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the five powerful prayers to pray action plan today I’m preaching on a dream that drives you a dream that drives you Genesis chapter 37 and verse 5 now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him even more verse 19 and they said one to another look this dreamer is coming Joseph was 17 years old when God gave him a world-changing dream God has a dream for every person under the sound of my voice those of you streaming live wherever you are all over the world God has a dream for your life sometimes we think if we’re not rich in Richard Branson who started Virgin Airlines or Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or dunker Martin Luther King that if it’s not some massive huge dream that our dream doesn’t matter to God but the dream that you have for a business for a college education for your children for maybe you’re a housewife and you’re pouring your life into your child and your dream is that your child would be great that’s a good godly dream and God cares about your dream as a matter of fact if God wants to bless you he gives you light the Bible said God is light and when God wants to bless you he’ll give you light see what that means is when I say a dream it means you can see it God just turns on the light and suddenly you see who you could be what you could do and it inspires you and it fires you up if God wants to judge you he doesn’t have to kill you he can just turn out the light and suddenly you’re in darkness and you don’t know where you’re going with your life you don’t know what you’re doing you’re confused one of the greatest blessings that can come to your life is when God turns on the light and you see it I saw myself preaching I saw it I saw myself pastoring I saw it and when God shows it to you it’s a powerful thing and it starts with him turning on the light and you get a dream people who are leaders always have great dream they’re thinking ahead they’re planning ahead it’s a dream that drives you it affects how you talk it affects how you think it affects how you live and don’t be a dream killer especially to your children don’t be a dream killer let God turn on the light and show them the possibilities you see George Bernard Shaw said listen to this dream of things that never were and ask why not why not somebody one day said why not why can’t we fly why can’t we create a machine that will fly why why not why why not why can’t we somebody looked at the telephone in my generation it started anybody remember the old rotary dial and it had a little cord and if you answered the phone you had to take that phone and you couldn’t go nowhere because it had a little cord and then we thought we were brilliant because somebody came up with a lone cord anybody remember that and you could walk into the kitchen and you man that’s something else there a long cord I can I can move around a little bit and then came the big breakthrough somebody said why not why can’t we have what we called a mobile phone and it was in a suitcase about that big and you’d have a strap around you and you’d go to the mall and it still had a cord on it and you’d pull it out and you talk and it’s about that long and you had to you it was amazing had an antenna that shot up in there and you know why not then finally some some brilliant mind said why why not why can’t we have something called a smart phone someone said that a cell the difference between cell phones and people is cell phones are getting thinner and smarter so I want to take the word dream and I want to use each letter of the word dream quickly to tell you what it means to have a dream that drives you first of all the D stands for a dream will distinguish you when God gives you a dream it will make you stand out when God gives you a dream it will mark you it will make you it will make you different from other people all you have to do in this day and time is in it to be to be really something is to have a dream in a direction for your life a dream will distinguish you Joseph had a coat of many colors he looked like Elton John everywhere he went he had he had he had a dream he had a dream and the dream distinguished him and I’ll tell you what a young person or a man or a woman is a person who God has given a dream they will begin there they will begin to be distinguished from other people the second thing that a dream will do is a dream and I want to say before I move on if you don’t have a dream hang out with someone who does have a dream because you’ll get fat off the crumbs from their table there’s something about when you hang around other dreamers you can get a dream but some of you hang around a bunch of losers and you’ll never be and do anything of significance so get around people who have a dream and then you’ll begin to see what you can be and what you can do the R stands for dreams release your potential they release you to grow I mentioned the other weekend a message and I want to reiterate you know I heard in solo TV show even this week that reminded me about these guys make aquariums and he said something interesting when they especially for CEOs you know where they put fish and stuff and he in their in their fancy offices and he said that the number one fish that people want in their aquarium is that I thought he’d say you know guppy or something he said a shark he said he said CEOs want a shark and and and and he said the amazing thing is if you put a shark in the aquarium it will only grow to eight inches but if you put it in the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean it’ll grow eight feet or more and the point is simply this the shark will never grow larger than his environment and the same is true about you if all you do is stay in little little narrow-minded muddy mud puddles of small thinking you’ll never grow any bigger welcome to the dream room that’s what this is we come in this place and we serve we we serve a big God a mighty God and some of you it’s time to get out of the mud puddle and get into a lake and some of you need to get out of the lake and get into the ocean and swim and let God grow you and let God expand you and let God release your potential the third thing the e stands for encouraged you see a dream when you get it will encourage you there’s something about a dream that brings encouragement and joy to people’s lives it gives you excitement it encourages you the people who are depressed the people who are discouraged are the people who don’t have a dream because when you have a dream it makes you get up in the morning it makes you put your clothes on and go to work because you’ve got a dream and a dream has the power to encourage you then the a stands for it affects prevailing attitudes when you have a dream it will always it will always attack prevailing attitudes aural and Wilbur Wright were sons of a Methodist preacher and he got up and preached he’s a bishop and he got up and preached one day and said if God wanted men to fly he would have made them with wings but those two boys felt a challenge in their heart to the prevailing attitude of their father and they went out at Kitty Hawk North Carolina and they broke through the prevailing attitude that man cannot fly and they change the world with that dream because when you have a dream that God gives you it will always affect your attitude and use you’ll have to combat you’ll have to combat prevailing attitudes there’ll always be you know dreams shatter common held attitudes of the day it can’t be done it’s never been done before nobody’s ever done it in succeeded yet you better no no no anytime you have a dream I cannot tell you the times I’m telling you I had to when we were building this I had to get out I had to get away from the little guppy saying you know I had to go find preachers that had done stuff I had done when we were building this and all of that I got around Tommy Barnett’s and I got around Brian Houston’s I got around me and I got out of the little guppy world and I got in a shark tank a man and got got some of you need a shark tank in you you’re just you just think so small but but when you got a dream that God gives you it will it will begin to do great things in your life it’ll release your potential it’ll distinguish you and then the M stands for motivate a dream will motivate you a dream will motivate you it’s like nuclear energy in your soul when you get a dream and your energy will be in proportion to your dream um they did a study recently and they studied people who retired early people who retired early and every time they found that people who retired early with nothing to do they had nothing to do they three years later went into a decline in health because they had nothing to excite them nothing to motivate them nothing to challenge them in Germany they did a study and they took rats and they fed the rats they didn’t have to do anything to get their food but just eat it they took another group of rats and they put them in a maze every day and they would change the maze and so the rats had to had to face the challenge in the difficulty of trying to get to their food every day and they compared the two and the rats that had to get go through the maze to get to their food live six months longer in in rat years that’s a long time compared to human years you got to understand its many many years because they had a goal they had to solve problems to get to the food and my point to you is if you don’t have if you don’t have a goal if you don’t have something to stimulate your brain if you don’t have something that keeps you sharp and focused if you don’t have challenges you won’t stay alive you you you could drop until a pile of dust pretty quick if you don’t have it I don’t care how old you are I don’t care who you are you need a dream dreams motivate us they energize us they fire us up and some of you need to understand that a dream is what you need you don’t need Guppies in your tank some of you you don’t like strong leadership you need a shark in your tank to keep you alive to keep you moving to keep you what are you doing are you reaching any goals we want it easy we don’t want to do anything but God is a God who wants to give you a dream that drives you dream problems are the best problems listen in life you’re gonna have problems and if you don’t do nothing you’re gonna have problems but if you’ve got a dream you’re gonna have problems I’d rather create my problems and move toward my dream and have to deal with problems that are getting me to my dream then do nothing so either way you’re gonna have problems dream problems are the best problems so get a dream excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted there’s always a reason to quit Ray Kroc was 54 years old two years older than me when he left his sales job in Chicago and started a hamburger chain called McDonald’s he was 54 years old two years older than me when he started dreaming Moses was 80 years old Colonel Sanders was 65 years old when he started Kentucky Fried finger lickin good chicken sixty-five my god I’m in my I’m going into my prime I hadn’t even hit my problem yet I got I’m about to really hit some big years you are too come on anybody else believe that we ought to have a dream no matter how old we are 54 and you you’re whining about giving up on life at 23 cuz all your dreams haven’t come true you have no idea turn to somebody say I’m in the best years of my life there gonna be times when your circumstances are inconsistent with your dreams did you hear what I just said there’s gonna be times when your circumstances are inconsistent with your dreams Joseph had a dream and then he was stolen in prison his brothers attacked him he was thrown into a pit he was lied on he was put in prison he went through hell he was locked up he that was inconsistent with his dream and in those moments you have two choices number one you can reduce your life to your present circumstances give up on it settle or you can believe through God your life will catch up with your dream if you won’t quit and won’t give up never allow circumstances to change the dream God has put in your heart never never allow circumstances to change the dream God has put in your heart there’ll be times when your present circumstances are not consistent with your dreams but Habakkuk chapter 2 in verse 3 said though the vision Terri’s wait for it for it will surely come to pass even if God has to provoke that has to prolong your life he will not let you die until he brings to pass when he told you he would do dreams will demand integrity Joseph teaches us this Joseph when when God started raising him up in Potiphar’s house he got around the wives of Egypt and and Miss Potiphar put on a biblical dress lo and behold I’m sure it was showing lots of leg and lots of upper extremities and and and and she’s walking in and trying to seduce him because dreams will demand integrity she starts hitting on Joseph and the enemy understands men are visual women like cards and candy and small gifts and candlelight romantic dinners walks on the beach holding hands dr. Rutland said that men just want women to show up naked and with food that’s what dr. Rutland said if you have a problem with that send that message to dr. Rutland cuz he said and he’s a doctor and that’s pretty much the difference between men and women but I want to say to you you got to watch it when you’ve got a dream and God begins to bless the dream because the dream will require integrity a dream we require morality a dream will require the higher God raises you up that you not use that position to take advantage of people that that look to you a dream will require integrity and what others believe about you is never as important as what you believe about you boy that’s the truth you know I got a lot of people who believe a lot of things but what you believe about you is more important than what people believe about you there are two reasons why dreams break down number one people quit believing in God number two people quit believing in themselves now I know people who believe in God but they don’t believe in themselves and I know people who believe in themselves but they don’t believe in God and it’s got to come together you’ve got to believe in God and you got to believe in yourself if you’re gonna fulfill the dream God has called you to do here’s another thing that Joseph teaches us real quickly Joseph teaches us to help others with their dream while you wait for your dream to come true he helped the butler with his dream he helped the Baker with his dream he helped Pharaoh with his dream and my question to you is who are you helping with their dream Ephesians six and eight said what what you make happen for others God will make happen for you through your resources through given opportunities who are you helping fulfill their dream because if nothing’s happening with your dream it’s a sign you need to help somebody else with their dream dreams come when we get a plan again I want to use the letters of the word plan what is planned stand for it means number one pray it out if you don’t pray it out then watch out you’re gonna fail pray it out number the L stands for lay it out write it out figure and and the Bible said make the vision claim write it out so pray it out lay it out act it out take action start moving in that direction small steps matter just start moving in that direction what can I do maybe it’s not earth-shaking but at least I’m moving in that direction take action and then navigate it out a Navy SEAL commander said this about plans listen to this I’ve never seen a plan of attack survive the battle what he was saying was you can have your plan but when you get in battle you have to you have to learn how to expect be unexpected you have to learn how to navigate your plan and so you start out with a plan and always plan but you learn to turn and change things and you know what that didn’t work I’ll try it this way and you navigate the plan so I want to I want to conclude in just a moment I’m almost through but I want to say this a dream produces discipline self-denying be ambitious with your life David while keeping sheep a minimum wage job he didn’t waste it he was target practicing he was writing songs he was learning how to play his gift would make room for him in a palace before the president of his nation he was watching the sheep and applying life applications to it while nobody was watching he was training for reining he shows up and he’s been promoted from a sheep guy – now he’s a pizza delivery guy the Bible said when he went to his brothers he took bread and cheese that’s pizza he was a pizza delivery guy but he was not wasting that season in his life everything about life everything about sorrow everything about hurts and rejection and failure God will make it fertilizer for you – and your dreams if you will allow him every job everything you’ve been through God will make it fertilizer for your dream be ambitious with your life be ambitious with your life get a dream the the movie I conclude with this but the movie are Saving Private Ryan if you remember just to give you a summary of it that two of the brothers are killed in the same family in world war two and there’s one other brother fighting in Germany and and they make a call and they say that’s too much for any parent any mother to deal with losing all three of her children so go get Private Ryan and bring him home to his mother and they send a whole unit in to find him and bring him home and these guys get blown to pieces they all give their lives and die and are killed by the Germans trying to protect one man to get him home to his mother they all give their life so that Private Ryan can live in the final scene of the movie as Tom Hanks who’s that who’s the commander of that unit he’s been shot fatally and he’s laying on a bridge and he’s bleeding and he’s dying and and Private Ryan is standing there and he reaches up and grabs him by his shirt and pulls him down and he says basically make your life count make it worth it all these guys including me have given our life and died do something with your life that is significant do something good with your life I thought about Jesus and how he must look at a generation that’s wasting their life on drugs and partying and craziness and he probably wants to grab them and pull them close to him and say do something significant with your life I’ve got a purpose I’ve got a dream I’m gonna change the world you can do turn to somebody and say dream bigger dream bigger I believe God is really speaking to you today there is a dream that drives you there is a dream that will distinguish you and release your gifts and cause you to to receive energy and you know all of the things that I preached today your attitude your motivation it comes through having a god-given dream and God has one for you and the first thing he wants to do is for you to surrender your life completely to him why don’t you do that today that’s why we’re on television we want to tell people about a man named Jesus and a place called Calvary that can change your life change your direction change your family change your life change your future you need him you need a Savior and he’s reaching out to you today let him give you his plan his dream for your life pray this prayer say Lord Jesus I receive you as my savior I confess you as my Lord and I put my faith in the blood that you shed it cleanses me of all my sin now give me your plan Holy Spirit give me your dream your vision for my life in Jesus name Amen I’m so glad that you prayed that prayer and if you need to talk to somebody why don’t you go online or pick up the phone there’s a prayer line available and we’d love to pray with you today I want to say thank you to the dream makers of this ministry you the viewers you the partners you the friends that stand with this ministry you have for over 20 years now we’ve been broadcasting Kingdom connection and I’m so humbled that you know together we are making a difference in in a few weeks I’m going to Haiti and I’m gonna dedicate the miracle marketplace an amazing twenty acre facility in Haiti one of the poorest nations in the world and it’s gonna provide hundreds of jobs and they’re already having lines of people circling the property who are wanting to open up little shops where they made things with their hands and provide for their families it’s food for life and we’ve been feeding hundreds of thousands of people there for years but now we’re moving to a new phase of providing jobs that will that will break the curse of poverty off of families for generations to come I’m excited about it obviously and I want to say thank you thank you to all of our dream makers out there and maybe you haven’t you know maybe you haven’t been a part can I encourage you to help us help us do this and even greater projects in our future we’re dreaming we’re still dreaming as a ministry we believe that we can reach more people than we’ve ever reached before and I’m asking you to dream with me partner with me send your best gift today and we believe that God would take those resources and help us take this message to the nations of the world pray about what God would have you do thank you for your prayers if you can’t give anything pray for us but if you can give two we are so appreciative and humbled by your you know your partnership with us and I’m praying for you that God will give you a dream that drives you thank you so much for watching this program we’ll see you next time on Kingdom connection life is real vivid alive beating breathing it happens behind closed doors and out in front there’s joy there’s laughter chaos lifelong friendships are forged love is found moments cherished and never forgotten life is a gift and together we are real family real friends real people experiencing real life is free chapel this program has been brought to you by the friends and partners of Jenson franklin media ministries for more information on this broadcast go online at Jensen franklin dot o-r-g
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