Big Dreams

This morning I wasn’t too talk about having big dreams. This is more for the older folks in the room but you kids can learn a thing or two here as well. How many people here remember a dream so vivid that it haunts their memory? I want you all to tell your neighbor in two minutes or less about a dream that haunts their memories. Ready, go. ME: a few years ago I had a steam that I still can’t shake to this day. I was preaching in a church. But that’s not the haunting part. The haunting part that I cannot shake is the fact that in this dream from a few years ago, the church I was preaching in was made of glass. From the pulpit I was preaching, the world was looking in and I was looking out and the church was full of the degenerate and God was changing them. Every time I have a rough day or a bad day, I think about this dream. And that dream gives me an assurance of peace and comfort to make me believe that everything is going to be alright. Let us go to Genesis 37.

5 One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever. 6 “Listen to this dream,” he said. 7 “We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before mine!” 8 His brothers responded, “So you think you will be our king, do you? Do you actually think you will reign over us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dreams and the way he talked about them. 9 Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!” 10 This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him. “What kind of dream is that?” he asked. “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow to the ground before you?” 11 But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.

The dreams that I’m talking about this morning however aren’t the dreams you have in your sleep. The dreams I’m talking about are your passions, your desires and your goals. Every single one of us have a dream. We all have a dream to do something with ourselves. Some of us wasn’t too be doctors, lawyers or engineers. Others if us are going to want to be writers, entertainers, or accountants; but those are the dreams that some of us will give up on. Every year, at this church we dedicate a Sunday to talk and think about our dreams from the past year and about the dreams we have for the coming year. so to help us think about dreams, we look at the dreamer. Let’s go to Genesis 37. 1. Our dreams will cause us to be hated and disliked. Dreams will often be the cause of jealousy in our relationships with others and that is because other people don’t have dreams. The reason people give up on their dreams is because other people start resenting them for it.dreams that cause jealously may not seem heavenly, but they will lead to our destiny. 2. Dreams have to be believed in. New years resolutions end abruptly because people stop believing in them. if you don’t believe in your dream, they don’t become anything more than pie in the sky cream. When Joseph was a slave he continued to believe in the dreams God gave him. When he was in prison for being good and righteous, he still believed in the dreams God gave him. This is not in your notes, but let’s go to Acts 7. “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him 10 and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. 3. When our dreams are full of wonder, we find a tender splendor that only God can number as an answer. You see, when Mary was told by the angel Gabriel that she would be the mother of Jesus, she was full of wonder. It didn’t matter what might happen because she knew that God would fill her with an answer that is full of tender and is in itself a great splendor. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. (1 Peter 4:11)