Title: Be Thou My Vision (4)
Series: Outside In
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Acts 13:1-4
"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it; Plan more than you can do, then do it; Point your arrow at a star, take your aim, and there you are; Arrange more time than you can spare, then spare it; Take on more than you can bear, then bear it; Plan your castle in the air, then build a ship to take you there." (Poem by an anonymous author)
It was a beautiful night, and the light of a full moon seeped thru the windows. Mom glanced at the clock and then told her young son "Jimmy, it's time to go to bed." So Jimmy went upstairs... and an hour or so later his mother came up to check on him. To her astonishment he wasn't in bed - he's staring out of his window. "What are you doing, Jimmy?" she asked. "I'm looking at the moon, Mommy." "Well, it's time to go to bed now." So reluctantly the boy got into bed, and then he said, "Mommy, you know one day I'm going to walk on the moon."
Well now... there's a dream for you. Jimmy planned his castle in the air and planned to build a ship to take him there. When Jimmy grew up, he got into a terrible motorcycle crash, and broke almost every bone in his body. But he never let that get in the way of his dream. Thirty-two years after he told his mother his desire to walk on the moon - JAMES IRWIN did exactly that. He walked on the moon. He was one of just 12 men that has ever done so. (David Salyer)
James Irwin had a dream to walk on the moon ... and he got it done.
Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) tells us "Where there is no vision, the people perish". Without a vision - without a dream - people perish. Having a dream is that important. God's people need to have visions - they need to dream... dreams.
And that brings us to our text for this morning. In Acts 13, we're introduced to a church with a vision - with a dream. How do I know they had a dream? THEY FASTED. "While they were worshiping the Lord and FASTING, the Holy Spirit sai ...
Series: Outside In
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Acts 13:1-4
"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it; Plan more than you can do, then do it; Point your arrow at a star, take your aim, and there you are; Arrange more time than you can spare, then spare it; Take on more than you can bear, then bear it; Plan your castle in the air, then build a ship to take you there." (Poem by an anonymous author)
It was a beautiful night, and the light of a full moon seeped thru the windows. Mom glanced at the clock and then told her young son "Jimmy, it's time to go to bed." So Jimmy went upstairs... and an hour or so later his mother came up to check on him. To her astonishment he wasn't in bed - he's staring out of his window. "What are you doing, Jimmy?" she asked. "I'm looking at the moon, Mommy." "Well, it's time to go to bed now." So reluctantly the boy got into bed, and then he said, "Mommy, you know one day I'm going to walk on the moon."
Well now... there's a dream for you. Jimmy planned his castle in the air and planned to build a ship to take him there. When Jimmy grew up, he got into a terrible motorcycle crash, and broke almost every bone in his body. But he never let that get in the way of his dream. Thirty-two years after he told his mother his desire to walk on the moon - JAMES IRWIN did exactly that. He walked on the moon. He was one of just 12 men that has ever done so. (David Salyer)
James Irwin had a dream to walk on the moon ... and he got it done.
Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) tells us "Where there is no vision, the people perish". Without a vision - without a dream - people perish. Having a dream is that important. God's people need to have visions - they need to dream... dreams.
And that brings us to our text for this morning. In Acts 13, we're introduced to a church with a vision - with a dream. How do I know they had a dream? THEY FASTED. "While they were worshiping the Lord and FASTING, the Holy Spirit sai ...
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