With God you can achieve the impossible.

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Bible Lessons
For Youth - The
Impossible
Dream
With God you can
achieve the impossible.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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Creative Youth Ideas
Go for the Gold
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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Destined to Win
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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