Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

So we're beginning a new series today, and I thought Pastor Josh did a great job. You know, you can tell he's a teacher.

He's got that gift of teaching that he's just going along and he says something to you and it's so deep.

And then he says something else and you're kind of like, hang on, hang on, I'm still chillin' on that, you know.

And obviously, again, but I thought it was one of his best ever, Pastor Tim Ross just hid loud in the park with, you know, the miracles of Jesus.

And I appreciated Keisha Russell. Russell, that was the first time we'd had her here for July 4th.

Well, we tried to do something patriotic and think about praying for our nation and all and Jolani, then Memorial Day before that.

So anyway, it's been good.

So what I'm doing is I'm doing a series that I've done before. I just don't want you to know that, but I feel so strongly about this series.

And I told the team even last fall that I would do it sometime in this year because God just kept speaking to me.

But so the title of the series is Dream to Destiny.

And so you may have heard the series before. I did it in the first time in 2003.

And so we were a little larger now. And then we actually put it in a book and it became the best-selling book.

And then I did it again in 2011. So that was 11 years ago. But God's Word is eternal.

And so I'm going through studying all, and these principles are for life.

I mean, these are principles. I promise you God's going to speak to you.

The first time I did this series in 2003, immediately the publisher heard the first two or three had called and said, we've got to turn this into a book.

But my son James, so this was in 2003, 18, 19 years ago. But he said to me, after one of the messages, he said, Dad, I think you're making a mistake with the church.

18 years old. So I knew he had a lot of wisdom. And so I said, I said, so what mistake am I making?

He said, you're preaching all these good messages. And we know the church is going to grow. And I think you're going to run out one day.

So I'm not preaching this because I've run out of good messages. I promise you.

So this, but I just, I just want you know, God's going to speak. So, but I want to, when I do a start a series, I'll take about half the first message and lay the foundation.

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