 10, 11 NLT)
Until next time...