 It's awesome to hear these testimonies and this is my first time actually hearing What God has been doing in our church and this this to tell you that you are in the right place at the right time I'm a church turn to your neighbor tell him you're on the right place at the right time and Then we believe that as Vladimir spoke this morning and being committed and consistent in church And this is where you are blessed is where you are healed and this is where you are delivered in this place So we continue to encourage you be committed to a church be consistent in church and see where God will take you from Wherever you are to a place where God wants it to be into the real you that God has created you men Amen church This morning we just want to go straight into our message our pastor is absent today But we believe that you will be blessed today as you hear some of the examples from the word of God and some things that That it's some principles from the Bible So if you have your the the Bibles with you, let us open today to Genesis 37 verses 17 through 19 and it says this So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan now when they saw him afar off Even before he came near them they conspired against him to kill him then they said to one another look This dreamer is coming This morning. I want to share a small message with you titled Everything big starts small Everything big starts small our church is is known for for this title because in the beginning when we first as Remember 15 or 16 years ago. We came to America. This was our life You know when we came we had nothing our pastor was the one that came and he at the moment He barely had anything, you know, no language no money, you know No people to surround with him and that was his life And that was something that he lived upon that he understood one principle that if anything must grow It must start in the weak form if anything must happen it first has to start with a dream if you believe in in your life for anything that God wants you to do in your life. It all has to begin with the dream in your life You have to have a dream in your in your heart inside your mind knowing that this is what God wants it to be This is what God wants you to have this is where God wants you to reach if you do not have a dream You will not be able to live that life that God has for you If you are waiting for a place or a time where life will just happen life will just happen Things will just break down things will not work out and you know how things happen You know, it will be chaos just like it wasn't in the beginning will be chaos There'll be darkness and your life without will be without void and without form If we wait for life to happen our life will be filled with darkness There'll be no reason for living there'll be no purpose for living because your life must begin with a dream inside your heart Everything big it starts small and that small thing is a dream inside your heart Every single person when God created every single person he created a blueprint inside your heart And that is the dream what God wants you to reach You know looking back, you know, and when our pastor when he came here to America You know, it was a dream that God has placed in his heart to be able to see Multiculture church to be able to see a church where God's power is moving where where our church is being filled with different types of races Different cultures, you know our young people being risen up to be able to preach in English We have our own TV show or our podcast will have our website will have you know Our pastors will be traveling all over the world It was a dream that our pastor had but it was so small because our pastor had nothing But one thing that he had is he had a dream and today me and you are Celebrating that dream because our pastor's focus was not broken that dream was not lost inside his heart But he kept on believing that this is what God wants us to have and one day it will come to past If anything in your life must begin it must begin in the weak form and that is a dream inside your heart We see in a story of Joseph that we read, you know Joseph being a small, you know being being a small guy being a small brother You know and he comes in one day just begins to have a dream and he's begins to share his dream It's like it begins so small and so insignificant Yet he believes that this is that everything that he has this is a dream that one day the stars the moon Begin to bow down to him and he holds on to the dream and he knows that this is everything that I got your your your dream Your life will begin with the dream and I want to tell you one thing that your dreams cannot be small You cannot just dream of a life that is just mediocrity Just something that is small something that is insignificant. Oh, I'll just have a regular job I'll just you know just come to church a visit. You know if I might get sick, you know This is the will of God for my life, but your life has to have a big dream It may stall the it may starts in the weak form It may look insignificant to you, but you have to have a dream that is way beyond your reality Because our reality is you know, you you grew up you get a job you graduate, you know You you get married you do this, you know, this is a you know This some people this is a dream, you know an American dream Just get a house get married have kids and die But I'm talking about a dream at that God has given inside your heart a dream that one day that you will not only You be saved, but you also begin to save others a dream of that not just you know My family's has you know the sickness going on and one day that I will that sickness will not kill me But have a dream that I will be a healthy person that I will live my life Without a sickness without a pain that is in the way where God has created me to have a dream Not that I'll just have a job, but I one day I'll be given our jobs the one day now just be given our jobs I'll be given out of cars or begin our houses. I'll be building orphanage. I'll be building rehab centers That is the dream that I'm talking about not just a dream that you yourself be saved But one day you open a home group one day that you'll not just have one home group But you'll have 12 home groups you be releasing that you will be an influence to those people in your community That is the dream that I'm talking about It might be at the moment that you think that this dream is just is it's only thing I have it looks small and it's insignificant, but everything big it starts small it starts little and all begins with the dream But the dream that you're going to have a challenge that you're not going to have a small dream But you have a big dream that it only can come to pass with God The moment you believe that you can accomplish your own dream. It's not a dream a Dream that we're talking about that. It's only possible with God And that's is what happened with Joseph's life. His dream was not a dream that he was he was a small boy He was somebody who was insignificant, but his dream was so big that he knew that I cannot accomplish it by myself But only can do it with God doctor Dr. Yungi Choi said one thing is that if you do not have any dreams the Holy Spirit is not with you and That is true When you come to know God when you come to know the Holy Spirit first thing that Holy Spirit places in your life Is a dream to be able to believe for more to be able to believe that you're fearfully and wonderfully made to be able to Believe that you'll be on top and not on the bottom to believe that you and your family shall serve the Lord To believe that you will be able to be an influence to your generation That you win souls that make disciples to believe that in the last days that God will pour out a spirit upon all flesh That you have dreams that you have visions. This is a dream The Holy Spirit deposits it in your life when you come to know him So if your life is without dreams and it's without visions you do not have the Holy Spirit Your life has to have a dream. You must believe that one day you may not be able to speak at this moment Maybe you're not, you know an eloquent in speech. Maybe at this moment You're still paying off your debts. Maybe at this moment, you know, you do not have a relationship But you have a dream inside your heart when you come to know the Holy Spirit He will give you a dream that is only possible with God Everything big it starts small Kobe Bryant if you can put up his He said that each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be and I continue working hard each time I close my eyes I can only see me shining bright in the Sun and Today you see that he he reached and he made to a place what others only dream of But it all started with the dream that he always would dream every time it would close his eyes He would see himself shiny as bright as the Sun and you may think that you know, this is this is like This is prideful. There's a selfish But that is what Holy Spirit wants for every single person here today If you come in today and your dreams have been shattered Away and you know in this life, you know, you've been you've been maybe divorced You maybe went through bankruptcy made me you've been sick constantly and your life has been shattered into pieces And you are doubting your dream You may be doubting what God has placed in your life Let me tell you one thing that your dreams can be restored at the cross of Calary when you come to know Jesus Christ When you come and give your life to Jesus Christ, he can restore every dream He can give you the brand new dream Maybe you never had to believe that God can do all things that with your God Nothing and nothing is impossible in men church. I Remember one when I used to be in Ukraine Went to this Passage conference with my dad like it was just like when I was I'm thinking like six probably I was six I was just you know, just walking be able to realize what money is Because I beg my parents a lot for money. They didn't have any and remember I went to that conference I was walking between the aisles my dad was up front and I was running around and I was running running I ran across and I saw a dollar bill on the floor now back in the day. That was 1995 a Dollar in Russia. I was a lot of money At that time it was a lot of money. Remember I was running. I found the dollar and I looked around. I'm like Somebody left the dollar and everybody's worshiping everybody's like thank you Jesus. So like thank you Jesus, too I see this dollar on the floor. I pick it up and I'm like looking around I'm like whose dollar is it and everybody's worshiping. I'm like, well, it's mine and I begin to walk there and I was holding the doll never seen a dollar in my life But I know it's a dollar. I know it's a dollar. See it was a Benjamin Franklin or whatever it is on that dollar And I'm just holding that thing. I'm like back in my mind. I'm like a bike would be legit You know, I'm venturing myself going to the store and just Yeah, give me my thing, you know, just purchasing something and and at that time in my heart I was like, I'm gonna give this give this dollar to to when they gonna ask for offering and send my heart At that time, I was like man, I dream of one day be able to give so much money And it was like at that time a dream was birthed inside my heart. I Wanted I mean the dollar to a six-year-old in Russia at that time. It's a lot of money Could have bought myself so much things and and I know at that time. I'm like, I'm gonna give it to God I'm gonna give it to the offering and and from that day. I remember till till today from that day I've dreamed of living a life I'll be able to give great things to God to be able to live a life not just, you know, that I'm I'm so rich and I'm collecting all these All these money but to live a life where I am giving Huge things to God be able to to tithe a lot to be able to to give away cars to be able to give away houses and that day a dream was birthed and Same thing that happens with each and one of you in this place God as gives you guys a dream But when we go through life certain things begins to washed out certain things begin to to fade colors and you know Life happens and dreams fade away But I want to tell you this morning that at the cross of Calvary your dreams can be resurrected Maybe you have never had a dream at the cross of Calvary You can get a brand-new dream for your life to believe for more to believe a life like pastor was talking this Wednesday of more than enough to believe for a best life even though you might have a past But the cross of Calvary gives us a place where we can dream again where we can have a dream That is not possible with men but can be possible with God and men church come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ And and to to to my To my to to my surprise You know dreaming this life though to be able to give great things, you know this week I was I was even able to give away a car, you know to for us it was You know for me my wife was a was the best car that we had we have a we have a Toyota Corolla and Christmas lights are shining on the dashboard and You stop in the start like Come on, you know, it's you're a Toyota. You're supposed to you're supposed to work good And you know and I was able to fulfill that dream this week and I was looking back, you know And I was praying I was seeing that God was showing the picture that when I was at that six year old A dream was birthed in my heart to be able to give more than enough To be able to live a lifestyle where I can you know, I'm believing to one day to give a house away To be able to sponsor somebody's college tuition to be able to live a life where you are living at your best Not just living a life from paycheck to paycheck But living a life of more than enough and that is a life that God wants you to have every single person in this place Amen church, this is a life of a dream and it can be restored out the cross of Calary Don't despise the day of small beginnings Do not despise the day of small beginnings your dream that you that you see may be so huge and that you think that Well, you have now in your life Is is nothing You might think, you know, you just might have a job that is just paying for your bills And you know, and you you may look at your dream And you see the dream is just so huge and what you have now is just so small That you're like, I don't know if it's possible Don't despise the day a small begins because everything that starts That's going to become big first starts in the weak form Everything every great basketball player every hero that ever became who they are one day they were at a weak form They were they were fragile. They were they were at a place where they were not just, you know, not running They were just maybe crawling. They're just learning how to get back up And that is a place where you cannot abandon in Zechariah Four verse 10 says do not despise these small beginnings for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin The Lord is happy when you begin to take small steps towards your dream Maybe you're believing for a home group and at this day you you never brought anybody to church Don't despise the day of small beginnings when you go to your work and you begin to witness Maybe nobody comes when you begin to tell them about God, but don't give up Don't abandon don't begin to abort the dream that God has placed inside your heart because one day You will become a home group leader one day you have more than just one home group leader You have 12 home group leaders that will begin to change our community They begin to change our schools. They begin to change the family trees and that's they will come But don't abort the dream because what you have inside your heart right now is small or insignificant You know, I'm looking back and I remember, you know, when my remember when our dad our pastor my dad When the church was just beginning and we were in our duplex in Richland And remember, you know, how how emotionally my my my dad was just hurt He was just it was in such a pain where, you know, he was just like I want to start a church You know, I believe that God's gonna do great things and I remember at times where he would come home And he was he would not be happy. He would go downstairs to Our basement he would just lock himself on pray and said and I remember sometimes listening, you know God said he was saying God. I don't know if it's possible I remember hearing that and I just he was just kept pressing kept pressing kept pressing and all at that time that Our pastor had was just young teenagers just a bunch of young kids who were just doing ridiculously dumb things You know, it just ridiculously But that was a day of small beginnings and our pastor believed Our pastor stood up on the dream that God has placed in his heart to believe for more to believe that Look with man, it's not possible. Only God can do it and today me and you are standing and sitting here as a result of one's man dream Come on, put your hands together for Jesus How much more people today will be changed because of the dream in your heart You know, I'm always thinking I'm like how many people went through our church You know in the past how many years that we've been existing But how much people can be influenced through my life If if if I if I if our pastor who did not speak any English Who did not have any money who did not have any support was able to influence so many people How much more can I do when I do speak English when God has given me education? What God has given me money when God has given me influence God has given us authority and all these things where we're taught with it We have so many mentors. How many lives can I impact with my dream? Don't despise the day of small beginnings number two is small dreams small suffering big dreams big suffering Small dreams have small suffering big dreams have big suffering You guys have to understand one thing you will suffer anyways. You will suffer anyways. You cannot avoid it With you dream small you will suffer small if you dream big You will suffer big But with big suffering you have to understand dreams come true Dreams come true even if you believe small dreams that will still come to past But those small dreams you will experience small suffering with the bigger dreams You will experience bigger suffering and we see in the life of joseph We see how with side is hard. He didn't just believe that oh, I'll just be you know, I'll just take over my father You know my father loves me. Everything is good. I'm just gonna have a family get married But he believed with a big dream and from that big dream he went through betrayal He began to to have you know pain from his brothers He was sold into slavery then he went to prison. But from that prison he was Elevated to become a prime minister This to show you that dreams come to past So if you have a dream inside your heart, do not just dream small Don't just dream things that you can accomplish yourself dream a dream But only god can come and bring to pass in your life. Amen Suffering is a guide your personal guide to a successful life When you begin to experience suffering in your life, you understand one thing that you are on the right path Good seas never made a great sailor just to show you that when times are tough When times are just are not easy because of the dream that you have inside of your heart They are your guide to show you you are on the right path You are doing the right thing when people people begin to To persecute you because of the the righteous things that you're doing of the things that you're standing for god You believe for a home group. Maybe your family is like you're crazy. You know what you're doing You spend need to spend more time with family, you know, you you you are totally different You're banding us that you might experience some suffering at that time But you have to understand that great dreams Will require you to go through suffering Great dreams that god has given in your heart has placed inside your heart Will require you to go through the wilderness before before you will encounter the promised lands But another thing you have to understand also that not every suffering That every suffering is a good suffering There are some suffering where are like in egypt Where israelites were just being slaves and there was no point for that suffering And there's the other suffering where israelites were in the wilderness But that suffering had a purpose for them for the promised land There's certain sufferings that we have in our lives where we where we do it to ourselves where we for example If we begin to smoke that will cause us to be sick our lungs will be You know affected and that's the suffering that you will bring up on yourself But there's other sufferings that for example that you might be you know You go enough to god you are serving god and all of a sudden a devil attacks you There's an attack upon your life you become sick and you know that you're good with god You're standing with god that suffering has a purpose to better your relationship with god There's a suffering where we go and we max out our debit cards our our credit cards and everything We get into debt and then we pay a whole life paying off that debt There's the other suffering where we choose to become poor so we can live a better life where we give away cars Where we give away jobs where we you know so into other people's lives where we choose to become For a temporary time to become poor So somebody else's life will become rich and that is the suffering with a purpose Now there's a suffering where you know pure your friends are are enjoying are there they are you know They're partying they're doing something else But you are praying here on the Friday night on the on the on the every day in the morning prayer You're battling for your generation that is a suffering that might you might think it's a suffering But that suffering has a purpose it is a suffering when you don't get enough sleep telling you Vladimir many times like brother wake up I wake up though and that that's you know, but you see the fruit of that There's a suffering where you where you are encounter tough times where you stand in the gap and you believe that god Will come through and that suffering has a purpose for your life because there is a promised land at the other hand But there's a suffering that we do for ourselves Where our mentors tell you you should not be in that relationship. No, I just believe it's right and it hurts But I'm just gonna do it and then the day end of the day we end up hurt And that's not the suffering that we're talking about that suffering has no purpose You learn the lesson. Yes, but you can learn it with one stab without or or two, you know So there is a purpose for a suffering But it has to be the right type of suffering There's a purpose when we suffer like israel in the wilderness because there's a promise line coming Or there's a suffering where israelites are just being slaves to in egypt So we have to understand that every suffering is a good suffering So we need to choose our sufferings with care, you know that It yes, it is hard to to come in the mornings to pray And on that time is challenging. It's a sacrifice But no, but that this suffering this sacrifice this this time where you come and you spend for god It has a fruit at the end, but there's suffering where you can Go to the gym in the morning and skip morning prayer and later on you'll be devastated for your life. So Hardships are not a sign of sin nor prosperity a sign of holiness Hardships are not a sign of sin nor sin Hardships are not a sign of sin Nor is prosperity a sign of holiness and we see that in the life of joe You know where he he was sick He was at the moment he lost everything, but it was a time where he was with god And at the end of that suffering, you know at the end of that, you know a hardship time God has given him more than he can handle And also we see that those people who who gain the whole world yet lose their own soul So you cannot say that You know because I have everything in my life means that you know, I'm living a life of holiness I'm living a life that is righteous before god and not every time where you lose everything You begin to think that you're so far from god Because hardships are not a sign that you are going through, you know, that you are in sin Yes, we should look in our life to expect our life so we can come closer to god But those are not the signs In in our bible romance 8 28 says that we we know that in all things god works for the good Of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose Know that in everything that we go through in the sufferings that we are facing when we suffer for christ's sake God will make all things work together for our good We'll make work together for your good for whatever you're believing in your life And number three is every season has a coat We see in In joseph's lives like us. We read that he first started off as being a son He first started off with god where abraham or his father has given him a coat and it was a colorful coat But he came to a point where his brothers stripped him of the coat and gave him a coat of being a slave We see at the time where he was a slave He was going through that time and and at that time where he was a slave a coat of being a slave was put on him But then from being a slave he was elevated it being a porter for his house So the coat of being a slave was stripped for him. It was given another coat Also, he was at his porter for his house He was everything was going good until temptation came and his wife accused him and that coat was also stripped for him and he went to prison and and then uh one who was a who was a uh crime What's what's the word for it's who was in um When you're convicted of something convict a coat of convict was was put on him in in a prison cell But also that code did not last because when when he started to interpret dreams that Coat of being somebody who does the crime was stripped from him also And it was also after that elevated to a place where he became a prime minister What we want to see from his life is that every season has a coat and we should not be attached to our coats Certain people might might take your coat from you. Maybe you're are going through a a season where you have not enough Don't stay attached to that coat Make sure that the main thing is the main thing that your relationship with god remains the same through every season that you go through Every season requires different quotes Every season requires but one thing that should remain from that is that Our relationship with god never changes. Yes Joseph was a son. He loved god. He believed in god. Yes. Joseph was slowed and sold into slavery He's still kept on being and having a relationship with god He then went to being in into uh part of for his house He still had a relation with god because when he was tempted he knew that was arrived before god Then from then on he went to prison cell. He's still believing god His relationship with god always remained the same and once he was elevated to being prime minister His relationship with god still remained the same Your seasons might change Your coats might change there may be a coat that was that was taken from it might be Shit from you but let your relationship with god remain the same Let your relationship with god be in a level where where you might go down You might go up but your love for god always and always grows but it never goes back Prophet to be joshua says that our enemies may be able to separate us from the presence of our friends From the presence of our people from the presence of a country, but they cannot separate us from the presence of god Our enemies may strip us of our artwork prestige and beauty But the wisdom and the grace of god cannot take us from god Our enemies may confine us to a prison cell and rob us of our liberty But they cannot shut us out from the throne of mercy and our communion with god We may go through seasons in life just like just like joseph We may go through highs and lows we may go through a time where you know where we are where we're comfort Comforted in our our season where everything's going good and and you are about to to go to your next season And you're attached to this coat of you know of just warming the pew But the next season is that you need to invite friends You need to become a home group leader. You need to step out of that that coat. You need to leave that coat behind You need to become to a place where god wants it to be to not to be attached to your season Not to be attached to your colorful coat to believe that god has a better place for you That god has a better place than part of first house God has a better place for you than a prison cell God has a better place for you and that is being at the prime minister to place where god has created you The real you the god that has created of your dreams You know to be a successful person not to be a person that is on the bottom But a person on the top not a person that is constantly fighting sickness But a healthy person fighting sickness a person that has an influence that has not just you know People that you bring to church, but you open up your own home group that you become a successful person Maybe you believe it for a relationship god has a place for you of you know having a wonderful marriage Of becoming a building a great family. That is a dream that god has for you Everything big It starts small Don't let your dreams be small dreams Had let your dreams be dreams where they only require god to make them come to pass and my church Come on put your hands together for jesus christ