POWER STUDY - B60

[Albert Finch]

Dreaming With God

(Read Galatians 4 & Mark 16)

Psalm 37:4 4 Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.

(God wants us to be impacted by what we think and dream. God is after our desires. He’s after intimacy with us. He has opened Himself up to the desires of His people. He likes going back and forth waiting for our response. Most of our misunderstanding comes from the fact that we don’t know which of our desires come from God, and which are carnal. The word, “desire” is made up of the prefix “de” meaning “of” and “sire”, meaning “the Father”. Desire is by nature of the Father. But before we come to Christ our desires are corrupted because desire springs from what we commune with.
1. If we commune with greed, our desires wil be greedy.
2. If we commune with pornography our desire will be for perversity.
3. If we commune with anger over past hurt our desires will be for revenge.
But when we commune with the Father our desires are pure.)

Mark 11:24 - “Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you."

(Once we come into the kingdom, the straight and narrow road Jesus talked about, becomes broad and big. The kingdom is bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside. There is room for our desires, our creativity and our ideas. We don’t think or dream independent of God, but because of Him. He essentially said, “I am going to give you one huge idea and I want it to shape every breathe of your life, every bit of ministry, and every prayer. The idea is, “ on earth as it is in heaven.” Now go run with it! Make it happen.)

Mark 16:15 15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

(As in any collaborative effort the work we do with God bears our imprint with His so when we co-labor with God, the result looks like Him and like us. Eg: Each of the four gospels represents the same message, and yet each is unique and distinct because each of the authors were unique and distinct.)

Examples of Co-laboring in Scripture:
John 6:10-11 10And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

(The fish and the loaves multiplied as the disciples gave them out.)

Luke 10:1,19 1After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 19Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

(God furnished the authority and the power and the disciples furnished the faith and the willingness to go.)

Mark 4:37-40 37And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? 39And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

(The storm was an invitation for the disciples to see and co-labor in the solution supernaturally.)

Romans 8:25-26 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (Co-laboring with the Holy Spirit. Infirmities: weaknesses, present limitations, problems.)

Summary:

Dreaming with God releases deep reservoirs of creativity in each and every person in different areas of gifting and talent. But in many sectors of the church creativity is on lockdown because people fear their desires and dreams. God trusts the heart of a man who is lost in friendship with Him. As we come into intimacy with Him, more of what takes place is a result of our desires, not only of our receiving specific commands from heaven. God begins to feed off our wishes and desires as He fed off David’s desires. The temple does not even appear to be God’s idea but it was so good that He put it in His book and made it a part of His work on the planet. He will do the same thing with our ideas and desires.

AFFIRMATIONS:

I see what moves the Father and allow what moves Him to set my course.
I ask God to do a new thing through me.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY