My Pulpit Message - notes The Power of a Dream
My Pulpit Message Notes are extracted from the sermon preached at the Nairobi Baptist Church (NBC) Ngong Road on Sunday 27th March 2022. Preacher: Mr Robert Mbugua. Topic: The Power of a Dream. Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:1-12. 1 Chronicles 29:1-5. 1 Kings 8: 62-65.
Four simple thoughts 1. 2. 3. 4.
you etc, but David Ben Gurion had a dream of becoming food self-sufficient, of making a nation out of something that was never a nation. But what did he have to work with?
We need to dream big dreams. Big dreams will cost you big time. Big dreams are worth the big cost. God has a dream
He was given a country of Israel of which 50 per cent is a desert. Comparing the amount of rainfall in Israel and Kitui, in Israel you only get 31 mm of rain in southern Israel per year, in Kitui we get 900 mm of rain. Thus the amount of rain you get in Kitui in two weeks is what Israel gets in a whole year. Small land, desert, no water. And yet this man had a dream that basically he was going to turn around his country and make it food self-sufficient.
Definitions of a dream
A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. ‘I had a recurrent dream about falling from great heights.’ It Has that been successful? Yes. His massive dream has come to pass. Israel has been turned into an agricultural miracle. Looking at the cows in Isracould be a fantasy, nightmare, vision, hallucination. el, they produce the most per capita milk in the whole world. On average There is another kind of a dream that I will talk about;, it is a cherished an Israeli cow produces 13,000 litres of milk per year. And they need to aspiration, ambition, or ideal. Someone could say I fulfilled a childhood talk to the Kenyan cows which produce only 3000 litres of milk per cow dream when I became a champion. It is this second kind of dream and per year. more so a God given dream/ aspiJust this past week I was reading ration, ambition or ideal. an article from the chair or chief executive of the dairy board in Kenya saying that if it continues being dry, Kenya may need to start God had a big dream that we would all make it to heaven. importing milk shortly. Israel has been dry the whole year, but they He paid the price and for all for us to accept that price it’s are still producing 13,000 litres of milk per cow, the most of any cow worth the price that Jesus paid because we shall then be anywhere in the world This year is the 50th anniversaTomatoes ry of the last man landing on the able to meet again. The yield of tomatoes normally is moon and I thought of starting off 50 tonnes per hectare. Israel does with a clip J.f. Kennedy, sharing a six time that much, 300 tonnes per dream at Rice University of landhectare. ing on the moon in 1962 of ‘he chooses’, the American choose to Post harvest. go to the moon. It was a really amazing dream. Most countries lose about 20 per cent of their crop meaning that if you have 200 bags of produce anywhere in the world, 40 bags goes to waste. 2 Samuel 7:1-2 In Israel out of 200 bags only one goes to waste. It is the best ratio in the “After the king was settled in his palace and the LORD had given him rest whole world. from all his enemies around him, 2 he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here David Ben Gurion had a dream of turning around his country agriculturI am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.” ally and that dream has come to pass. Kind David had a dream. His dream was to build a wonderful temple for the LORD his God. Today I ask, what is your dream? JFK dreamt of going It goes beyond agriculture, looking at other things, southern Israel has beto the moon, something that had never been done. King David dreamt come the first region in the world to have the entire energy day time being of building a temple for his God? What is your dream? How big is your covered by solar. We are on the equator, but we still don’t have lights. But southern Israel, 100 per cent of their power covered by solar. dream? What kind of aspirations do you have?
1.We need to dream big dreams.
Wangari Maathai had a dream of dealing with Karura forest and the Green Belt Movement and making Kenya green. That was a big dream.
40 per cent of their water is desalinated from the sea. We have the ocean and basically we still don’t have water.
Eliud Kipchoge had a dream of doing the marathon in under two hours. JFK had a dream to go to the moon. Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel.
About 90 per cent of sewage water is reused for agriculture. It’s the best ratio anywhere in the world. No other country reaches even 50 per cent. USA is only nine per cent, Kenya is non-existent.
One leader, King David had a dream to build a temple, but David Ben Gurion also named after King David, came many years later and he decided he was going to have a dream to basically turn around his country. What is your dream? What is our dream collectively as a nation? What is your dream as a church? What is your dream as a family? What is your About 3000 years after King David another David became the leader of dream as a company? People who make a difference, must have a dream. Israel. In 1948, David Ben Gurion became the first Prime Minister of Israel. He had a dream of making Israel self-sufficient but all the cards stacked/odds were against him. Whenever you see people who have made a difference in the world, all of them, what they have in common is each of them has a dream and I ask again what is your dream? It is still early in 2022 and you still have an opportunity to start dreaming and dreaming big dreams.
Kitui in Kenya is 50 per cent bigger than Israel. If you have a dream and have excuses as to why you cannot achieve; a dream your mother dropped
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