Repentance Of Small Dreams.

Repentance Of Small Dreams.

Mark 11:22-24TPT

One of the first books written on aviation was, L.’ Empire de L’ Air, written by a French farmer, poet and student of flight. Louis Pierre Mouillard, considered the father of aviation, he spoke like a prophet crying in the wilderness, Exhorting the world to repent of its unbelief in the possibility of human flight.

I like that sentence a lot—repent of your unbelief.

Wilbur Wright read this book and it changed his thinking. The Wright brothers had no education, no crowd funding, and no friends in high places. All they had was a dream, but that's all it takes, if it's coupled with tenacious stick-to-it-ness.

Over and over again, the Wright brothers failed to fly, but they refused to give up. They learned from each and every failure until they defied gravity for 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, of the week December 17, 1903.

Again, it's not just our sins that we need to repent about—it’s our small dreams.

As a Senior Pastor of over 30 years, I believe this statement—The size of your dream may be the most accurate measure of the size of your God.

Jesus spoke some vital words in, Mark 11:22-24TPT Jesus replied, “Let the faith of God be in you! 23 Listen to the truth I speak to you: Whoever says to this mountain with great faith and does not doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done. 24 This is the reason I urge you to boldly believe for whatever you ask for in prayer—be convinced that you have received it and it will be yours.

Verse 22, Jesus states, “Let the faith of God be in you.”

The same faith that framed the world.

The same faith that saves the soul—Believing faith.

The same faith that cast out devils, while producing gifts and fruit for others as needed.

Colossians 1:27TPT Living within you is the Christ who floods you with the expectation of glory! This mystery of Christ, embedded within us, becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people, and God wants everyone to know it!

Again, Christ in you, the hope of glory.

If you’re born again, don’t tell me you don’t know about these riches. You possess the Savior of the World within you. P.H

Verse 23 of Mark 11, Jesus states, Whoever says to this mountain…What do you speak over your difficulties? Who addresses the mountain? Anger, frustration or faith? How about your emotions, does it depend whether you’re up or down? Do you address mountains?

Remember this, Complications are often a by-product of blessing.

Speak directly over what you need the mountain to do. Do you need it to be gone, or maybe, to multiply. Maybe you need to speak newness in. Fresh growth. Old out, freshness in!

Begin to believe that the impossible is only temporary.

Mark 11:22NIV “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.

God is calling us to repentance, repent of your small dreams and your small God.

It's also a dare, dare to go after a dream that is bigger than you are.

In the last 15 years here at CECC, we have been dreaming. We got more dreaming to do!

You see, we tend to think in terms of addition and subtraction, but God majors in multiplication. Remember the feeding of the five thousand? In that case, 5 plus 2 didn’t equal 7. In God’s kingdom, 5 plus 2 equals 5,000. Somehow there's more left over than when you started!

Here’s a powerful truth—When Jesus walked out of the tomb on the third day, the word impossible was deleted from our dictionary.

Let me set, Mark 9:23 up properly: Mark 9:17-18TPT A man spoke up out of the crowd. “Teacher,” he said, “I have a son possessed by a demon that makes him mute. I brought him here to you, Jesus. 18 Whenever the demon takes control of him, it knocks him down, and he foams at the mouth and gnashes his teeth, and his body becomes stiff as a board. I brought him to your disciples, hoping they could deliver him, but they were not able to do it.”

Jesus asks the boys father how long has his boy been doing this? The father spoke up, since he was a young child.

Then the father states in, Mark 9:22TPT “It tries over and over to kill him by throwing him into fire or into the water. But please, if you’re able to do something, anything—have compassion on us and help us!”

Backup and listen to Mark 9:19TPT Jesus said to the crowd, “Why are you such a faithless people? How much longer must I remain with you and put up with your unbelief? Now, bring the boy to me.”