 Let's open our Bibles to Genesis chapter 37 and verse 19 and verse 20 and it says the following and then they said to one another, look this dreamer is coming come therefore let us now kill him cast him into some pit and we shall say what wild beast some wild beast has devoured him. You know if you think you have sibling problems I'm pretty sure this doesn't come close it's when your siblings get together and instead of you know planning to beat you up they're just going to find a way easy way to kill you really bad dysfunctional family and we read on it says we shall see what will become of his dreams you know it's one of the greatest compliments in life you can get if your critics call you a dreamer that means you no longer have a dream the dream now has you your dream can either be a fantasy that you think about once in a while or it can be your identity that even critics call you by your dream I am tired of the day where critics call us by our weaknesses by our mistakes let's be known even by our critics by the size of our dream not the size of our mistakes not the size of our weaknesses is anybody with me the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams one famous lady said that hold fast to your dreams for if dreams die life is broken winded bird that cannot fly I'm a dreamer I have to dream and reach for the stars if I miss a star then I grab handful of clouds all our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them said Walt Disney story of Joseph is the story about dreams it starts with Joseph getting a dream 44 getting a dream when I put it for Butler a wine better got a dream a fair or got a dream and seems like everything is about dreams it's either somebody's dream coming to pass somebody trying to crush somebody's dream or everything is about dreams and the very interesting part about Joseph's story is that every dream in Joseph's story came to past I want you to write this down dreams come true Joseph's dream came to past a butler's dream came to past a wine cup bearer dream came to past a pharaoh's dream came to past every person in Joseph's story had a dream and those dreams came to past we must understand one thing about dreams is dreams are dangerous because they come to past it is dangerous to dream a small dream as it is dangerous not to dream a dream at all we see in Joseph's story and we see also in the Bible that God communicated with the dreams to people in Joseph's story God didn't speak to Joseph through the scripture God didn't speak to Pharaoh through the prophet God spoke to them through a dream now the difference between these guys and the dreams that God will use for you is this is that these guys dreams were dreams when they were asleep but we also know people in the Bible that God spoke to through dreams when they were awake for example we know Joseph God spoke to Joseph through a dream we know that God spoke to the wise men through the dream we know that God spoke to the Philistine king who had a barren wife who had barrenness in his field and he said through the dream Abraham is the prophet and if you don't honor him properly all of your women will not bear children we see all throughout the Bible God speaking through the dreams dreams and visions are the language of God he calls those things which are not as though they were Dr. Yankecho is credited by the statement that I just mentioned that dreams and visions are the language of the Holy Spirit that means one of the ways God wants to communicate to you is through dreams and one of the ways you can communicate with God is through dreams now I am not referring to right now dreams you dream when you sleep I'm referring to dreams you dream when you're not asleep because Abraham had a dream and he wasn't asleep it was the dream of the stars and that dream became a reality God says your descendants will be as numerous as the stars on the earth but they first started as a son and then he eventually got a nation and now three world religions Judaism Christianity and Islam all claim Abraham as their father Abraham's dream has become a reality we see many other people in the Bible David had a dream to build God a big house God says hold off wait but Sam a Solomon gets on the field and David passes away and he builds the dream and the dream becomes a reality dreams come true if you want a partner with God you must understand God's language his language is not Spanish his language is not English his language is dreams it's important that we develop our relationship with God through dreams by not aiming for the stars first but by aiming dreams that are short term and then build our credibility with God that will enable us to aim for higher dreams for example if you have just gotten saved it is not good for you to plan to have 20 home groups to have a dream that I want to have you know 20 home groups it is good to start your dream by planning in your dream to have a home group 10 15 people if you are 14 years of age it is very wise for you not to have a dream of having 12 children it is good for you to have a dream to finish high school have a dream of one day finish college have a dream of getting your car have a dream of staying out of debt while you're all doing all of this having a dream of getting married and then children don't jump into a dream ahead of yourself that you skip the process why it's very dangerous to do that because you will see that dream not come to past you will get disappointed in yourself you will get disappointed in God and you will throw the baby with the bathwater and say dreams is only for people who are in Disneyland but in the real world you grind it out no in the real world you can live a life of dream if you know how to cooperate with God every baby doesn't start with running it starts with crawling and then starts with walking and then running do same thing with dreams can somebody say amen number two not all dreams were good in Joseph's life Joseph's dream was positive two guys in jail one of their dreams was positive the other guy's dream was extremely negative he had a dream of he's going to get hanged and though the dream was extremely negative that dream still became a reality we see Pharaoh he had a dream part of that dream was that he is going to be having this great success and the other half of the dream is he's going to have a great poverty and both of those became a reality the challenge about faith is this is faith is believing what you do not see and the reward of faith is that you will see what you believe a dream many people say well i can't have a dream first we have to start with this do you already have a dream lodged in your heart that is negative meaning that you constantly expect your life will fail that you constantly expect things won't turn around that you constantly expect nobody will show up to my home group people that i will invite they will not come to church yes they prayed for me but you know what the addiction is stronger than jesus and i'm gonna slide back if you constantly have that dream yes it worked for somebody in their finances but it's not going to ever work for me you have to be careful that a negative dream a negative mindset and a vision is not lodged in your heart because it has the capacity of being a self-fulfilling prophecy dreams don't only work when you go forward dreams also work when you go backwards dreams are like the gear in the car you choose which way you go neutral forward or reverse but dreams come true whether they're good or whether they're bad amen number three non-dreamers fight dreamers and then end up working for them i'm gonna speak to dreamers for just a moment and then i'm gonna speak to those who are gonna work for the dreamers there's a lot of people and they come to church many times and you can sometimes see people who are gonna dreamers and those who are there just to have fun and just to fellowship and pastor's preaching and they're they're talking and everything and and this is not for them and and everything their their goal in life is just to have fun and and all this stuff i'm gonna talk to both of the categories for just a moment joseph has a dream and his brothers begin to attack that dream and they begin to make fun of him his brothers didn't have a dream it is dangerous to live without a dream and a vision from god why because instead of helping someone you begin to hinder someone have you noticed joseph's capacity joseph's life resembled a person who always helped someone you see joseph helping a poriphar you see joseph translating someone's dream in jail you see joseph elevating quickly to being a manager you see joseph helping ferro with his dream you see joseph always helping someone with their dream why because joseph was a dreamer only dreamers unlock other people's dreams you can never help someone's dream if you don't have one yourself when you don't have a dream when you don't have a vision and you live your life like a cat or a dog going to sleep eat and recycle repeats and your life has no vision and no purpose the danger in that life is this is that by default you take the position of instead of helping a dream you begin to fight someone's dream pastor is moving with the vision and i don't like it and you begin to cut everything and begin to rebel and cause other people to do the same why because when you don't have a dream you begin to attack someone else's dream get your own dream and you will help other people to unlock theirs can somebody say amen when you have a dream what it produces within you is positive emotions to help other people the bible says faith works in concert with love that means people who are positive produce other positive emotions of love people who are negative people who are bitter offended people who are easily touched and you you slightly rebuked them slightly correct them and all of their feathers disappear and their heart sinks a minute or feed and the world crushes those kind of people cannot they don't have faith they have too much bitterness too much offense and too much negativity and those kind of people cannot do two things they can't receive love because no matter how much love you give them it's never enough and you they always find a fault with you and secondly they can't give love because they're too busy licking their own wounds negativity is the selfishness at its best when you are positive when you are full of faith only then you can be loving if you are a negative person pessimistic you always find problems in opportunities you always bitter always mad always angry i'm gonna give you a little prophetic word every relationship you start will never succeed negative people make miserable relationships only people who have a dream means they have faith have love and hope love does not hang out hurt love does not hang out around people who are bitter love only hangs out its best friend called faith you want to attract love build faith you want to get love establish in yourself a dream a vision only then love gets attracted if you are negative and pessimistic i'm going to tell you what you will attract lust it will taste like love it will look like love it will smell like love the only thing is you will get hurt afterwards and it will hurt like lust real love only is attracted when there is faith and when there is positivity when bitterness is gone when offense is gone when the dream is there it attracts and makes you the person who helps other people if you don't have a dream today to have your own home group you're not gonna mentor other people what you're going to say is i am too busy my life is too hectic i don't know and honestly i don't care about other people and it's not that you're not a caring person it's not that you're a selfish person it's that you're a person without a dream if you get a dream something happens within you you become more caring for other people like joseph when you lose a dream and you live your life just paying bills and going through the motions next thing that happens is that kind of a life produces within you a person who fights a dreamer to tries to stop a dream rebel against dreamers and at the end if you will have somewhat submission you will end up working for them but god wants you to be the dreamer not to be the person who fights those dreams can somebody say amen every person in here has to have a dream you have to have a dream if you are in debt you dream to be out of debt if you are single and you are of that age and you are out of your warrants and the FBI is not looking for you no more and you've been freed from the demons and you are ready to mingle you should have a dream of being married if you're married you should have a dream of having your own house instead of paying a landlord like myself and making him blessed if you've been in church for over three to five months you should already have a dream of having your own home group why because Jesus told us to go and make disciples and it's impossible to make disciples by just meeting with somebody who's as miserable as you and licking each other's wounds that's not discipleship that's called gossip and that's called sin discipleship is not just finding somebody who is constantly looking for attention and babysitting them like mariana mentioned discipleship is you having a dream i'm going to see people saved i'm going to see people disciples my house is not it used to be for parties for beer and for alcohol and for immorality it used to be for violence but now my house is for the things of god and it is for a home group if you have a home group have a dream that god will give you 12 home groups imagine that live in that breathe in that and god will make that a reality in jesus name can somebody say amen i want to share with you one more thing about dreams is dreams die daily on the rock of temptation dreams crush daily on the rock of temptations our prisons are overpopulated by people who refuse to resist temptation our graveyards are overfilled by people who yield to temptations and if there is one thing that can stop your dream it is not the haters it is not the people who don't like you it is not the naysayers it is temptation it's not even the devil who can stop your dream it is the devil who can present an opportunity in which you fall into temptation and there he crushes your dream joseph had a dream he went through the dry pit he went through a rejection he went through betrayal and all of that didn't destroy his dream actually it brought him closer but then satan brought him a trap and this trap came in the form of a temptation temptation is an opportunity to choose temporary pleasure over permanent pain this temptation in joseph's life didn't come in a form of weed or alcohol but it came in a form of a woman now i want you to for a moment imagine with me joseph is thought by his family to be dead joseph is not loved by his family they rejected him and got rid of him and got some money for it so joseph is completely alone joseph in this place as a slave joseph out of all the people in this world has an excuse to indulge in sin because his excuse is the same one satan offers to you and offers to me you deserve it your life is hard you had a hard week it's okay if you get drunk you have a hard life it's okay if you go and ease yourself a little bit in the club your life is so challenging it's okay if you give yourself a little relief i believe satan came with those exactly same words to joseph and said you know what your daddy thinks you're dead your brothers want you dead but they couldn't succeed in that party far keeps you as a slave joseph you deserve it have fun you're a young man you have feelings and plus she's not that bad looking go and have fun and joseph recognized my life is hard i don't want to make it harder my life's already been difficult and satan the last thing i want is you to multiply that difficulty that was joseph's response you know the second lie satan brought to him well you're not gonna sleep with her just mess around don't sleep with her flirt with her flirting is not sin having sex is sin but joseph you're smarter than that why don't you just go and just flirt with her and joseph not having a pastor not having a bible not having videos on deliverance not ever having testimonies of people who lost their lives the duys not having none of that does not stand there and flirts with the woman the bible says he fled would flirting with her sin of course not flirting with her wouldn't be committing sin but joseph somehow in that age without facebook twitter instagram snapchat and all of these social media sites knew something we don't flirting leads to falling sipping leads to slipping joseph knew something we don't it's not about how close you can get to the cliff without falling it's how far you can run from the cliff to stay on the course of your destiny we have many generations today who simply say things like lad i know bible says drunkenness is sin but i don't get drunk and i usually ask him this question what is drunk i don't know so the bible says a drunken will not inherit the kingdom of god why would you ever want to gamble with your eternity to find out what if in heaven god already set a standard and you don't even know about and you're gambling with your eternity bible clearly stated if what you do to another brother weaker than you causes him to fall into sin it's better that they tie something heavy on your neck and drown you in the columbia river meaning that you may take a sip and afterwards go normal but the brother besides you or the sister who was addicted to drinking for 20 years sees you take a sip and says if she can take a sip but she will take a sip and she will fall and the bible says that falling and then on my fault bible says it is your fault and you will give god an answer for that because of that you have to be like joseph if you have a dream now i want to speak to dreamers if you have a dream you have to understand satan wants to destroy your dream and this is how he will destroy it he will cause you to have a mindset where you will say i don't want to fall into sin but i'm sure flirting wouldn't hurt and then you start flirting and you don't recognize how you found yourself on the top of a potty first wife in bed every person who falls first flirts and the reason why we flirt is because before going into temptation we convince ourselves it is okay to flirt as long as i hold my horses and don't fall you can't flirt and eventually not fall if you want to protect your dream make this in your mind before temptation i don't flirt with sin in the area of alcohol you make a line for yourself not once in a while what if i'm tired a one beer or there it's flirting you make a line not drinking has not killed nobody in united states it won't kill me when it comes to smoking you make a line for yourself not if i am exhausted and tired i'll see i'll play but i'm not going to be addicted you make a line for yourself i'm speaking to the dreamers same thing in the area of relationships you're seeing this beautiful girl you're going out talking there's in a group you make a line for yourself that in a me and her we're not getting physical she's not going putting her hands into my my hands and i'm not putting into hers i was about jesus have mercy on my soul on the hands lord in the hands and if he wants to hold your hands so you didn't put anything on it it's not yours there's nothing on my fingers that belongs to you why do you make that line because when you draw that line in the sand not well if he treats me well takes me to my favorite restaurant and feeds me good gives me compliments then you know what i might you know give him a kiss on the cheek he can kiss me on the cheek and then from the cheek there's such a small distance and then he goes there and there and next thing that happens we're so in love sleeping around you got pregnant and he moved on and you're heartbroken why not his fault nobody forced you you didn't make a decision there is a line and you don't cross it i don't care how cute how handsome and what kind of size of your rims on your car you don't cross that line i don't flirt with sin somebody say amen when you don't flirt with sin this is what happens yes the jerks the peripherals the rapists and lust horny beast they will run from you but this will happen you attract god's blessing and secondly you get protected at the age of 25 you finish school at the age of 26 you have a family why because you were like daniel you made a decision i'm going to babble on and i make a decision i'm not gonna eat of that i don't care the consequences i'm not gonna see well i'm gonna see how it looks if it tastes good i'm gonna try first no no no no i make a line before i don't want to just fall i'm not gonna even flirt with sin why because my goal is not to see how close i can get without going to hell how close i can stay to my dream so i can reach it as soon as i can because somebody say amen you know when people who say things like that to me many times and they say you know it's okay to do this i just don't want to do that and i ask him this question imagine you're married is it okay for your wife to kiss another man no i said why not it's not sin it's not adultery why do you get so defensive if your wife goes on a date with another man and holds hands if your wife comes to you and says is it okay honey i've been talking to this guy is it okay if we go on a vacation with him you will say oh of course i'm no problem as long as you don't commit adultery no you will get mad and you will ask her this question how dare you ask the question is it okay your goal is not to how far you can get from me without committing sin your goal is how close you can stay with me so you don't even want that sin that's how jesus is the issue of alcohol drugs pornography and all other issues when you ask god jesus how close i can get without sleeping jesus is listen i want you to be so close to me that that doesn't even draw you in you should be asking a question what is wrong in my relationship with you that i want those things because somebody say amen don't flirt flee from sin you protect your dreams now i'm 29 years of age i've seen people flirt i went to school with people who flirted i had people who were in our church who flirted with sin some i asked them i begged them and some who are funny and cool and famous i have not lived long enough but lived long enough to see how flirting leads to falling license taken away reputation is such where parents tell their kids if he's there nobody can go there they can't hire them and then people like that come to rent mono properties i can't rent them because of their background things things always go against them and their dreams crush one by one one by one why because you don't listen to the pastor you don't listen to the word of god i'm asking you right now it might be costly to draw the line but the price is worth the reward you are protecting the reason you gotta protect it is because you have something to protect joseph had a dream to protect always remember your young lady you're protecting a dream of your future marriage you're protecting a dream of your future business you're protecting a dream of your finances and of your blessing you want to protect it you can't have a dream i'll be successful i'll be slipping sipping falling and tripping and i'm just going to be flirting with sin that's not gonna happen that only exists in video games in real life if you flirt with sin ask samson samson said to himself i am not gonna ever tell anybody the secret of my power and he fell in love with the lila and the lila asked him the question but samson says no so samson gives her an answer instead of running from the lila samson flirts with the lila he says if you bring a bow strings and time is seven of them i will lose my power see samson is flirting but he says i will never cross the line she brings the seven bow strings he tries them in the work if you bring me new ropes if you bring me so he comes a little bit closer but he says in his mind i'll never cross the line i'll sleep with her but i'll never tell her the real secret this is sin for me to really to tell her the real secret but she takes he takes one more step closer says bind me with new ropes they bind her with new ropes it doesn't work and then he takes one more step further he says well if you take the seven locks on my hair and wool wool them into this special thing then i'll lose my power he already started going from ropes to hair which where his power was and the next step he said if you cut my hair flirting will lead to falling if it it did for samson you're not him you will also fall the way to not to fall is make a decision before the temptation i don't flirt with sin because somebody say man my life is too exciting i have too much to lose to play games with sin number five the last one what does not kill your dream makes it stronger can somebody say man failure is a fertilizer for your dream you must understand is that the challenges that you have in your life god is able to use anything and everything if you're a dreamer see if a person gets rejected like joseph they will cry themselves become better but see if you're a dreamer and you get rejected you get redirected see if you get a failure as a normal person it can define your life but if you're a dreamer it fertilizes your life i'm going to give you a scripture from roman chapter eight verse 28 and this is what it says we know that all things work together for good now it doesn't say we know all things are good but all things work together for good to those who love god and love god and to those who are called according to his purpose this means all things work for those who have a purpose who have a vision and who have a dream if god could use a raven to feed a prophet if he could use a donkey to speak to a prophet if he could use Judas who thought he's betraying Jesus and making some money but he used that to accomplish his purpose in this broken world god will use anything the devil will even use to destroy you he will take advantage of that and say you know what since you are in your purpose will use anything to help you accomplish that purpose the best thing about being a dreamer is now pain no problem in your life is ever wasted everything works for you you will not see how it works for you in the moment only when you reach your dream you look back and you say you know what what i had to go through i pray to god i'll never go through it again but i'm thankful because if it wouldn't be for that i wouldn't be here every dreamer says that and you will say that about your wife because a dream makes your pain on purpose without dream your pain is pointless without a dream you're a mother bearing a child with the dream you're a mother birthing a child both experiencing pain except one has pain that has purpose the other one has pain that only has sorrow every suffering you go through if you have a dream it has a purpose at that moment it feels like destroying you but it's making you i remember you know when i was about 16 years of age and we had my aunt lorisa's brother uh rubim he came to one of our youth services and he was a little bit uh boosted up he came and there was a very small group of people and i i was trying to preach in english at the time and i was so struggling people were already giggling and laughing of how terrible my english was and he was there he was drunk and so he started to make fun of me in front of everybody i remember i felt below carpet i felt so disgusted i felt so i was so insecure so bad and at that moment i actually wanted to quit the youth ministry that i was leading for just a few months and because of certain things i didn't quit god gave me a dream through the winco and everything and today you know i look back last friday uh we were on my dad's house working on the house and uh this same gentleman whose life now um through very unfortunate mistakes has been destroyed he the cool guy before the cool guy now is no longer and he came and he talks to me like uh like i'm his pastor with respect with honor uh ask him from hungry i said yes uh brought some tacos from the taco truck and i remember i'm standing there doing wires and looking at him and i'm like you know what you nearly destroyed my life 15 years ago you crushed the very security that i had you stamped on a spit on it and i'm looking back and i'm like i'm so glad that happened at that moment i felt so horrible but it made me search deep to find why i do what i do and today he's no longer my enemy he's now looks up to me and he is thankful for what i'm doing and grateful the fact that i preach my friends your life will change circumstances will change your problems have a purpose if you have a dream if you don't have a dream your problems will kill you your problems have a purpose when you have a dream can somebody say amen let's rise to our feet we're gonna come to prayer