Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Weekend Podcast

Good to Great in God's Eyes - Dream Great Dreams, Part 1

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God is looking for ordinary people to do extraordinary things for Him. Do you believe that? It’s true. But in order to move this from your head to your heart, you need to take one very important step. Chip reveals what that step is. Don’t miss it!

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.
    • The basis of sanctified dreaming:
    1. God is able. --Jeremiah 32:17; Luke 1:37
    2. God is desirous. --1 Corinthians 2:9
    3. God has promised. --Psalm 37:4
    4. God invites us. --Psalm 2:8; John 14:12-14
      5. II. How God births dreams in His people?
      • 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.
        • III. How to develop bite-sized dreams for...
        • Your life
        • Your marriage
        • Your children
        • Your career
        • Your ministry
          • IV. The process:
          • Write it down and then read it over regularly
          • Pray over your dreams
          • Look for God’s intervention and direction
            • Conclusion: God has a dream for you! --Ephesians 3:20-21
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