Dare to Dream
March 7 & 8, 2020
Dreams Don’t Just Happen They Have Steps
Ephesians 3:14 When I think of the wisdom and scope of his plan, I fall down on my knees and pray to the Father 15 of all the great family of God—some of them already in heaven and some down here on earth— 16 that out of his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you the mighty inner strengthening of his Holy Spirit. Living Bible
Ephesians 3:17 And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; 18 and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; Living Bible
Ephesians 3:19 and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself. 20 Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. Living Bible
Imaginative Thinking
NASA Test
Study of 1600 children
Age: Imaginative:
4-5 years 98%
10 years 30%
15 years 12%
Adults (avg. 31) 2%
Acts 2:17 In the last days, God says, I will pour my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will speak what God has revealed. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. God’s Word Translation
1 Corinthians 2:16 The Scriptures ask, “Has anyone ever known the thoughts of the Lord or given him advice?” But we understand what Christ is thinking. Contemporary English Version
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” – Theodore Roosevelt
I’m Going To Be Brave With My Life
I Choose To Live In The Arena
Luke 18:15 One day some mothers brought their babies to him to touch and bless. But the disciples told them to go away. Living Bible
Luke 18:16 Then Jesus called the children over to him and said to the disciples, “Let the little children come to me! Never send them away! For the Kingdom of God belongs to men who have hearts as trusting as these little children’s. 17 And anyone who doesn’t have their kind of faith will never get within the Kingdom’s gates.” Living Bible
Dreams Don’t Happen By Trying But By Training