The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
What This Could Look Like
You wake before the alarm, the house still quiet, the weight of your calling already on your mind. You’ve been faithful with what God has put in front of you — the training, the teams, the patients, the clients, the family, the responsibilities that come with the life He’s entrusted to you. From the outside, it’s clear He’s used you in meaningful ways.
Somewhere in that quiet, though, there is also a God‑given dream that hasn’t gone away. Maybe it’s a new kind of work, a way of serving, a different pace, a creative project, a shift in how you invest in the next generation, or a way of bringing your gifts into a space that has been on your heart for years. You haven’t abandoned it; you’ve simply placed it on a shelf in order to be faithful with what’s already here. And yet, as you grow, you sense God’s love nudging you not just to “move on,” but to bring that dream back into conversation with Him.
What if early‑morning moments like this became the place where God gently restores your courage to dream with Him again — not as a way of escaping your current season, but as a way of deepening your trust? This blog is about learning to stand in that tension with open hands: to receive the dream as a gift, to dream boldly again in light of who God is, and to entrust the outcomes to Him with one small, concrete step of renewed stewardship.
How God’s Love Meets You Here
A quiet belief can form over time, especially for seasoned leaders: “If I dream too boldly, I might disrupt the good things God has already given, and if it doesn’t work, I’ll have mis-stewarded what’s in front of me.” It sounds humble, but it can slowly shrink the space where you bring your desires, ideas, and longings into honest prayer with God.
Scripture gives a deeper foundation: “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4) This is not a blank check for whatever we want; it is a picture of God reshaping our hearts as we delight in Him so that what we long for increasingly reflects His heart. As we rest in His character and promises, He does something profound: He aligns our desires with His purposes, and then He takes real joy in fulfilling what He has planted.
Here’s the surprising way God’s love restores this story and deepens it: when God’s love moves from head to heart, dreaming with Him stops feeling like a risky distraction and becomes an act of worship and trust. You begin to see that the dream you’ve shelved may actually be one of the ways His love is growing you — not because you can control outcomes, but because you are learning to bring your whole self, including your hopes, under His wisdom. Over time, His love frees you to hold both current responsibilities and future possibilities with open hands: to keep showing up fully where you are, while also taking one small, concrete step that says, “Lord, if this dream is from You, I want to steward it, and I trust You with the timing and results.”
(First‑time reader? Learn more about the CHEW framework.)
CHEW On This™: Practice Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart
Pause at each CHEW step below. Reflect, and answer in your own words — you’ll see a sample below each question. This is where the Gospel gets personal. If time is tight, linger with just one step — especially the Walk step at the end. This is a practice, not a performance review; even a small, honest answer counts.
C — Confess
Where has God’s love been grounding your leadership and relationships lately, and where do you notice a God‑given dream that you’ve quietly placed on the shelf, even though it still stirs when you think about it with Him?
Sample:
I can see how You’ve been deepening my steadiness at work and at home, and I’m grateful for the ways You’ve grown my character in this season. At the same time, there’s a dream around how I might serve and build in the next chapter that I’ve quietly set aside, even though it still stirs when I bring it before You.
H — Hear
What does God say about the relationship between delighting in Him and the desires of your heart? Sit with Psalm 37:4: “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Sample:
Your Word says that as I delight myself in You, You give me the desires of my heart, which means You are not indifferent to my God‑given dreams. Scripture reveals that You shape my desires as I enjoy You, and then You take joy in fulfilling what You have planted in me in Your time and Your way.
E — Exchange
If you really believed God’s love delights to shape and fulfill God‑given desires as you delight in Him, how would that restore and deepen how you hold this dream — both in prayer and in the way you quietly plan or prepare for the future?
Sample:
If I truly believed this, I’d stop treating the dream as something I have to either chase alone or ignore entirely, and I’d start bringing it into regular conversation with You. I might share it with a trusted person, take one small step of research or planning, and hold the outcomes with open hands, trusting that if this dream is from You, You know exactly how and when to move.
W — Walk
What is one small, specific step you will take today to live from this facet of God’s love — delighting in Him and entrusting the dream’s outcome to Him — instead of quietly leaving the dream on the shelf?
Sample:
In my next quiet moment today, I’ll write down this dream in one or two clear sentences and then pray, “Lord, if this desire is from You, I delight in You first and trust You with the outcomes. Show me one small step of faithful stewardship.” I’ll jot down any simple next step that comes to mind — a conversation, a question, a piece of research — and treat taking that step, whenever it happens, as enough for today. If that’s the only thing I do from this blog, it is enough.
Worship Response: Turn Gratitude into Worship
Take 30 seconds — thank God for what His love has done in Christ and is doing in you. Worship is responding to His finished work, even when your feelings lag behind.
Lord, thank You that You are not threatened by our dreams and that You care about the desires You plant in our hearts. Thank You that as we delight in You, You reshape what we long for and joyfully fulfill what serves Your purposes and our true good. As I hold both my current responsibilities and the dream on my heart, restore my courage to dream with You again and deepen my trust that the outcomes belong to You.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
If you had to put this into one sentence for today, what would you say God is inviting you to return to or build on as you dream boldly again and trust Him with the outcome?
Was this helpful?
