The Most Excellent Way to Lead / Do I Understand How Big God Is?

The Most Excellent Way To Lead

Day 3 of 7 Do I Understand How Big God Is? God always wants more for us than we want for ourselves.  Jesus said we would do greater things than He did. If we believe Jesus is who He says He is, and we take Him at His word, why shouldn't we expect to see the things that happened in Scripture happen in our time? Why wouldn't we believe God can start and grow a movement like the church the same way He did in the book of Acts? What's stopping us from asking God to transform entire communities? Why can't we believe God will perform modern day miracles? Most of the time, our biggest obstacle is us. Maybe we've stopped dreaming. Or, maybe we're refusing to share our dreams out loud because we fear that God's reputation might be at stake. God's reputation is fine. It's our reputation as leaders that we fear taking a hit. The dreams in our hearts were planted by God who loves us! God is so much bigger than our greatest fears or obstacles! It's good to celebrate the past, but that should never stop us from anticipating the future. The day we stop following the dreams God has put in us is the day we allow ourselves to go into cruise control. When our biggest desire starts to shift from seeing God do great things to making everyone as comfortable as possible, we know we're losing sight of how big God is.  Fight the urge to maintain the status quo. Instead, do everything possible to advance the cause God placed in your heart. Stay focused on what could be rather than what has been.  What's Next:  What is one impossible thing you want to see God do in your ministry, your job, or your community?  Are you celebrating the past more than you are anticipating the future? What's one decision you need to make to advance your cause and stay focused on the future? Isaiah 40:25-31 John 14:10-12 Isaiah 40:25-31 KJV 25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord , and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord , the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. John 14:10-12 KJV 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.