good morning church family and ministry
friends i'm pastor Steven Brooks and
welcome today to our online internet
around the world church service
i'm so happy that you're here today
because god's word is going to build you
up to do the things that he has called
you to do and to become the person that
he has called you to be in christ praise
the lord now before we jump into today's
message
let's first receive the tithes and
offerings
let's honor the lord with the tithes and
offerings we're going to bring them into
the storehouse of god
and let's look at a scripture
that will give us clarification
concerning god's plan for
our finances
now let's go to the gospel of luke
chapter 14
and let's drop down to verse 28 and this
is jesus talking
jesus said for which of you
intending to build a tower
does not sit down first
and count the cost whether he has enough
to finish it
lest after he has laid the foundation
and is not able to finish
all who see it begin to mock him saying
this man began to build and was not able
to finish
now
many of you of course in your walk with
the lord
over the years and over a period of time
you have developed
very wisely what could be called your
secret place
jesus referred to it as the prayer
closet when you go into your closet to
pray
it's where you have your private
devotional time with god
and you are to be commended for having
established this
where you know there's a place and so
often a time where you go to
draw near to the lord and to sit at the
feet of the master himself
now
i want you to expand upon the concept of
your
secret place and i want you to expand it
into also being not only your
secret place watch this
but also your thanking place
yes put your hand on your head and say i
will also have my thanking place and
they can both be the same place but you
want your secret place
also to extend
to an area where it encompasses also
your
thanking place
praise god
now
yes of course in your secret place you
pray
you spend time with the lord but there's
also other times where you need to sit
in the presence of the lord and have
a pen
and paper in hand that way you can make
through discussions with the lord you
can make the best plans and you can
utilize the best usage of your time
and of your money and of the resources
that god has placed within your hands
so
if you pray fervently you can experience
what we would call a breakthrough
and david experienced a breakthrough
when the lord gave him a tremendous
victory over the philistines so there is
a breakthrough anointing and prayer can
be the catalyst for that but my friends
also
we need to understand that we see in
scripture as well that just as there can
be a prayer breakthrough there can also
be a thinking break through
praise the lord and it's your thinking
and your devotional time
that leads to these great breakthroughs
and to
the completion of your tower the
completion of your project the
fulfillment of your dream praise the
lord yes we should pray but in the
secret place
you know there should also be
uh as
the dew of heaven as the mind of christ
works in your life there should also be
thinking
glory to god thank you lord jesus and
that thanking and with your praying and
your obedience
certainly will propel you into new
levels of breakthrough for example
if we want to begin a business
we
need to gather practical facts
and we need to
dial in
just on what our business is going to be
and then we need to ask ourselves where
are we going to source the goods from
and what time of year is the best time
to buy or sell this product what profit
can we expect to make and how can we win
and be successful against other like
competitors in an open market
environment in other words there's not
just praying god bless my business god
bless my business there's also thanking
for which of you intending to build a
tower does not sit
down first yes pastor stephen we need to
sit down and pray
yes but also sit down and analyze
the cost
what it's going to require the
commitment and the products and
materials to get all of this
accomplished you know we need to be
praying believing faith-filled
christians and we also need to be
thanking christians where we utilize
the full potential of our minds look you
can do a million things literally with
your mind your mind is ready to go
but you're going to have to stop
and listen and talk these things out
with god so you can utilize the
anointing of christ the mind of christ
that you now have full access to praise
the lord let me give you another example
we talked about perhaps starting a
business but maybe a person feels called
to ministry and they sense a calling by
god to move towards ministry
but it's important to understand
that ministry requires more than just a
strong prayer life
it requires
actually more than having an anointing
it requires more than a calling and it
also requires more than just teaching
messages
you know i
finished a television interview on live
television just a few days ago
maybe it's been a couple of weeks now
time flies
uh i think it has it's closer to a
couple of weeks now instead of just a
few days
but once the program was over and the
live
uh program went off the air
well one of the cameramen came over to
me and he was a young fella and uh very
ambitious in life and uh he was really
drawn to the things i shared and he
expressed to me one on one
that he believes that god has a calling
for him in ministry and i could sense
that too i didn't doubt it one bit so he
sat down and he began to ask me
questions about ministry because he's
very
drawn to the area particularly of
prophetic type ministry uh you know
dreams the supernatural the visions and
things like that and so i talked with
him and shared some things with him and
he's seen ministry from one angle and as
i look at him having some
years and
experience under my belt so to speak i
can look at him and i can plainly see
the one primary thing he needs and
what's interesting is that he doesn't
know that this is the primary thing he
needs he thinks he needs more anointing
he needs to pray more
he needs to
you know maybe do a longer fast
and all of that is good
but really the greatest thing when i
talked with him that i could tell that
he needed was what wisdom
because ministry is not just talking or
ministering laying hands on people
ministry you have to have administration
you have to be able to
understand the flow and be able to pick
up on those types of things and also
administrate
so oftentimes i talk with young
ministers
yes about the anointing and all of that
but some other areas that are also not
often discussed hey have you
incorporated your ministry well what is
that well that's something that you need
to do and find out because if you're
going to be receiving offerings and you
really do feel called which that would
take you into direction where you're
going to do this full time you need to
have your ministry incorporated so that
people can give to your ministry and
receive the blessing the benefit of a
tax deduction i mean they had that back
in israel so
why wouldn't you take advantage of
something like that when the government
allows that blessing well okay i need to
do that yes you do and here's how you do
it this like this like this like this
and boom and you'll have it done now do
you have a ministry website oh i didn't
know i needed that i just want to go out
and start preaching
well they're going to want to know who
you are well good pastor steve and i'll
set one on up on my facebook page no
anytime a minister only has a website
based on a facebook page most likely
you're looking at somebody that's not
really
making an aim to do this full time maybe
they're just doing ministry on the side
and they'll let facebook you know carry
the load form or something like that but
eventually you're going to want to have
your own product store you're going to
want to have your own home base and
begin to
make more of an impact through
establishing your own ministry website
so yes there is praying yes there's
preaching and all of that
but you're going to have to look at
these other areas as well that would
encapsulate these areas of wisdom such
as sit down first and count the cost
pastor stephen yes i the more you talk
the more i'm persuaded that i'm supposed
to go in the ministry good okay good now
we're gonna get your training at uh what
do you mean training i'm ready to go now
no nobody's ready to go right off the
bat no surgeon is ready to have a
scalpel put in his hand and be ushered
into the brain room operation yeah just
go in there and figure it out as you go
no there's training
there's equipping and there is the need
for schools of ministry so that you can
be taught the word of god and of course
you want to go to one that
is vibrant that's alive in faith and
doesn't compromise the word of god there
are seminaries that are so dead out
there that so stripped the faith out of
young
uh hungry vibrant vibrant students that
by the time they come out they actually
call the seminary cemeteries uh it's a
it's kind of a joke but in some ways
it's true because you can have people on
staff that teach at seminaries that
don't even believe in the virgin birth
okay so don't go to a place like that
but still you need to be trained and
equipped and raised up in the things of
god yes there is things about god that
they are better caught than taught but
that doesn't
negate the need for teaching and
training praise the lord and any career
field that god is taking you into
you're going to want to get knowledge
and learn and learn and learn and
that that will take you to the top
praise the lord but my friends these are
things that we have to cover praise the
lord so
have your secret place and i could tell
with that young man he had a secret
place but not only have a secret place
but allowed the secret place to be broad
enough to also encompass what the
thinking place
woo
the thinking place pastor steven i'm
ready to give my tithe and offering and
when i do i know money is coming to me
and god's going to bless me
god's going to bless you but you have to
remember god's prosperity plan is a
package deal
yes you tithe and yes you sow seed
but but also you're going to have to
think you're going to have to think and
god's going to work with you with your
mind to show you ways to capture the
harvest to recognize the harvest to make
full utilization
of every good blessing that he wants to
bring into your life and in order to see
that
really be the fullness of what god wants
it to be you're going to have to think
think think and use your mind for which
of you intending to build a tower does
not sit down first
and count the cost praise god
one more amazing scripture we actually
looked at this one
on the previous morning glory show on
wednesday morning but look at isaiah
chapter 1 verse 18
and the scripture says come now
let us reason together this is the lord
speaking come now let us reason together
says the lord now the phrase
reason together means to prove something
out talk it back and forth so that it
can be analyzed and it can be thought
about and there can be a level of
thinking where you think your way
through this process
and this phrase reason together in the
hebrew actually has a figurative meaning
that means to be in the sunshine
so my friends you're going to have to
think and your thinking is based off the
platform of god's word which sets the
standard between right and wrong
wisdom and foolishness
and light and darkness and as the as you
meditate upon the word of god and you
sit down and think in the secret place
which is also now your thanking place
then my friends you reason together with
the lord and you end up where in the
sunshine and you know what to do what
you've counted the cost you know what's
what it requires and you're all in
praise god
now i've got a red folder
right here this is something that i
carry in my briefcase
and as you know one of our ministry
projects which is one of the primary
ministry projects we have the pure gold
television ministry outreach was which
is a global outreach
each week we're speaking to a satellite
footprint of over 1 billion people
and we also are working on a major
project which is the birth of the
aviation branch of our uh ministry and
so this would be the uh for the hangar
and for the mission jet a jet that has
enough range to take us
often
to the impoverished nations of the world
to preach the gospel the full gospel and
to be there in person to minister to
those people
in the name of christ and so what does
that mean for the ministry it means we
have to sit down and think what's all
involved
i've got all the numbers i know exactly
how much the aircraft will cost which is
going to be a falcon 50. i know all of
the other numbers the crew salary the
crew training the hangar the insurance
price the management fees uh i know all
of the total fixed cost all of the
variable costs such as the fuel the
maintenance the engine overhaul the uh
the landing fees and uh and on and on it
goes with these little things so there
is a monthly budget there is an annual
budget and you have to know the numbers
because
we must be able to not only lay a
foundation
but we must be able to build the
structure so that christ is glorified
thank you jesus
so pastor stephen i guess in your secret
place you're not just always doing this
yes i lift my hands and i worship the
lord and i praise god and i pray
but yes
there's also thinking there's also
thinking so some of you bless your
hearts you you need to do this
oh yes lord i worship you you know do
all that have your good time with the
lord but there need to be other times
when the lord wants to download to you
and bless you for spending time with him
that you're there with your notepad open
and your pen and you're writing things
to down that you need to do when you
come out of your secret place
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praise the lord glory to god all right
let us now bring the tithes and
offerings into the storehouse of god
with a clear understanding
that we are going to complete all that
god has called us to do this ministry is
under mandate from the lord jesus christ
to accomplish certain things you also
have assignments in your life that look
that the lord fully intends for you to
get them done
unless men mock and scoff
you are going to be a person that is not
only a worshiper not only a prayer but
also a thinker and thus your projects
are going to be completed as well now
let's bring the tithes and offerings
into the storehouse of the lord praise
god because this helps the ministry
to win the lost for christ this helps
the ministry to go further on every
available platform to take the gospel
around the world
and we want to do our part to honor the
lord with this so bring the tithes and
offerings into the storehouse of the
lord if you prefer to mail them in
please send your tithes and offerings to
stephen brooks international po box
717 moravian falls north carolina the
zip code here is 28654
now if you want to bring your tides and
offerings in online you can do that as
well from anywhere in the world day or
night please go to the ministry website
stevenbrooks.org there's a link on the
page that has a red heart on it and it
says give you can click on that and you
will see the section for the tithe and
you will see some projects that we're
working on you'll even see the aviation
anger project praise the lord
and
that is available to sow into as well
you know i have a
a pastor a minister friend of mine and
he said stephen he said i was um
walking through the church sanctuary on
a sunday morning after the service was
over i was going to go back to my office
and one of one of my church members came
up to me
and he said
he said pastor he said you need a jet
don't you to do what god has called you
to do
he said yes i do
he goes well
he said well how much how much money do
you do you need and he just pulled this
check back checkbook out and had a pen
and opened up his checkbook and he's
ready to write and he said how much
money do you need and the pastor said
this is how much i need and he told him
the amount is some millions of dollars
as you can imagine and the guy just
wrote a check just like that
tore it off the checkbook gave it to him
and the pastor cast it or excuse not
cashed it but deposited in the bank went
out and got his jet
now can you imagine if that man would
have said pastor how much how much money
do you need and he said well i uh i i
don't know you know i have that's a good
question i need to sit down think about
that the guy would have closed his
checkbook back up would have put it back
in his pocket and probably would have
not had said well when you're ready let
me know no he probably would have
realized personally that's not going to
get ready
you have to plan you have to already
know these things
glory to god um i think this is an area
within the body of christ where we must
do better in these areas of planning
well i'll tell one more story i have a
friend a local businessman that um
he lives in in moravian falls
and uh
while he lives here he travels out a
whole lot and he used to work for
microsoft he used to work very close
underneath bill gates
and he made a lot of money matter of
fact when i was at his house one time i
said wow i said
i said my brother you have an absolutely
beautiful home this huge home way up on
a mountain beautiful view
and i said you got a beautiful home
he said um
he said thank you steven he said when i
got out of microsoft i just took a bunch
of my stock and cashed it out
it sold it
i paid for this house it's all debt free
i said well praise the lord and we
actually recorded meetings up at his
house and uh he's still a good friend
today but that
that man that i'm referring to with a
beautiful home
because he has been around a lot of the
top levels of corporate america
there he told me there's things about
the american church he said stephen
he said i can't speak for other churches
around the you know the other parts of
the world i haven't been there but he's
just said you see i he's i just don't
see a lot of planning i don't see a lot
of structure
or organization in the church and he
said he said some of that holds me back
from giving
i said well brother you shouldn't let it
hold you back from giving because there
are plenty of ministries that have their
ducks lined up in a row that have things
in order
you know sometimes people make excuses
for why they don't really want to serve
god or give really a lot of that can be
excuses but at the same time i think
there was an element of truth of what he
was saying where there needs to be
better structure and at the same time
he said stephen he said you're doing
such a good job because we were using
his camera and lights and stuff like
that he said i
just give all of it to you and your
ministry and that's actually what has
got got us started
in the the ministry of streaming and
things like that he gave me a very uh
high-end uh canon camera at that time in
a whole lighting package and you know
what we we utilized we put it to work i
didn't set it over in the corner we
utilized it and givers they want they
want to give and they want that to be
utilized for what they're giving it
towards praise god and i'll tell you one
thing when we get our mission jet that's
not going to be a hanger queen you know
what i mean by that something where you
just you just give me a plane so i can
stick it in the hangar so i can say i've
got one oh no lord have mercy no we're
going to be flying that thing all over
the world preaching the gospel and i'll
still be here twice a week to minister
to you the good word of god hallelujah
thank you lord jesus
praise god all right as you're bringing
your tithes and offerings in let me pray
for you father i pray i pray for wisdom
to be upon your people while they have a
heart of prayer and while they have a
passion to walk close to you i pray
father god that you also help them to
expand their secret place
into also a thinking place and father
may they never
ever another day of their life be in the
secret place without a pen and a notepad
to write down the revelations and the
divine instructions that you're going to
give them to help plan the building of
the tower all the way through to
completion thank you father in jesus
name we all agree and say
amen praise god hallelujah all right so
let's head now into today's message
which is titled principles
of dream fulfillment we're going to be
in first samuel chapter one
let's pray
heavenly father as we jump into your
word
we ask that your holy spirit
would come with the spirit
of wisdom and
unveiling so that we can see your word
take its truths and apply them to our
lives today now thank you father that
your word is spiritual food to us
and we thank you
that we eat the finest of the wheat the
finest of the land and we thank you for
nourishing us spiritually through your
word in jesus name we all agree and say
amen
praise god
today we're talking about principles of
dream fulfillment first samuel
chapter 1 verse
11
then she made a vow and said o lord of
hosts
if you will indeed look on the
affliction of your maidservant and
remember me and not forget your
maidservant but will give your
maidservant a male child
then i will give him to the lord all the
days of his life
and no razor shall come upon his head
so here we see hannah
pledging to god her son if he will give
her a son and she believes that he will
and so she's pledging in advance her son
and she's going further not only will
she dedicate him to the lord for
the temple service and to be the vessel
that god wants to work through but she
also pledges that he will be a nazarite
all the days of his life nor razor shall
come upon his head now she has
tied into a principle here of dream
fulfillment and i want to show you how
this works
look very carefully
as we are moving on from verse 11
to chapter 2 now let's go over the
chapter 2 and verse 21
we know that the lord gave her the
miracle child that we call
samuel praise god
but look at verse 21 and the lord
visited hannah so that she conceived
watch this
and bore three sons and two daughters
isn't that amazing meanwhile the child
samuel grew before the lord
so
she has samuel and now she has five more
so six children total that we see here
recorded
what does that mean
it means listen very carefully a kingdom
dream secures
all other dreams
did you notice that
it's very important here's the first
principle of dream fulfillment
we must put
god first
if we put god first
our dream will be realized and we see in
the life of hannah that a kingdom dream
in which she put god first the interest
of god first a kingdom dream secures all
other dreams
so we're talking about dream fulfillment
but my friends your dream must be
centered around a kingdom dream praise
the lord we also see this very clearly
in the book of genesis let's go back to
chapter 11.
genesis chapter 11 verse
5.
but the lord came down to see the city
and the tower which the sons of men had
built and the lord said indeed the
people are one and they all have one
language and this is what they begin to
do now nothing that they propose to do
will be withheld from them
the old king james version says nothing
which they imagine to do
will be withheld from them some other
modern translations say nothing that
they plan to do
so there are these plans
there are these things that are proposed
and they all link into imagination
and the lord sees that they have the
ability
the unity to pull it off verse seven
come let us go down
and their confuse their language that
they may not understand one another's
speech
now
we have to see here again that the
primary reason
why god frustrated the dream of those
building the tower of babel
was because it was not a god-centered
dream
god knew they were capable of doing it
that's why he came down
and frustrated
their imagination their plan that was
going to be turned into a reality
now it is possible for those outside of
christ to carry forth
certain dreams
that maybe aren't christ centered but
the lord can take it and use it for his
glory somehow some way or for the
advancement of his kingdom and many
times that's why he will allow it but
when he's working with his people we
need to stay with his principles and the
first principle of dream fulfillment is
that the dream must put god first
because all
kingdom dreams will secure all other
dreams
woo praise god
you can have the lesser but not have the
greater but if you get the greater you
get everything wrapped up in the package
so please make sure you put god first
and keep your cr your dream christ
centered
because every selfish dream
for the believer
is doomed
to failure
before it's even started oh it's very
dangerous to do your own thing to go
your own way in life as a child of god
we want jesus to be savior and
lord
in submission to his lordship now
number two
it's very important that in order for
your dreams to be
fulfilled
number two you must fully believe in the
dream that god has given you
and you might think well i believe
pastor stephen well we need to make sure
we have this nailed down
and
let's go to
the book of genesis chapter 37 and look
at possibly
the greatest dreamer in the bible
outside of christ of course with the
dream and the vision that he had but
let's look here
at the life of joseph
the great dreamer
i mean you know you're a dreamer when
people call you a dreamer wow
genesis chapter 37
let's go to verse 5.
now joseph had a dream
and he told it to his brothers
and they hated him even more
let me say this about jealousy
i think there are some some things that
you can do the way you present yourself
the way you say certain things uh in a
spirit of humility that can
uh dial some of this potential jealousy
down but at the same time we have to be
honest and realize
there are some people out there that no
matter
how humble you are they're still going
to find fault they're still going to
criticize and they're still going to
mock and stuff like that and they're
still going to burn with envy and
jealousy so you must stay committed
and you must truly believe in the dream
that god has given you joseph had a
dream and he told it to his brothers
they hated him even more so he said to
them please hear this dream which i have
dreamed now let's go to verse 18.
now when they saw him afar off
even before he came near them they
conspired against him to kill him they
said to one another look
this dreamer
is coming
praise god this dreamer and he's so
crazy he actually believes his dreams
glory to god this is powerful i need to
let you know
we live in a dreamer's world
and it's the dreamers
that truly believe their dream
that change things
and produce amazing things think about
disney world think about the way that's
that's phrased uh yes it's a place you
can go to and then uh out in california
you have disneyland but the original one
in florida disney world this is his
world that he created out of his
imagination out of his dream okay this
is what he created
and i think it's amazing
that
if you look at
walt disney
and
the disney world the whole thing
the way that it originates it all
revolves around
you know where i'm going it revolves
around
it may sound it may sound silly and
we know he was told by many that was
that it was silly but the whole thing
revolves around a mouse
isn't that amazing oh that'll never work
a mouse nobody's going to go for that
but disney loved his mouse cartoon that
he created he named the mouse mickey and
it was
the the destiny moment that this was
it was his dream destiny and that's what
he produced a mouse
and we're gonna build an amusement park
based around the mouse oh no that won't
work well it started working when he
took it to uh animated cartoons for
television and for movies and so forth
short little films
and people loved it and people ate it up
but pastor stephen it's just a mouse
yeah it's a mouse that people loved and
he believed in his dream
and
many people have enjoyed
many of the wonderful movies and so
forth that were presented
back in those days
and a few a few today
many of them today are they're all
politicized
so you know they're all tweaked and
stuff like that it's hard today to make
good movies because i've even heard
liberal
god haty movie makers say
we have no free license to make movies
that out they now all have to be bent in
this direction and so they're frustrated
too
but you can make those movies
as long as you don't need
the financing from
or also the the way to broadcast them
different platforms to get them out you
can still get around those things with
creativity i believe we're going to see
that i believe there are some young
believers that have dreams to do what to
make movies
good movies not cheesy movies some of
our evangelical movies are we have to
admit there's a lot of cheese on them
they're really cheesy
and so we we have to do better with that
praise god but the movies the inventions
the things that are out there they come
out of these dreams that people have
praise the lord and joseph i believe was
the most fascinating dreamer that we
could ever study
and he is moving in this
dream belief
without ever having a prophet come up to
him and say joseph thus saith the lord
of the lord says that one day you are
going to rule
you're going to rule over the egyptians
no nothing like that ever happened to
him at all but yet on the inside of him
he knew
this dreamer knew that he was destined
to be a a leader
a powerful leader that would save and
rescue multitudes of people and even
nations
now notice this he believed it
and he also spoke it see look at verse
six so he said to them his brothers
please hear this dream which i have
dreamed yes there is a time i think when
you have a dream that maybe you need to
assimilate it get it into your spirit
and get it really settled within your
heart but yes there does come the time
even if it provokes some jealousy where
you need to speak it and you need to
talk about it and put it out there and
that's what he did
and his brothers
if if we look at the fullness of the
story of how it's going to transpire
don't you know that his brothers needed
to hear it also because later it's all
going to make sense and if he never
would have told them
it would not have had the drama baked
into it
that uh all of god's stories do whoo
praise god and they knew it and they
thought this is crazy well it the crazy
came to pass
so those brothers need to hear it and
joseph made sure that he did his part
look at this in the book of acts chapter
4
and let's drop down to verse 20.
well verse 19 but peter and john
answered and said to them whether it is
right in the sight of god to listen to
you more than to god you judge for we
cannot but speak the things which we
have seen and heard
we cannot we cannot but speak
talk about it the things we have seen
and heard now listen
whatever
you are afraid to proclaim
you have not truly dreamed it
well i i had a dream stephen uh and i've
had it occur multiple times and i i've
seen it i and i've had this dream and
but i don't i don't want to tell anybody
then no no i don't i don't believe in
your dream if you will not proclaim it
and tell it like joseph did follow his
example he's the king of the dreamers
then my friends then people are not
going to believe it
whatever you are afraid to proclaim you
have not truly dreamed it
think for a moment here's an example
how about martin luther martin luther
king jr
he gives a famous speech
i have a dream
oh
uh martin luther junior uh tell us your
dream oh oh no i i actually have one but
i can't tell anybody shh
what is your dream oh no i can't tell
anybody it's a secret just between me
and god shh
you think well it must not be much of a
dream then
because while there can be a time to
internalize it
and
let the
iron of it create the the rod in your
backbone of of assurance there will come
a time you're going to have to start
talking about it and put it out there by
the way martin luther king jr certainly
did
and martin luther the original one
certainly did as well so my friends you
must believe in the dream you must
believe in it
that god has given
you can you say amen praise the lord
number three principle of dream
fulfillment
you must pray consistently
into your dream oh
i don't know about that one pastor
stephen that might even sound unbiblical
no
now think about this for a moment
you must pray
consistently
into your dream
all right
i can feel it in the spirit there's an
old sacred cow
there's an old religious tradition
of a certain way of thinking i think i'm
gonna i think i'm gonna break the cow
okay the old uh
statue of a cow or maybe we could call
it a religious mindset let's knock it
over together let's take our bibles go
to matthew chapter 6.
matthew chapter 6
and the words of jesus in verse 7.
jesus said
and when you pray
do not use vain repetitions as the
heathen do
for they think that they will be heard
for their many words see pastor stephen
we don't need to consistently or for or
in a means of longevity pray about
anything because that just turns into
vain repetition and god said no vain
repetitious prayers see see pastor
stephen jesus said it right there in the
bible
now watch if you catch this
this was a revelation when it was
unveiled to me jesus said and when you
pray
do not use
notice he did not say do not use
repetitive prayers
whoa
did you catch that
do not he did not say do not pray
prayers that are repetitive
do not pray the same thing more than
twice if you do you're a total unbelief
no he didn't say that
he said and when you pray do not use
vain
vain
repetitions as the heathen do
well what are prayers of
vain repetition are you ready for this
they are prayers that god will never
answer because they are not his will
and he will never back a dream like that
answer a dream like that why it's vain
it's vain he's not in it and you can
pray it every day for the rest of your
life and you can even have 10 or 12
pastors come and pray it with you but if
it's vain in the eyes of god it is now a
vain repetitious prayer it will never be
answered
even if it comes to pass god didn't do
it
woo
praise the lord
so you must pray consistently into your
dream you must pray into your dream pray
into your dream it's not vain repetition
when the dream is
authenticated from god and you believe
the dream and you know this is you're
you're you're tracking on the radar or
the sonar for uh all of you water navy
people you're tracking you've got it
bleep bleep bleep on the image screen
you're tracking that dream it's not a
vain repetition it may be repetitious
but it's not vain
whoa praise god jesus we thank you today
as a matter of fact repetitious prayer
can be one of the most effective ways of
praying can i show you
what i believe to be
the most valuable verse in the bible
that you can pray if you want to every
day and if you want to
you may even want to pray it more than
once in a day
actually god would encourage you to be
repetitious
on this can i show it to you
i believe the greatest prayer you could
ever pray i'm not talking about the
sinner's prayer i'm speaking to
believers in this in this context here's
the greatest prayer i believe you could
ever pray
ephesians
chapter 1
verse
17
and here it is
father god of my lord jesus christ
father of glory i pray that you give to
me the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the deep and intimate knowledge of
jesus in the knowledge of jesus in the
knowledge knowledge of his word the
knowledge of his ways the knowledge of
his character i want to know everything
about him
and when you pray that and you pray that
and you can pray every day because paul
is praying for the church in ephesus and
he says i'm praying for you without
ceasing so he's praying and thanking god
for them what is he praying that the
spirit of wisdom and revelation touched
them so they can see it
not with their physical eyes but with
their spiritual eyes they can understand
the scriptures and the inheritance
praise god so you can understand so that
you may know okay
what is the hope of his calling what
that inspires you to what are the riches
of his glory
of his inheritance in the saints and
what is the exceeding greatness in
context of his resurrection power
working in your life
wow
wow
kenneth hagin jr told the story about
coming home from school one day
and his father had knelt down the prey
because a little tiny house they had and
knelt down the pray over in the corner
and he was praying
god
give me the spirit of wisdom and
revelation
in the knowledge of jesus
and kenneth hagin jr said he woke up the
next morning and his dad was still there
hadn't moved all night long praying oh
god give me the spirit of wisdom and
revelation
uh kenneth hagin junior goes off to
school comes home from school his dad's
still there
oh god
give me the spirit of wisdom and
revelation now pastor steve but i don't
understand how that kenneth hagin uh
senior i don't understand how he could
teach so good boy he had a lot of
revelation didn't he yeah
yes because he prayed until that
descended upon him that anointing of
wisdom and revelation the spirit of
wisdom and revelation
and you keep praying it you'll begin to
understand the bible you'll begin to
understand the book of daniel the book
of revelation
it begins to unlock it you begin to see
it
it's the greatest prayer you can pray
and you can pray it over and over and
over it's repetitious prayer but it's
not vain praise god thank you lord jesus
so number three
the number three principle of dream
fulfillment is that we must pray
consistently into
our dream
and let's talk just for a moment about
praying in tongues
i want you to pray for your dream
in tongues
but i i want you to exercise your mind
while you're doing this
in other words pray in tongues with a
mental image of your dream being
fulfilled
so you're not praying in english you're
praying in tongues yes
but you're not just walking around with
an empty mind while you're while your
spirit is being hooked up with god but
while your spirit is being hooked up
with god
your spirit is now in direct
communication also with the holy spirit
who searches out the deep things of god
and takes that information that you need
and relays it back to your spirit and
your spirit
in order for you to have understanding
presents it to your mind and then the
illumination comes where in your mind
and
while you're praying in the spirit you
need to have a mental image yeshua
and see yourself in your mind
see yourself in a place where that dream
is fulfilled and you're walking in it
whatever that might be
but no no empty tongues is what i'm
trying to say let your mind be fully
employed
and syncing up with your spirit by
sanctified visualization
as you pray in tongues let there be a
corresponding subject on your mind that
subject of correspondence is the dream
that you want to see
manifested
in other words pray in the spirit with a
mission on your mind your mind is on a
mission
and you're seeing that thing come to
pass you're seeing that dream happen
through the miracle power of god through
the favor of god the blessing of god
praise god
okay let's move on to number four
the fourth principle for dream
manifestation
is that you must stay focused whoo
it's not easy you must stay focused on
your dream
sounds easy
but it's very very challenging
let me say this
the number one reason why dreams aren't
manifested
is because of broken
focus
broken focus what breaks our focus
so often the the
primary thing that would endeavor to
break our focus is trying to do
too
many
things
and when you try to start doing a whole
bunch of stuff
you begin to deviate from your primary
assignment
so you must stay focused on your dream
now
many years back it was dr oral roberts
who said
that
god
never gives a man
and when i say man i'm talking about men
and women believers okay
but he said god never gives a man more
than two assignments in his lifetime he
may have
one primary he'll he'll always have one
primary calling assignment at the most
at the most maybe two but that's it why
because it will take all your focus and
all your energy to do just
that
i can prove it to you
when i say the name
billy graham
what do you think what immediately links
in your mind to the name billy graham
world evangelism
world evangelism
if i say the name
david oyedepo
what does that link you to
a man that walks in a mandate of
education
where he's already started four
universities and they're thriving and
they're selected areas of subjectivity
and they are revolutionizing the african
continent praise the lord and don't
forget he also has a church with four
hundred thousand members praise the lord
when i say the name david yongi cho
what does that connect you to what is
your mind thing oh church growth yes i
would say so
with a church of 800 000 members i'd say
yes that's probably his lane that's
probably what he's good at
he's doing his thing
can you imagine taking a man
who passed a church that grew 800 000
members and saying we better put you in
a different assignment oh no no no
he is staying focused on his dream
bringing it into manifestation and then
not getting off of it standing on it
pushing it to its highest limit and the
truth is
is that
actually he had he had well over a
million members but there was a certain
point they were getting so many people
one to the lord and the church was
growing so fast they couldn't handle the
growth so they just they just sent a lot
of the new converts out to other
pre-existing churches
and uh there's no telling how large the
church actually was and we're talking
also about the those that are counted as
church members they're tithers they're
tithers 800 000 member tithing church
spirit-filled tithing church praise god
he's in heaven now i'm sure he's
enjoying himself
um think about moses pastor three
million people
pastored three million people
why he's in his
he's in his lane he's fully focused
when i say the name
michael jordan what do you think
you think what everybody else in the
world thinks think basketball basketball
by the way
what happened with michael jordan
when he had a desire
maybe we could say lost focus
when he had a desire to
play baseball
he really wanted to play baseball
well he's a famous well the most famous
basketball player in the world and they
thought well let's let's let him get it
out of his system and so they assigned
him or let him join a minor league
baseball team not not the majors no
minor minor league and he couldn't even
make the minor league team
you should see how he awkward he looked
running from home the first first base
if he ever got a hit which he hardly
ever did he just didn't have it
but you put him on the basketball court
he's the greatest player on the planet
wow
stay focused on your dream stay focused
stop trying to do all kinds of stuff
other stuff that's not your primary role
now you may have to wear some multiple
hats at various times but you have to
stay on the main thing which is your
dream
thank you jesus
when i say the name mcdonald's
restaurant what do you think of you
think about you think hamburgers
and they're kind of changing their sign
slogans now it used to say on the
mcdonald's sign billions and billions
served i think it says something
different now but the fact of the matter
is is when you think mcdonald's you
think hamburgers pretty much and and
they're french fries
but do you remember it was about maybe
15 years ago they wanted to try a new
marketing approach and they they said we
should you know some advisor said you
should expand your menu and so they
expanded it
and they put pizza on it
oh i tried it one time there was no good
it was no good dominos could beat them
papa john's could beat them everybody
could beat them that was not their thing
what had happened they just had a time
when they lost focus
and instead of getting the best burger
in the fastest most efficient way you
know place your order coming around in
30 seconds and pick it up uh somehow
they lost your focus and got into
lasagna and got in the pizza as you know
that stuff's all gone today even the
matte cafe uh
theory didn't really take off here in
north america i was in uh where was it
hamburg no not somewhere else frankfurt
germany i think in the matte cafe was
phenomenal in europe because they like
nice pastries and stuff like that and
nice lattes but when they launched in
america it was just like real low end
you know croissants or stuff like that
nobody went for it
and so i think the only remnants left of
that are like the you know their their
frappuccino drinks or something like
that
frappe's or whatever they call them but
i don't like it they're they don't taste
good to me
so but burgers fries yeah that's their
thing so you stay focused
and remember the number one reason
that people never see their dreams fully
manifested is because something breaks
their focus and it's usually trying to
do too many things
praise the lord number five
for dream fulfillment
is that
you must not
allow your dreams to be hindered
a dream is a mental picture of a desired
end
when we can see the desired end it
supplies us with inner strength to
accomplish the dream
praise god
so don't let anything hinder your dream
we see this in genesis chapter 13.
genesis 13
and let's go to verse
14
and the lord said to abram
after lot had separated from him
lift your eyes now and look from the
place where you are northward
southward eastward westward
for all the land which you see
all the land which you see i give to you
and your descendants forever
god
did not expect him to see all of that
land with his physical eyes even if he
went up to the top of a skyscraper he
can't he's not going to be able to see
over certain mountain ranges or all this
stuff he can't see it but god wants him
to see it
with a mental picture in his mind of the
desired end
of that prophetic promise and he wants
you to do the same thing praise the lord
my friends if we're not seeing anything
i'm talking about and endeavoring to see
the dream and the finished end result of
crossing the finish line with it
manifested if you're not able to
visualize that mentally and see that if
you can't see anything
then
you're not going to get anything that
may sound a little rough and i don't
want to discourage anybody but i would
like to pull people out of a false
a false hope where they're just hoping
something happens my friends you have to
see it
you have to see yourself standing
standing in that in that place
it may take 10 15 20 years to get there
but you'll get there you'll get there
but you have to see it and then you
carry that vision onward with you as you
go
years ago before we ever even got
on television i already knew that god
had that in my spiritual dna and then a
door opened that i began to record
programs they began to go all over the
world and i recorded in other people's
networks and uh in other people's
studios and did that for years and years
and years and it kept growing and it
kept growing and then
of course with so many of your help many
of you that are pure gold covenant
partners and those that have supported
the pure gold television program we have
now expanded with our own studio in
charlotte and the programs are now
reaching over 1.1 billion people praise
god
hallelujah the same thing with my books
i can see it before it ever happened and
even as i was working on my first book i
just i just could see these books going
around the world and today the emails
come in sometimes letters or cards
saying pastor stephen i read your book
from germany or i'm reading your book in
the the congo or i'm reading your book
in south korea and it has blessed my
life and i'll really look forward to one
day when i can meet you and i tell you
what that touches my heart but my
friends i must let you know i could see
that happening years back before the
books were even written and i was
writing the first one i could see it
happening then the second third fourth
and etcetera and on we go
praise god
but you have to see it up here you have
to have that vision praise the lord for
all the land which you see
he's not talking again about seeing it
physically he's not able to do that in
that one moment but god says see it up
here and see the end result before it
ever comes to pass
praise the lord thank you jesus
this is important because
we don't ever want to sit on somebody
else's destiny or or crush their dream
because we can't see it so let me speak
to parents just for a moment
parents please be careful
that you never hinder a godly dream
that you're that your child may already
be able to see and is wanting to
gravitate towards
because
young children
they're still very sensitive to the
things of god because they're they're
young
and you of course you can develop that
if you walk with the lord be you know as
a believer and so forth but they they
can have an awareness
of where god wants them to be
going and moving towards so
you want to be careful that when they're
picking up on that that you don't try to
implement your dream
upon the upon their life
many young children
i'm going to make a statement that i
think some parents should consider
many young children are forced to live
the missed opportunity of their parents
i want to say it again
many young children are forced by the
parents to live the missed opportunities
of
the particular parent
in other words the parent
never accomplished a certain dream that
he or she had so they're going to now
try to live their life vicariously
through the child by pushing that child
into that
dream that they have even if the child
doesn't want it even if the child
doesn't have it you know the gifting or
whatever they're gonna do it
this often can end up in some
very
disturbed children
later in life you know we have a very
famous
i'll i'll use i'll try to veil a little
bit of this we have a hollywood
celebrity in our close family not the
immediate family but the close family
i've been around this person many times
before you know and sat down ate next to
the person talked with the person this
person is very famous in hollywood right
now
and
the interesting thing is that this
person's parent before this person was
ever born this person's parent guess
what the mother wanted to be
a hollywood actress she wanted to be
famous in hollywood
and it never worked out it never worked
out
she tried to do this and that and knock
on doors and tried to do this and that
and it never worked out she wanted it so
bad but it never happened so she has a
child and guess what she's going to do
this is what she did she took that child
to audition after audition and was
constantly in l.a constantly in
hollywood uh getting the child in the
small roles small roles here small
commercial there and
in order to get through certain doors
had to expose
this precious child
to many of the great perversions that
are in that industry now this woman's a
christian and she's like well i would
never let anything happen to my child
but so much of that culture is a
compromised culture
and uh
the truth of what you hear a lot of
times with the harvey weinsteins or
these types of exposures there's a lot
of that and it's there's monsters
that are still in these industries doing
things uh
manipulating children and things like
that a lot of a lot of perversion
well
this mother kept
you know pushing the child pushing the
child and eventually a big door opened
after years and years and years of just
hustling every day every day driving
back and forth and audition audition
will the big door open and then another
door open and then a bigger door would
open if if this now grown up young lady
will take the role and you know do some
naughty things well she decided to do it
remember this all started off where
christians will never compromise now
there's compromise now this person is
doing this role and it's bad it's bad
then it went from bad to worse
but the person kept becoming more famous
you know i'm talking like six million
instagram followers or you know stuff
like that known around the world and
but i know for a fact
i know for a fact just to live every day
and hold her
for this person to hold themselves
together they're on drugs
they're taking certain um
real uh you know not good drugs i'm not
talking about you know stuff you can get
from the doctor i'm talking about bad
stuff because the stress
and the pressure and not knowing who
they really are and also being in a
place god never called you to be
and that's why you got that mess well
they won't walk away from it now because
all the money the money's through the
roof
but they won't walk away from it now but
my
parents
be very careful in this area pastor
stephen my son will be a doctor
why because we're all doctors he will be
a doctor she will be a doctor
pastor steve and my daughter will uh
she's gonna be a lawyer why well that
because that's what we want that's
that's what we want for her
but if you look at their life you
realize wait a minute there's no
doctrine on the inside of them there's
no lawyering on the inside of her why
are you trying to push him in that
direction
parents please don't sit on the destiny
of your child
hmm
let god
who is their creator determine the
course of their life
and then as they move into it encourage
and support them in that direction
because remember when god's in it it
will glorify him it will it will enhance
his kingdom
and it will have eternal reward why
would you want to go in some other
direction
oh praise the lord amen
all right number six in closing
considering
dream fulfillment and principles we must
walk in number six
don't let anyone dash
your dream destiny oh
oh this is very very important very very
important watch this john
chapter 2.
let's go over to john chapter 2
verse 24.
but jesus did not commit himself to them
because
he knew all men
and had no need
that anyone should testify of man for he
knew
what was in
man my friends there's no way that any
man including myself
can know everything pastor steven i want
your advice i really believe god's
taking me in this direction
and it could be a really good thing but
i don't know everything
and
the only one that knows everything is
god he's all-knowing he's all wise and
he has access to every single fact on
earth every eternal fact within the
universe and beyond so god knows the end
from the beginning so we must lean on
him because it is possible this is the
danger zone for even a well-meaning man
of god or even a woman of god
to
perhaps out of love and care
or even soulish emotion
advise or endeavor to direct in a
direction that would actually take you
away from the dream that god has put in
your heart
and these are things we have to walk out
very very carefully i'll give you an
example mark chapter 8
mark chapter 8 verse 31.
praise the lord
and he began to teach them that the son
of man
must it's not optional
must
suffer many things and be rejected
by the elders and chief priests and
scribes and be
killed
and after three days
rise again
he spoke this word openly
then peter
took him aside and began to rebuke him
can you imagine
if jesus would have said peter
i tell you what
you know what you're my right hand man
and i really i really need to listen to
what you say because you know you've got
a lot of advice you're a fisherman and
you understand some good things in life
i tell you what peter maybe maybe i
shouldn't go through with this after all
you know who wants to get killed
prematurely yes jesus you're right now
just listen to me and everything we're
going to work this out right now we know
you're going to be the messiah well we
got to play this right we got to work
this the right way
wow if jesus were to listen to peter it
would have shipwrecked his ministry
hmm
wow
but when he had turned around and looked
at his disciples he rebuked peter saying
get behind me satan for you are not
mindful of the things of god that's what
the problem is people that maybe have
good intentions people that maybe or
even tried to express
uh you know like a like a warmness or
kindness or like a like a like a family
type love towards you
but they're not mindful of the things of
god
they're very
sensitive to the things of men
yes
but god could say this is my dream for
you go this direction and i will
manifest this for you walk this out and
my friends when you've heard from god
the conversation's over about trying to
vape this thing out
all you have to do from that point on is
walk it out and do it and at all cost
get the job accomplished
pastor steven we need to have a
committee no you don't even have a
committee if god's already told you to
do this
why because you can have all you you
you're going to set yourself up the
devil will work on the people on the
committee to say oh no oh no no no no
think of all the things that we have
today that if the creators the dreamers
would have listened to all the naysayers
it never would have happened
never would have happened no disney
world no star wars
no it just goes on and on and on
on and on and on
all the ingenuity all the dreams all the
creative activity all the inspiration
killed by a committee
of wise men yes but men that they're not
picking up
on the wavelength that you're picking up
on with god and just because
god has told them not to do it does not
mean that he didn't tell you that you
could
and that's oftentimes where the
difference is well god told me not to
touch it
well that's that's great that god told
you that but
i'm just saying there can be variables
we're not talking about breaking
commandments or something like that
we're just talking about everybody has
their own lane
so don't let anyone dash your dream
destiny because they may be they may be
comparing
your dream and they're saying well i
don't have a dream like that i can't
relate to that so therefore you
shouldn't do it but the whole time
because you're wired for that
you're thinking no i can do it now i
have faced these things my own life
before i have
spoken with people that have loved me
and have had good intentions and have
advised me
wrongly saying i i don't think you know
that would you know i i was advised
don't go into the ministry
and uh i was also told you don't have a
calling i was told all kinds of stuff
but yeah here i am
and the anointing is here and the
calling is here and i know that even if
they can't pick that up
now today
because i'm walking with the lord i am
in the ministry i can get around others
that may have a calling and i can
instantly know it if they're called into
the ministry i can know it and i can
also tell you if they're not and one of
the worst things to do is to get into
something or
you have a you have a wrong vision or
wrong dream and you stand in it it
doesn't matter let's take the ministry
for for example
if god has not called you to the
ministry but yet you dream of being in
the ministry and you want to get in it
and you want to be successful you'll
never reach the top you'll never be
successful in ministry you can learn
hebrew and greek and speak it forwards
and backwards and you can pray 10 hours
a day but you will have to be working
and working
but whereas jesus said my yoke is easy
my burden is light and when you're
walking in that grace you also have
supernatural equipment that goes with
that office and there's no struggle and
when when you excel and when you apply
yourself you begin to rise to the top
begin to rise to the top but if you take
somebody
and that calling is not there
it's just it's never going to it's never
going to really hit any kind of high
level i watched the piano player a
couple days ago that was a
really really good piano player and i
watched this person play and i just
thought one thing came to my mind
instantly i believe it came to my spirit
i watched this person play
and although the person was technically
very very good
i just thought he was supposed to do
something completely different in life
you know
there are a lot of this is a real
stronghold in asia there are a lot of
parents in asia they have this thing
that hits their mind my daughter
she's going to be a violinist she's
going to be a prodigy or he's going to
be a piano virtuoso yes and we're going
to get them in the classes and they're
going to practice 12 hours a day
yet they have no
inner gifting from god to play the piano
well if you practice 12 hours a day
you're going to learn but still if it's
not god's dream
it'll still there'll be something really
weird missing and i looked at that piano
player while this person was playing
and
just you could just tell he's not called
to do that could he play could he push
the right keys yeah but he looked really
goofy honestly he looked really goofy
when he did it and
it did i did the music didn't like i
didn't like any of it and you know that
you know his claim to fame he used to
play at times with so and so and i
thought well of course because so-and-so
has called my god to do that but just
because you tried to associate with so
and so and who is at the very peak of
that industry of that career field
doesn't mean that just because you
practice 12 hours a day you're going to
arrive at the same spot
praise the lord praise the lord so
you may have some that tried to talk you
into a wrong dream
don't go that you know kenneth hagin
said he always had people telling him i
see you with a big tent yes the lord
chose me you're going to have a big tent
and do outdoor meetings and kenneth
hagin would just smile and he said god
never told me ever to get a tent god
told me the minister in church has told
he never said anything ever about a tent
so people can try to take you into maybe
they they want a tent okay watch out for
stuff like that and of course i think
also very dangerous
is those that say you can't
you can't do that nobody will support
that there's no
there's no uh ears to listen to that or
there's no whatever the case might be
follow
the dream
god
has given you
god has given you you'll see it you'll
be able to talk it you'll be able to
speak it you'll be able to walk it out
and you'll manifest it
and then
then you can have joseph's brothers
all around and they've got to look at it
now they've got to see you ruling a
nation
not saying you're gonna rule a nation
i'm talking about joseph you understand
what i'm saying but now look at look at
brother joseph
oh my goodness
he's in control of the whole country
see that's why joseph had to tell them
um
any true dream from
god
that you believe with all of your heart
and apply these principles will come to
pass
in your life
praise the lord lift your hands father i
pray for those that are watching
that they will make application of these
six principles
and walk in these truths
and i thank you that they'll reach the
top
and they'll be able to lift many others
around them
thank you father god
um thank you father we give you praise
we give you glory
we give you honor
that father even what mockers would say
here comes that dreamer
but yet father it's actually a badge of
honor
it's a badge of honor to the recipient
of a true god-given dream
we thank you father that just as
joseph's dreams came to pass
so
with the dreams that originate from your
heart
that have been delivered to us
by the witness of your spirit
and through supernatural means so they
also come to pass we give you all the
praise in jesus name
amen
and
amen praise the lord
[Laughter]
praise the lord now
true destiny
true
direction in the path of where you're
supposed to go
comes from knowing christ
as your lord and savior
now if you've been on a path that maybe
even was a good path
but it wasn't the god-ordained path
well god can take those life experiences
and he could he can pull things out of
that that he can make apply
and give you wisdom with the true direct
calling
but um
you want to get into the main thing
because the other stuff
you're not going to get any credit for
no matter how good it is if god didn't
call you to do it he cannot honor or
reward disobedience
the whole thing about the kingdom is
that we don't do our own thing we do
god's thing
so if you don't know jesus as your lord
and savior you truly cannot live the
dream
that you're supposed to dream because
it's unveiled through christ it
originates from christ he is the god
that planned out your life before the
world was ever created trust him it's
the best plan you could ever experience
the dream that he has for you is better
than anything that you could concoct or
cook up on your own
[Laughter]
whoa praise the lord
all right if you would like to get your
heart right with god turn from sin and
receive eternal life pray this prayer
after me say lord jesus
i'm a sinner
but you died to save sinners like me
jesus i believe you died on the cross
and rose again
for my justification
and
salvation
jesus
save me now
wash me with your blood
write
my name in your book of life
i give my life completely to you
thank you jesus for saving me now in
your name i pray
amen
and if you're a backslider and you used
to belong to the lord but you've gotten
off in the sin
and you've gotten long ways off from god
come back right now pray this prayer
after me if that's you say lord jesus
forgive me of my sins
wash me with your blood and re-establish
me in the plan that you have for my life
and help me to make i ask that you make
up the wasted time the wasted years
lord jesus in your name i pray
amen praise god
hallelujah
let's take holy communion
today i want to ask you to grab some
grape juice and some unleavened bread
and let's pray over it
heavenly father we thank you for the
bread
and the juice
we consecrate it
we set it apart as holy through this
prayer
and we thank you that this is now the
body
and the blood of jesus and father we
thank you that
we as the body of christ are like
flowers
some are roses some are violets some are
tulips just all these different colors
and variety
is what make the bouquet
so beautiful all of these different
callings and different dream assignments
thank you father some for medical some
for political some for
uh church ministry
some for the scientific
realm career field but father god we
just thank you for the dream
that you have placed within our hearts
and we give you glory for it right now
and we thank you that the fulfillment of
it will glorify you
thank you father god
and father as we receive the body of
jesus
we receive his word
thank you father god let us not
let us not follow after any voice that
would endeavor
to pull us off the path
father we give you praise we give you
praise
in jesus name
amen some of you could really be tested
in this
i have a friend that god called him in
the ministry he went and told his father
dad the uh god has called me in the
ministry i want to go off the minister
school and be a minister and his dad
screamed in anger and said what would
you want to do something stupid like
that for
he said i have the business my business
i've worked all these years i'm ready to
hand it over to you and all this has
been prepared for you
so you have the dream that god has for
you or you have something that man in
his low level and his best efforts
regardless of what it might be
that can be presented to you as well
what will you do
many many have turned down the world's
best in order to get god's best
and jesus said that which man highly
esteems is an abomination in the eyes of
god
and in self-willed plan or dream that
does not glorify the lord
will not bear the fruit that is pleasing
to god
father thank you for the body of jesus
his flesh we ask you for strength grace
and courage
we give you praise in jesus name
amen
and amen praise the lord let's receive
pastor stephen they just don't
understand me they didn't understand
joseph why why would you expect they're
all going to understand you
none of the brothers understood joseph
they all thought he was crazy
praise the lord
maybe some of you have some of joseph's
brothers in your family
you know or at your workplace or
something like that well you just keep
going on
in your belief
praise the lord one day they'll see
and god will be
lifted up
father thank you for the blood of jesus
we ask that you forgive us of our sins
cleanse us from all unrighteousness
lead us away from temptation deliver us
from the evil one and father we forgive
anybody anyone who sinned against us
even joseph's brothers who've maybe
mocked or laughed
we forgive anybody we give you praise
thank you father god in jesus name
amen praise the lord let's receive the
blood of jesus
praise god
lord we give you glory and praise
now
the prophet joel said in the last days
the spirit of god would be poured out
old men are going to have
dreams young men are going to have
visions and my friends there's an
anointing right now for dreams not just
for old men
pastor stephen i'm 17 year old man can i
still have a dream yes you can you can
have a dream and a vision praise god
[Laughter]
amen god wants to minister to you
through
dreams
i've had some remarkable dreams recently
confirming what god has already spoken
to me
about assignment and so forth
and it's very very encouraging
praise the lord i'm praying for you this
week that god would minister to you
through
a dream
that's very easy for the lord to do
because the lord can send an angel and
the angel carries the message in a dream
form and while you're sleeping he just
inserts that into your the mind of your
understanding as your sleep
and you will receive the dream praise
god
hallelujah the unveiling
of god's assignment and plan for your
life what that includes
now we don't always get the full picture
with perhaps what we would call one
download but you can certainly get get
enough to keep you busy
for quite some time
praise the lord heavenly father bless
your people
bless your people let the dreamers arise
because this is a dreamers world we give
you praise in jesus name
amen
i'll see all you dreamers back
next time
bye bye