15 Bible Verses About Dreaming Big



  • In Joel 2:28, which Peter quotes at Pentecost in Acts 2:17, dreams are given by God’s Spirit alongside prophecy and visions.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was addressed to the exiles in Babylon before a seventy-year wait, and three verses earlier God warns them against the dreams of false prophets.
  • Proverbs 29:18 reads “Where there is no vision” in the King James Version; the NIV renders it “Where there is no revelation”.
  • Proverbs 16:9 and James 4:13-15 give people their plans and God the outcome, and James tells planners to say “If it is the Lord’s will”.
  • Joseph’s boyhood dreams came true when his brothers bowed to him in Egypt (Genesis 42:6-9), and he named God’s purpose in his story as “the saving of many lives” (Genesis 50:20).

The Bible does not use the phrase “dream big”. Many of its dreams are messages from God (Genesis 37:5-7, Joel 2:28), and its large hopes rest on what God can do: “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20). Alongside those, Proverbs 16:9 and James 4:13-15 set human plans under God’s will, and Numbers 14:24 and Hebrews 11 describe people who held to a promise before they saw it. Two verses often quoted on the subject read differently…

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