Created to Dream: The 6 Phases God Uses to Grow Your Faith

Written by Rick Warren

Narrated by Dr. Rick Warren

Read by the author.

Pastor Rick Warren will help you understand the process God uses to fulfill the dreams He gives you.

A great dream is a statement of faith. Whether you dream of creating something beautiful or accomplishing something incredible, your dream is the first step God uses to develop your spiritual maturity and change your life. The Bible is full of stories of people whose God-given dreams became reality—but to get there, they had to take a journey of faith.

In Created to Dream, beloved author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren reveals how God uses six phases to develop your spiritual maturity while fulfilling the dreams he gives you. Each phase is a test of your faith, bringing you closer to your goal:

• Phase 1: Dream—God puts an exciting dream in your heart.
• Phase 2: Decision—You make the decision to go after the dream.
• Phase 3: Delays—God allows delays to get you ready for the dream.
• Phase 4: Difficulties—You face problems that grow your character.
• Phase 5: Dead Ends—You hit an impasse that God uses to deepen your faith further.
• Phase 6: Deliverance—God fulfills the dream, sometimes in ways you hadn’t expected or imagined.

Knowing these six biblical phases of faith will allow you to stop wondering if you’ll succeed or what you're doing wrong and begin looking instead for God's way forward so that you can be prepared for all that God has dreamed for your future.

God's dream for your life awaits you!

Reflection questions and a scannable QR code to access extra resources are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: Apr 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9780310367864

Rick Warren

Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the world, with campuses in the US and around the globe. He is the author of The Purpose Driven Life, one of the bestselling nonfiction books in publishing history. It has been translated into 137 languages and sold more than 50 million copies in multiple formats.  

Reviews for Created to Dream

[Jacqueline Werner · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Rick Warren is always inspiring. This book helped me to understand how to keep faith when all seems hopeless.

[PD · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Superb!
Very biblical!
Very provoking and inspiring to deal with frustration inside

[bmskys · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

So far so good, I’m listening while driving. Love it

[Bianca Bonassi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What a book! It's great to see that in a short book the author gives a biblical point of view about our dreams and God's dreams. For sure I'll listen again. Extra point to the author that is also the narrator, we can feel the emotion in his voice.

[Mariela Trujllo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing! I will reccomend this book to everyone I know!

[joanne m · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book reminded me that God is great and He is Faithful. God will do what He says He will do. Just trust Him and His timing. God knows best.

[Gus Torres · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Short but powerful. As Christians, we tend to forget that God sometimes speak to us in our dreams and He knows out dreams better than us and what's best for us.

[Boris Tabachnik · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

God bless you Pastor Rick! Thank you so much! Wonderful