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God builds your faith by giving you a dream!

 "Now glory be to God, who by  his mighty power at work within us is
 able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of             
 infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes."
 Ephesians 3:20 (LB)

 "If a dream comes from God, it will be so big in your life that you
 can't do it on your own. If you could do it on your own, you wouldn't
 need faith."

 Faith is like a muscle: it can be strengthened. It can be weak or it
 can be strong, depending on how much you use it.

 How does God build your faith? He uses a very predictable pattern that
 we will look at this week; and, if you understand it, you can
 cooperate with  him in developing greater faith. It's like when the
  father, seeking help from Jesus for his son, said, "Have pity on us
 and help us, if you possibly can!" (Mark 9:22 TEV)

 Jesus replied, "What do you mean, 'If I can'? . . . Anything is
 possible if a person believes." (Mark 9:23 NLT)

 The first thing God does to build your faith is give you a dream. When
 God wants to work in your life, he'll always gives you a dream—about
 yourself, about what he wants you to do, about how he's going to use
 your life to impact the world.

 There are many examples in the Bible of this.

 * God gave Noah the dream of building an ark.
 * God gave Abraham the dream of being the father of a great nation.
 * God gave Joseph the dream of being a leader that would save his
 people.
 * God gave Nehemiah the dream of building the wall around Jerusalem.

 How do you know when a dream is from God or when it's just something
 you've thought up yourself? The Bible tells us that God, "by his
 mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would
 ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest
 prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes." (Ephesians 3:20 LB)

 In other words, if a dream comes from God, it will be so big in your
 life that you can't do it on your own. If you could do it on your own,
 you wouldn't need faith. And if you don't have faith you're not
 pleasing God, because the Bible says whatever is not of faith is sin.
 (Roman 14:23)

 God starts to build your faith by giving you a dream. He may be
 speaking to you now, but you just don't recognize it for what it is.
 That dream you have—the idea, the concept —that thing you've been
 thinking about doing that would be of real benefit to other people,
 where do you think that idea came from?

 God will never tell you to do something that contradicts his truth. In
 other words, he won't give you a dream of leaving your family and kids
 and moving to Hollywood to be a movie star. If you've got that dream,
 then you can know it is not from God.

 God starts with a dream as he works within your life to build faith.
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