DREAM - Seize Your Tomorrow Today 2

Christian can go over the resume of building a table for God is an example of dreaming brick even bigger than his own long-sought oil to the report of the Jeremiah continues his new series with a closer look at the importance of trusting God with your dreams as you follow him.

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3C0 tomorrow today. I can't wait to tell you some of the stories that are involved in today's message about dreaming and having vision. So what does it mean to have a vision that captures the future and how does that look every day for you and me and how does the Bible illustrate that for us again from the Scripture and from my heart is this first step in going forward, it's the dream seems your tomorrow today one of our family Christmas traditions in the Jeremiah family is assembling jigsaw puzzle.

This year's grandson David Todd joined in enjoyed it so much that he told his roommates about it when he got back to college and they decided to tackle a puzzle together.

To my amazement, they bought a 2000 piece puzzle.

I've never even thought of doing what about many pieces. So what his friends do. Determined to complete what they started.

They took 10 days to finish the puzzle around their regular obligations and then I got a phone call from a very frustrated David Todd is probably puzzle is done, but we can find the last piece. There's one piece missing one piece out of 2000. So what did he do they went back to the store they bought the very same puzzle in another box they use the box top as a guide and they went through all 2000 pieces of that other puzzle they found the culprit and with great satisfaction. They snapped that final piece in the place. The completed puzzle now hangs on the wall, bearing the signatures of everyone who helped. I don't know if I would ever have the determination to do that. I mean the puzzle is just a fun project. A simple shared goal among a bunch of friends but there determination to achieve that goal was real. The picture on the box top was both vision and guide showing them their goal as well as the exact puzzle piece they needed to achieve it.

God's vision as a guide for you to follow to and when God places his dream in your heart, you become more determined and dedicated.

As you press on to make sure the work is finished. So Richard dream and history reproduce it in the picture reinforce it with determination. Number four.

Reconcile your dream with its cost.

As you build your vision be willing to sacrifice. Let me try something that's without possibility of contradiction dreams are costly dreams are costly. As David found out when God led him to purchase some land for the temple at a high spot in the area. Here's the story this place was owned by dining room at the Jebusite he used to use the high location for its winds to flesh out his wheat shaft would blow away and the grains of wheat would collected and then he would sell them as they approached Corona for this valuable site.

The most desirable location in Jerusalem. Here's what happened because he was the venerable King of Israel. He could have seized the land he could've just taken it. That may be why Arruda offered to donate to him.

He said King David. This is my land you want to build so you cannot let me just give it to, but David said in second Samuel 2424 no no no I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing.

Big dreams are expensive experience to fulfill dream. You know what I'm talking about the cost comes in money and energy in criticism and unbelief in unplanned obstructions and unfaithful helpers and a multitude of other very discouraging things. I think Jesus was trying to help us with this when he said, for which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it or what king going to make war against another king is not sit down first and consider whether he is able with 10,000 to meet him who comes against him with 20,000 your dream may not involve building a tower or going to war, but hear me now, there are still a cost involved.

If you want to see it through.

Not understanding that cost upfront can cause you to give up on your dream when you hit the first hurdle, Dorothea Dix was a woman who understood the cost of the drain. She was born in Maine in 1802 and ran away from home at the age of 12 to escape her alcoholic family and abusive father.

She lived with her grandmother in Boston. By the age of 14 she was teaching in a school for girls. Eventually, she was asked to teach a Sunday school class of women in the prison housing the insane and mentally disturbed who at that time were jailed alongside criminals and treated like animals. Many of these souls were called in naked and kept in darkness and change the laws and even flawed. Dorothea determined with all her heart to help these wretched castaways from society and she devoted the rest of her life to relentless vision for prison reform.

She visited penitentiaries filed reports. She testified before legislature.

She wrote article. She gave speeches.

She initiated reform. She visited hundreds of prisons and jails, and everywhere she went. She grappled with the level of suffering that made her sick in her trademark bonnet and cashmere shawl Dorothea log more than 60,000 miles by train, encourage testifying that God's providence was fighting her path horse man said she had a divine magnetism.

Dorothea was among the first American reformers to speak up for mentally ill children and what her proposals were voted down in state legislatures. She just redoubled her efforts. Traveling abroad, she champion prison reform for the mentally disabled across Britain throughout Europe and when the Civil War broke out in America. She was named chief of Army nurses for the union and wore herself out organizing medical care for wounded soldiers. When the war ended, she was 63 years old and weighed 95 pounds, but she was far from finished, Dorothea hit the road again on behalf of the mentally ill spending another 15 years traveling between Maine and California establishing ministries for societies, forgotten victims, it would seem all my work is never to be done.

She wrote that she kept on working for the last 50 years of her life. Dorothea had no home, she simply lived in the quarters of the 123 asylums and hospitals that she found she passed away at the age of 85 in Matthew 25, 35 to 36 was read at her funeral. Here's what that says I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. Dorothea paid a huge price in pursuing her dream, but she also received a great reward mainly improvements across the globe in the treatments of millions of people suffering from mental illness because she paid for her efforts were real but the benefits are still rippling throughout our world today, you have to reconcile your dreams with cost. If you're looking for cheap, easy way to get where you want to go just stop right now there is no such thing to realize your dream if it's a God-given drain. There's a price to pay, but I promise you it is a price worth paying. Finally release your dream to your legacy. Looking back on this period of Israel's history. One thing jumps out at me and here it is. This was David's dream ended up being called Solomon's Temple datastream Solomon's Temple city. David not only accepted that he made that happen.

It was his dream all right.

But when the dream was not going to be realized in his life and God said, pass it on to your son David refused to allow his dream to die when he died, and although he was not allowed to build the temple the Lord gave him the construction details which he passed on to his own son, Solomon what he said, consider now Solomon for the Lord has chosen you to build the house for the sanctuary.

Be strong and do it. Then David gave his son Solomon. The plans for the vestibule, its houses, its treasuries as upper chambers, its inner chambers and the place of the mercy seat and the plans for all that he had by the spirit of the courts of the house of the Lord of all the chambers all around the treasuries of the house of God and of the treasuries from the dedicated thing is a passage about ones at all me what the Holy Spirit had instructed David with the specific details of the temple and David in turn pass them on to his son Solomon. I can imagine David transferring that information from God onto an architectural blueprint and laying it out before Solomon and saying there is boy God gave this to me and this is what you're going to build. David had dreamed of building a permanent place where God could be worship and he determined to leave something behind that would honor the Lord. It was his dream and the resources he put in that place that allowed his son Solomon to move quickly toward the construction of the temple. David's instructions to his son Solomon had been a charge to pastors and missionaries.

Christian workers ever since first Chronicles 28, 20 be strong and of good courage, and do it. Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God will be with you.

He will not leave you nor forsake you until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord friends. This story illustrates how it's possible to achieve something after your death that could not have been achieved during your life. Before he died. David decided to pass on something that would live on after him from his life. We can learn the great importance of dreaming beyond the span of your years. How can God use us, what is something he could do through each of us. After were gone. Well, what I think about question. I often think about this. I remember as a young man when I turned 16, my parents gave me a copy of the Scofield reference Bible.

It was part of my spiritual education. I still have the Bible and I cherish it. It was really the only reference Bible that there was back then that I know about it was the standard reference Bible. During my growing up years. Even though it was copyrighted in 1909 years after its inception years after CI Scofield put that whole study Bible together.

It was still helping people like me understand what the Bible says what the Bible means and what the Bible means for me and I can only hope and pray that in some small way. Jeremiah study Bible, which was released in 2013 will have that same impact on some future student of the Scriptures.

One Sunday afternoon in 1771, a man named Valentin Holly ducked into a restaurant in Paris for dinner set the stage and the show that evening featuring blind people and a comedy routine.

They were objects of ridicule and cruelty. The act was designed to make fun of their blindness deeply offended how he began to develop a burden for the blind.

Sometime later he spotted a cypress tree urchin who was begging for coins outside the Parisian church to bring the boys some money.

Holly was amazed to see the boy feel the race markings on the coins and distinguish the amounts that gave Holly an idea. Why couldn't books be written with raised letters like images on coins.

Why couldn't people learn to read with their fingers. Holly took the boy off the streets offered him food and shelter and devised a plan with wooden blocks and numbers and taught the boy to read in 1784 Holly started the world's first school for blind children. It was in Paris and one of the first teachers was the blind boy rescued from the streets, but that's just the beginning. Several years later another boy named Louis was born in the village Goodwin France. His father was a farmer and a harness maker and as a toddler. Louis love watching his father work with leather tools. Tragedy struck in 1812, 13-year-old Lois began playing with the leftover scrap of leather trying to punch holes in it is him slipped in the sharp tool punctured and put out as I and infection set in that spread to the other. I and little Louis and blinded in both eyes for his whole life.

A local minister named Jacques Poole. I love the boy and begin visiting him to read in the Bible saying the boy had a good mind father Jacques determine he could receive an education so at age 10, Louis was enrolled in the school. Holly had established in Paris where he proved to be a brilliant student eventually Louis began teaching other students in the Paris school for the blind study house method of reading. He also became aware of a system of military communication, develop by a French army captain that allowed soldiers to communicate in the dark by running their fingers over a series of dots and dashes, though still a teenager really braille began adopting these systems into a program of his own, and in 1829 at age 20 published a little book on the braille method of reading, the school resided in a damp building by the river same was cold and unhealthy in the food and conditions were poor. Lori got tuberculosis, but he continued working on his system of reading, which began touching on and soon was being exported all over the world as his health failed. Lori said, I am convinced my mission on earth has been accomplished. I asked God to carry me away from this world apart from just a moment with me and think of the chain reaction of that cascading green one man developed a burden for the blind. When he Saul ridiculed actors on stage and a better boy on the streets. This burden led him to establish a school and attempted a system of reading, then a local pastor developed a burden for blind boy in another village and taught him. The Bible and long to send him to school and back blind child. Louis braille develop a burden to improve and expand Holly's work in the world was changed and as result, millions of sightless souls have experienced the joy of reading the Bible and other books for themselves now for almost 2 centuries. We may have recorded a language for the blind or build a temple for the Lord.

But please remember there are no small tasks in the Lord's work and no insignificant dreams. Our work is never routine our labor is never wasted and our legacy is capable of outliving us. I've always loved radio and everything about radio from sitting next to the radio as a child with my ear to the speaker so I can listen to the Lone Ranger or the shadow putting together night radio kits. As a teenager, for reasons I can't explain.

I have always loved radio and radio has had a mysterious hold over me as far back as I can remember when I became a student at suitable College in 1959 I was given the radial opportunity of a lifetime for your Christian FM station was being launched in Springfield, Ohio just 15 miles from my home. I don't remember how it happened but I was able to petition for an on-air announcing position. Have I got the job every day Monday through Friday I drove to Springfield to do the 3 to 11 shift on WEC FM. I did the news I hosted the calling music shows I came up and played radio programs like back to the Bible and unshackled.

I loved every minute of it and when I was asked to help start a radio station on the campus of Cedarville College. I teamed up with Paul Gaffney, a college classmate and my girlfriend and soon-to-be wife Donna Thompson and relaunched W CDR FM station had a humble beginning was a 12 W transmitter on the third floor of the administration building used to joke with each other that I'm a good that you could hear that station on the first floor but in time.

That station grew to a network of stations that literally covered the entire Miami Valley with great Christian music and the message of the gospel. I personally believe that God used the CDR to help grow Cedarville College when I was a junior in college, God called me into the ministry. It was absolutely definitely clear to me that I was to become a preacher of the gospel.

So I immediately enrolled in Dallas theological seminary. Donna and I got married right after graduation from college and we headed off to Texas for four years of postgraduate learning. My greatest regret if I could call it that, was this. I loved radio. I have spent most of my life involved with radio that now it appeared God was leading me in a totally different direction in terms of my vocation and lifelong calling radio was put on hold for four years while I worked on my Masters degree but what happened after that is one of the most amazing stories of my life. After a short stint as a youth pastor in New Jersey in 12 years as a pastor of a startup church in Fort Wayne, Indiana accepted the call to Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego in the next year I began a local five days a week teaching program on a Christian station in San Diego. Salem radios KP RC station manager David Ruhlman help me get started in this new format and the rest is history. Today Turning Point hits the airwaves on more than 3000 radio stations in the United States and on many of those stations. The program is heard two or three times per day. Momento disassembled the Spanish edition of Turning Point is heard in every country where Spanish is spoken. We broadcast more than 121,000 radio programs and 4050 television programs outside United States every year. So you can see God do not call me into the ministry to take my dream away. He called me into the ministry because my dream was way too small and had a much better and much bigger plan for my life and as a result of those experiences I've learned I can trust God with my dreams even as I move forward toward his plans for my life and I told you all the stories and shared all of this gospel message from the Bible to tell you one thing you can trust God with his vision for your life.

You can be like Nehemiah who said God put it in my heart and would God put something in your heart and gives you a dream. Never stop until you've realized it, and you will be the most blessed person on the face of God's green earth, take a break for the weekend to come back on Monday were going to talk about play how to consult with your creator. When God gives you a dream he doesn't abandon you to your dream and gives you the dream and then step-by-step. He walks with you is that dream is as realized in your life is an amazing thing to see how this happens.

Pray at the beginning of the dream lover and God is with you every step of the way is your copilot he will go with you if this is from him of a great week and friends will see you Monday.

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