Sermon Tone Analysis

Good morning!!

Pumped to have the chance to share with you this morning.

For those of you who responded to Jesus for the first time last night I just want to say that you have made one of the most important decisions of your life.

I’m excited that you experienced Jesus in such a real way and that you want to enter into a relationship with him.

Last night you heard about the passion I have for Jesus and I hope that today that continues to bleed out.

I’m excited this morning because I get the opportunity to share my dream with you.

You know I have spent the last 13 years travelling and speaking to a lot of youth.

And over and over again I am proclaimed the message of God’s plan.

And I have watched God do some amazing things in the hearts and lives of people.

People who have said yes to Jesus and yes to God’s plan and I have sat back and watch God absolutely blow me away with what he has done in students lives.

It’s like my friends Andrew

Or my friend Brett.

Some of you may recognize him.

I first met brett when he was in like grade 8 or 9.

I actually met him at a youth rally here in this room where I first met Marty and Melissa.

Or, it’s like my friends Marty & Melissa.

Or my best friend Nathan

Or my friend Brett.

Some of you may recognize him.

I first met brett when he was in like grade 8 or 9.

I actually met him at a youth rally here in this room where I first met Marty and Melissa.

As soon as I met Brett I knew God has crazy things in store for him.

He began to develop a relationship with Jesus and say yes to Jesus to go on mission trips and yes to his call to full time ministry.

You know I could go on and on and on about some of the amazing things God has done in hearts and lives.

And God has just used me to put the challenge out there and call students to respond to Jesus.

And I have sat back and watch God blow me away with what he has done in hearts and lives of those who have said yes to Jesus.

So I know for certain one thing for those of us in this room...

God has some crazy things in store for us.

God has some crazy things in store for us.

The Bible says that

So my translation of that verse is this - The stuff God has in store for us you can’t even imagine and yet the next verse is crazy because it tells us that the Holy Spirit has revealed those things to us.

I’m excited this morning because I get the opportunity to share my dream with you.

The whole plan starts and ends with Jesus and is all about Jesus but God has a plan that involves us and Jesus.

That plan guys is CRAY - Like really CRAY, like CRAY, CRAY, CRAY.

Like Cray squared.

The plan God has for us is incredible.

I want us to believe God for the Cray!

The bible says that

There is something here in these verses that has the power to transform your life and set the direction of your life.

Jesus rose again from the dead and conquered sin and death.

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The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is at work in you

I guess that is why I am so optimistic at what God wants to do here in South Shore through you

God wants to start a movement where God calls out, sets apart, raises up and sends us out to help bring transformation to the South Shore and he wants to use you to do it.

I’m so optimistic because I have already seen people like Brett, Andrew, Melissa, Marty and so many others who have said yes to Jesus and I have watched as God has done the incredible in and through their lives.

And I know that they are no different than you.

You see the moment you accept Jesus into your life the same power that raised Jesus from the dead begins to work in your life.

So you have power at work in you that is the same power that brought someone back from the dead.

God wants his power to work in you so you can walk out the destiny God has for you and the destiny God has for us.

You see God has a plan for you singular and God has a plan for us Y’all!!

God’s plan for you personally ties in to God’s overall plan for all of us.

This morning I want to unpack what I believe is God’s plan for you and for Y’all.

But first I want to begin by saying that God is up to something really special here on the South Shore.

God has put huge dreams in our hearts and these are dreams that we are beginning to see unfold.

I am here to tell you this morning that God has a huge part for you to play in what he is doing in the South Shore.

Almost every major move of God that has happened over the last hundreds of years was started and led not by adults but by youth.

I am here to tell you this morning that I believe in you.

I believe in you because I believe in the God who lives in you.

I believe in the resurrection power that is at work in your life.

And I believe in my favourite verse in all of Scripture.

The Jason Parker translation is God is able to absolutely blow your mind with what he can do in and through your life because his power is at work in you.

If you are here this morning and you have Jesus living in you I want you to do something.

You know that I got the power song - I’ve got the power

Well, I was preaching on this passage one time and right in the front row is this ex-hells angels guy who they called the fridge doctor.

And I’m talking about how we got the power.

He plays in a rock band and he yells out in his deep, rasping voice

“I’ve got the power.”

So if you have Jesus living on the inside you’ve got the power.

Now let me hear you sing that out if you have the power of Jesus in you in your deepest biker voice.

“I’ve got the power.”

Fallen Condition Focus

One of the challenges we have with believing God can do crazy stuff in and through our lives is that our outlook of ourselves and of others hinders us from believing God for the Cray.

We also have the struggle of growing up in an area where people think that it can happen in other places but it can’t happen here.

I grew up in a town where we lost so much and so it is so hard for my people to believe something amazing or spectacular could happen.

So we have the struggle of both dealing with ourselves and then dealing with a mentality that says it can’t happen.

Like for instance, God has some cray, cray, cray dreams for all y’all and it is hard for us to believe those things because we are like there is no way I can do that.

When God begins to show us his plan we quickly see our own limitations, our weaknesses, our sin and everything about ourselves.

And Instead of having faith in the God who has placed his resurrection power we put faith in what we feel.

Instead of putting faith in the facts of what God has done we put faith in our feelings of insecurity, weakness and fear.

Listen, some of the stuff that God has put in my heart for the South Shore is way bigger than me.

Actually, by myself there is no way I can actually do it.

But God’s vision for the South Shore is way bigger than our vision for the South Shore and I want to believe God for things that only he can do.

Listen, the stuff God has for you is way bigger than you and he wants you to bring your fear, your weaknesses, your insecurity to him and bring you to the place where you like - “God, you have given me this dream but I can’t do it.”

It is kind of like the children of Israel who got trapped at the Red Sea with an army coming against them.

You come to the point where you are like “God if you don’t show up I am going to fail.”

God wants you to trust him in that crazy kind of way.

God wants to activate his dreams for your life.

And God’s dreams for your life likely tie into God’s overall dream for the South Shore.

I want you to do something with me this morning.

I want you to ask God to put the dreams he has for you in your heart.

Let’s all do that.

Everyone close your eyes and bows your head - I think God is going to do something really cool here.

God is going to put some crazy dreams and visions in your heart in these moments.

We are going to leave some space for God to speak.

Go ahead and say God would you put your dreams in my heart.

Now wait on him to speak to you.

If something comes to your head or your heart - stop and write it down.

Stop and put it in your phone without checking your social media accounts.

Let’s lock in with Jesus here.

You see, I don’t think we spend enough time dreaming with God.