posted Aug 12, 2014, 10:13 AM by Grant Garber
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updated Jan 28, 2015, 6:47 AM
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- We all know about dreams that haven’t worked out as we had hoped on our journey through life.
- When that happens, we feel the right thing to do is “settle”. After all, we reason, “Life is what it is.”
- Eventually in life we feel the need to deal with reality. But God is never impressed with our visions of reality.
- God prefers to deliver blessings through the preposterous.
- God is not done with your life. God is not done with the church. God is not done with the world.
- We are a people who have to live with hope.
- It is God who creates reality, and with God all things are possible.
- God is powerful enough to do all that He will to do and adequate enough to accomplish all that He intends to accomplish.
- Our calling isn’t to worry if we will receive the dream --- that’s up to God. Our calling is to work for the dream, to pray for it daily, and to allow it to mold and shape our lives.
- Our identity is shaped more by God’s promises than it is by the fulfillment of the promises.
- We are blessed to be a blessing to all the families of the earth. And the blessing that the world needs from the church is for us to believe in what we claim to believe.
- We must pray, work and dream of peace in the Middle East. Is that preposterous? Absolutely! But the last thing you ever want to tell God is to be realistic.
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