This is “Picking Up Dropped Dreams.” God gives His people a dream, a purpose, a mission … a plan for their life. It’s a designated end; it’s a vision of where you will be with God’s hand upon your life. But hell wants to send a nightmare to steal your dream. In this message with Jentezen Franklin, learn that no matter where you are in life—your dream is still alive! Don’t miss opportunity because of opposition.

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connection I will not give up I will not

let her because I know what God has

promised me he’s laid his hand on you he

started it

he’s going to finish it he promised it

he’s going to perform it

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if you have your Bibles I’d like for you

to open them to the book of Genesis

chapter 21 I want to talk to you today

about picking up dropped dreams picking

up drop dreams and I’ll show you where

this is and in the scripture but I think

a lot of times that we need to

understand that God is a God who gives

his people a dream a purpose a mission a

plan for their life a dream is is a

god-given projected destiny

it means you see it out there or

something that God shows you that he

says this is this is who I I see in you

and that’s called a dream it’s a

designated in it’s a vision of where I

shall be when God places his hand upon

my life and there’s no question that God

has a dream for every person but with

that dream always comes with God’s dream

there always comes hell’s nightmare to

try to steal that dream and if you don’t

learn to endure the nightmare you will

never experience the dream so many

people give up and quit because they

have a dream planted by God in their

heart but then comes the nightmare I

want to show you that this is a biblical

pattern I want to show you that it is

impossible for God to give a person a

dream and he does give people dreams for

their life a desired in a dream again is

a projected destiny of where you shall

be where your family shall be or your

marriage shall be where your life shall

be and never does God plant back in your

heart with that dream that

enemy doesn’t come with his nightmare

the dream is your destiny the dream

tells you where you’re going the

nightmare is your pathway to it your

adversity will advance you the nightmare

is the pathway to the dream that you’re

called to Calvary was the pathway to the

dream of the church God said I have a

dream I want a church jesus said I’ll

build my church and the gates of Hell

will not prevail against it and Hale

said I don’t think so

we’ll stop you we’ll nail you to a cross

but when Jesus stepped out of that tomb

guess what the nightmare became the

pathway to the dream the purpose of the

dream is twofold the purpose of the

dream is to give you a sense of destiny

that you’re not just here wandering

through life that there is a sense of

destiny purpose and calling that is upon

your life and you don’t have to be in

ministry to have a dream God has a dream

for every person you’re not an accident

and the dream is about a sense of

destiny on your life the second purpose

of a dream is to inspire you to reach

for it to stretch to get out of your

comfort zone to go beyond what you think

you think you’re capable of doing that’s

what a dream that God plants in your

heart will do for you the nightmare is

threefold

the nightmare when you’re going through

darkness when you’re going through trial

when you’re going through setback and

adversity then guess what you’re gonna

find out three things the nightmare is

about self-discovery you’re gonna find

out who you are you’re gonna find out

that your security cannot be in what

other people say or feel about you that

at some point you have to get something

inside of you that says I believe it and

I don’t care what anybody says I know

what God has told me and you find out

who you are and not only is the

nightmare about self-discovery but it’s

also about God discovery you’ll find

more about God in the darkness in your

life than you will in the sunshine days

God said I dwell in thick darkness he

so he said that he said I’d dwell in

thick darkness in other words if you

want to know more about God then he

allows you to go through darkness it’s

not God’s will for you to always be in

Sun shiny successful beautiful days but

actually you’ll learn more about God and

who he is in the dark places in the

lonely places in the times when you

don’t understand and you feel forgotten

and you don’t know who you are anymore

and you don’t know what’s happening

anymore

and God is strangely silent and many of

you’re walking through that kind of

darkness and you don’t want to be alone

but God has you alone he has you

cornered I promise you he’s doing a

mighty mighty work in your life you’re

gonna find out who you are and you’re

gonna find out who God is and the

nightmare thirdly is to shut the devil’s

mouth when your nightmare is over like

Jobe it will shut the devil’s mouth when

your nightmare is over

it’s going to cause the voice of hell

that voice that tells you God is a liar

and you are no good and you’ll never do

and be anything and all of those lies

that hell screams at us you might as

well give up you might as well take your

life you might as well know you just

don’t have it you’re a failure that

nightmare is going to shut the devil’s

mouth when God turns it around and I

promise you he will turn it around

do you realize everything that has been

built is the direct result of a dream

and persistence to that dream of someone

who would not give up Jesus proved that

you’ve got to go beyond the nightmare

to get to the dream when he hung on the

cross and he rose the third day job

proved that if you will endure the

nightmare you will experience the dream

and God blessed him double even Joseph

had a dream but then came the nightmare

but the nightmare the prison was the pit

the prison the false accusation

it was the pathway to the dream and if

you can endure the nightmare you’ll

never experience and Walt in the dream

the closer you get to the fulfillment of

your dream the tougher that it gets this

is true and you see it on the sports

field in football you’ll see the tall

skinny fast wide receivers run down the

field they’ll pick up 20 30 40 50 60 70

yards but when they get down to the

five-yard line you’ll see the defense on

the other side trade out and out goes

some pretty big guys but then comes in

the behemoth guys they weigh about 400

pounds they’re mean their breath stinks

they said they’d look right there at you

like if you try to come five more yards

I will rip your head off and some of you

right now are facing some behemoth

demons you’ve never faced anything like

it and you don’t understand why and it’s

just a sign that you’re closer than

you’ve ever been before

I still believe that some of you are so

close that Hill has brought out its

biggest demons to get you to give up in

the middle of the nightmare so that

you’ll never experience the dream I’m

preaching to you today I’m preaching to

you today the purpose of the nightmare

is to discourage you to give up on the

dream you know somebody said many years

ago anything worth doing is worth doing

wail but here’s the new one for you

anything worth doing is worth bailing at

and that’s why you have to endure the

nightmare because if you want to give

yourself to something give yourself to

something that’s worth failing over

Christlikeness is worth failing over

maybe maybe I’m not like Christ like I

want to be but even if I’m fail

my way toward being like Christ at least

I’m trying I don’t let non-christian

people tell me how to be a better

Christian at least I’m trying at least

I’m striving at least I’m reaching

you’re not a failure because you fail

you’re failure because you quit the

nightmare was the pathway to the dream

for Joseph the nightmare was the pathway

for the dream for Joe the nightmare was

the pathway for the dream for Jesus

don’t let the nightmare steal your dream

Genesis 28 Jacob went to Bethel and he

put his head on a stone and God opened

up the heavens and gave him a dream for

his life if you put your head on the

rock God will give you your dream get

your head in the right place and the

heavens will open God’s dream for your

life will come when you start putting

your head in the right place if you get

the dream from heaven

notice that the pillow became a pillar

that texia said he then made it a pillar

and he poured all on it and he built the

house of God death ale the pillow became

a pillar and if you get a dream from

heaven

you can build on it you can build your

life on it what God tells you he’ll

perform what are you laying your head on

John laid his head on Jesus chest and

that’s how he could endure the nightmare

of the island of Patmos he was alone

there on that island

but suddenly because he knew where to

put his head he knew where to lean he

knew where to rest it was Jesus God gave

him and took him into heaven and gave

him the 22 chapters of the book of

Revelation because he had a dream while

he was living a nightmare

I’m telling you that you can’t get one

without the other I’m preaching to

somebody who needs to get some

determination I’m preaching to somebody

who needs to get a spirit that says I

will not quit I will not give up I will

not let her because I know what God has

promised me he’s laid his hand on you he

started it

he’s going to finish it he promised it

he’s going to perform it the nightmare

gets loud the closer you get to the

dream and God at the same time often

chooses to go solid that’s why so many

people quit you’re trying to get to the

dream the nightmare comes and just when

you think you need God to really speak

to you he goes silent and the nightmare

gets louder and in that moment you have

to walk by faith you have to go because

you know God told you what he told you

and I’m not gonna give up now and I’m

not gonna doubt it now I’m gonna believe

God now don’t let anybody else this

opinion become your reality just because

you’re walking through the nightmare

doesn’t mean that the dream isn’t real

and don’t you let other people’s opinion

become your reality ten people’s opinion

in the Old Testament calls three million

people to live in the wilderness for

forty years and wonder in the wilderness

for forty years they let other ten other

people’s opinion become their reality

Saul had an opinion he said David you

can’t defeat Goliath with that slingshot

in that stone you need this armor and

you need to do this and you need to do

that but David said I’m not going to let

your opinions all become my reality I’m

going to do what God has told me to do

so many times people give up and they

quit right on the verge that’s why I

wanted to end with this story in Genesis

21 because in this story we have Ishmael

the boy and I just want to read it to

you and I want you to see it and I want

you to see what’s happening she’s out in

the wilderness and the scripture said

that God heard the voice of the lad the

angel of God called to Hagar out of

heaven and said to her what ails you

Hagar fear not for God has heard the

voice of the lad where he is listen to

these words verse 18 arise

lift up the lad hold him with your hand

and I will make him a great nation and

God opened her eyes and she saw the will

of water what I want you to see in this

story is Ishmael Hagar dream what I want

you to see in this story is is she had

the dream but she gets into a wilderness

and in a moment of discouragement she

drops the dream she puts it under a bush

she hears the child crying and she has

no resources she has no food no water in

a hot desert and so she can’t bear to

hear the baby die and suffer so she goes

far enough away that she can’t hear him

but there’s an amazing thing the Bible

said God heard the dream or the child

crying out which tells me something

really powerful and if you have a

god-given dream it can pray and cry even

if you’ve given up on it and she had

given up and she had dropped her dream

and she had walked off somewhere and she

was weeping because she knew her baby

was dying her dream was dying but the

dream was crying out the dream the dream

was crying out and God didn’t hear Hagar

he heard the dream

and then he said to that mother go back

now I just really feel like this simple

message is for somebody I want you to go

back to some dreams that you’ve dropped

and I want you to pick them back up

because I’m not through with them I know

that it looked like a nightmare but I

just want you to know that if you endure

the nightmare you’re going to experience

the dream and it’s time to pick up some

drop dreams again and it’s time for you

to take them in your arms again and hold

them up before me again and watch me

bring my power in my life and my

resurrection on those dreams that you

have dropped picking up drop dreams is a

word in season for somebody then the

Bible said God showed her where the

water was he opened her eyes God showed

her how to keep the dream alive I’m

telling you today that it’s time to pick

up the Trop dreams I’m so glad that God

is faithful I feel like I’m just

standing up your prophesy done now I’m

standing up here I’m gonna tell you

something else you’re looking at a

preacher who has stood in this pulpit

and I have preached pre-trib meaning

before I got out of the storm and the

nightmare with our family I had to stand

here and preach someday God will some

day God will some day God will Charice

and I had to stand and say somebody God

will preach real pre-tribulation but now

I stand at the age of 56 listen to this

we’re post real post means after on the

other side and I can tell some of you

young little couples out there when I

stood up here years ago and I had a

house full of teenagers

Saturday night my eyes were puffy

because I hadn’t slept all night

and worrying about them and not knowing

what in the world’s going on we found

out something and this and that or a

phone call or this and that and we like

to lost our minds and I’d still get up

and grab my black Bob on my microphone

that’s for me and my house we shall be

saved and I’ve got a covenant and I was

preaching preach real but now I’m

preaching post real Oh hallelujah

I can tell you all of them love Jesus I

can tell you all of them serve the Lord

I can tell you all I believe church this

morning and God can do it for you pick

up those straw dreams and say hell can’t

have my family demons can’t have my

addiction Kay had lesbianism

homosexuality sexual immorality cannot

have my children pick up your drop trees

somebody praise them like you’re not

afraid

of the enemy to death addiction can’t

have your chips wrong people can’t have

your children you had a lujah let’s get

up on our feet and shout like we believe

that what God said he’s able to perform

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I feel like doing something how many of

you how many of you have dropped some

dreams and you almost didn’t want me to

preach what I preached today because you

had no intention of picking it back up

because you’ve adjusted but just when

you think you’re safe

God will come along and say it’s time

it’s time I feel like today that you

need to pick up drop dreams and in your

hands hold them up just lift your hands

representing drop dreams hold them

before heaven and say God here it is now

everybody say this I’m going to trust

you with this dream like never before

you spoke to Pastor and you told him to

trust you and now he’s challenging me in

my situation that I’ve been worrying

about to trust you say this Jesus I

trust you from this day forward I

believe my dreams will live now give him

praise one more time

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it’s wonderful to be here at youth for

tomorrow and it’s an amazing day and a

beautiful day here in Virginia I’m

standing with the director of the

program at youth for tomorrow dr. Gary

Jones and the founder coach Joe Gibbs a

legendary coach three-time NFL winner I

see one of those rings on there I think

now it’s an honor to be here with you

and the team and some of the kids that

are actually being blessed and helped by

this amazing ministry that’s taking

place with hundreds of children here in

Virginia thank you for being here thank

you for doing what you do tell us a

little bit about your vision and how

this thing started here called youth for

tomorrow

well I wound up at a couple of places

where I coached willing to work with

young people at risk they were going

through the court system so when I came

here got involved downtown and after

being downtown about a year meeting on

Sundays we kind of came to the

conclusion the kids need something more

than that more than an hour or two hours

and so we started a dream had a

breakfast said let’s build a youth home

let’s use private funds so we can teach

godly principles because I think that’s

you know pastor you being here and us

being able today start off by putting a

Bible here on these premises that’s a

huge deal for us

and so it’s story after story of how

from that small meeting we wind up

getting one home built wound up going

through that and then there’s people

come in from all across our community

and chipping in and now you become a

huge part of that story because we

haven’t had anybody else that just heard

about the youth home came out for a

visit and the pastor came for a visit he

asked Gary what do you need and so Gary

said we need a home and the bottom line

is the pastor said let’s do this and

here we are standing here today I just

can’t thank you enough it’s a great

story about what God can do it’s

obviously this community and everybody

chipping in but God did this yeah yes he

did and I

thank all of our partners and friends

who watch this telecast you’re the one

that really coach gives us thinking

because you have given and we are now in

the final we’re bringing the final check

for the completion of the $600,000 that

will have a hundred kids a year coming

through this house that we’re standing

in the basement it’s a beautiful the

foundation has already been poured when

we put this in a plastic bag and they

pour the rest of the cement on it that

whatever kids come in here many of them

undocumented minors many of them from

troubled homes broken lives but they’ll

come into this place they’ll feel the

love of God they’ll feel the love of the

people this staff by the way is the most

amazing group of leadership I think that

I’ve ever seen in a ministry God has put

a dream team together here and I’m

praying that every child that comes

through this place will feel the hand of

God upon their life that wherever they

go from this property that the hand of

the Lord will be on them you know the

hand of the Lord has been on you coach

Gibbs

the thing that him that blessed me was

when you came out here the first time he

they quoted you and they said that you

said something to all of the amazing

achievements that you’ve had in your

life the successes in the eyes of the

world just the biggest wins that a

person could have but that you had said

something like seeing these children

being ministered to every day on this

property is your greatest achievement

how do you feel about that every child

that leaves here we would like for them

to have a personal relationship with the

Lord yes that’s our goal because you can

be the smartest person in the world we

know that but the most important thing

for all of us here is each one of these

children and they when we’re here we

want them to understand God loves them

cares for them

many of them have been through tough

things but we hope that they’ll have a

personal relationship of Lord to guide

them for the rest of their life

beautiful

the

and we’re believing with you and we’re

believing that what we’ve done here we

will be able to do even more of the cost

of wonderful people like you so I’m

going to ask you coach Gibbs if you will

to join me and let’s place this Bible in

the foundation of this house let’s do

this and we’ll just put it right in here

and I’d love for us to have a word of

Prayer together and bless and dedicate

this place and now may the Lord bless

this place and keep it make your face

shine on it be gracious unto the kids

that are in it

lift up your countenance upon them give

them peace and bless this place bless

this ministry bless these amazing

workers here and father bless the

children we thank you for in Jesus

precious name Amen this month

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