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Speaker 1: one of a message called the Awesome Power of Faith.
Speaker 2: You know, for thirty years I've been studying this question,
Speaker 2: what kind of person does God bless? What kind of
Speaker 2: person does God use? What kind of qualities do you
Speaker 2: find in people that He unusually blesses? Because I want
Speaker 2: to be a person like that. I hope you do too.
Speaker 2: And you know, what I've discovered is that God uses
Speaker 2: all kinds of people backgrounds, ages, economic status, language, ethnic everything,
Speaker 2: but there is one common denominator you can find in
Speaker 2: every single person that God blesses in an unusual way.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who or where they are, where they're from,
Speaker 2: they always have this quality.
Speaker 3: In their life.
Speaker 2: If you find somebody that God is blessing in an
Speaker 2: unusual way, and what is it? It is people who
Speaker 2: are not afraid to trust God completely. That is what
Speaker 2: I call the faith factor. God blesses people who are
Speaker 2: not afraid to trust Him completely, and when you do that,
Speaker 2: it produces enormous power in your life, enormous power. Now,
Speaker 2: the Bible tells us there's a direct connection between faith
Speaker 2: and power. That the more faith you put in God,
Speaker 2: the more you let Him steer your life and drive
Speaker 2: your life, the more power and the more blessing you're
Speaker 2: going to have in it. Jesus illustrated this and Matthew thirteen.
Speaker 2: It says he had gone to Nazareth, which was his hometown.
Speaker 2: It said Jesus did not do many miracles of power
Speaker 2: in his hometown because of their lack of faith. Notice
Speaker 2: the connection between faith and power in the Bible. Abraham
Speaker 2: is called the father of faith. Why is he the
Speaker 2: father of faith? Look at the next verse. Abraham's faith
Speaker 2: did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise. Instead,
Speaker 2: would you read this with me? His faith filled him
Speaker 2: with power. Would you like to have more of God's
Speaker 2: power in your life? You see, if you don't have
Speaker 2: God's power in your life, you're going to be running
Speaker 2: on your own energy. And that's why you're tired all
Speaker 2: the time. It's why you're always wiped out, why you're
Speaker 2: always fatigued. God never meant for you to go through
Speaker 2: life just on your own power. It's like having a
Speaker 2: laptop unplugged. The battery is eventually going to drain. You
Speaker 2: got this much of a battery, and behind you is
Speaker 2: God's Santa, no free power plant waiting for you.
Speaker 3: To plug in. Now you can do either. You can either.
Speaker 2: Run through life on your power, which means you're going
Speaker 2: to be tired all the time, or you can plug
Speaker 2: into God's power and have enormous amounts of energy that
Speaker 2: you never thought possible. So today, what's the secret. It's
Speaker 2: through getting more faith. Today we're going to look at
Speaker 2: four ways that you grow on faith. These are just
Speaker 2: four of maybe hundreds. We could spend an entire year
Speaker 2: on this subject. But here are four ways that you
Speaker 2: can grow in faith so that God's power can be
Speaker 2: more evident in your life, and God's blessing will be
Speaker 2: more evident in your life. Whatever you want God to
Speaker 2: bless you need to trust Him for a relationship, a job,
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 3: So let's look at four ways. Number one.
Speaker 2: First, faith is choosing God's dream for my life. Faith
Speaker 2: is choosing and believing God's dream for my life. It
Speaker 2: all starts with a dream. It all starts with vision,
Speaker 2: an idea. What does God want to do in my life?
Speaker 2: Proverbs twenty nine eighteen. Would you read it with me?
Speaker 2: Where there is no vision, the people perish. I tell
Speaker 2: where there's a church with no vision, that people go
Speaker 2: to another parish.
Speaker 3: Everybody wants to know where it's going. Now.
Speaker 2: The point here is this, nothing starts happening in your
Speaker 2: life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability
Speaker 2: to dream, to create, to imagine. Nothing happens there, and
Speaker 2: dreaming is an act of faith. Everything you see on
Speaker 2: the planet started as a dream, started as an idea,
Speaker 2: started as a concept. Everything on this campus, this building,
Speaker 2: all the other buildings, before they became reality, they were
Speaker 2: a dream in somebody's mind. There weren't mine. Somebody else
Speaker 2: thought this up. Somebody else thought all the buildings up.
Speaker 2: Everything you see first was an idea. It first was
Speaker 2: a dream. And so until you get a dream, nothing
Speaker 2: becomes reality.
Speaker 3: You see.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of things in life you can
Speaker 2: delegate to other people. You can pay somebody else to
Speaker 2: do it, you can get a friend to do it,
Speaker 2: you can pawn it off on your kids. But there's
Speaker 2: one thing you cannot delegate, and that is trusting God.
Speaker 2: I cannot delegate my faith in God to somebody else.
Speaker 2: I can't ask my wife to believe God for me.
Speaker 2: I can't ask my husband, or my kids, or my
Speaker 2: parents to believe God for me. You cannot ask other
Speaker 2: people to do that. You have to decide, and you
Speaker 2: trust God as much as you choose. It's your choice.
Speaker 2: You can trust him a little and trust him a lot.
Speaker 2: It's totally your choice. Now, how do you get God's
Speaker 2: dream for your life?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: You do three things, and it's the next three verses,
Speaker 2: First Ephesians three twenty. God, by his mighty power at
Speaker 2: work within us, is able to do far more than
Speaker 2: we would ever dare to ask or even dream of,
Speaker 2: infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. God says,
Speaker 2: think up the biggest dream you can think for your life,
Speaker 2: and guess what I can top that. I can do
Speaker 2: something bigger in your life than the biggest thing you
Speaker 2: could dream of. Now, I want you to circle a
Speaker 2: phrase in that dare to ask? Would you circle that?
Speaker 2: Here's the first characteristic of dreamers that God blesses dreamers
Speaker 2: dare to ask. If you want God's blessing on your
Speaker 2: life this year, you must dare to ask for it.
Speaker 2: You must say, God, this is my dream, and this
Speaker 2: is I'm daring to ask for it.
Speaker 3: So what do you do? Well?
Speaker 2: You ask God? First, God, what's your dream for my life?
Speaker 2: What do you want me to do? And then you
Speaker 2: ask yourself what have I always dreamed of doing? Let
Speaker 2: me ask you that right now? What's your dream? If
Speaker 2: I asked you, what have you always dreamed of doing?
Speaker 2: And it probably comes to mind and go and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna ask you, why aren't you doing it?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I don't have the time, and I have the money,
Speaker 2: don't have the ability, don't have the dream. So what
Speaker 2: you're talking about looking at yourself? Why don't you look
Speaker 2: to God? Where do you think that dream came from?
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Speaker 2: If I ask you, what have you always dreamed of doing?
Speaker 2: And it probably becomes mindegol and I'm gonna ask you,
Speaker 2: why aren't you doing it? Well, I don't have the time,
Speaker 2: don't the money, don't have the ability, don't have the truth.
Speaker 2: So what you're talking about looking at yourself? Why don't
Speaker 2: you look to God? Where do you think that dream
Speaker 2: came from? God puts desires in our hearts. See, I've
Speaker 2: always dreamed of d D D. Well, why don't you
Speaker 2: go after it? And why don't you ask God? God
Speaker 2: blesses people who dare to ask God?
Speaker 3: Would you help me this dream?
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to, you know, be a whatever, I've
Speaker 2: always wanted to go to, whatever, I've always wanted to
Speaker 2: accomplish whatever, Well, why don't you ask God for it?
Speaker 2: The Bible says you have not because you ask not.
Speaker 2: Here's the question I want you to think through. You
Speaker 2: might even write this down. What would I attempt for God?
Speaker 2: If I knew I couldn't fail? Just ask yourself that,
Speaker 2: well would I attempt if I knew I couldn't fail?
Speaker 2: Let that expand your vision. It always starts with a dream.
Speaker 2: When you get a dream and you set a goal,
Speaker 2: goals are statements of faith. I believe I'm supposed to
Speaker 2: do this by such and such a date. I believe
Speaker 2: God will empower me and so if you want God's
Speaker 2: blessing on your life, first you dare to ask. Second,
Speaker 2: you believe God's promises. And that's the next verse. You
Speaker 2: believe God's promises. The Bible says, I am the Lord,
Speaker 2: the God of all people of the world. That's why
Speaker 2: we're doing the Peace plan. Is anything too hard for me?
Speaker 2: The answer is obviously no. You see, nothing is impossible
Speaker 2: with God, and today's impossibility is tomorrow's possibility. It's tomorrow's miracle.
Speaker 2: So you never let just because you've got a dream
Speaker 2: and say, well it's impossible.
Speaker 3: Well so what.
Speaker 2: A lot of things that are impossible become possible when
Speaker 2: you do it. Never let an impossible situation intimidate you.
Speaker 2: Let it motivate you to pray more, to believe more,
Speaker 2: to trust more, to experience more, to learn more, to
Speaker 2: grow more. That's how you grow. Just because your dream
Speaker 2: seems quote impossible, doesn't mean you shouldn't go after it.
Speaker 2: God is the God of the impossible. That's where faith works.
Speaker 2: Faith always works in the realm of the impossible. Hudson
Speaker 2: Taylor said there are three stages to God's will in
Speaker 2: your life, impossible, possible, and done, and a lot of
Speaker 2: things I've done in my life that were impossible when
Speaker 2: I started to do it. But I trusted God, and
Speaker 2: first I believed God and I dared to ask, And
Speaker 2: second I believed his promises. And we've talked about those
Speaker 2: over seven thousand of them in the Bible. You see
Speaker 2: Satan's favorite words to you and that dream he've always
Speaker 2: dreamed of doing.
Speaker 3: His favorite words are you can't do it.
Speaker 2: Let me say right now, when you get a dream
Speaker 2: and you hear the words you can't do it, those
Speaker 2: words aren't from God.
Speaker 3: That's not from God. That's from Satan.
Speaker 2: And he said you can't do it because he wants
Speaker 2: to keep you stuck in mediocrity. And as your pastor,
Speaker 2: I want your life to be an embarrassment to the devil.
Speaker 2: I want him to look in you and go, oh,
Speaker 2: I hate that person because they believe God, they dare
Speaker 2: to ask, and they trust God's promises.
Speaker 3: I hate that.
Speaker 2: If you're going to have God's blessing on your life,
Speaker 2: you dare to ask, you believe God's promises. And the
Speaker 2: third thing is you dream big. That's the next verse.
Speaker 2: God says, ask of me. There's that word ask, and
Speaker 2: I will make the nations, your inheritance, the ends of
Speaker 2: the earth.
Speaker 3: Your possession. What do these?
Speaker 2: Says says, Ask me for the world. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: about as big as you can get. You ask me
Speaker 2: for the world. I'll give you the nations. This is,
Speaker 2: by the way, as one of the promises that we're
Speaker 2: holding on to for the Peace plan. God says, ask me,
Speaker 2: and I'll give you the nations. You see, the size
Speaker 2: of your God should determine the size of your goal.
Speaker 2: And you haven't really believed God until you've attempted something
Speaker 2: that can't be done in the power of the flesh
Speaker 2: are done in your own effort. The only way you
Speaker 2: really please God is when you're living by faith, which
Speaker 2: means you're doing something you can't do on your own power.
Speaker 3: So let me just say this.
Speaker 2: When you begin to dream and you say, okay, God,
Speaker 2: I'm going to take a step of faith this year,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go after my dream. First, I'm going
Speaker 2: to pray and say, what's your dream for my life?
Speaker 2: Then I'm going to think what if I always wanted
Speaker 2: to do? What would I attempt if I knew I
Speaker 2: couldn't fail? And then I'm going to believe God's promises
Speaker 2: and I'm going to dream big and you go out there,
Speaker 2: and what's going to happen is you're going to go
Speaker 2: out and you're going to start your dream and you're
Speaker 2: going to fall flat on your face.
Speaker 4: What.
Speaker 2: Because there's three parts to a dream, this is very important.
Speaker 3: You need to understand this.
Speaker 2: When God gives you a dream, the first party gives
Speaker 2: you Phase one is what that's when you get the idea.
Speaker 2: He gives you an idea of what he wants you
Speaker 2: to do. That's phase one. And then you go out
Speaker 2: and you start trying to do it and you fall
Speaker 2: on your face and you think, well, maybe I just
Speaker 2: made that up. And then you come back and say, God,
Speaker 2: did I miss your dream? And God says, no, it's
Speaker 2: still the dream you just didn't wait for part two.
Speaker 2: And part two of the dream is how how am
Speaker 2: I going to do it? And the way God fulfills
Speaker 2: the dream in your life usually be the exact opposite
Speaker 2: of what you thought, okay, because you don't think like
Speaker 2: God thinks. And so He's gonna show you how to
Speaker 2: fulfill your dream in a way different than you thought
Speaker 2: you were gonna fulfill it. And then there comes the
Speaker 2: third part and this is the most important of all,
Speaker 2: and that's the win. God shows you what he wants
Speaker 2: to do in your life, then he shows you how,
Speaker 2: and then he shows you when. And it always comes
Speaker 2: in phases. And the win is the timing. And God's
Speaker 2: timing is always perfect. And a lot of times, well
Speaker 2: have you ever been in a hurry when God wasn't
Speaker 2: And you go, God, you know, I want this dream
Speaker 2: right now? And God says, well, yeah, it's a good dream,
Speaker 2: but I'll do it in my timing. It's not like
Speaker 2: it's not gonna happen. It's you know, the differens we
Speaker 2: know and not yet. You have to learn that as
Speaker 2: a little kid between know and not yet. God says
Speaker 2: a lot of times, not yet when I tell you
Speaker 2: it'll be right, you know, Kay, and I talk about
Speaker 2: how we have what we call polaroid vision.
Speaker 3: You know, if you look at a boiler picture.
Speaker 2: And you hold it up, the longer you look at it,
Speaker 2: the clearer it gets. When it first comes out of camera,
Speaker 2: it's pretty blurry. When I started Saddleback Church twenty five
Speaker 2: years ago, I didn't have envision all of what was
Speaker 2: going on here. I just knew this is the right
Speaker 2: thing to do. Go start the church. And you know,
Speaker 2: the longer I look at the picture, the clearer it gets,
Speaker 2: and I go, oh, that's what you had in mind.
Speaker 2: That's cool. Oh, and look at that. That's cool too. Oh,
Speaker 2: and there's something else coming up. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: reading the scroll. You read a little bit and unroll it,
Speaker 2: and you read a little bit and unroll it. God's
Speaker 2: not going to show you what he's going to do
Speaker 2: in your life all at once. If he did, it
Speaker 2: scare you to death. So what he does is just
Speaker 2: shows you a little bit of the time. So the
Speaker 2: dream's going to come in stages and phases. Now, the
Speaker 2: question is how big should my dream be? You say, okay, Rick,
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to dream big.
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to dare to ask.
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to believe the promises. I'm supposed to dream big.
Speaker 2: How big should my dream be? You ask yourself two questions.
Speaker 2: The first question is how much time do I have
Speaker 2: to give to it? If it's a dream, you got
Speaker 2: a year on it better not be a very big goal.
Speaker 2: If it's a dream, here you say, I can give
Speaker 2: the rest of my life to this.
Speaker 3: You can really dream big.
Speaker 2: You see we overestimate what we can do in a year,
Speaker 2: and we underestimate what we can do in ten or
Speaker 2: twenty or thirty or forty.
Speaker 3: So you have to look at you see.
Speaker 2: Most people set goals too low and try to accomplish
Speaker 2: them too quickly. What you need to do is set
Speaker 2: a bigger dream for your life and take a longer
Speaker 2: time to do it. I came here at saddle Back.
Speaker 2: I said, God, I'll go anywhere in the world and
Speaker 2: start at church if you give me the privilege of
Speaker 2: spending my entire life in one location. So it's twenty
Speaker 2: five years old, I said, I'm going to give my
Speaker 2: entire life to one goal, building Saddleback Church.
Speaker 3: So you guys are stuck with me. You know.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm going to be around for a long time
Speaker 2: unless God decides otherwise. I haven't read the rest of
Speaker 2: the scroll, but my goal is just to say God,
Speaker 2: I'll spend my entire life in one place.
Speaker 3: Well, you can do a lot.
Speaker 2: When you take forty or fifty years to do it,
Speaker 2: you can get a lot done. You just take you know,
Speaker 2: inch by inch. Anything's a cinch. It's like that old cliche,
Speaker 2: how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
Speaker 2: So you ask yourself how much time do I have?
Speaker 2: And that determines the size of the dream. The other
Speaker 2: question you ask yourself to decide that your dream is
Speaker 2: what am I really shaped to do? Spiritual gifts, heart,
Speaker 2: your abilities, your personality, your experiences, the five things that
Speaker 2: make you, and just be honest. You must be optimistic
Speaker 2: and realistic at the same time. Now, I know you've
Speaker 2: heard motivational speakers say you know you can be anything
Speaker 2: you want in life. Well, it's not true. And you
Speaker 2: probably read some books that say you can be anything
Speaker 2: you want in life. It's just not true. Something you
Speaker 2: just stand up and say, hello, it's not true. What
Speaker 2: you can only be what God shaped you to be.
Speaker 2: If you try to be something that you're not shaped,
Speaker 2: wired gifted to do, guess what it causes. A little
Speaker 2: thing called stress. Stress is when you try to be
Speaker 2: something you're not. You you aren't and that's why so
Speaker 2: many people. I guess eighty percent of people in the
Speaker 2: world are in the wrong job. They're not being they're
Speaker 2: not you know how you know when you're shaped to
Speaker 2: do something, it's fun, you love to do it, you
Speaker 2: get I can't wait to go do that now.
Speaker 3: If you have that editude, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: If you don't have that attitude, you're likely in the
Speaker 2: wrong job because God wired you. When you're doing what
Speaker 2: you're shaped to do, you go, this feels good, this
Speaker 2: is me, and you're not as stressed.
Speaker 3: Stress comes from trying to be something you're not.
Speaker 2: I mean, somebody could tell me Rick, you can be
Speaker 2: whatever you want to be, and I said, I want
Speaker 2: to be an opera star. That would not only stress
Speaker 2: me and stress you having to listen to it, and
Speaker 2: you create stress for other people around you when you're
Speaker 2: doing things that you weren't gifted to do. So you
Speaker 2: look at how long you're going to focus on the goal,
Speaker 2: and you look at what you're shaped to do. Now,
Speaker 2: I want you to write down on your outline in
Speaker 2: SD okay inn SD that means no small dreams. I
Speaker 2: want to challenge you to dream great dreams for God.
Speaker 2: It's your first step in the walk of faith and
Speaker 2: it pleases God.
Speaker 3: All right. So step one and really.
Speaker 2: Getting God's blessing in your life is living by faith.
Speaker 3: And how do you do that? First, I get God's
Speaker 3: dream for my life.
Speaker 2: Second step faith is being willing to risk failure. Once
Speaker 2: I get a dream, I got to take some risks
Speaker 2: to go after it. And faith is being willing to
Speaker 2: risk failure to go after the dream that God has
Speaker 2: put in your mind and in your heart. You cannot
Speaker 2: go after a dream without taking some kind of risk.
Speaker 2: If there's no risk involved, it's not a dream from God.
Speaker 2: Because God wants you to live by faith, it'll be
Speaker 2: so big that you can't do it on your own.
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