With God you can achieve the impossible.

1. Youth Devotional - The
Impossible Dream
With God you can
achieve the impossible.
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2. Doctors and scientists said it was impossible!
Man could not run a mile in less than 4 minutes!
He would die in the foolish attempt.
It was an Impossible Dream.
Our bone structure was wrong.
Wind resistance was too great.
We had inadequate lung power.
Our heart could not take the strain.
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3. 25 year-old Roger Bannister wasn’t listening.
He endured thousands of monotonous laps,
Around the same university track,
Determined to shape his body and his mind.
May 6, 1954, at Oxford University in England,
Was viewed as simply another attempt,
In a history of foolish attempts,
To achieve the Impossible Dream.
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4. Yet at the end of the race the stop-watches held a different view.
The results were announced.
‘Result of one mile… time, 3 minutes…’
The rest was lost in the roar of the crowd.
Roger Bannister blazed across the finish line,
In a time of 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds.
The Impossible Dream was now an event for the history books,
Considered one of the greatest feats in sports history.
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5. 46 days after Bannister’s breakthrough,
The record was broken again by a different runner.
By the end of 1957,
16 runners had achieved the Impossible.
Runners did not suddenly get “better” in those few short years.
They simply began to believe.
Running a mile in less than four minutes was not only possible,
It had been achieved!
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6. To date, 955 runners have achieved the Impossible Dream
Accomplishing the feat an incredible 4700+ times.
Many of life’s barriers and obstacles come from within.
We create limits for ourselves.
But once those barriers are broken,
We realize the biggest barriers are our beliefs.
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7. What beliefs are keeping you from achieving your dreams?
Don’t accept them. Don’t listen to the voices of doubt.
Forge ahead in faith and you too
Can achieve Impossible Dreams!
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8. “Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible,
but with God all things are possible.”
-Matthew 19:26
“But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because
he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by
the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything
from the Lord…”
- James 1:6-7
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9. Take it to the Next Level
Belief plays a significant part in the life of
believers. We believe in Christ for salvation. And
through our faith in Him, God does the
impossible. As William Carey, pioneer missionary of
the modern missions movement, said, “Expect
great things from God, attempt great things for
God.”
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10. And like Roger Bannister we may have seemingly
impossible dreams. As William Carey, pioneer
missionary of the modern missions movement, said,
“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for
God.” Unlike Roger Bannister, we don’t do things for
earthly accolades, but for the rewards of heaven, that
one day we might stand before God and hear, ‘Behold
my servant, in whom I am well pleased.”
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11. Applying it to life
• What are some of the things the world sees as
impossible that God does in the lives of youth
today?
• What barriers and doubts do youth face in the
Christian journey?
• What is something you need to believe God for in
your life?
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Need an evangelistic Youth Camp/ Bible
Study Series with an Olympic Theme?
What is salvation all about? What does it
mean to be saved? This sports themed
Bible Study / Camp Curriculum uses the
Olympic Flag to introduce the concepts of
sin (black circle), forgiveness (red circle),
purity (white background), spiritual growth
(green circle), heaven (Yellow Circle) and
(Baptism) blue circle.
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Go for the Gold
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Need a Youth Camp/ Bible Study Series
on ”Running the Christian Race”?
The race as a metaphor for the Christian
life is used in several places in the Bible.
This series is a great follow up for new
Christians or to re-emphasize the basics of
our spiritual Journey in the Faith. This
Bible Study / Camp Curriculum has a
sports theme and is great for athletes as
well as a tie in to the youth Olympic
Games.
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Destined to Win
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