Christine Caine
Ephesians 3:20-21 (ESV)
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever, Amen.
"Dream's are a Matter of Perspective"
- Different people will draw out different things in our lives.
- God can do a whole lot!!
- Life is about perspective.
- Keeping pursuing the goal (Jesus)!
- The greatest gift we can give our partner is a complete us in Christ.
- The greatest gift our partner can give us is a complete them in Christ.
- Then when we are both complete in Christ, we can become an interdependent unity in Christ and we'll make a difference.
- God doesn't just want us to start, He wants us to run the race, and finish the course.
- Dream big, and finish well.
- We have to learn practical ways of how to put our dream into practice. We have to have a strategy.
- What we look for we will find.
- Without a shadow of a doubt, where we are looking we will end up going.
- If we're looking for the negative we will be in the negative.
- If we're looking for the positive we will be in the positive.
- If we're going to fulfill the dream God has for us, we cannot look in the natural.
- Things that can be shaken will be shaken.
- Things that cannot be shaken will remain!
- Look at the eternal promise, not the temporal.
- Look through what's going on now to what God is preparing for us.
So we do not lose heart. Though the outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
- If we live the God dream it will have eternal ramifications.
- If we focus only on what we can see in the here and now we will give way to discouragement and disappointment. And challenges, obstacles, and hurdles will take us out.
- We can't just focus on what we see!!
- If we give up in the midst of the pain we will never fulfill what God has for us.
- If what we see right now is all we see, then we will never see all there is to see.
- There's always a whole lot more to see then what we're seeing right now.
- See through our current circumstances to the eternal promise God has for our lives, for our future, for our destiny.
- We have to see through the here and now to the eternal promise God has for our lives.
- We have to go beyond!
- Life is just perspective.
- If we are going to fulfill the dream God has for our lives, we can't be caught up in what's in front of us.
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Send men to spy out the Land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief [leader] among them." So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Susi; from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hosea the son of Nun Joshua. Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canann and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit to the land." Noe the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. So they went up and spief out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath. They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt). And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, adn they carried it on a pole between them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there. At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hitties, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan." But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it." Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are." So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
- The promise is ahead of us.
- God has so much for us which is why we have to dream these dreams.
- It's not based on gift or talent, it's based on perspective.
- It's based on what we see and how we see.
- We have to have a strategy to achieve our dreams.
- There is some difficulty is seeing the dream come to pass. It's not guaranteed to be easy.
- There's going to be challenges, obstacles, and hurdles. But that doesn't mean God isn't in it.
- He's already made the promise and give it to us, but we are going have to work at a strategy to get what He's already given.
- When we get to the physical manifestations of the dream we are suppose to stop, because we lose the dream when we begin the "however's"
- If we could forget the "however's" more of us would fulfill the God dream.
- God hasn't asked us to give Him a statement of why it can't be done, He's already told us it will be done!!
- Stop with the rationalization, and the "however's"
- Keep our eyes on the eternal promise and not the temporal circumstances.
- We will never fulfill our God dream's if we put the facts about our circumstances above the truth of the Word of God!
- Look at the eternal and build our live's on the truth, because it's the only thing that will remain and the only thing that will take us into our future.
- God says, "I am giving you this dream and this promise."
- But once we lose perspective of God and begin to see the challenges, obstacles, and hurdles we will think that the dream is devouring and destroying us.
- If we don't step out of the boat and do what God is calling us to do and if we don't stay faithful in the path God has called us to, we will think that the dream/thing is destroying and devouring us.
- When our perspective changes, that thing, that blessing will no longer feel like a blessing.
- We won't fulfill our dream's if we take our eyes off the eternal and focus on the temporal.
- Continue to believe the eternal promise of God and not our temporal circumstances.
- At the end of the day we have to fix our eyes on Jesus.
- Don't focus on the giants!
- The challenges, obstacles, and hurdles are always there.
- It's not about the challenges, it's about our super-natural God and His promise and His super-natural ability.
- GOD IS ABLE!
- We have to believe God and we have to elevate our eyes to Him.
- Everyone has the ability, because it's Christ in us!!
- It's the choice of if we are going to focus on Him or focus on {fill in the blank}.
- There's going to be barriers, it's about finding ways around them.
- We are well able to overcome all the barriers!!!
- With God ALL things are possible!
- It's all a matter of perspective.
- We are well able!!
- Whatever our dream is there has to be a tenacity in us that says, "I am well able!"
- We can't go around saying, "Let me give you a list why it's impossible."
- What is impossible with man is possible with God!
- We need a "well able" spirit.
- What we look for we will find.
- Where we look we will end up going.
- It's all a matter of perspective if we're going to fulfill what God has for us.
- It's not excuses it's perspective. It's not gift or talent or anointing it's perspective.
- Are we going to keep an eternal God perspective and open up and see God do amazing things in our lives; or, are we going live based upon the natural and the here and now?
- Don't look at what we can see, but look at what we cannot see.
- Live by faith and move in the unseen not what is seen.
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