Hey, welcome to conversations with Dutch.

I'm really looking forward to talking with you today about dreaming again. We talked about that a week ago.

We just felt like, you know, so many people were discouraged and were experiencing hope

deferred because of the virus and just all that's created. You know, some people are lonely. Other

people are hurting because they've lost jobs, et cetera.

And I just wanted to challenge people to keep dreaming.

And if they've stopped dreaming to start again, not to lose faith, to believe,

to not allow what the Bible calls hope deferred to creep in

and steal from you, your ability to run the race of life.

That verse in Proverbs says hope deferred makes the heart sick.

If you have heart disease, you can't believe, you can't run, and you have to get that healed before you can go on with life.

So we talked about that, how God gave us a dreaming nature.

You can't give up on the dream and how the same word in the Old Testament, the same Hebrew word is the word create and the word dream.

God put in dreaming the power of creating.

And they're the same word, basically, in Hebrew.

And isn't that amazing?

And talked about how God gave us his dreaming nature.

He made us to dream.

And today, I just want to continue with that theme somewhat,

but I just want to try to encourage you today to press on, to not give up.

You know, I tell you, I've learned of all the things in my 60 plus years of life,

the longer I live, the more I believe one of the most spiritual traits, the most powerful

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