A FIELD OF DREAMS BLUEPRINT
BUILD IT, EASE IT, FINISH IT
BIG IDEA: HAVING SECOND CHANCE OPPORTUNITIES
TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT.
Psalms 127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.
EVER MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT?
EVER ASKED GOD TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE AT SOMETHING?
EVER WANTED TO PURSUE A DREAM YOU RAN AWAY FROM?
DREAM KILLERS
#1 DREAM KILLER: SELF-SABOTAGE
EPH 2:1-10
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
“IF YOU BUILD IT, HE WILL COME”
“EASE HIS PAIN”
“GO THE DISTANCE”
“IF YOU BUILD IT, HE WILL COME”
CLEAR THE MECHANISM
English poet John Donne:
“I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly,”
“EASE HIS PAIN”
Your never defined by WHAT YOU DID WRONG;
Your defined by WHAT CHRIST DID RIGHT
“It’s Never Too Late to Be Who You Might Have Been”
“GO THE DISTANCE” to do the whole amount; to play the entire game; to run the whole race.
TO GO THE DISTANCE, YOU NEED 3 THINGS
PHYSICAL ENERGY
SPIRITUAL GUTS
GOD-SIZE DREAMS
Hebrews 12:1-2 - 1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. - 2 Timothy 4:7
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Phil. 1:6
being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
HIT A HOME RUN
BUILD IT (If you build it, He will come) GO AFTER A DREAM THAT WILL FAIL UNLESS GOD STEPS IN.
EASE IT (Ease His Pain) FACE YOUR WOUNDS.
FINISH IT (Go the Distance) PACE YOUR SELF.
MAKING IT AGAIN
Empty and broken, I came back to Him,
A vessel unworthy, so scarred with sin
But He did not despair, He started over again
And I bless the day, He didn’t throw the clay away.
He is the Potter and I am the clay
Molded in His image He wants me to stay
But when I stumble and fall and my vessel breaks
He just picks up the pieces, He doesn’t throw the clay away
Over and over, He molds me and makes me
Into His likeness, He fashions the clay
A vessel of honor, I am today
All because Jesus didn’t throw the clay away
