There comes a time in every vision or dream to take it from the mind and heart to the hands and feet and bring it into action. How we speak about the dreams or visions God places in our heart frames it. The dreams are first formed in the womb of faith--the unseen realm. As a dream incubates in faith's womb, it grows and develops. To take a dream from the womb of faith to the outside of the womb takes commitment. It becomes so real it pushes for delivery. If we don't give birth to God's plans for us then we die.
(the life/light within us dies)
(the life/light within us dies)
Achieving the goal is great, but to get there you have to get through the failures.
Commitment will be tested.
Commitment is not an event...IE buying a treadmill in January in order to exercise and allowing it to become a clothes rack.
Nothing stokes the fires of commitment like single-mindedness.
FOCUS.
Don't ever say "I can't do this" until you talk to God about it.
Following through is hanging in there with purpose.
We must have the wisdom of Solomon
The administrative gifting of Nehemiah
The vision of Abraham
The faith of Daniel
The patience of Job
The courage of Caleb
Just because God promises you something does not mean there won't be a fight to get it.
Numbers 13:30-33. All of these men saw the same things, but 2 framed them with God's promises and God's word. The others talked themselves right out of God's purposes for their lives. They saw themselves as grasshoppers. They rebelled against the plan God had for them and they never entered the promised land.
Numbers 14:24 "But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly. I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it."
I Cor. 15:58 "Therefore my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain."
Hebrews 12:2b "who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God."
My notes as I listened to Pastor Sam Smucker
March 22, 2009
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