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Why should you chase after your dreams

Today i will be talking about God given dreams but this sermon is for you whether you have had a dream a fiscal dream about something God wants you to do or something he has put in your heart to do.

Why are you leaving your dreams behind?

They might have said that

You’re too old

Your not smart enough to do that

You don't have enough faith to do that

Or you might have talked yourself out of your dream.

You might have told yourself I'm not bold enough.

Or that It is way out of my comfort zone because that is something that I can not do in my own strength.

Or what will other people think?

Or I don't have enough time?

But I want to tell you today don't give up on your dream

Your story

I have had so many things happening in my life that I would have never thought possible.

For one I am here preaching, which I never planned on doing.

I was healed from dyslexia

God took away a lot of past hurts that I had run away from for years.

God taught me to forgive myself and to forgive myself even when I make mistakes.

Amanda told me of a dream

What was the dream

How you were at the time

Day of prayer

Victor

Why i told them this story

Throughout the bible, there are so many of God giving people dreams and God for filling those dreams. Ever thought they we not perfect. They made mistakes.

Let us look at some examples from the bible of people with God-given dreams to see why those dreams are so important.

Abraham

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭12‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

God promises to Abram that He will make his family into a great nation.

And that through his family line all peoples on earth would be blessed.

All he had to do was leave his father house and go to where God was going to show him.

Why was Abraham Given this promise

He was given this promes so the world would be changed forever

It was throw Abrahams line that we had the birth of Jesus.

So that the inter world might be saved.

Abraham: Was called away from his family and his people so he could be set apart from the rest of the world so God could show the world through Abraham what he desires for His people. God also showed His power when he began to fulfill this dream when Abraham and Sarah had a child when they were too old to have children.

Jacob

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭28‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman. Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭28‬:‭10‬-‭15‬ ‭NIV

“Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

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We see in Abraham And Jacobs that God will bless all people through them and their offspring.

Why was Jacob given this dream

Jacob was given a dream because God want to reveal himself in jacobs life personality in Jacobs life. The Lord was planning on letting Jacob’s life also be an example to the world of the favor and blessing of God.

Joseph

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭37‬:‭5‬-‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.” His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭37‬:‭9‬-‭11‬ ‭NIV

“Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.”

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Why was Joseph give these dreams

Joseph: We know the full story of Joseph and how he was second in command in Egypt and all bowed to him just like the sheaves of wheat and stars bowed to him in his dreams. But we can notice that part of the dream was left out and that was God’s purpose. The true purpose for Joseph being in a place of power was to save the lives of many people. Genesis 50:20

Abraham is so afraid for his life that he tells to kings that his wife was not his wife but his sister.

Jacob brother threatens to kill him so his father and mother sent him away to get a wife to escape from his brother.

Jacob gets deceived by his uncle. He has to work another seven years because of the deception of his uncle.

Joseph got thrown into a pit,

sold into slavery by his brothers, and then he was thrown into jail for doing the right thing. I don’t know about you but I would be ask God why he let them put me I jail for doing the right thing. In the end he was where he needed to be in his character to be able to fulfill what God had placed in his heart.

So what dream has God given you

Or what has God put on your heart to do

Ask yourself what is the obstacle getting in your way of for filling that dream

I believe that God has given multiple people in here or even online dreams or longing in your heart to do something for God. we all want to see what God has out on your heart to do for him.

But if it is not time for your dream to come to passed yet.

Ask yourself what can I do to prepare for when it is time for your dream to come to passed.

For example, with my story, I need to get better at preaching. So that is one thing that I can due to preparing. Another thing is I need to practice using the gift of healing.

So i am going to end with this Don't give up on your dream to many people are counting on you to do what God has put in your heart to do for him. How know the kind of impact you could have for the kingdom of God no matter how small you might think it is. Even planing event you dont know what kind of impact that could have for the kingdom.

‭‭Mark‬ ‭9‬:‭41‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.”

So again don’t give up