We've all heard the quote, "Don't be so heavenly minded that you're no earthly good" but the problem with people today is that they are so eartly minded that they have become no heavenly good. We focus so much on the things that are going on around us that we are dragged down by them and this is not what God intended. He intended for us to set our minds on things above and to look forward to our Hope. As Paul sit in custody of the Romans he had a lot he could have become depressed about, difficult places, difficult people, and a difficult path set before him, but because he remained heavenly minded God was able to use those experiences for the furtherance of the gospel. Can we allow God to use our life for the same, the good, the bad and the ugly, we can if we are heavenly minded.

One of mankinds greatest fears is darkness but can you imagine being in darkness forever, well there are those that are in spiritual darkness today and will chose to remain that way. In this sermon we find a man that was blind, but he could see more than many of the others around him. When Jesus passed through Jerico he wouldn't let his healing pass by. How would you respond if you knew that it was the last opprtunity for you to meet with Jesus? Would you cry out to Him, would you lay down your pride? Would you meet Him with awe and humility? I'm sure it would be much different than how many treat Him each day. Bartimaeus was desperate, determined, heard and healed. You have that same oppretunity today if you just cry out to Jesus. Don't let Him pass you by.

When you think about the ultimate dreamer in the Bible who comes to mind? Think about it, it has to be God. I mean He thought all of the things that you see into existance. Even the human body is a marvel of His imagination. This morning I want to show you four ways that God was the ultimate dreamer; He was the ultimate dreamer in creation, in us, in salvaiton, restoration.

Some of us spend our entire life chasing a shadow; a person that we want to be, a father that was a great man of God, or a mother that was a great servant.But there are others here today that may spend their life running from a shadow; a name, mistake, something that haunts them, or even defines them in the eyes of others. Three things to remember about chasing dreams; everyone has a dream, dreams can't be stolen only surrendered, at times they may seem impossible.

Last week we looked at the dreams that God had placed in Joseph's life and I challenged you to chase your dreams but one of the biggest problems with chasing your dreams is that everywhere we look there are those things that want to steal our dreams away. Every step of the way something tryed to steal the dream that Jospeh had been given. There were 7 stages that Joseph went through to get to where God wanted him to be. In each place it may have seemed impossible to see what God was doing, but what may seem impossible to us is always possible to God. Do you have the faith to trust God in the impossible?

We’ve all heard the saying, “So close yet so far away.” Well that could pretty much sum up the life of Peter as a disciple. There are moments when he seems like the ultimate follower, but other times that make you question his loyalty altogether. But I bet if you could look at our lives in a book you would see pretty much the same thing. There are some things that we need to know once we have fallen they are; God's plan is greater than Satans power and God's forgiveness is greater than our failures.

As Paul reminded us in Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. This battle is spiritual warfare at its core, Jesus verses Satan. There are three lessons that Jesus teaches us that Satan offers that we can overcome; a counterfit gospel, a corruptible future, and a crumbling future.

Spiritual warfare isn't just angels and demons, or Satan and God, or even man and evil, but its man and flesh. Every day we fight a battle with the flesh. We are all captives to this sinful nature, but that doesn't mean that we have to let it reign in our bodies, so how do we overcome it. In Romans 7 Paul deals with the conflict of the war within and how to overcome through the power of Christ Jesus.

What does it mean to stay the course as a christian? We are faced with so many difficult situations. So many things try to turn us around, but there is on one man in the Bible that stands out above all others that faced overwhelming odds yet stayed faithful to God. In this sermon we look at the pressure points in Job's life, the pivot point, and his source of perseverance.

Snakes are one of mankinds greatest fears, that fear is no doubt tied to the picture of Satan in the Garden of Eden, and ever since that time Satan has been trying his hardest to defeat, distract and discourage mankind. Out of all the ways that he works one of the greatest is though other people, so how do we repond when something bad happens or when someone attacks us? In Acts 28:1-10 Paul shows us why that we as believers must overcome snakebites, those reasons being; people are watching us, we may never get another chance, and we have a greater task ahead of us. It doesn't matter if you're living a faithful life or a unfaithful life, Satan's job is to devour, we have to chose if we are going to let him, or if we are going to let Jesus deliver us.