Today is the day to start (Dreams and Visions)

Dreams and visions.

And this is all 31st of July tomorrow.

Scary. Yes, summer is here. I'm sorry. Are we be looking at three months and Visions over these last couple weeks? And this is the last in a series on dreams and visions and I'd already let me Priory as we gather around the world. To focus on their way to help us the history thing from you. Otherwise father, I pray, you speak to our hearts, you speak into all circumstances, you speak into all situations. I need to speak with a voice so clear that it rings like a bell through all week, through a month, maybe even through the rest of the year. Bobby Poole stats to be. You called us to be dreaming. Slow you giving us Visions. Know. There are many examples throughout scripture. Why you spoke to people in dreams and visions and so far that we continue to open our eyes, our spiritual eyes, to what you want to say to us in this season. We pray that it would in Jesus name.

I do wonder whether they should have been the first one in the series. But I think it's a good way of closing out. Today is a great day to start. Procrastination is one of the biggest problems in the world. It's a long word is not procrastination. Taking time to do things. Anybody got things on that, to-do list for more than a week. Yep, my hands up. Anybody got more than a month, anybody got more than a year. Was me feel guilty, sometimes we feel ashamed of, sometimes we feel frustrated. Sometimes we have a dream. We have a vision and it's just a dream. He saw the piece of papers there is something, but nothing seems to be happening with it. So I want to encourage yesterday, I just stopped to just get started. Some of you who know me, well, would know anybody anybody apart from the Bible, Hey, I haven't told you to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Yes, absolutely. A long time, but it's too much right to begin. He got his on the long journey. And this is Clayton where he says, okay, this long journey will start with the first step, so let's have a look at getting started. Message first, look at 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verses 9, and 10. But as it is written no I Have Seen Nor Ear heard nor has entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love him but God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit said, she's all things. Yes, the Deep things of God. Not that I have already attained or already a affected but I press on that I might lay hold of that, which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of for me.

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God has spoken. Let me go back to the first but then the things which God has prepared for those who love him. I mean, things for us to do things for us to be involved in things for a press to press into. Unimpressed again, two things.

Some of us like the pictures of woods and we don't guess it. We see one picture I believes in English. A party translation to others as well. Thank you love the words. It helps to bring Clarity. And many of us would picture something, we would picture it in our Mind's Eye. I know I have seen no ear has heard the things which God has prepared for us. Do has plans for us preparations for us things roster to, but it means that we need to stop somewhere. We need to stop and something, we need to do something. And as we do that, something progress begins.

In Philippians chapter 3 verses 12 to 14. It says this Brethren. I do not count myself to have pretended but one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, I'm reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I pressed was to go for the price of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. This is one of the examples of the things stop us pressing forward.

Forgetting those things which are behind.

How many of us a call drivers? Sitting yourself in your car seat right now and you're driving down the road. I know, be told to look around, we told to be observant of the environment that we are in. How much time do we spend? Looking in a mirror that sells is what's behind compared to looking through all windscreen of what shows are. I said, we do not spend 60, 70, 80, per-cent of all time. Looking into the rear view mirror, We spend most of our time looking forward and I believe that's also a great illustration for the way we think. Should we think a little bit about the past? Yes, but we shouldn't spend 80% of our talking about how it used to be. As a number of people, I can think of who I meet with them. And that's telling me the same story again, and again, and again, about a broken relationship. Bible, something that used to do And I think his record seems to be stock. They seem to be stuck on that, not forgetting, the things that are past that not pressing forward.

Another problem we have how it used to be, is that in the past? If God wants to bring it back to that? That will be in the present and in the future? Do you know what? If we always talked about how it used to be? We're not open to the fresh and new things of God.

I'm so let's forget to know what kind of things am I suggesting that we should forget.

Talk to me, nice or my everything. Let's look at some things that we can leave behind.

I tried. But when somebody says it was, I had this dream, it doing this thing, starting a business.

Many people have an idea every starting to be hot. Happy stream starting a business. I tried once and it filed. I'll give up. You're one of the things about entrepreneurs and I'm people leaving fasting with you are doing well. The people we with the other, Richard Branson's, this world. If you look into that history, It had many many, many fighters.

I've had many fighters for the difference between an entrepreneurial successful among the reason. Is that you learned from that, okay?

Let's leave off fighting this behind. Let's make you leave a memorial stone for them and remember them is something important to learn from those things worries behind.

Many people will allow fear to lock them into a place where they do nothing.

Fear comes from worrying. Sometimes there are natural things, you worry about your children, and how they kind of do you worry about your health. But you know what? The one thing we can do is play sell Destiny by can goats and was like oh do you know, you know me really well? You know my 40 Bulls you know how I made you made me and so actually it's better to place my might whole being my future my destiny and there's some stuff that happens. There's some things that I would worry about, but I'm looking forward now and that's all I look forward. I'm looking forward to the future that God has for me in the future that God has. For me is a good future. Jeremiah 29 verse 11 pieces. Plans, I have for you plans for you to prosper in Prosper is not just about money in that scripture. It's about having a life that you can lift to the phone.

Let's leave behind all resentment.

It's so easy to spend time focusing on what other people have, what they might call the Jones syndrome.

But when we look over our fence, so we see that go to Pensacola now so we're better. How about a front drive or whatever. It's so easy, just thought there was a polite. I couldn't do that different parts.

I'm actually it's the richness of the tapestry of community together, that I actually we can share those things together. Asleep of guilt behind the things, we should have done differently. The things that maybe we did wrong and the best thing that we can do is repent when we get something wrong to 10, for me to say I'm sorry, but Saturn from turning from The Hobbit, the way that led you to make that choice. But then let's having being forgiven, believe that guilt behind

Playing with Leslie, playing behind where we can.

Most of, you know, I had an accident. When I was fifteen years old, I was riding home from scouts one day on a rainy Friday nights and I've walked Volvo taxi. Pulled out in front of me, didn't see me, I hit the taxi, I left my teeth in the roof. I lost a fingernail and I hit my knee 40 years ago, two thousand pounds worth of damage to it but to a Volvo and you know, I got up, I'll just a couple of days and I had problems with my irritated eye, makeup dealt with by God and by surgery as well. But because it was a painful place whenever anybody came through that me I kind of try to protect. I turned it from you. Whenever the doctor wanted to check my knee for whatever reason to check my reflexes, I was I would Flinch even when it had been dealt with.

No. And if it's, for example, you have some, you had some pain in your buddy and he got dealt with surgical miraculously, whichever way, but he's being dealt with. We still sometimes look as if the pain might be that we have a pain memory. But I'm so I won't leave you behind where we can. Let's walk in Freedom. Let's live in the behind. We will walk differently, we will choose differently. We will behave differently. People around us, will respond to us differently. If we reflect some of the stuff behind, it's such a drastic change. The people go by. What's happened to you that's part of the testimony of the Gospel is part of what God can show us.

I saw a $0.43 this. 43 vs 18 and 19 do not remember, the former things nor consider the things of old behold. I do a new thing. Now, it will spring for, now it will spring for the little thing. They stopped beginning to make room for the new idea. Think about people, you know who I expected a baby or just had a baby once they know that pregnant. Then there's a bump growing room in their minds that will send making room in the home for the baby to arrive. Then I spot child gets older and starts to work then you have to start to think about total approving. It be covered cuz the child into everything and just matter how many times you say, you know, because Mommy or Daddy was in there, they want to get in there. I'm so they make broom, they know that something new is coming and they make broom and so when we read a scripture like this from, I saw it says now it shall spring forth, begin, it begins in our hearts and in our heart begins in our thinking. Are we going to make room? If we not go to changing something, are we making room for that? Chime?

It's something that I can say and I'm not particularly sporty, but I do know that if I said drum right now most of you would go, what setting no one would have run straight thinking, you don't think any surprised. If you were standing at the start line of a beginning of the rice and the gun went off, some people would already be running another people, some people will be chatting with somebody else and then

I'm so we need to make broom for change. We need to make room for all drinks. I think sometimes one of the reasons why dreams don't get started is because we might bring for them. I was talking to somebody about 6 weeks. Maybe seven weeks ago. Now, they wanted to start their own business.

Dying until I dying. And I was kind of thinking and creative soup close but they, they do an autistic things with them. Like I said, why don't you ask your boss? If you can work full days. I think about asking your boss to about 4 days a week, you said I couldn't do that. So why not? Because I wouldn't let me I said if you offed you said no it was

why not ask Lifeworks full days a week for most of the companies that I've ever worked for and one company I worked in based in reading something went a bit like this. I'll be in a meeting and people would say, Okay me, meet next Tuesday. Nassau County's minimum working. And they got excuse me to Michael house. So so so so how did that happen? I'm a simple. I just asked. In the time that I was at his company and ready, I was there for nearly three years. Five or six people, I know of wench to part-time working. Want to look at 1 cuz he wanted to share the childcare with his wife of his newborn toddler. So we went to three days a week for. Somebody want to go to call. If you're dying, mom, that was somebody wanted to go to her. When do they want 3 months off to get a reminder to out with gorillas in the mountains? Somebody else you wanted to do missionary stuff. But they all lost. The company would love to see people, celebrate things will happen. So behold, it shall spring forth, shall you? Not know it. So, it's making room, Bruce are having such importance of energy and spice, but if you got your job when you're working at one, that's got home. When you want to start another busy, maybe you need to start another desk, another part while you're so that you will changing from this. Otherwise, it becomes of what you like. But I live in a world where sometimes things when they become blurry, they become message and so I know what I'm doing. I'm busy doing stuff. So we'll leave these things behind this. Look at them again. Next. Leave behind Let's be behind fighter. Let's leave behind Warren. Let's leave behind resentment, guilt and playing. And it goes on to say, and I saw 3816. Oh, Lord, by these things, men live and all these things is the life of my spirit. So you shall restore me and make me, I sent something of when we don't allow dreams to Blossom. Something. Eyes. Or something gets constraint. Judy, and my wife is the Gathering. The family, I just do what I'm told this stuff to the, that's my job, but what I do know is going well, lots of stock price and then some things grow more than others. Something. And then underneath the trees, you think nothing? And then what you do when you trip when you trim back something, it lets the lights in it, lets the water and suddenly things burst forth again, please with everybody in the ground, but it wasn't getting watered. It was overshadowed by something else, for all dreams as well. Sometimes, some of our dreams, just buy something else, So what should we lay? Hold of? What can we choose to do? Again, we can choose to find Faith again. Fights in certain areas, not people that fight for something or someone. Maybe there's someone you felt God wanted you to come alongside and you gave out cuz you didn't see any fruit out of that. Let me know what you think again. Just see if try again have some conversation arise again. Hope is a powerful thing. Hope he's very much for this with the future. We don't talk about hoping for the past two, it doesn't belong in the past. He belongs in the future. It's about looking for I'm one of the wires that connects us very really is to love again. To love what we doing to love, what we want to do to the loveliest dreams, to love our family to love those who are precious to us and in that we find purpose and Destiny again. So I put some Destiny we be getting those first steps so I know I saw a 58 but then your light shall Break Forth like the morning. You're peeling shall spring forth speedily and your righteousness shall go before you the glory of the Lord shall be your rearguard.

Who likes breaking forth. I think I might have told a story similar to this before now but I'm not but I didn't go to the ones where you have to squeeze in and go underwater. I need those kind of things, we went down some case and B, craziest will type for me anyway, I didn't want to go anymore into the distance and it felt like we were in some pool Cathedral to the middle of the cave in. The guy who's leading the, the trip. He said, okay,

And I'll be honest with you, it wasn't slow. Fish. That was water dripping in the background and then 58 minutes and it seemed like hours. I didn't realize that the noises thing in the cave with the other people breathing. What can hit everybody, breathing eat. And then he said it. Now, what I'd like to do is to Turn All the Lights Off So you've got all the old bastard. She's, okay. I'm going to turn my torch do not panic. Cuz you will be in the darkest donkeys donkeys place you've ever been. And your first response will be dependent. You want to turn your light back on again, I want to encourage you to get used to the darkness. I want you to understand what's going on there. And so, I said, Just Enjoy the Silence, just a listen to see what else you can hear. Because once we turn our eyes off suddenly, our is seem to become Sharper.

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Genuinely.

So they were sitting in the darkness and silence for maybe 10 minutes and let me sign in the darkness, he said, okay, now I want you to be silent again. And we were starting again and just seemed like the spice grew around us and we started to hit a noise and start to do. Imagine things.

Why am I telling you this story? Because this next moment, he said in a moment, I'm going to turn my lights on. You said what? I want to encourage everyone of you to do is put your hands over your eyes.

You said, I wouldn't put your hands over your eyes and I'll turn the lights on and then just allow your fingers to light a little bit of light in a little bit of a time. And gradually got accustomed to the lights. Again, he said if you have your eyes open, And you will not see for quite a while because this, you're, you're, you're renting a large because there is no like getting in. So is enlarged itself as long as it can be. So if you'd just allow the lights to turn on and we probably will have this experience, whatever you want from a dark place.

so he tried to like them and I wasn't that good asked out to be honest, I didn't close my eyes, I didn't cover

And then I realized I couldn't see any took me probably 15 minutes for my eye, to get back to where it needed to be just one lights. Just one light in the Darkness and Light will break forth like the morning. I want to encourage you think about that story that I told you think, whatever light you bring can break off into people circumstance, grateful into your workplace, your family situations, and the light changes things. Like, you suspected things. We couldn't see before. What's a light string? Light keeps us safe. That's why we have spotlights on cars. I'm so, what do I go to site this morning? What do I want to share with you, that just take that first step. Let's leave behind the things. Let's go back to those three slice. Then, let's leave behind these things as leave behind by t.i. Let's leave behind worried that sleep behind resentment.

Let's lay hold of hope and love to gain purpose and Destiny. And then let's all light shine.

So I'm going to pray, I'm going to pray about three things. I'm going to play about maybe where we need to leave some stuff behind. So if you need to leave something behind right now is like being to looking. You just seen this one thing. I'm going to ask you what it is that's between you and go pretty fast. You would you at least 3 hours? So, if there's something you need to leave behind, you know what it is? Just take us back. Take us out to me right now. I'm going to leave it with you and go to sort it out, but if I see you, would you stand this, something you need to leave behind.

Father God, I pray for those who is standing amongst this lady was standing at her know, she was standing like the father, would you help us to draw a line in the sand to draw a line and to leave behind the memories and thoughts of the way? It used to be a father. I pray that we don't step over that line for an adult to Woodstock person for new idea to not drink for a new space for possibility. Play Father, help us to leave behind the things. Even if that body believing it that precious. What if they need leaving behind cuz that constraining us. A limiting us father help us to do and help us to step forward in 53 pry in your Mighty nein

Just want to sit just saw it, just glad you understand again, but it's not just about leaving behind, but laying hold of something. Cuz if we put stuff down in our hearts and our hands to carry something new,

I miss you signs that God is encouraging. You to pick up something new again. Do you do you want to make that choice again? Would you stand in the room? Stein's to Delight, hold up and take hold of

That was your making room for? So father I pray that would that would be that would be focused on who could love again. In this particular area you can believe again for this particular thing again killer moment.

Even if I'm praying, like I just see packets of seeds, packets of seeds that the promise of the CDs that the seed, in some cases, the CD still in the pocket and other cases that has been opened. But I've never been clumsy in other situations that seed has been planted but he's never been worth it. It's always been overshadowed by something else. so, if I'm making room, Saucony. That will be a bust info.

So probably going to help help us, Lord, help us Lord. So like hold of Over You on the stool, a home office to make room and take hold of that. What you want us to carry and know when you want us to put it down or give it away. Father would you help us to let go of the things that you want us to give to others and don't do others? Share with others. We continue to make room for the newness in the freshness of all that you have for us in Jesus name. Amen. And then the third thing in the gospels Jesus says we don't like the lamp and then put it on the reply-all. We don't have a city with a city is on the hill so it could be seen from afar.

I just want to play one final thing and that's that maybe we're all lights to buy. The beam dims or squashed or maybe hidden. If you sense that to you again, would you spank? Maybe you just make it a choice, maybe you'll just make it a choice and saying I'm going to I'm going to choose to take a stand at work. How to find. Qui Qui just before Christmas. So it was in an office it and it not the language in the office was foul and he said I don't know what to do, you just take an opportunity. Next time it happens when the when the atmosphere changes just to just to say something not to say you were not to say, I don't like this.

I weep, right? I'm not made room in his heart and ruined his mind in the next time. It happened. It work. It just it just it off you said, is anybody want a cup of coffee on the three or four people that just was enough to break him to come and help? I just talked to him, he said you really don't like those kind of conversation so I just wanted to change the atmosphere. So I just offered a cup of coffee in the guy. He was with the Stars at the beginning of a conversation. and now Weeks Later, yeah, it was very strange. Speed of light in a dark place. Bring the lights to people circumstances and situations see what God can do. I say, father, I pray the Lord when we are on the hill, when we are already visible, father, would you feed on us. Would you bring us hope? Would you unable us to go to be who you produce the VA?

And father, when we choosing to put ourselves in a place and maybe be a bit different. I think it's the right words to say show us what to do until love. And bring your kingdom into the darkest places that we find ourselves in Jesus name, amen.