If some of your experiences in life are like mine there have been times when I have felt like the old truck pictured here. I am sixty years old and there are times I feel the world sees me as too old to continue to contribute to society. I feel as though people have forgotten the gifts and skills I have. As I do my dreams begin to rust.
Do you feel like your dreams have been delayed?
Try dusting off your dream and doing some work to make it come true.
Are you frustrated as you watch others seem to be blessed by God?
Try asking God to bless them even more.
Are you impatient with God's timetable?
Try laying your impatience before God and ask Him to give you more patience.
Are you dissatisfied with your circumstances?
Try not blaming others for where you are today and get busy changing your circumstances.
Do you want to break out of the prison that keeps you feeling abandoned, like you have been forgotten as your dreams rust?
Before I share with you some ideas on how to break free I want to share some thing very important for you to remember. Look at Romans 8: 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Anyone who wants to serve God cannot be held back from the mission He has for them! 
You may be feeling abandoned, forgotten and rusting but if you will begin with remembering Romans 8: 31 God will restore you.
Here are my ideas on how to put this into practice.
1. Ask God to restore your dreams.
2. Once He has revealed your restored dreams be sure and dedicate them to Him and His control.
3. Do not delay taking action to move towards accomplishing your dreams.
4. Be willing to take detours as God guides you toward fulfilment of your dreams.
5. Educate yourself and get the training necessary to achieve your dreams.
6. Get around people who will encourage you.
7. Keep moving forward and do not allow negative people to pull you back into the junkyard with them.
You do not have to continue to feel abandoned and forgotten with your dreams rusting. God wants to delight in your accomplishments especially when they glorify Him. Always remember if your dream is from God, "Who can keep you from achieving it?"
This is another post resulting from the sermon "Life Interrupted" by Mark Warner, Lead Pastor of Vineyard Church in Overland Park, KS.
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Kenneth wrote:
"1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4a time to weep, and a time to laugh;a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6a time to seek, and a time to lose;a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7a time to tear, and a time to sew;a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8a time to love, and a time to hate;a time for war, and a time for peace."
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