Dare to dream (Dreams and Visions)

Heavenly Father, we just thank you for Dave. Thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you for using him as your mouthpiece Lord, we pray that you open. Our eyes is off to receive from you today. You play the blessed day with your left hand. You feeling my strength. Thank you, baby. Jesus Thank you, Nikki morning, everybody write, too happy with us. I was in the room. Great to have you joining us online from those around the world and so are the first for the first time. I think someone joining us from Ghana. Play, Welcome. Whoever you are. It's great to gather around goats wood. Let me step into. As Nikki said, we step into July. I know, yes means enjoying your life because he's the middle of Wimbledon that she loves Wimbledon. So I don't need to ask what you asked me to be watching and heat it in the week this week. But the sun is shining, it's a glorious day. I mean, step into a new stadium in the in July, when stepping into a theme of dreams and visions, I wonder how many of us dream. I wonder, how many of us. Remember, our dreams, it's funny when you get a conversation over a cup of coffee, with people's, a lot of strange dream last night. And somebody, we have a strange whole spectrum of Dreams, some people dream and why the standing of something of what's going on. Inside our minds is that all mines of processing. The things we have learned and sort through the day and that's one of the reasons why I understand and believe that little children sleep a lot and all the people sleep a lot.

I don't know whether that's true. I might be completely wrong. It might be a complete mess but it feels nice and so theme today. Can We Dance Centre? Is plenty of stories in the Bible about dreams and visions.

Let's start with the one that we all know. So well, that you could probably sing some songs to go along with which is the story of Joseph in Genesis 37 verses 1 to 4 says, it's now Jacob, dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan. This is the history of Jacob. Joseph being 17 years old was feeding the float with his brothers and their binders with the sons of Bill Hall on the sons of Zeus, father, and his father's wife, send Josey 4, a bad report of them to his father. Now, Israel Love Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age also. He made him a tunic of Many Colors for Wendy's brothers, saw that, that father loved him more than all his brothers. I hated him. I could not speak peaceably to him.

So that's Joseph Brothers, special son, and as we know in the title, Joseph Coat of Many Colors. Anybody name a color in the coat of many colors Yep. Yep. Yes, well done, and I'm sure you already. If anybody's ever sung it you probably already singing along red and yellow on and off we go. So, he was a special summer, and the first thing I want to start off this off this be softer softer in your city this morning.

Just like Joseph was special to his father, you'll special to our father. You're special. Anything special, you're unique and being unique. That's no one else like you.

Satellite view Josie story as a special child of God. In verse five, it does on the site. Now, Joseph had a dream Eddie told this to his brothers, I might not even the more. So I have to ring. They were planting seeds in the field. That behold my sheet for rose on stood also operates. I need your sheets bow down or around about down to my shape and his brother said to him, how do you invade Reign Over Us or should I do? Indeed have dominion over us so they hated him. Even the more for his dreams of his words. Then he dreams, still yet another dream and told it to his brothers and said, you look like a dream to another dream and Industry in the sun, moon and the 11 Stars bow down to me. And so he told it to his father and his brothers and his father, rebuked him and said, what is this dream that you have dreamed? Charles your mother, and I, and your brothers and D come to Downtown City us before you. And these brothers envied him but his father kept the matter in mind. First thing I want to say to you is that route Remus and I remember comes the dreamer. Here comes the dreamer and he probably be friends or B like that are always in Dreamland there. Always, if you ask them a question, like what I suppose we might stay away with the fairies or somewhere else in the room with us about something else, is there all dreams. That's the statement of Truth. What I'm talking about. Dreams are not always talk about night dreams. I'm talking about have a concept to picture of who you are and where you going. Because one of the reasons I believe the sun's the brothers hated him because this dream was because a dream gives us hope. I dream gives us a full with puppets whenever we describe ourselves from our history where we being what we've done, what we studied, why we lived what jobs with it, that's how we tend to describe. We look back. We look in the rear-view mirror. Just asked you a question for those drivers in the room for those drivers are home. How many of us drive up costs only looking in the rearview mirror?

Nobody does take me to look in the rear-view mirror from time to time. Sometimes just to see whether we made the right decision and to see what's going on behind us, but we really Drive looking forward. That's where I want to set a picture that I would say, okay, if we bring my things, Barack Obama Supreme Dash Hope is gone any. Hope in the past is in the past? I need hope for the future leads us to a place of momentum, of Destiny of purpose. And that's what I believe dreams often about dreams often about the calling of Ford.

It was a small child. You had a dream of a particular, birthday present. You lost your mom and dad for these present old throughout the year and then you wake up on birthday. Morning is a little child, going to wait and see what happens. You don't think back and think. I didn't have a coffee in the morning and

I just so excited because that's anticipation is hoping your heart.

Dreams. Give us hope. Hold of your dreams. Listen to God, hope and relief.

no I I guess that's a question that we're all sitting here was okay, this dream that David ice cream the Jersey font Did you know it was a Dream from go to that point? Was he just a dream? 3 signs that it was something that God was showing him. So there are times when we have dreams, we don't know whether that quite aligned with God, when I'm using the word. Right now, we have a dream to do something be something to achieve something. We're not quite sure whether that's a Dream from God or just a nice idea from us. You know what? I would encourage you to leave. Josie's did show me confirm it to me. So we are lying all dreams with. What did he say? We bring God's perspective. Jeremiah 29 verse 11. It says God has good for us plans for us but it's nothing wrong with having healthy wholesome dreams Flashlight, for example, you want me to go? What's your favorite team? Whatever your team is? You've never been before? You've never been to the grounds and you want to answer breathable drip. It's so unhealthy around houses. now, the diet happens, you'll be sitting on the I'm sitting in the grass.

A young man who used to come to us. She's no longer a young man that she's so used to be part of our youth group. He went to the new stadium and I didn't get to Doug. That's, that's okay. I've never been to the new stadium.

There are other dreamers in the Bible. Another dreamer will be David.

Let me just read to you something here with this is why I think dreams are important in 1 Chronicles chapter 17 verses 47. It says this, but Levi said to Nathan the prophet, see now I threw it in the house to Cedar for the Ark of the Covenant. The Lord is Under the Tent and curtains Then Nathan said to tell you to do all that is in your heart for God to do for God is with you.

go to change eye with something about worship and and and and, and and the Tabernacle So he said it with the prophet Nathan. You guys want to say this, but it happened that night of the word of God came tonight and so I can go and tell my 7th baby. Says the Lord, You shall not build me a house that the weather in for I have not developed in the house since the time that I brought out Israel, even to this day. But I've gone from tent to tent of one from one Tabernacle to another wherever I have moved about with Israel. Have I spoken a word to any of the judges of Israel who might come Monday to Shepherd. My people saying, why have you build me a house of cedar? Now, that fool, that's you say to my seventh David us Test the Lord of hosts. I look you from the Sheepfold from following the sheet, to be ruler over my people of Israel. If they beat at being a Shepherd, you being a faithful Shepherd. And now he wants to glorify God. And he wants to build a house of God and he shares it with the prophet in the prophet, brings nothing wrong with dreaming, but now we get a shaping of the dream navigate to nothing. Baby listens and pays attention.

play David also, when he was troubled, would use his dreams and he's hard to drive him Ford in 1, Samuel 30, at the end of this,

But David, strengthened himself in the Lord, is God, he took hold of the promise and I believe you will be faithful.

Something, I think I can honestly say to you is this, we will not fulfill dreams that we choose to let go.

I am sure most of us in the room probably have a heart at some point, a dream to do something to be something to go somewhere and be related then.

Really very, very unlikely that dreams going to be fulfilled.

There's a beautiful story in the book, Cold Blood by Road Parsonsfield, the hearts of success and he talks about how a young disciple mind that he knew.

Wanted to build. An assault course for disabled people and everybody around him still running said, you crazy. How come you have wheelchairs up in the air and things like this.

Create is a sucrose.

We bought a house and they did it happen and they sold the house and bought another house and did the app. I'm going to have enough money to buy some land and I bought some land and they built. This is sort, of course, this is so coffee. Still there in. Northamptonshire is a place where you can safely take disable people around, you can even take it. Seen pictures, I've never been to it but I've seen pictures of blind. People walking down Road books and I just thinking, wow, I feel like I don't know. But I find it fascinating. He had a drink he and his wife had to do it and I did not put it down. It took them nearly 20 years to get that, but it's still there and it's little Legacy that like, will leave behind the apostle. Hold onto your dreams. I speak of Hope.

Another story in the same boat that I talked about how to success. Real possums talks about his dance and I don't know what your attitude when you have a dream to do something for God. Please stop is a postman. I just called these bad ones. I polishing shoes. I don't just mean polishing. My shoes polished not most of you were looking at me thinking. That's a bit strange. That's crazy and see them because they're always down. He said son, I am delivering the Royal mile. I need said maybe the queen will not see that. I'm polishing my shoes, but I've got to be looking the best that I can possibly look in all directions. You said that's why. I polish the bottom of my shoes and I felt it's an interesting field.

You know, some of us will be part of fulfilling other people's dreams.

Some of us we pay a fulfilling other people's prophecies. I might take you back and give you an air one right now, but his two great quotes that. I'm sure whenever we talked about dreams, you think of, I have a dream, a song to sing. Where'd you come from? Absolutely famous. Person said I have a dream. Martin Luther King.

Another are we stuck in your head? But that's what I wanted to tell you. I want you to have that song in your air today. Cuz I want you to get to a place where you can cite. I have a dream. And if you don't have a fresh one, maybe you've laid it down. Maybe you need to pick it up. Check it out with you. Maybe time has passed and he's not biologically, Oak clinically possible for some of those dreams to happen. Okay, I'll just bring you one. That's Prime and see cuz the Bible is full of dreamers. I don't think you some reason. It comes to Dreama. I think that's a really positive thing. I mean some people, can you see why you is so he's away somewhere else so she's away somewhere else. If you go to join, tell someone about it. If you got a dream share it with someone and sharing it with him cuz I'm pretty sure that's what brothers. Once I told them I had a dream I told them again and again and they would not just frustrate you but the story of the drain they were frustrated with the fact that he had a dream in the first place and then it was a dream that had hope and I hope that every one of you has a dream that will give you hope. I hope that you have a dream that you can share with a few people around you that drink. I'm making chatty with you many many, many years ago. He was a good friend of ours, who will be coming to speak in September wedding anniversary and he said at the Men's breakfast, how we had a dream to play golf.

It's not wrong to play golf. I don't know whether that's true but

to play golf. Is it okay to not trim. So some of the men decided we're going to be part of this so we put somebody some money for one club, we contributed to this one. You like to play golf in incredibly short amount of time you got your handicap very very quickly and he started sharing his fights on the golf course. And here's the interesting thing. You didn't notice at the time, but some of the business meetings he didn't have to have ended up being on the golf course. He was ready, prepared. We will talk to me cuz we both got Golf Club. Something back to the report. Someone threw, somebody says I've done it. I am sure you can think of people who struggle to parents never had the grace to you that the first person to go to when they then come home, and it's been quite a few messages flying around out, on some of them are from countries abroad and she comes through Kazakhstan. If she comes from last wealthy family, she said, if it wasn't for the fact that I won a scholarship with the government, I would never act on these degree. We didn't have the money to, to do it, and she was such an excellent student, such a brilliant student, such a brilliant student. She produced the best pipe for the year lost. Yet such a brilliant student of the university has put that forward is a paper to be presented at a research conference. When I say, okay, why did you see like that paper. So we've never see, like, to the paper before, we could never see like the most astute play for before, 3%. To this particular breaking ground, I'm having to have conversations. I've never had to have before. I was having this conversation on the phone, while I was down to the UK, and I'm sitting there thinking, okay? Here's a student who could not afford to go to you. So, I messaged her on Friday and said, are you interested in coming in?

She's not a Christian but I'm saying, let's believe I'm bringing my what does I was going to pay the conference face?

Combination will be paid for it. The academic Chiefs win.

So I'm sharing that with you, that's a Jenny I'm on with the student studying with and who knows what will happen. The laundry leaving bfi3 pipe. I'm believing for the Copeland space to be covered. I'm believing that the truck out of the travel costs will be there. And that's what I'm trying. So let me ask you the question in or are you willing to die to dream? Are you wanting to get a hold of your dreams? All you like ever going to say, I have a dream that means to turn into a song that's fine as well. Or if you have a dream that's going to change history, like Martin Luther King, let me encourage, you don't put it down, where that speech should not be. I'll call you when walk out what the world would be like. what's the foundational moment in time that changed our world a moment in history the world's history

So, let me try.

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I correct right by this. So, father, I pray that you help us to be dreams again. Dreams for the future dreamers. I believe, is it hopeless for our friends and our neighbors to come to Christ? Dreams and hopes for a better world.

Dream is for a life that is being changed.

I'm three minutes that have hope in our hearts, which we share with others. I'm bring to pass that, which we belong to do with you, in Jesus name. Amen. Do you want me to do the 96.