we have been looking for awhile here on the front porch at a man named Jacob from the old testament but we are now going to look at one of his son’s whose name was joseph.
joseph. genesis 37.5-8 (msg), joseph had a dream. when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. he said, “listen to this dream i had. we were all out in the field gathering bundles of wheat. all of a sudden my bundle stood straight up and your bundles circled around it and bowed down to mine.” his brothers said, “so! you’re going to rule us? you’re going to boss us around?” and they hated him more than ever because of his dreams and the way he talked.
if you start to read in genesis 37 about joseph's life you’ll find out that he’s a very different man than his father jacob. jacob was a schemer. joseph was a dreamer. that’s the difference. they’re very different people.
now we look at jacob and think, “that’s me. those are the things i face in my life. that’s the struggles i’ve been through.” but you’re not going to feel quite the same way about joseph. we all relate to jacob but we can all be inspired by joseph. jacob is a person we look at and say, “that’s where i am.” joseph is a person we look at and say, “that’s where i’d like to be.”
we all need a dream to motivate our life. have you ever felt, “i know what’s right to do. i know what i should be doing. but i just don’t feel like doing it today.”?
some of you need to hear GOD speaking a dream into your heart beyond your present expectation of what HE can do in your life. you need HIM to just explode the idea of what HE could do in your life. others of you need to recognize the dream that’s right around you. some of you parents, your GOD-given dream, believe it or not, is your kids. what you do in their lives and what you give into their lives, GOD’s going to change the world through them. you need to recognize the GOD given dream that’s right there.
there are some immediate reactions to the dream. he has the dream and the first thing he does is shared the dream. that’s a reaction. that’s what many of us want to do. as soon as we get a GOD given dream we want to share it with anyone and everyone, especially with somebody who was in the dream like joseph’s brothers.
not a good idea! but we often make this mistake. we share the dream with the wrong people at the wrong time. even when it’s a GOD-given dream.
we’re so excited about it and we just want somebody to know. we share the dream with the wrong people at the wrong time and all of a sudden they immediately start to try to quench the dream in our lives. if it’s a GOD given dream, it’s going to last. have you ever had that experience of somebody trying to quench your dream?
just a thought from the front porch…
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