POWER STUDY - C60

[Albert Finch]

Dreaming With God
(Read Acts 13 and 18)

Matthew 28:18-20 18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

(We can’t rely on God to do everything. We can’t demand that He comes up with all the solutions; we must co-labor with Him. As we come into an intimate place with the Lord, the more He blesses the labor of our hands with creativity and new ideas. The church won’t transform cities by continuous revival meetings but by allowing kingdom creativity and power to flow into communities.)

The Tree of Life

Genesis 2:9 9Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

(When Adam and Eve partook of the tree of the forbidden fruit, an angel blocked the way to the tree of life. It was not punishment; the tree of life added an eternal aspect to whatever it touched i.e. if sinful man had partaken of the tree of life, mankind would have been permanently locked into a sinful condition.)

Revelation 22:2 2in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve £kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

(The book of Revelation depicts a picture of believers partaking of it’s fruit in the future.)

Proverbs 13:12,19 12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life. 19Desire realized is sweet to the soul, But it is an abomination to fools to turn away from evil.

(The tree of life in Proverbs tells us what can happen right now. We can partake of the fruit of this tree in our everyday lives at this present time. God has figuratively placed this tree within our reach; and every bite of it’s fruit releases in us strength and eternal courage – a sense of destiny and purpose. Where does that tree come from? It comes from the fulfillment of our individual, unique, god-given desires. Desire is a part of God’s system – His economy. He draws us into intimate friendship with Him then He responds to our desires and prayers and answers them. When He does it releases the courage of eternity into us.)

Summary:

In a relationship with the Lord there is an exchange in His presence and it shapes passion and dreams in us. Unfortunately religion has programmed us to shutdown anything that might be a personal desire. Many Christians never feel the liberty to creatively express what God is saying and doing in them personally. When our desires go unfulfilled our bodies and spirits suffer together. One of the causes of sickness and disease is disappointment that is never dealt with redemptively. People go through a disappointing circumstance and never get before God to have Him heal the hurts that pour out from their soul. The physical inevitability reflects what is going on.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY