How God Taught Me To Dream Big

Ever felt like dreaming big would only lead to disappointment? I get it. In 2023, God gave me the word “pie” (yes, pie!) and taught me that dreaming isn’t something I’m meant to do alone. In this episode, I share how God reshaped my limiting beliefs, led me to write down 200 dreams, and made impossible things happen like playing The Ryman and writing a musical.

Your dreams are meant to be shared with God. He’s waiting to partner with you in your dreaming and living. Let this episode be your nudge to dream bigger and invite Him in.

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here I am, a music recording artist living in Nashville, doing music professionally for years at this point. And I don't know how to dream. And I was like, wow, Lord, you never meant or wanted me to dream alone. Hello everybody. My name is Kayley Bishop. I'm your Bible Bish podcast host and I'm so glad that you're tuning in today. It's just me for a few minutes. I just wanted to give you some encouragement and I wanted to talk about dreaming. in 2023. My word for the year was pie, and I know that sounds kind of strange. I don't know if you've ever asked the Lord for a word for the year, but it would. It's been something that I've done. On the first of the year for the last handful of years, in this specific year, 2023, God gave me the word pie and it confused the heck outta me. I was like, what do you mean, lord? Like most times you'll give a word like strong, courageous influence or whatever it is, but no, mine was pie, literally like the food you eat. And I remember, um, I was, I was in Texas when I got this word, and so when I got home I looked it up in the prophetic and it said to dream big, and I was like, oh my goodness, the Lord is about to give me all my dreams. This is gonna be such a good year. Well, six months go by and I realized that I'm not getting any of my dreams at all. In fact, further I realized that I completely misunderstand, stood the word pie and the call to dream big. It wasn't that I was gonna get my dreams, it was actually an action. It was a call to actually dream. And it was about July of 2023. And I realized in that moment I did not know how to dream. I mean, here I am, um, a music recording artist living in Nashville, doing music professionally for years at this point. And I don't know how to dream. It was just kind of like a shock to my system. And, and in that I realized I had a ton of limiting beliefs, like, because if I dreamed really big. Then I probably wasn't gonna get it right. I mean, my experience up until that point in 2023 had had showed me that if I asked for something, I wasn't gonna get it. I mean, it goes back to when I was five years old wanting a Barbie car. Like the big ones that you drive around and I come down the stairs Christmas morning and I did get a Barbie car, but it wasn't the kind you, you sit in as a 5-year-old and drive around the yard. It was a baby one. It was a tiny, like just a standard Barbie car. And in that moment I knew that I couldn't dream big because if I dreamed big, I was just gonna be disappointed. And I think. That moment, that memory right there instilled a limiting belief that I've carried my whole life up until 2023. So as I'm going through this, this call to action to dream big, I'm preparing for, um, a conference. I'm, I'm going to this speaker conference where I'm gonna learn how to public speak, get some tools, right? Because I knew that God was putting this on my plate and going to be commissioning me to doing that kind of operating in that kind of field. And so as I'm at this conference, this woman comes up to me and she's one of the leaders, and she says, Kayley, I don't know why, but the Lord is telling me to tell you to dream big. I'm like, wow, you just cannot make this up. I was like, you don't even know my life. And wow, holy Spirit is speaking right through you right now. This is so good. And she says to me, you know, the women that I, I coach, I oftentimes will give them a, a commission to write down a hundred dreams. And I said. That is a lot. And she goes, but here's the thing. I'm heal hearing the God, I'm hearing the Lord say to me, to you that you need to double it. And I was like. Okay, let's go. And, I mean, we're deep into 2023. This is September at this point, and I'm getting the commission to write down 200 dreams. I remember going home and I didn't wanna do it. I did not wanna do any part of it. When I finally sat down, I think I etched out like 30. And I mean, we ran the gamut. I, I was like, oh, I wanna win a Grammy. I wanna be this and this and this. Like any superficial fleshly like. I don't know. Standard dream, like when you're a musician, what you dream for. You dream for a Grammy, right? I'm writing down all these things. I wanna play the Ryman and I wanna do this. I wanna go here, DA. And, and at 30 I kind of ran outta steam. I was like, I have no more ideas. And then I remember God was just like, why don't you ask me what your dreams are? And in that moment he invited me in to actually dreaming with him. And he showed me that me dreaming was never supposed to be a solitary exercise. It was always something that I was supposed to do with him in stride. And he, and he took me to Genesis where Abraham is standing and he's looking out before all of Canaan and God is right there with him. And God says, look, from the east to the west, you are gonna be the father of many nations. And I was like, wow, Lord, you never meant or wanted me to dream alone. You always wanted to help supply the dream. And so when I had that revelation, I said, okay, well we're just gonna pray into this now. Like, I'm not gonna think about grasping at earthly dreams that I might have had once upon a time like, Lord, I'm gonna invite you in. And so he starts giving me these downloads and, and I see God speaks to me through peace, through visions, through all sorts of stuff. And he's giving me all of these downloads about all of these visions, and, and I'm going and I'm looking'em up and I'm getting all the symbology, all the def definitions of all of them. And I'm just like, my mind is blown. He has given me the most beautiful visions. And they are becoming themes for my dreams. And I'm overwhelmed at his goodness that he would supply them in this way. And, and what ended up happening was after a while, spending time in this, not in one fell swoop.'cause Lord knows I had too many limiting beliefs to be able to carry this out. In one sitting, it was, it was like pulling teeth. And even still, I'm not gonna lie, it's 2025. I still didn't get to 200. Y'all. I think I'm probably at 190 now. I wrote a few more down, literally like two days ago. And so, um, but what happened was as he's really working on me, giving me the dreams, we actually get to this place where I call it the secret petitions of my heart, things that. I did not even know that I wanted, I got to the nucleus of, and if you're like me and you're a perfectionist, or maybe you carry the limiting beliefs of like, God forbid I asked for this and I don't get it, I'm just gonna be left disappointed. Lemme tell you like. God's storehouse is so replete with anything you could ever want. His will for you is to to bring you into a huge destiny. A big destiny. He wants your life to be ginormous and um, and I know that he's one of that for me, but it's, it's, we have to partner with him in that this is not an isolated walk, this thing that we call life. This is something we're. Supposed to do in relationship with him, and where we are just natural people. He is supernatural. And so if you ever get tired of your humanity like I do every day, you can just wake up and get with God and immediately start to immerse yourself in the supernatural and just watch what comes together, what can unfold. Because he is always working all things together for the good of those who love him, and I love him. I have. Tested his character. I have learned who he is. I have entrusted this little thing and this little thing to see like, okay, God, you wanna show up for me? Well, I'm gonna ask you to do this. And then he did it. And so little by little relationally, I'm building trust with him and where he has been so trustworthy, I just can't help but love him and in loving him. Man, my life has just become so abundant and so fulfilled. And so going back to 2023 with the dream big, um, the, one of the coolest things that has happened since I wrote down all of these dreams back in 23, around like the fall. About nine months later, a really big one came true. And I had written down that I wanted to write a musical. I have a musical theater background. I went to Boston Conservatory for musical theater, and for some reason I had this itch. I'm like, oh, what if I just wrote a musical? What if I just randomly started? Writing a musical, and about nine months after I wrote this down in my dream journal, a gentleman reached out to me, and this is somebody that I met through Recovery Church in Nashville, which is where I recorded my music video for. Hold on honey. If you wanna go watch it. Go check it out. It's on YouTube. It's so fun. It's my song. Hold on. Honey is all about triumph. It's all about getting through a hard thing and persevering to the breakthrough. And who better to understand that concept than someone walking through sobriety. And so I partnered with Recovery Church because you're not allowed to talk about Jesus in aa. I don't know if any of y'all know that, but they encourage you to believe in a higher power, but they that they don't specify that it's Jesus. But here at Recovery Church, which is a nationwide organization, you can attend if you're walking through sobriety and don't feel comfortable walking into church with all your baggage. I get it. I've been there too. Um, I've never been addicted to anything, but Lord knows I've had a lot of issues in my life. You can listen to episode one if you wanna find those out. Um, but anyway, I walked into Recovery Church and I met this man named Mark who was leading worship there and. Lo and behold, he's the one that reaches out to me to write this musical. And little did I know, mark has a musical theater background. In fact, he wrote a, the Broadway music, or he wrote music for a Broadway show back in 2018. And so not only is God saying, hey, guess what? Like this dream that you had that you just haphazardly wrote down, I you had this itch or this nudge. Well, guess what? Like I'm bringing it to your doorstep nine months later. And if you don't know how long nine months is, that's. The amount of gestation that's a pregnancy. And so God is really peculiar and amazing and and mysterious in how he operates. So, um, actually side note, if you're having dreams about being pregnant, it's not necessarily 'cause you're pregnant, it's 'cause you're pregnant with an idea. And I've had pregnanc or dreams in the past and it's just so funny how God operates. He's like, you're about to birth something. You're about to birth something new. And. I just did not, it's just beautiful how he works. And all of this started from this word pie and, um, other things that happened in 2023, I ended up recording this record. I called it my Dream Big campaign. I. And I was like, okay, Lord, you know, I don't have the money to make this record. I'm gonna have to finance it like we need. I need money to come in to do this. And in my smallness I was like, okay, well if I ask for $20,000, that'll be okay. Right? Knowing full well that I was gonna need a lot more, and if you're listening in $20,000 I know is like a huge sum of money. Let that just be a testimony to how expensive is. How expensive it is to be in the music industry. It's so expensive to do this, to record good high quality music, to work with, really good pro, um, producers that understand you sonically and care about your music and your songs. And I knew it was, it was not enough. And when I finally relented and said, Lord, how much should I ask for? He goes, pie. And of course I'm sitting here thinking. Duh. 3.1 4 1 5 9 2 Infinity. Yes, you're right. I need to be asking for 31,000, et cetera. And so I did. And the crazy thing is that I'm, I ended up, I ended up campaigning and getting 35. I just like, he blows my mind. And so then I had a listening party for all the people that contributed to the campaign. And I, I made pie like sweet pie, savory pie. The chicken pot pie at Costco, by the way, is really good. If he didn't know that really, really good, and it was just beautiful how this word became the cornerstone for the entire year, and it launched me into a phase of my destiny that I would not have entered into had I not taken care of these limiting beliefs and asked the Lord to heal me from the memories that wounded me and caused me to dream smaller, to think smaller, to live small. And so. I just, I wanna, I wanna share all of this with y'all to encourage you guys, and, and you know, since writing down my dreams, not only has the musical become a thing, and at this point in the stage, like we're, we're, we're outlining the show. We've discovered what our idea is. We're really excited about the idea, and we've already started writing some of the music for it. And it's just beautiful. I can't. Believe what God is doing in my life. It is crazy, and it's all because I just got out of my way and I abided with him and I decided to listen to what he was saying. And let me tell you, like this adventure that I'm going on is available to you. It is available to you if you're living a monotonous life that feels one dimensional and stagnant, that is not God's will for you. It's just not all you have to do is step in to abiding with him, and he is going to reveal things to you that you didn't even know you wanted. He's going to lead you into those secret petitions of your heart that you didn't have access to because you were too busy or you were too limited in your thinking. And so I hope that this encourages you. And I guess to cap it off, there were a few other dreams that he brought. True that he, that came true. As a result of this exercise, one of the things, things I wrote down was I wanted to go to Iceland and lo and behold, I was actually invited to Norway to do a, a tour over there. And as I was looking for flights, I discovered Iceland Air, which if you live in Nashville, Tennessee, they are now operating out of BNA. Go get on the flight, honey. Anytime any place you go to with Iceland Air, they always do Reykjavik as their stopover, which is the capital of Iceland. And I was like, oh my goodness, I can do, I can take Iceland air to Norway and I can stop in Reykjavik. And before I knew it, I was going to Iceland. I had this amazing trip. I'm actually going back to Iceland next week, which is crazy 'cause again, I'm going to Norway to do another tour and stopping in Iceland on the way. And it's just so much fun. Um, and the other thing that came true was I did get to play The Ryman auditorium. I got to play it and I got to sing and bellow out my song, rewrite your story, and let me tell you how thematic that really was, because. God totally has rewritten my story. I could never have foreseen what God was gonna be doing in my life. And so all that to say, I just want you to be encouraged to go and dream and further go ask God what your word of the year is. I don't care what month it is. It doesn't have to be January 1st, y'all. It is currently April. Something that I'm filming this podcast, and it is never too late. Go get your word for the year. Go abide, go get quiet and let him, let him sew into your life. He's got an adventure waiting for you and he wants to disclose it to you. And so with that being said. Don't forget to subscribe to this channel. Go on biblebish.com, send me your testimony. Send me whatever words hit you, struck you, hit you in the heart. Let me know what's been encouraging to you.'cause I wanna celebrate that. I wanna talk about it on air so we can share these testimonies because this is fuel to my fire and it's fuel to other people's breakthrough. So we need to be sharing our good things. We need to be sharing our breakthrough moments. And so. Y'all. Thank you. I'm doing this podcast again in the name of love, because I love you and I care too much about your future. To not hand you the keys, to not hand you the keys to freedom and success and breakthrough. So love y'all. Sayanora. I'm signing off on this Bible Bish podcast.