Dead Dreams

One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite." So he called her, and she stood before him. Elisha said to him, "Tell her, `You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?' " She replied, "I have a home among my own people." "What can be done for her?" Elisha asked. Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son and her husband is old." Then Elisha said, "Call her." So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. "About this time next year," Elisha said, "you will hold a son in your arms." "No, my lord," she objected. "Don't mislead your servant, O man of God!" But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her. (2 Kings 4:11–17)

I am sure there was a time when the Shunammite dreamed of having a son. Year after year she probably hoped and prayed for one. Year after year there was no son. Finally a time came when the season had passed them by, her husband being old and decrepit. The dream died, it was no longer even something to be hoped for. When the man of God asked her what she wanted, she did not even mention a son. It was now impossible, she had given up hope, and her dream was dead.

As I read the scriptures above I asked God what He was saying to me. He said “I AM the God of dead dreams.” God resurrects dead dreams, He fulfills lost hope, He breaths life into what is old and decrepit, He makes the impossible to happen.

"About this time next year," Elisha said, "you will hold a son in your arms." What an unexpected promise! Her response was "Don't mislead your servant, O man of God!" She thought he was teasing with her but the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

Talk about new life for an old dream! Now, if you have read the whole chapter, you know that after the child has grown he dies.

But this time it is different! This time her dream didn’t die, her hope did not diminish, her faith stayed strong. She went and got Elisha, he came back with her and raised her son from the dead.

Maybe you used to have a dream in your heart, but now it is dead, the season has passed, your hope is gone, and it seems so impossible you don’t even mention it any more. This God we are talking about, who did all this for the Shunammite, is our God also. Let God breath new life into your dream, fresh vision into your heart, listen as He says “ I AM the God of dead dreams.”

So what is God saying to you with these scriptures?