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I want to talk to you today on the
subject of the value of a dream the
value of a dream we live in a world that
has been shaped by the dreams of people
the Wright brothers dreamed of flight
and we have aviation today Alexander
Graham Bell dreamed of communication we
have the telephone now the iPhones the
cell phones there have been dreamers
like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who
dreamed and shaped and formed the world
that we live in very much by the dream
that they had deep in their heart
there have been social dreamers men like
dr. Martin Luther King jr. men like
Nelson Mandela who dreamed of Justice
and dreamed and formed civil rights
movements that shaped and changed the
world that we live in what you have to
understand is the value of a dream when
he places it in your heart because when
God wants to change your community when
God wants to change the world when God
wants to change a city when God wants to
change a family he starts by putting a
dream in the heart of somebody for
change the enemy would come to kill or
assassinate the dream that is in your
heart because when you dream a dream
listen carefully when you dream a dream
you become more like God than ever
before because the nature of God in you
is awakened when you begin to dream a
dream that nature that can look at
nothing and begin to believe in
something they cannot see that is the
dream nature that is very much how God
deals in our lives there’s a dream
that’s working in your heart today the
Bible said that the father Jacob made a
coat of many colors because J Joseph was
his favorite son and he gave it to him
that coat represented and was a symbol
of the favor of the Father on
Josef’s life it was a symbol of how much
the father loved him it was a code of
many colors that speaks of the fact that
it was vibrant that speaks of the fact
that it was a celebration and when God’s
favor is on you there when his favor
comes upon your life and it did at
Calvary if you have accepted what he did
then you get real good and blessed and
wrapped up in that code of favor and
it’s hard to hide it that cut that coat
was loud that coach stood out that coat
was noticeable and God wants his favor
in your life to be seen by other people
just like it was seeing when Joseph put
it on the favor of God wants to wrap
itself around you so much so that he
gives you a dream and that dream causes
you to stand out and do things that you
never thought that you could do the
Bible said that he dreamed a dream of
him being in a field and the harvest
began to bow down to him in the field I
loved the fact that he had a dream of
harvest authority and if ever there was
going to be a time when we needed to
have a dream that was connected to the
harvest he saw in the dream the harvest
bowing down and the Bible said every
knee shall bow every tongue shall
confess whatever field God has put you
in you need to connect that dream to the
harvest because the dream that God can
bless is the dream that is connected to
the harvest if you’re business person
God can make help you and prosper you to
make millions of dollars if you’re if
you’re a mom or a dad or husband or wife
God has a dream always connect that
dream of your family or your finances to
the harvests because if God can find
people that he can put a dream in their
heart and they not real just you know
consume it on themselves but they
connect that dream to the harvest he can
bless that dream greater and mightier he
had a dream that was a harvest authority
for our cities for our nation for our
for our day to be changed we’re going to
have to get a dream in our hearts of
more than just things but a dream of
harvest afar
I’m still dreaming in the city I’m still
dreaming that for this church I’m
dreaming that there there’s a harvest
that has not bound its knew yet maybe
even under the sound of my voice today
there are people that I’m preaching to
and I’m dreaming that those souls will
be saved and that’s the kind of dream
that God will bless over and over and
over again now what I love about this
story is he dreamed the dream and he
told his brothers and the Bible said is
interesting that his brothers hated him
because of the dream it’s interesting
that everybody is not going to be happy
about our dreams have you learned that
yet even though they hated him the Bible
said they hated him because of his dream
the next part of the verse said he
dreamed another dream and the second
dream was bigger than the first dream
the second dream he saw the Sun Moon and
stars bowing down to him now the first
string and they didn’t like the first
dream and since he said well you since
you’re mad I might as well going and
tell you the whole dream and get you
good man I was gonna hold back on the
big part but I’m not gonna hold back on
but I’m just gonna make you real mad and
he said the whole dream was not just the
harvest I saw stuff in heaven bowing
down and they really got mad then you
see what you have to understand is the
dream that God has for your life is
always progressive it’s always getting
bigger it’s not diminishing this is no
time to sit back and retire and sit on a
rocking chair and wait for the angels to
sweet blows you chariots coming for to
take me home as long as I’m here I’m
gonna be dreaming and God’s dream is
progressive God’s dream for you is not
less it’s bigger it’s greater the rest
of your life you need to keep fighting
for the dream there’s a dream inside of
you there’s a dream inside of you your
dream is always progressive verse 18
said when they saw him afar off they
conspired against him
and said Behold the dreamer cometh they
didn’t even call him by his name they
called him by his
dream that’s the value of a dream that
God places in your heart it will cause
your name and it will because most
importantly the name that is above every
name to be lifted high when he places a
dream in your heart
verse 24 said that they said we shall
kill him and cast him in a pit and say
some evil beast has devoured him and we
shall see what will become of his dream
you see I want to warn you that when God
places a dream in your heart
there comes risk and danger in obeying
God and going after that dream there
will always be risk when God puts a
dream in a person’s heart this this text
reveals two important principles number
1 they were smart enough the enemies of
Joseph were smart enough to know that
his dream was going to come to pass
because the reason they started fighting
against him was the very fact that they
thought if we don’t do something as
crazy as that dream is he’s he actually
believes it’s going to happen and you
know what we believe it’s going to
happen and that’s why we’re gonna fight
him so they were smart enough to know
the dream was going to come to pass I’ve
come to encourage somebody the fact that
you’re under pressure and there’s
adversity all around you concerning the
dream that God has put in your heart is
not an indication that you should give
up it’s not an indication that you
should walk away and quit and say the
dream is not going to happen but the
very fact that the enemy is smart enough
to know that if he doesn’t do something
the dream all he’s doing is confirming
to you that God has given you a dream
that is going to come to pass and here’s
the principle number one he was smart
enough the enemies of Joseph were smart
enough to know the dream was going to
come to pass if they didn’t do something
but secondly they were stupid enough to
think they could stop it you have to
understand something about a dream when
God puts a dream in your heart nobody
can stop it I said when God puts a dream
in your heart
nobody can stop it nobody when God says
yes yes it is nobody’s no competes with
God’s yes it’s the truth and you know
you have a real dream from God when you
can be in the midst of adversity and no
deep only inside something keeps saying
it’s still going to come to pass the
Bible said that they took Joseph and
they stripped him of the symbol of the
favour that was on his life outwardly
they stripped him and they threw him
into a pit and the pit was an empty
whale it was where water used to be but
now it was dry you know that you’re
going through the test of a dream
because every dream will go through that
test where momentarily
it looks like outwardly you’re stripped
of everything it looks like that it’s
not going to happen it looks like you
are losing all the material things and
it looks like the favor of God that has
been so evident that everybody saw the
blessings there may come a season before
you get to the dream that you go through
a time when outwardly you’re stripped of
things and then inwardly it feels like
you’re in a dry place where there used
to be water so there’s no external favor
seemingly and there’s no internal
refreshing and you’re in a dry barren
alone place but God is teaching you in
that hour that the dream is stronger
than you are that even if outwardly
you’re being stripped and inwardly
you’re drying up the dream still keeps
jumping and leaping and dancing’ inside
saying it’s still going to happen and
I’m telling you that’s the value of a
dream a dream will keep you going even
when you’re losing stuff a dream will
keep you going even when it feels like
you’re dried up it won’t let you quit
the Bible said they threw him in a pit
and the issue they were gonna kill him
but the Ishmaelites came back got a
preacher right here the Ishmaelites who
were the Ishmaelites
Abraham Isaac Jacob Jacob was Joseph’s
father
so the great-great-grandfather was
Abraham and Abraham had two sons
he had the child a promise with Sarah
whose name was Isaac but then there was
that little oops there was that mistake
there was that little sin and adultery
that Abraham fell into with Hagar and he
produced a child named Ishmael from
which comes the tribe of Ishmaelites two
generations before a great grandpa made
a mistake but when you keep before God
and you repent in you and you’re a
covenant person and you say God I’m
sorry if you will truly repent and turn
away from your wicked ways God will take
even your mistakes he took the
illegitimate child of two generations
before and the only thing to keep the
great-grandson alive was the mistake of
great grandpa and the mistake of grandpa
became the miracle of grandson only God
can take a mess like that and turn it
into a blessing only God can take a
curse and say I’m gonna turn it around
and it’s gonna raise you up instead of
put you down I don’t know what you’ve
messed up and done but the Lord sent me
to tell you the devil minute for your
evil but God’s gonna turn it around for
you good cuz the dream is still working
if your trust in God I need somebody to
take a praise break and give him some
glory on a Sunday if you believe he’s
alive
whoa
and I just want to preach that the
Ishmaelites were not children of the
promise not everybody who’s gonna bless
you is gonna be saved at Holy Ghost feel
God’s gonna use some heathens God’s
gonna use some blankety-blank
cigar-smoking all kind of crazy people
and if he can’t get the church that you
believe in you he’ll find somebody in
the world to believe in you and he’ll
use the wealth of the wicked to raise up
the righteous I need somebody to believe
that the dream is working there’s value
in holding on to the dream when nothing
looks right when nothing’s happening
like you thought it would when you
thought it would hold on to the dream
God will bring it to pass in the midst
of affliction in the midst of sorrow
he’s gonna perform what he promised they
take him to Egypt he gets in Potiphar’s
house and he is put over the whole house
and they’re Potiphar’s wife starts
noticing how extremely good-looking
Joseph was you see the dream will demand
integrity when God begins to raise you
up and when God begins to do what he’s
promised in your life and the reason God
can’t give a lot of people more is
because they can’t be trusted the dream
will demand integrity the dream will
produce discipline in your life and this
woman kept coming after him powder for
his wife his boss’s wife and she said
daily lie with me sleep with me sleep
with me sleep with me but Joseph refused
what a man of integrity what a man of
character and the higher God raises you
up and if he gives you millions of
dollars if he blesses you beyond
anything if you get that scholarship if
if things begin to happen for you can
God trust you to be a person of
integrity in the area of sexuality
because he blesses where his reputation
is safe
and how many people have we seen begin
to fulfill and one of the test of the
dream being fulfilled before it happens
will be in the area of your integrity
the Bible said that Joseph refused and
she falsely accused him and he was
thrown into prison but in prison even in
prison the dream was working even in
prison when it looked like there was no
favor on his life the Bible says three
times but God was with him but God was
with him but God was with him ended and
the end the jailor put him over all the
prisoners gave him the keys and said you
run this place see that’s favor you
don’t have to have big stuff to have the
favor of God you just weren’t what
you’ve got where you are and you won’t
stay down you can’t stay down when the
favor of God is on your life
somebody shout I feel favor wrapping
around me like a coat of many colors
come on somebody shout and say I’m not
gonna be hidden I’m gonna stand out
there’s favor on my life and I’m gonna
be noticed by the right people at the
right time in the right place for the
right blessing everybody shout I’m
gettin excited I’m about to bulla
Gasquet I’m I’m concerned I don’t know
who I’m preaching to but I’ve just come
along to stir you up to tell you this is
no time to quit this is no time to give
up God is about to resurrect your dream
if you’ll hold on to the promise he gets
thrown in prison and there’s two guys in
prison who just had a dream and they
don’t know what the dream was about a
butler and a baker and they’re confused
and they’re scratching their head and
they’re saying we need somebody to if
you want to find out what your dream is
get around another dreamer so they
hooked up with Joseph and they said
Joseph we hear you’re a dreamer and once
you get around a dreamer you will begin
to understand the dream on your life
and the Bible said that he said well sir
I’ll tell you what you dreamed he said
you dreamed in three days you would
stand before he told them both you both
stand before favor they said that is
exactly right what does it mean and he
turned to the baker and he said well it
means in three days that he’s gonna cut
your head off and then he immediately
turns his attention to the other guy
because there’s no need to waste any
more time on him and he and he turns
immediately and he says to the butler
now you’re gonna be before the Pharaoh
and and and he’s gonna restore you and
you’re become one of one of his
right-hand men and when you are restored
don’t forget me
this is Joseph saying don’t forget me
Bible said within days he was called
before Pharaoh could the butler’s head
off and turned to the Baker cut the
Baker’s head off turn to the butler and
said your restored and the Bible is the
most astonishing Scripture the Bible
said and the butler forgot Joseph how
you like that
see you gonna get to the place when it
comes to the dream that you quit waiting
on people and quit dependent on people
and quit being so people needy that
you’re gonna find out God’s God’s
probably not gonna need the people that
you think he needs to fulfill what he’s
told you he’s gonna do he’ll do it all
by himself if he has to and so when the
butler forgot Joseph your Bible said
your Bible said that that that Pharaoh
had a disturbing dream you know some of
you sinners listening to me right now
you you think you so big and bad God can
give you a disturbing dream tonight he
can make you wake up at 3:00 a.m. not
not not 2:45 I want it to be 3:00 a.m.
because bad things into horror movies
always happen at 3:00 a.m.
God can awaken you at 3:00 a.m.
you can you can have a disturbing dream
and if he can’t get to you while I’m
talking to you why you awake my god
doesn’t play fair he’ll mess with you
while you sleep
Lord just take all the heathens sleep in
Jesus name
Messimer and he gave him a disturbing
dreaming and he and he solves seven
skinny cows and seven fat cows and the
seven skinny cows swallowed the seven
fat cows and he woke up and he couldn’t
sleep and he called in all of his
soothsayers and his fortune tellers and
they came with her crystal balls and
their Tara cards and and they tried to
figure it out and when they couldn’t
tell him what the dream meant he started
executing them because they he just he’s
just kill them all and he killed them
all and then he turned to the butler and
he said tell me what my dream means and
the amazing scripture and the butler
remembered to Joseph and he said there
is a man in the prison in whom the
Spirit of God dwells and he interprets
dreams and I’m going to get him I’ll be
right back
and he goes and brings Joseph up and I
like Joseph because here’s the point
Joseph what was that what was the dream
that Pharaoh had it was seven fat cows
meaning seven years of plenty and seven
skinny cows seven years of extreme
poverty and famine and the poverty and
famine is going to swallow up the
prosperity and the Plenty but it didn’t
make Joseph afraid because he had a
dream where he had authority over the
harvest see when you hear about Iran and
when you see the things Planned
Parenthood the wickedness of selling
body parts when you when you see a
government that is so corrupt and evil
when you see senators voting to pay five
hundred million dollars to an
organization that harvests is body parts
of babies and you scratch your head and
say how can we have such wicked
leadership how do it almost could make
you afraid but we
to understand that we have a harvest
authority in the end times that we’re
not afraid of the end times we’re not
afraid of the nuclear deal that our
crazy politicians are trying to do
because we know that in the end every
knee shall bow and every tongue shall
confess so we need to rise up in this
hour and understand that we have the
word of the law for such a time as this
and he was not intimidated he was not
afraid and he said don’t tell me what
you dreamed I’ll tell you what you
dreamed and I’ll tell you what it means
and he said there’s a famine coming and
then all of a sudden Pharaoh says I
perceive this is a wise man and he said
you take over the whole kingdom what do
you think we ought to do and the Bible
said that Joseph stored up so much I
want you to I want you to hear what the
scripture said said he began to store up
so much that Genesis 41 and verse 46 and
Joseph was 30 when he stood before
Pharaoh thirty years old don’t wait
until you’re 30 or 40 to get get your
dream early he had the dream when he was
a teenager and now he’s 30 and he’s the
second most powerful man in the world he
was 30 when he stood before Pharaoh and
gathered up food verse 51 said that he
stored so much corn that it was as the
sands of the seashore and it says he
bore two sons in the in that land and
named them Manasseh and Ephraim closing
but listen before you give birth to your
dream you’ve got to give birth to two
sons Manasseh which means the Lord has
made me to forget the pain of my
father’s house and Ephraim which means
that I am blessed or fruitful in the
land of affliction before you get to the
dream you’ve got to forgive and forget
what people did to you you got to
release forgiveness to your own brothers
and your own family
because the wounds will come from those
of a man’s own house and then secondly
you’ve got to become fruitful in the
land of affliction well when I get a new
job I wish I could get a new job but God
says I want you to be fruitful in the
land of affliction I want you to be
fruitful wherever you’re planted I want
you to be where you are right now and be
faithful and become so fruitful that
it’ll become evident you don’t belong
there anymore and God will open up the
next door be fruitful in your land of
affliction what’s this I’m done
everybody who’s been through something
and God brought you through and the
dream is still kicking
just take a praise break we’re gonna be
done in a minute but I want you to thank
him that the dream is still kicking
your harvest is on the way don’t quit
don’t give up favor is all over you he
doesn’t have to be seen on the outside
yet all of that stuff will be restored
you stand in who God’s called you I know
what I saw that’s what a dream does for
you that’s the value of a tree even when
stuff is being stripped I know what I
saw I know what God told me I saw a
harvest and you talking crazy
in the middle of attack I saw a harvest
that’s the value of a drink
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breathing it happens behind closed doors
and out in front there’s joy there’s
laughter
and chaos
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found moments cherished and never
forgotten
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