A vision to change the world (Dreams and Visions)
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That sounds like a small version of that. Yeah, brilliant. Thanks Judy. And then we'll get into this. Father, thank you. Thank you. But Lord, you created this world in which we live in. although we sometimes forget how are amazing God you are And so far, do we open our eyes to your creative power? We open our hearts to your creative love and we saw you this morning. Lord show us more of yourself. Father, help us. The dream, help us to have a vision help us to go somewhere and do something that would enlarge your kingdom. Reach the Loft, heal the sick, raise the time, bless others. Your kingdom will be in Lost in his tablet, sweep, right? In your mighty name.
What stops in the book of Acts? Sawyer. Let me just write you a bit of a story from Acts chapter 10. There was a certain man in caesarea, cool, Cornelius ice in Syrian, it was colder, the Italian regiment a devout man. I'm one who fears god with his household and who gave Olmsted receives the people. I'm pray to God, always
About the Knights of the day. He's so clearly in the vision, an angel of God coming in and saying to him Cornelius and when he observed him he was afraid and said, what is it? Lord. So you said to him your prayers and your arms are come up for the memorial before. God now send men to Joppa and send for Simon, whose surname is pizza.
He's looking with Simon at Anna, whose house is by the Sea. You will tell you what you must do. And when the Angels spoke to him, he needed to reach household servants on The Devout soldier from amongst those who waited on him, continually, I'm a read on. So when he had explained all these things to them, he sent them to Jaffa. The next day.
I saw you were on the journey and Drew nearest Cici Pizza, went out to the house. So to pry about the $6, then he became very hungry and wanted to eat but they were made ready. I need fell into a trance.
And he saw heaven open an object, like a great sheet found on four corners, descending to him, and let down to the Earth in it ever kinds of four-footed animals in the puppies creeping, things on the birds of the air. I'm not going to read all names of that, that Vision, but that was a faithful man of God. Who had an angel, calling by night. Now, I don't know whether you ever had that happen. Have you ever had an angel coming to your room inside? Dave, Peter Simon Maria. Have you ever had to happen when God calls on you? You sit upon you type notice. The reason people call you by 9 then I go or you come here. It's a Cornelius. Wake up. An ASCII coding. He had to toss for him to do, and I'm not going to go to his people in dreams and Visions. There are lots of dreams and Visions throughout the Bible, one of my favorite Bibles that did Terry introduce me to these plates play, every book in the Bible and came up with every Professor Edwards, County that we provided word in the Bible and then Max it to every prophetic, but being fulfilled. So you come to each book, says there are 37 prophetic words in this book and 22 of them are being fulfilled. Already, you imagine doing that manually? Imagine just great to be reading the Bible but about diligence as I was looking through my dates, while I realize that dreams and Visions come out many, many, many, many, many times in the Old Testament and the new
And whether it's conscious as much butter is what is with your eyes closed? Or whether it's with your eyes open, is matricide. God, speaks to us in pictures but shows his pictures. I'm sorry. I want to encourage you. If you have a dream, if you have a vision, write it down, I don't know what your memories like, mine, might mine. The other type I walked since I walked into my study. Where I work. and then I walked back into the kitchen, And I walked into the kitchen. So why did I walk into the kitchen? So I won't be again.
So God speaks in dreams and visions. Now, let's look at it. Features Chapter 3 of think it is Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 to 21. Because God does speak to us for this reason. I bow my knees to the father of our Lord, Jesus Christ from what the whole family in Heaven and Earth his name. But he should Grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with mites through his spirit in the Inner Man.
That Christ May dwell in your hearts, through faith that you are being rooted and grounded in love, as she may be able to comprehend with the Saints. What is the width length that and height? To know the love of Christ, which policies knowledge that you may be filled with the fullness of God.
Now, to him, who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us to him, be glory in the church by Christ. Jesus, to all generations, forever and ever.
Christ is coldest. Christ has a recording for us and God speaks about an even here as we reading Ephesians pool talks about exceedingly abundantly more.
You think of the Widow who had nothing? Amazing. Couch together, bowls and parts and jobs, and she got that all that she had and she filled them from The Jug and you kept on feeling them, kept on, putting them on when everyone was full. The oil stopped coming. Does exceedingly abundantly more than we ask or imagine he goes before you he goes ahead of you. He opens doors and you didn't even realize that was at all. I'll be your very, very, very simple. You probably stood and held the door open for somebody cuz I've done this. And I'm sure you have your stand and hold the door open for somebody. And somebody woke through doesn't even acknowledge. You probably didn't even recognize they were walking through the door and I think it's the same week and we walk through realize that there was a door, not close to being shot. And so God goes before us, and go does before you and you guys before me and is he goes before us, he provides, and in providing he fulfills his visions and his dreams that he's giving us.
And you might say, Okay, dream to change the world, that's too big for me.
It's a story that I told.
I've been told Mother Teresa was asked she. She said she was serving the the Lost in the broken, in the streets of Calcutta, how can you serve in this ocean of meat? Most particular what weather is so much need and you're doing. What you can? How, how, how are you making a difference?
When she turned to the gentleman, she said such a notion is made up of many drops and I'll start with one drop at a time. On a similar story. I've seen something similar to this. When I was in popular, you going to use see these Seasons when suddenly there was an overflow. I remember looking out from my house at the top of the hill down into the sea. Along the edge of the ocean is east. Black vans is Black Panther right along the coast and all the local people in the water with baskets and everything and everybody was in the water. And so I went down to find out what was going on and he was a season when the fish came in and they literally just went and stood in the washer and put lots and lots and lots, and lots and lots of little fish. Lots and lots, and lots of I just kept on coming in and they're almost Seasons. When we have this kind of flow, which is just God's creation,
Understory relates to those kind of Seasons release starfish starfish. As he walked down the beach, you look see starfish in the satellites guy. Now, you think 50 starfish, don't get something doesn't happen, then the sun will burn on them and they'll dry off and they'll die. He wants a bit further down the fish thinking what can I do for the down the beach and thinks enough. Can I do He comes across a man is a man, bending down, and picking up and Bun starfish, and throwing it into the water and then bending down and picking up another starfish and growing into the water. So the one to Mother Teresa How can you make a difference with Sasha Lodge named?
It's pointless what you'll do. Undermines turns and looks at him and then bends down to pick something up with another star, fishes as and I'm making a difference to this one and I'm making a difference to this one and I'm making a difference to this one with you. However, because you'll be, she needs. It starts with the first step, I believe it might be a Chinese proverb.
I think if you read one of my favorite quotes, you'll find it stimulating echoed in the book called The Hobbit by j.r.r. Tolkien, and the first steps. And it's so easy to do nothing cuz we sits at home and we don't know how to stop. When we look at what we got to do, everything when can I stop? And we need something with Mother Teresa Spirit. We need something of the man on the beach respect while I'm going to start with this one or this one. I don't want to start with some simple questions which is okay, if we go to enlarge the kingdom, if we got to reach the Lost, let's start with one at a time. Let's not worry about 10 or 20 or 50. Let's start with one. If everyone of you in this room for some of this, we can go down to that prayer. I'm not Pleasanton to Christ that are. We reading scripture so many times about how you and your household will be saved. So one gets lighter than the household, get site, as the household gets changed,
and I think people are looking for life are looking for, hope they're looking for life in all its fullness. In the in the Book of Psalms baby brightness. Play play became incidental stration. Hear about what it was like. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. That brings forth fruit in its season. Who's Leaf shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper. His life that speaks of life, people on people are drawn to life. Some of you heard us talk about it by Kool, Keith Hazel, who was the founder of a lovely guy from Canada. And I remember being a conference once and it was conference with villages. I'm at this conference at the end of the of the worship that was a time of ministry and then the kind of service broke and there was a big crowd on the front. 2013, young people who gather around somebody something was going on with moving.
And I went down the front to join in then realized amongst the least 20-somethings and teenagers right in the middle of his case. Your people got the round life. When we show life, people come to us. Why you so happy today? What makes you smile. Why aren't you miserable? The government's that the prime minister is changing, okay, but God, still in control.
It's very, very easy to have the boats of Our Lives. Kicked off course, blown off course, by the winds and news. Do you know what, if we allow the headlines to decide how we feel today, we've missed something somewhere. If we allow the headlines of news to decide, whether down here, actually, we need to be on a thermometer. We need to be setting the temperature not following what's going on. And then let me read on him to Ephesians now. Is he says this in the phaeacians 2:19 and 20 and this is a great, a great scripture. And I remember we had a young man that was a mature student from Ghana. And they spent a year with us, as he studied, actually at Bruno University when Bruno and go feel great. And I remember having a barbecue and he said, you welcome to me as a stranger. You made me feel at home and I felt part of the family, very, very quickly. And that will be weary from your patients to buy. She's nineteen and twenty. Now that for you are no longer strangers and foreigners. Members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself. The Cornerstone So, let me start to realize when we start to recognize that the foundation, so, whatever dreams and Visions we have, there is a Cornerstone upon which we can build off. How can we build? Well, I'll read one of my favorite songs. Psalm 46, is this Psalm 46, is this. God is our refuge and strength and a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear. Even though the Earth shall be removed about the mounties will be carried into the mister. See those Waters Roar and be troubled, do the mountain shake with its swelling.
That is a river whose streams make glad the city of God. The holy place of the type of natural of the most high. God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved. God will help her just at the break of dawn. The nation's raged. The kingdoms were moved, he added his voice the Earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us. The god of Jacob is our refuge.
If you're not sure stand on the cornerstone that he's Christ or whatever. Dream, whatever Vision God's giving you our mission is clear.
There's a film series that used to be a TV program called Mission Impossible.
And some of us sometimes, I'm sure fail that this mission is impossible. It's in Matthew chapter 28 and begins with Verse 18 and says this. Then the 11th disciples went away into Galilee to the mountains, which Jesus is appointed for them. When he saw him like Washington, with some doubted Jesus came and spoke to them. Saying all authority has been given to me and have none. Go, therefore, and Make Disciples of all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit. Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and lo. I Am With. You Always even to the end of the age. Our mission is clear. Go into all the world and that world starts with one starts with the next step, it stops with reaching somebody sharing, love sharing a meal, sharing a blessing. Praying, telling them about Jesus.
Whatever, visions and dreams, God gives us whatever Jenny, he pulls this all behind it, go into all the world.
I'm start with one. 1.2 the checks insights, it's the judges. Don't guess he's touchy stuff but we all the chips, you can point to mainside station.
Do ye into all the world doesn't mean we have to get on the plane. Doesn't mean we need to get a license. Is plenty of people doing that already. There are many people are traveling around the world reaching, but if we just reached our neighbors Then we like that man on the beach in like Mother Teresa would say okay the well. Yes there is this ocean of needs. Yes, there is this world to desperation, but I'm going to make a difference to this one. And I'm going to make a difference to this one.
But God is good.
Father, I pray that for the the dream is amongst this load. You give us a drink for the pictures. Look, give us Division and leaving for those you type notes. I was something of how you're calling us into the next season to the next things. Probably you, do exceedingly abundantly more than we asked her too much. And so I called her I prayed that you'd help us to look beyond the limitations of what we are supposed to see your provision to see your kingdom. Come to see your kingdom in launched to see life changed the circumstances turned around, just a memory shared with us. Look out and as, as That child in that situation unload now that family has a home in the husband has a job and the children are well father thank you that you go before, open up my eyes to what you see help us to do. The one thing that you pull up to do today, to help us to do a joy passion. Help us to do a purpose alone when we run out of ourselves, help us to be men and women of life. Cuz that's when we need to lean on, you know, when we run about out of our capacity, when we run out of the woods to say all the wisdom in the knowledge of what to do, father, would you give us Gifts of wisdom and knowledge? Would you give us words of Prophecy, Mobile new release Miracles and healings and tongues of God to speak into situations?
The father God you call, this is your people to follow your son Jesus as we follow him.
We want to follow him and do what he called us to to go, ye into all the world and make disciples help us to be disciplemakers. One person at a time. One moment, at Time For Your Glory, we pray in Jesus name.
