God wants me to dream big
God wants me to dream big he wants me to use the imagination that he gave me
Because dreaming big honors God
It shows faith. It shows trust
Now you should base your dream. Not on what you think you could do, but you should base your dream on what you think
God could do
Let the size of my God determine the size of my goal
God's dream for my life is bigger than my dream. Listen if the dream doesn't scare you today
It's probably not from God, but if the dream does scare you it is from God. God's got a dream and it's so big
It's so awesome. We know it can't happen in our own strength in our own power in our own resource
We've got to depend on God and we got to get ready for what's about to happen. Albert Einstein said
Imagination is more important than knowledge
He said imagination rules the world
So I dare you to dream great dreams
We live in a world that has been shaped by the dreams of people
The Wright brothers dreamed of flight
And we have aviation today
Alexander Graham Bale dreamed of communication. We have the telephone now the Iphones the cell phones
There have been dreamers like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who dreamed and
Shaped and formed the world that we live in
Very much by the dream that they had deep in their heart. You know I really have decided I've read
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of biographies of great people
And I really just come to the conclusion there aren't any great people there are only great dreams
But when an ordinary person
Goes after a great dream
She or he becomes a great person
We're all born the same way knowing nothing. We all start at the same level
And I just have concluded that we're all just ordinary people
But some ordinary people attach themselves to an extraordinary dream
And in attaching yourself to an extraordinary dream. You become an extraordinary person
You have no idea what God could do in your life
Believe God for great things God will do great things in your life
You believe God for big dreams God will do big dreams in your life
If your dream doesn't scare you it's too small
And it doesn't require any faith
The bible says according to your faith it will be done unto you you get to decide
What God does in your life
A dream stretches my faith it forces me to trust God
It's not too late it's never too late to start dreaming never too late
A dream is a is a God-given projected destiny
It means you see it out there or something that God shows you that
He says this is this is who I I see in you
and
That's called a dream. It's a designated end. It's a vision of of where I shall be
When
God
Places his hand upon my life
And there's no question that God has a dream for every person
But with that dream always comes with God's dream there always comes hell's nightmare to try to steal that dream
And if you don't learn to endure the nightmare
You will never experience the dream
So many people give up and quit
Because they have a dream planted by God in their heart
but
Then comes the nightmare
The moment that most people give up is the moment of the greatest opportunity
Everything you want is on the other side of not giving up
The nightmare is the enemy trying to steal that dream and get you to give up
The question is can God trust you with trouble
Your trouble is your pathway to triumph
Your pain
Is your pathway
to a higher praise
Your mess is a pathway to the miraculous things of God in your life
The dream is your destiny. The dream tells you where you're going
Your adversity will advance you
The nightmare is the dream stealer
The nightmare says just give up
You know somebody said many years ago
Anything worth doing is worth doing well
But here's a new one for you anything worth doing is worth failing at
And that's why you have to endure the nightmare
Because if you want to give yourself to something give yourself to something that's worth failing over
You're not a failure because you fail
Your failure because you quit
And don't you let other people's opinion
Become your reality Saul had an opinion
He said David you can't defeat Goliath with that slingshot and that stone you need this armor
And you need to do this and you need to do that
But David said I'm not going to let your opinion Saul become my reality
I'm going to do what God has told me to do
So many times people give up and they quit right on the verge
I'm telling you today that it's time to pick up the drop dreams
God has an amazing dream or plan for your life
God speaks to us in many ways. Doesn't he. Sometimes we can have like a a vision in the day
Maybe as you're reading your bible or you're listening to a message or you're in worship
And God speaks to you and you know that God is calling you to something so it's not very rarely
I've never had an audible voice, but I very often know those promptings of the Spirit
Preparing me for what is to come and the key thing is that we learn to listen to God
Because there's something about receiving God's plan God's dream
That it causes our faith to come alive and it helps us keep going
when the times get tough
And sometimes God reminds us of dreams that he's given us in the past sometimes he enlarges and expands the vision that we have
It's one thing to dream the dream we need to dream the dream but how many know it's another whole deal to actually live the dream
The world isn't changed just through dreamers it's through people who press through
Stay the course
I don't know about you but when God speaks to me about the future, there's something in me that wants it to happen right now
But normally in the timing of God
There's a time lag between vision conception
And sometimes it can be days months even years before the vision is finally fulfilled
And then we need to ask that so why that why the delay
It's not that God is
Deliberately holding things back because he's mean no God's a good God. He's a loving father. He wants the best
But he often knows that we're not ready
To live the dream when he gives us the dream
Preparation is something that we should rejoice in
and embrace
But if you're in the preparation season, can I say in Jesus name. Don't quit
Don't take shortcuts. Don't compromise
Pass the test and then the glorious promise's in God's timing
Promotion will come
Make a decision. You're going to do the best for God right where you are now
And it may be a confined place
You may feel confined in a home setting you may feel confined in a in a job or career
You may feel confined in the church. And you say this is not the ultimate that God has for you
No, but if you're faithful and you're fruitful where you are right now God can and will give you more in Jesus name
And never despise the day the day of small things
because what you learn in the little
Is the same for believing for big. How many of you have a dream or a goal or something that you believe is God's will
for you
But nothing's happening
You know God is not gonna
Unleash you on the world
until you learn how to handle
The little bit be faithful in a little bit and then God will give you more
You see a dream when you get it will encourage you there's something about a dream that brings
Encouragement and joy to people's lives it gives you excitement
It encourages you the people who are depressed the people who are discouraged
Are the people who don't have a dream because when you have a dream it makes you get up in the morning
It makes you put your clothes on and go to work because you've got a dream and a dream has the power to encourage you
If you don't have a goal if you don't have something to stimulate your brain
If you don't have something that keeps you sharp and focused if you don't have challenges
You won't stay alive
You you you could drop into a pile of dust pretty quick if you don't have in I don't care
How old you are I don't care who you are. You need a dream
Dreams motivate us. They energize us they fire us up
God is a God who wants to give you a dream that drives you
Dream problems are the best problems. Listen in life you're gonna have problems
And if you don't do nothing, you're gonna have problems
But if you've got a dream you're gonna have problems I'd rather create my problems
And move toward my dream and have to deal with problems that are getting me to my dream then do nothing
So either way you're gonna have problems
Dream problems are the best problems
So get a dream
Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted
There's always a reason to quit
There's gonna be times when your circumstances are inconsistent with your dreams
And in those moments you have two choices number one you can reduce your life to your present circumstances
Give up on it, settle
Or you can believe through God your life will catch up with your dream if you won't quit and won't give up
Never allow circumstances
To change the dream God has put in your heart. Never never allow
circumstances to change the dream God has put in your heart
There are two reasons why dreams break down number one people quit believing in God number two people quit believing in themselves
Now I know people who believe in God but they don't believe in themselves
And I know people who believe in themselves, but they don't believe in God and it's got to come together
You've got to believe in God and you've got to believe in yourself if you're going to fulfill the dream
God has called you to do
Make your life count
Make it worth it do something with your life
That is significant
Never let an impossible situation intimidate you let it motivate you to pray more believe more trust more experience more learn more and grow more
Faith always works
In the realm of the impossible
Dream big let the size of your God determine the size of your goal
You haven't really believed God until you've attempted something that can't be done in the power of the flesh
God's dream for your life can only be accomplished as Ephesians 3:20 says by his mighty power work within you
If you can do it in your own strength, then it's not a God-sized dream
But the bible says First Thessalonians 5:24 the one who calls you is faithful and he will do it
Maybe you thought well, I could try again, but I'll fail again. I don't have what it takes
I'm not qualified to do this. That's why it is imperative that we diligently
Seek God because God does not always call the equipped hear me out
This is so important, but he always equips those that he calls
When we realize that we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength that is when our life begins to change
You know, there are a lot of dreams you could have big dreams and they wouldn't be significant
You could dream of being a millionaire by a certain age or dream of being a billionaire for what purpose
Do you think God put you on this planet to live for yourself? Of course not
You have no idea what God wants to do in your life
You are living such a small fraction of what you're capable of
You are doing with your life such a small portion of what God wants to do in your life God's dream for your life is
enormous
It's big
He says I can do more than you can imagine or guess a request in your wildest dream
The bible says he does it not by pushing us around but by working within us
Now doubt and fear neutralize what God wants to do in your life
You see it takes courage to imagine why you know, why most people don't imagine because they're afraid of failure
When you were a kid, you had a great imagination children have a massive amount of imagination
But the older you get the more your imagination grows rusty
And you stop imagining what things could be and you just start living the way they are
Doubt is the enemy of imagination
And that's why it takes courage. And by the way, what is courage courage is doing the thing you fear the most
If you're not afraid you don't need courage
You don't need courage courage only happens when you're scared to death
Courage is when you're scared to death but you say I'm going to do it anyway
You got to believe and you got to banish doubt. You know, what you need to do
You need to doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs
The problem we have today is we do the exact opposite. We believe our doubts
And we doubt our beliefs
No doubts are meant to be doubted beliefs are meant to be believed
So you believe your beliefs and you doubt your doubts. Your imagination in your life is either going to be governed by fear
Or it's going to be governed by faith and that's your choice
And instead if you say I'm not going to allow fear to dominate me i'm going to allow faith to dominate me
And I'm going to trust in God all things are possible with God then your imagination
Talks about what could happen
The good things that might happen
And your imagination moves you ahead
Now the most important thing to remember is this Jesus said with men this is impossible
But with God, all things are possible
But I want to tell you there is always a gap between when you see the dream
In your heart to when you see the dream in reality
In between you seeing the dream or the vision God loves to test us along the way to see if we can
Ultimately end up handling the weight and the magnitude and the influence the impact that his dream has
See a lot of us. We want to get a dream on Sunday
To have it come to pass on Monday
But God
He has this way of
Preparing us for the ultimate plan that he has for our life. Remember
You have to become
Who you're supposed to become so you can do what you're supposed to do
God says I have set before you an open door that no one can shut
When God gives you a dream then he circumstantially
provides the open doors
For you to make that dream come true
Now here's the hard part you have to have the courage to walk through that open door
That's where faith comes in
I've seen a lot of people understand God's dream for their life
And I've seen God open circumstances and open doors this wide, but they were scared to death to walk through the door
And if if you're faithful in what he gives you in small things he gives you more
And he expands your dream and it gets it bigger and he gets it better and he gets it wider and it has more impact
Because you were faithful in the other. Everybody's creative. Just look at the little kid
Every little kid is creative and by the time they get sixth grade we've educated them out of it
And now they're drawing in the lines
And now they've conformed to what we think they ought to be doing God gave you the capacity to dream
Guess what he expects you to use it
Now when God gives you a dream, it's not like the plan is all laid out and you can see it from beginning to end
Because if you could see the end of the dream of God God's dream for your life. It'd scare you to death
What it is, it's kind of like a scroll where you roll down a little bit
You read that part of the dream and you do that
Then you roll it down a little bit more and you do that
Then you roll it down a little bit more and you do that and eventually you get to the end
But he's not going to give you the whole picture. It'll scare you to death
But what I want you to do is just get a peek
a peek
Of what God wants to do in your life. It is in having a dream
You keep growing a dream forces you to develop skills that you don't have
I have had to be on a learning curve my entire life
You don't even know what you're good at until the dream pulls it out of you
And then you go. Oh, I didn't know I had that skill
I didn't know I had that spiritual gift. I didn't know I had that ability. I didn't know I was shaped for that
It is only in the dream that it pulls you out of yourself forces you to be bigger than yourself to grow beyond yourself
So you're not selfish anymore
Without a dream I'm dying
Without a dream I'm dying you're either dreaming or you're dying
Some of you started dying a long time ago
Because you stopped dreaming