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So let me ask you this question: What do you expect from God?
“So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
– Matthew 6:31-33 How many of you want all things to be provided for you?
God didn’t say, “Guys, you put me in the top 10 priorities in your life and I’ll provide you with everything.”
No, He wants to be first.
God wants you to give your complete, total trust and commitment to Him.
He wants you to give all to Him so that He can give all things to you. If your commitment is small, He cannot give you all.
Big Dreams Require Big Change
Is there something you want to change in your life? There are two things you have to do:
1. Have big dreams 2. Make big change
By Bo Sanchez
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What does it mean to have big dreams? Donald Trump, a billionaire from New York, said, “If you are to dream, you might as well dream big.”
There’s this husband who goes to his wife and says, “Sweetheart, I’ve been watching our wedding videos and I love it.”
“Oh, that’s sweet, darling,” the wife says, elated.
And the husband says, “But I watch it in a particular way — on rewind.”
I’ve met a lot of married people who wish they were still single. They feel trapped and they want out.
Me? I see myself celebrating our 50th
wedding anniversary together with my children and my grandchildren. This is my big dream for my family and for my marriage. And because I have a dream, I work on it every day.
When you dream, don’t just say, “I want to have an OK marriage.” Say, “I want to have a great marriage. I want to grow old with my spouse.”
Have a big dream for every area of your life.
Sometimes I ask people, “What’s your dream for your finances?”
Some would say, “Oh, I just want to be able to pay the bills and eat three times a day.”
That’s not a dream. And these people would defend their answer by saying, “I’m just a simple person.”
It’s good that you’re detached from material things. But how about your poor neighbor who runs to you for help?
Life is not just about you.
You’re able to eat three times a day but what about the poor who can’t even eat a decent meal every day? Why not have a dream that includes other people? Why not say, “Lord, I want more than enough so I can help others”?
Small dreams won’t excite you so you won’t go anywhere. But big dreams will motivate you and, chances are, you will fulfill them.
But having a big dream isn’t enough. You also need to have big change. And that’s what Matthew 6:31-33 talks about.
Why would Jesus tell us to seek God first? Why didn’t He just say, “OK, why don’t you try making God no. 5 in your life today”? Then next month, maybe you can make Him no. 4. Then work up to making Him no.3?
God wants you to take massive action. Let’s say you want to quit smoking. There are two ways you can go about this.
One way is to do it slowly. If you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, when you wake up in the morning, you take one stick and throw it away. Then you go to work and smoke one pack minus one stick.
The next day, when you wake up in the morning, you get two sticks and throw them away. On the third day, you take three sticks and so on.
That’s the slow way of quitting cigarettes. There’s another way, which is total, complete, 100 percent radical.
You quit smoking completely and say, “That’s it.” You quit cold turkey.
Which do you think is the best way of giving up cigarettes — the slow way or the radical way?
Research after research reveals that slow change rarely works.
Do you know that rockets consume 80 percent of its fuel upon take-off? It takes massive action at the beginning so that it will blast off. And then it flies to the moon with only 20 percent of its fuel.
The same is true when you want to change something. Take radical action now and things will be easier later on.
Radical Action Equals Short-Term Wins
When you quit smoking slowly, you begin to feel better. You breathe easier. Your clothes don’t stink anymore. It happens right away. These immediate benefits are called short-
term wins.
That’s what happens when you take radical action.
Big change produces immediate benefits.
Small change produces delayed benefits.
Dean Ornish, an American doctor known for his lifestyle- driven approach to the control of coronary artery disease, would gather patients
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scheduled for a bypass operation and angioplasty. He’d invite them to undergo his program with the promise that they won’t need a procedure after that.
His program involves holing up his patients in a hotel for 30 days. There, he would control their food intake and put them on a vegetarian diet. They exercise daily, do yoga and learn breathing exercises to manage their stress.
After 30 days, 91 percent of his patients would no longer have chest pains. That’s a short-term win.
They made a survey of all his patients three years after completing his program and 70 percent of them have permanently changed their lifestyle.
Think about it: Thousands upon thousands of cardiologists tell their patients, “You’re going to have a heart attack if you don’t change your lifestyle. You’ll need an angioplasty, a bypass at worst. Why don’t you lessen your meat and exercise more?”
But do they change? No.
So why does Dean Ornish’s program work and others don’t?
Because there’s nothing radical in what the other cardiologists advise their patients. Because there’s no massive action, it doesn’t work.
Do you want to change anything in your life? Maybe it’s your temper. Maybe it’s a stubborn bad habit in your life. Maybe it’s your diet.
Whatever it is, take massive action now. That’s the only way you can change. And the only way you can take massive action every single day is to be in a relationship.
Relationships Help
Dean Ornish would be with his patients for 30 days. That relationship gave them hope to take massive action every day.
I’m a believer in small groups. You need relationships to support you as you change your life.
I cannot count the number of people who came up to me and say, “Bo, The Feast changed my life.” Sometimes, these men and women come up to me with tears running down their cheeks.
Why do people change through The Feast? First, we bring them into a relationship with God. And that relationship with God changes people.
Second, when you come to The Feast regularly, we develop a relationship. We may not sit together for coffee, or drink in a restaurant, but every Sunday you see me and I see you. That’s a relationship and it brings hope because I believe in you. I believe you can change. But you also need a close-knit group
of five to 10 people with whom you meet every week to pray together and encourage one another. That’s where our caring group comes in.
Dream Big, Start Small
Now let me clarify. If you have dreams where you want to add something new to your life, the formula is to dream big and
start small.
You want to put up a business and you’re not a businessman, then dream big and start small.
You want to be a marathoner and you don’t even run around the block, then dream big and start small.
But if you want to remove something old in your life — let’s say a nasty habit you want to get rid of — the formula is to dream
big and start big.
You want to change something in your life now?
Take massive action and enjoy short- term wins.
Comments? Email me at bosanchez@kerygmafamily. com.