The poorest man in this room is not a man or a woman that has no money it's a man or a woman
that has no dream God is a dream giving God people who change the world people who are
difference makers people who are leaders always have great dreams they're always thinking ahead
planning ahead they never stop thinking and if you study their life you'll discover that dreams
were a part of what drove them but a dream the power of that dream carried these people
it drove how they acted how they think how they talk how they respond they weren't negative they
were optimistic people what drove the way they think the dream so when God wants to bless you
he puts a dream in your heart don't be a dream killer don't step on the dreams of
others particularly your children encourage them great leaders and people always have a dream that
drives them that dream won't let them quit won't let them give up won't let them get too tired
it's the driving force of their life Walt Disney said if you can dream it you can do
it when Epcot was opened in the ribbon cut in Orlando Florida the mayor said to Mrs. Disney
it's too bad Walt didn't live to see this she said oh he saw it years before you saw it mayor
he saw it planned it and designed it that's what a dream is that's what a vision is George
Bernard Shaw said dream of things that never were and ask why not why not a faster airplane
why not a cell phone instead of a party line with a rotary dial right and so how do you look
at life or problems or limitations like why don't we do this why don't we try that break out of the
crowd build your own road dream about things that never were and say why can't we why not let's try
that let's do that those are people who change the world but everything that you're imagining
God puts everything he has for you and your imagination Albert Einstein had a
quote he said uh imagination is everything it's a preview to life's coming attractions
what actually happens is God puts your real life in your imagination
see this stuff that you've been imagining is not hocus pocus
God is showing you a preview of a coming attraction he has for you he puts it in your
imagination the problem with your imagination though is you tell it to the wrong people
that's the whole problem see if you want to kill a big dream tell it to a small-minded person
how many times has God showed you something so vividly clear that you just knew it was
perfect you shared it with your loved ones and your friends and they shot it down you know why
they shot it down because they couldn't see it you know why they couldn't see it because God
didn't show it to them he showed it to you God is in your imagination he ain't in your paycheck
he ain't in your current set of situations God is in your imagination all of you gifted all of you
have a gift God made you with a gift that brought all of you a gifted people understand man that God
has a really great life for you and he put it in your imagination be careful when you get a
dream who you share that with because people can discourage you depress you talk you out of it and
God doesn't want you to share that with everybody if you're going to share your dream share it with
people who have already achieved what you want who are not intimidated or threatened by your dream
they're already successful and perhaps they'll throw you a few crumbs to help you on your journey
and encourage you as some things your success will always be a threat to somebody else's insecurity
and not everybody will be excited about your dream people will generally grow to the size of their
problem not to the size of their potential dreams help you grow to your full potential
you will either live up to your dreams or down to your doubts dreams motivate us they inspire us
they fuel us their nuclear energy they make you burn they put you on fire most people lack energy
today because they lack a dream but I believe your strength is in proportion to your dream
dream problems are the best problems and if you're going to have problems and by the way
I don't care who you are you're going to have problems everybody has the only thing common to
all of us problems Jesus said in this world you're going to have adversity tribulation because you're
going to have problems anyway well why not have problems because of the dream you have
that's a good problem to have but if you dream and you're going to challenge the status quo
you're going to have problems those are good problems because you're on your way to following
the dream God gave you if all people ever tell you who have victory is about their victory
and they never tell you what it took to get there and how many times they wanted to give up and quit
then you begin to think that there's something wrong with you but let me tell you something
everybody that's going to do anything amazing with their life is going to have to go through
some of the similar things everybody there's nothing wrong with you you're just in training
keep dreaming wherever you are I hear people say I'm too old I'm too young I'm a single mother
no matter who you are no matter where you are you can dream well everybody's got an
excuse and excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted there's always a reason to quit
but you can keep dreaming wherever you are in life Ray Kroc was 54 years old Chicago salesman who got
an idea San Bernardino California and McDonald's well the rest is history mosses was 80 years old
when he got the dream and the call from God to be a deliverer Colonel Sanders was 65 years old when
he started his journey to Kentucky Fried Chicken and every dream faces the frustration of delay
you know I was thinking the other day it's just better to face the frustration of delay
than take a detour less than your dream the old prophet Habakkuk says though the vision tarry
wait on it it will surely come to pass but delay is not denial when God gives you a dream
if he has to prolong your life he will till the dream comes true Habakkuk two and two it says
write the vision and make it plain so that he who reads it will run to it and even though it tarry
that mean take a long time wait for it for surely it will come at an appointed time
you have to write it if it's not written you reduce your chances greatly of it ever occurring
today's discipline will determine tomorrow's success if you do what you have to do when you
have to do it one day you'll get what to do what you want to do when you want to do it what you
put off today will always cost you more tomorrow two main reasons our dreams break down number one
we quit believing in God and number two we quit believing in ourselves I know people who believe
in God but they don't believe in themselves I know people who believe in themselves but
they don't believe in God neither of you will take you very far it's God and us partnering together
great leaders are dreamers people who make a difference are dreamers they understand the
process of a dream so why not dream big love big give big dream big give big forgive big
be a big life person because we have a big God with unlimited potential