Sermon Notes

Ezra 1:1-6
1. To build a dream God must be the one who moves you.
Ezra 1:1 “the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia”
Is. 44:28
God often stirs up more than one person. Ezra 1:5
2. To build a dream one must put complete action to it.
Ezra 1:1 “so that he made a proclamation and also put it in writing”
3. Help build anotherʼs dream and God will give you one also.
Ezra 1:6 “And all those who were around them encouraged them.”

You must be faithful to another manʼs vision before God will give you your own – Pastor Mike Ware

4. To build a dream you must have voices that praise.
Ezra 2:65 “and they had two hundred men and women singers”
Ps 22:1-5
5. A God given dream will bring unprecedented unity.
Ezra 3:1 “the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered
together as one man to Jerusalem.”
Ezra 3:6