Whoever waits for a miracle as if it were magic from God will never see it. That’s because it doesn’t depend only on the Holy Spirit to happen—there must be partnership with the one who believes in Him and takes action.

Since God created human beings, He never performed any miracles without His creatures’ participation. He created the animals, but it was up to Adam to name them—this was a sign of His authority given to Adam over the earth.

From that moment on, all other miracles resulted from this partnership between the Creator and the creature. That’s why Paul affirms that we are God’s fellow workers (1 Corinthians 3.9).

See the partnership in dreams. If a desire is strictly according to the will of God, then it comes from God. And in the same way that He gives us a dream, He also gives us the ability to achieve it.

The realisation of our dreams starts within us, based on attitudes of faith. If I want to achieve a dream I need to take attitudes of faith towards it. I must put all my efforts on it and never lose focus.

In practice, it’s like getting married, for example. I have no one, no financial conditions, nothing… Just a great desire to get married.

Then I start buying my trousseau. First I buy the cheaper things. Every month, according to my financial conditions, I add something to my trousseau. This is pure practical faith!

In the partnership with God, each hero of faith did his part:

1. Noah built the ark according to God’s instructions. When he finished it, God sent the flood;

2. According to God’s instructions, Abraham left his country. As a result, God made him a great nation;

3. In obedience to God’s instructions, Moses lifted up his rod and touched the Red Sea. God sent a wind and parted the sea for His people to cross.

4. Inspired by God, Joshua prayed, and God made the solar system to stand still;

5. God guided Gideon to surround the enemies with only three hundred men. The enemies were the Midianites, the Amalekites and all the people of the East. They were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts (Judges 7.12).

Gideon’s physical vision was terrifying, but the spiritual one was glorious. God made terror take control of the enemies and they killed each other;

6. The Lord put a mud mixture on the eyes of a man who was born blind and told him to go wash in the Pool of Siloam; after he had done that, he immediately started seeing.

If God has worked both to will and to do, for His good pleasure (Philippians 2.13), what has you been doing to achieve your dreams in partnership with God?