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 inspiring 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. God planted that dream in your heart! To hear more inspiring messages from Jentezen Franklin, visit http://jentezenfranklin.org/watch?cid… & subscribe to this channel: http://goo.gl/yfkXHy
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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 in 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 or your family shall
be or your marriage shall be where your
life shall be and never does God plant
that in your heart with that dream that
the
enemy doesn’t come with his nightmare
and unless you can endure and unless you
can endure hell’s nightmare you’ll never
experience heavens dream for your life
the moment that most people give up is
the moment of the greatest opportunity
everything you want is on the other side
of not giving up and I promise you when
God puts a dream in your heart the
nightmare will come what is the
nightmare it’s it’s the pathway to your
destiny you cannot get to the dream
without the nightmare and the pathway of
the nightmare because it purifies you it
purifies your motives the nightmare is
the enemy trying to steal that dream and
get you to give up the question is can
God trust you with trouble because the
moment that the enemy senses you have a
God giving dream he will try to send the
opposite and cause a nightmare and if
God can put you in trouble it’s a vote
of heavens confidence in you trouble and
the nightmare is a vote of heavens
confidence in you your trouble is your
pathway to triumph your pain is your
pathway to a higher praise your mess is
a pathway to the miraculous things of
God in your life 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 he’ll said I don’t think so we’ll
stop you we’ll nail you to a cross
but when Jesus stepped out of that too
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 discovering you’ll find
more about God in the darkness in your
life and you will in the sunshine days
God said I dwell in thick darkness he
actually said that he said I 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
sunshiney 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 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 that ass 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 accusations 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 recievers 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
the side trade out and out goes some
pretty big guys but then comes in the
behemoth guys they weigh about 400
pounds their meaning their breath stinks
they said they 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 hell 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 if you don’t get fresh all every
once in a while that’s why you can’t
afford to go to some dead church every
now and then you got to get fresh all or
you’ll quit and throw in the towel every
now and then you’ve got to get the power
of the Holy Spirit moving on your life
again every now and then you need God to
come and power and touch you afresh so
that the enemy doesn’t steal the dream
of a blessed family and a blessed life
and a blessed a career and a blessed
marriage that’s God’s will for your life
the nightmare is the dream stealer the
nightmare says just give up you know
somebody said many years ago anything
worth doing is worth doing well
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
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 failing 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 a 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 I’m
on my way to my dream I’m going to be
mighty in God I am NOT through I am not
finished I am NOT settling I am moving
forward if we concede our dreams we will
wonder in a wilderness of stagnation the
rest of our life a nightmare is like a
dream but it’s filled with hopelessness
despair and no escape you can’t wake up
when you’re in a nightmare you’re
following have you ever had a nightmare
how many of you ever had a nightmare and
you say to yourself in the nightmare you
need to wake up now have you ever run
off a cliff or something and you say I
need to wake up in this I have I have I
must be weird
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 beth-el 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 3 million
people to live in the wilderness for 40
years and wonder in the wilderness for
40 years they let other 10 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
are out of heaven and said to her what
eles 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 stream 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 that
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 resume
action 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 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
preach real meaning before I got out of
the storm and the nightmare with our
family I had to stand here and preach
someday God will someday God will
someday God will Charice and I had to
stand and say some way God will preach
real pre-tribulation but now I stand
listening to this 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
the 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 hail can’t have my
family demons can’t have my addiction
can’t have lesbianism homosexuality
sexual immorality cannot have my
children pick up your drop dreams
somebody praise Him like you’re not
afraid
of the enemy to death addiction can’t
have your chips roll 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
[Applause]
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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 hey 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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