SMALL STEPS. BIG FUTURE.

Pastor Bryan – GOOD PLANS – SMALL STEPS. BIG FUTURE.

If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.

Proverbs 29:18 (MSG)

GUIDING THOUGHT: Everybody loves the idea of a better .

A marriage.
A life.
A faith.
A relationship.
A God-sized .

The issue usually isn’t the dream, it’s that God often starts than we .

You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “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.

Matthew 17:20

BIBLICAL TRUTH: God builds through obedience.

Small beginnings often whether we trust God’s process.

WHY WE STRUGGLE WITH SMALL

• Small too .
• Small feels .
• Small doesn’t look .
• Small requires more .

Sometimes we misread small as when God sees it as .

START WHERE YOU ARE (A case study on Zerubbabel)

1. Don’t what God starts .

Do not despise these small beginnings…

Zechariah 4:10

DEFINITION of DESPISE: To treat as , to , to hold in .      

         2. Trust the in the .

It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Zechariah 4:6

• God’s work is rarely built through It’s built through Spirit-led .

The same Spirit that gives the is the Spirit that the step.

Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the in Zerubbabel’s hand.

Zechariah 4:10

A GOOD REMINDER:

• Before God expands, He
• Before God increases, He .
• Before God elevates, He

         3. Take your Next 

If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed… Nothing would be impossible.

Matthew 17:20

• Jesus never asked for He asked for .

Small steps may not change your life , but they can change your direction .

Faith that .

Faith that .

Faith that .

FINAL THOUGHTS

Jesus small.

Zechariah small.

The Spirit small.

We with small obedience.

You don’t need the finished —you just need the next .