January 24 2016 Daring To Imagine
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DARING TO IMAGINE
Daring Faith: The Key To Miracles – Part 3
Three Categories in the Bible
Some things we shouldn’t imagine
Some things we can’t imagine
Some things we should imagine
WHY DREAM?
1. My imagination shapes my life.
Proverbs 23:7 (KJV)" . . . For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is."
Proverbs 4:23 (TEV)"Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts."
Genesis 11:6 (Amp) The Lord said, "Now that they are one people speaking one language, this is only the beginning of what they will do. Now nothing they have IMAGINED they can do will be impossible for them!"
2. Imagining is essential to living by faith.
Hebrews 11:1 (NLT) "What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see."
2 Corinthians 4:18 (NCV)"We set our eyes not on what we see but on what we cannot see. What we see will last only a short time, but what we cannot see will last forever."
3. Great lives are built around great dreams.
Ephesians 1:18 (NJB) "May God enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see the hope that his calling holds for you."
Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)"Where there is no vision, the people perish . . ."
4. God’s dream for my life is bigger than my dream.
Ephesians 3:20 (Mes)"God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever IMAGINE or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by his Spirit working deeply and gently within us."
Let the size of my God, determine the size of my goals
5. Doubt is the enemy of imagination.
James 1:57 "If you need wisdom, just ask God for it, because He is generous and enjoys giving to everyone. But when you ask God, you must believe in faith and not doubt. For a doubtful mind is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is driven back and forth, and tossed about by the wind. Such doubters cannot decide about anything they do, so they should not imagine receiving anything from the Lord."
Mark 9:2224 (NLT) "The man said, ‘Please heal my son if you can.’ Jesus replied, ‘What do you mean, "If I can?" Anything is possible IF a person believes.’ The father replied, ‘I do believe, but help me not to doubt!’"
6. Growing my character will clarify my vision.
2 Peter 1:59 (NCV) "To your faith, add goodness; and to your goodness, add knowledge; and to your knowledge, add selfcontrol; and to your selfcontrol, add patience; and to your patience, add service for God; and to your service for God, add kindness for your brothers and sisters in Christ; and to this kindness, add love for everyone. IF all these things are in you and are growing, they will help you to BE USEFUL AND PRODUCTIVE in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But anyone who does not have these things CANNOT SEE CLEARLY."
7. If a dream is from God, it will be connected somehow to to His Church & Plan for the World
"If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will find true life." Mark 8:35 (NLT)
