Acts 2:17-18, Joel 2:28-32, Matthew 17:20

Matt Summerfield encourages us to be people who are captured by the possibility and not the problem in life

What lies at the heart of every person of vision is a deep dissatisfaction, frustration and complaint about the way things are.

A complaint is different from a concern. There are a lot of people in the world who are concerned about stuff, but they don't do anything about it.

You'll never catch God's vision for a new reality, unless you grasp God's broken heart over the present reality.

If we are going to be a 'Dream it, do it' people then we need to recognise the power of a problem. We need to pray that God will get our hearts beating and our blood boiling over the brokenness in our world! We need righteous indignation.

2. The power of a possibility

In Matthew 17:20 Jesus says to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible".

Jesus is saying that once you have recognised the 'mountain' that is your problem, don't spend all your days just looking at the mountain.

• Focus your attention on God. Your God is much bigger than your mountain.


• If you focus your attention on God, then even the smallest amount of faith will bring vision that will birth action that will see that mountain move.


• Nothing is impossible.

"Dream it! Do it!" people understand the power and importance of 'owning a problem', but they don't live in the problem. They live in a God-honouring vision with the power of the possibility that this mountain of a problem can be moved.

3. The power of perseverance

Thomas Edison once said, "Vision without execution is hallucination".

God's primary approach to see his vision realised in the world is to work through people. If you want to see God's vision come true then you have got to do something.

If you are going to do something then it's going to cost you. Vision has a price. It will cost you time, tears, money, relationships and more.

There will be many times on the journey to seeing a vision realised that you will ask yourself, 'Am I prepared to keep paying that price? Will I persevere?'