It Starts with a Dream

Acts 2:14-21 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd:

“Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.  15  These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! 16  No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17  ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18  Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19  I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20  The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. 21  And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’” (NIV)

5 Types of People:

1. No dream

Jeremiah 33:3 “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” (NKJV)

2. A wrong dream

3. A stale dream

4. An unclear dream

Habakkuk 2:2 Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.” (NIV)

5. A God-honoring, culture-defying, heaven-impacting, seemingly impossible dream

• A God-Honoring Dream

• A Culture-Defying Dream

• A Heaven-Impacting Dream

• A Seemingly Impossible Dream

Mark 8:22-25 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?” 24 He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.” 25 Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.” (NIV)