Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for September 21, 2026

THINK BIG, THINK SUCCESS

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Genesis 37:9

Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”

Additional Verses

📖 Genesis 37:1-36; Joshua 1:1-9; Proverbs 25:2; Acts 9:1-22

It is during difficult times that God manifests His glory to His children. You can think of Elijah in 1 Kings Chapter 17 when he proclaimed draught in all Israel, while God provided for him through ravens first, and then the widow of Zarepath. He proclaimed the draught to the Israelites so that they could turn their hearts back to God. When Joseph received dreams from God, he was a very young boy aged only seventeen years. The young man feared the LORD so much and God thus revealed to him what he was going to do in the near future. This made him to think big and to think success even though he was still only seventeen years old. Great men and women in the Bible became great because when they received visions and dreams of their destiny from God, and they developed them by using their tongues. Thus, Joseph believed in God when God visited him in the dreams and spoke to his father and brothers about the dreams. But his brothers hated him more because of these dreams. Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat its fruit.” This is the reason Joseph shared both his dreams with his brothers. When he told his brothers his dreams, he was already establishing his position as a leading personality in the Bible world. He was already thinking big as well as thinking success. Even though his brothers hated him for sharing his dreams, Joseph never lost focus. When they threw him in the empty dry pit and said, ‘now we are going to see what is to become of his dreams,’ Joseph, in that pit never gave up, but he kept on thinking big. At the appointed time after he rose to fame through climbing mountains of slavery and imprisonment, his brothers saw what had become of his dreams when they came to Egypt in search of food provisions. They bowed before him just as he had narrated to them in his dreams when he was just a seventeen year old boy. David, in 1 Samuel 16:13, after he had received his anointing to become king over Israel in place of Saul, never looked down upon himself. He did not wait for kingship to be delivered to him, instead he immediately began to think big and to think success. Through faith, David went on to challenge Goliath whom he killed with a simple weapon of a sling and stone. He was conscious of the anointing of God inside him, that is why in all his battles against the Philistines, he always came victorious. Today I am encouraging you to follow the example of the great men and women of God in the Bible. The glory life which you so much desire will not be handed to you on a silver plate by anyone. It is only you, who can make things to happen by using your mouth. When God gives a vision, He imparts a clear, divine purpose or direction that brings inner peace, and He equips you with the necessary provisions and align with biblical teachings. He will equip you with the right doors, people or strength, step by step until the vision is accomplished. The time between receiving the vision and its fulfillment may be a time of growth and God uses this time to prepare your character. If Joseph knew how much he was to suffer before he got to the throne, maybe he would have given up on his dreams, but he remained focused on God in every situation he went through. When God gives you the vision or dream, just as he did to Joseph, Moses, David, Isaiah and many others in the Bible, He lives the responsibility to you to establish that vision. Take time to write the vision or experience and pray for wisdom and direction from God. The vision of Pastor Anselm which we are following in the Christian Healing Ministry today, of bringing lost souls from darkness into the light of God, is because he believed on the dream he received, wrote it down and acted on it at the appointed time. He never looked back but went through all tests, trials and tribulations until CHM was established. So as a child of God, believe what God says to you in that vision and act upon it. Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.” Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, I thank You for the wonderful Word that comes from You. I thank You for letting me know that You are the unlimited God and whatever I desire You grant it. In Jesus Chris’s name I pray, Amen.