Good to Great in God's Eyes - Dream Great Dreams, Part 2
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🗓️ 27 December 2024
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Summary
Would you like to rekindle your dreams? Your dreams of doing something great? Chip lays out bite-sized ways to begin re-igniting dreams for your life, marriage, children, career, and ministry.
Main Points Thesis:God delights…
to do IMPOSSIBLE things…
through IMPROBABLE people…
to IMPART exceeding grace…
to UNDESERVING recipients.
Practice: Dream Great Dreams!
I. How does God do it?- He invites ordinary people to dream something so great that it would be impossible if God did not do it.
- God is able. --Jeremiah 32:17; Luke 1:37
- God is desirous. --1 Corinthians 2:9
- God has promised. --Psalm 37:4
- God invites us. --Psalm 2:8; John 14:12-14
- Abram – He commands us to step out of our “comfort zone.”
- Joseph – He puts a dream within our heart.
- Moses – He allows us to fail in our attempt to accomplish His dreams in our own power.
- David – He teaches us through adversity to love the “Dream-giver” more than “the dreams.”
- Paul – He clarifies our calling in times of crisis and often uses our worst failures as the platform of His future fulfillment.
- Jesus – The dream will cost us our life and appear to others as the height of folly just before God accomplishes the impossible through us.
- Your life
- Your marriage
- Your children
- Your career
- Your ministry
- Write it down and then read it over regularly
- Pray over your dreams
- Look for God’s intervention and direction
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | What's God's dream for your marriage? |
| 0:04.0 | What's God's dream for your ministry? |
| 0:06.0 | What's God's dream for you as a single person living where you are today? |
| 0:10.0 | If you'd like some help in taking those big dreams and getting them down to a bite-sized, practical level, |
| 0:17.0 | then I think today might be a great day for you. |
| 0:19.0 | Stay with me. Thanks for joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:26.6 | Chip's our Bible teacher for this international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:33.6 | Today we're picking up in our insightful series Good to Great in God's eyes. |
| 0:38.3 | Last time Chip talked about the practice of dreaming great dreams and why God chooses to inspire us this way. |
| 0:44.3 | Now in this program, he'll explain how we can act on those dreams God's given us. |
| 0:49.3 | So go on your Bible to Ephesians chapter 3, as Chip begins by reminding us how God planted |
| 0:55.0 | dreams in his people throughout Scripture and what we can apply to our lives today. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, let's dive in. |
| 1:02.1 | This isn't a pie in the sky, self-help, get everybody fired up. |
| 1:05.5 | Hey, let's dream a great dream. |
| 1:06.8 | I want to tell you the process it really happens. |
| 1:09.0 | It starts with Abraham. |
| 1:10.4 | You get out of your comfort zone. |
| 1:11.7 | Then it moves to Joseph. |
| 1:12.8 | He bursts a dream. |
| 1:13.9 | And then third, we move on to Moses. |
| 1:15.9 | He allows us to fail in our attempts to accomplish his dreams in our own power. |
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