Dreams and Visions | Dr. Richard Roberts

[Music] praise the Lord well just lift your hands this morning father we bless you and praise you for this is the day that the Lord has made and we rejoice we're glad in it we praise you give you honor and glory for you have given him a name which is above every name named in heaven and earth and that name every knee should bow every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father thank you for the many many many miracles of healing last night praise you and give you honor and thank you that it continues these days we bless you now thank you for the anointing that breaks the yoke it destroys the yoke of bondage and I receive a fresh touch of it in Jesus name and everybody said amen give a shout of praise under the Lord Amen god bless you you can be seated thank you pastor thank you you said that just like I wrote it I appreciate that very much [Laughter] now I'm told I don't know if this is true but you know you hear things you read on the internet you know it's true you know I'm told that Pastor can tell some of the worst jokes in the world is it is it true all they're all nodding yes while studying on dreams and visions and I I read where this guy said I dream in black and white and his friend said no I dream in color his friend said no it's merely a pigment of your imagination I donate that to you so you really remember who burr lives was I you know back in those days in the 70s when we were doing primetime specials across America Kent United States in Canada my dad would bring these people on our program and he would say you're gonna sing with them or you're gonna do this or do that you know with them on the program and I was I was young I I just said okay you know and so I was I was thrown into the midst of these great Hollywood stars of the day you know singing with them and I look back on these on these days now and I it's hard to believe I sang with Aretha Franklin I sang with Gladys Knight & the Pips I sang with Johnny Cash I sang with Mel Tillis you know III sang with BJ Thomas I sang with Robert Goulet it's Canadian you know I'll be a French you know I sang with with Jane Powell great she's still living you know just 97 98 years old remember her and those that movie she movie she did Seven Brides for Seven Brothers you know and I sang with Harve Presnell and oh my goodness I sang with so many people that that that came on our program and I got to meet of course I got to meet all of them and spend a lot of time with Jerry Lewis and sang on his most muscular dystrophy telethon several times over the years in in Las Vegas or as we refer to it lost wages back in those days my dad was invited to go on all of the top talk shows the the the shows of the day and they were the biggest shows on television at that time the Johnny Carson show the Merv Griffin Show the David Frost show the Dick Cavett show that Mike Douglas show those are the big talk shows of the day some of you may remember those programs and he would say well yes I'll come on but my son is coming on to I was never invited on one of those shows but I will and every one of them I sang out all of them he said well if you want me my son will sing and they said okay they wanted him so they took me and and I don't know how I got on but I got on all these programs we were on merv griffin once and they introduced into athiest just before my dad came on Helen Gurley Brown who was the founder of a cosmopolitan : cosmopolitan magazine and he led her to the Lord right on the air but after the program was over went out behind the back stage door out in the parking lot to go to the car and there were all these autograph seekers with her books wanting all the people on the program to sign and Merv was signing my dad was signing Helen the others on the show we're signing and one lady came over to me and she said are you anybody kind of gives you that warm feeling all over you and I said well I guess not she said well sign just in case you ever become someone well I know who I am today I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus I was made only a little lower than the Angels I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me because greater is He Who is in me than he that is in the world I know who I am and I am a link I was talking to Pastor and pastor Jenny last night after the service bye my goodness what a service we had last night yeah I was talking them last night I'm a link I'm one of the few remaining evangelists that have come out of the great healing revival and that's that King that really really began in the 1940s with my father my father would be would be known as as one of the grandfather's of the healing ministry and the healing revival that hit America in the 1940s I came out of that because I was birthed during that time I'm the same age as the nation of Israel Israel was founded in 1948 I was born in 1948 so we're the same age and a lot in common and that's one of the reasons why I support Israel so strong and I praise God for that so this morning I wanted to share a little bit about dreams and visions if you have your Bibles open up to Genesis chapter 37 some of you may know the the the the songwriter the composer by the name of Mike Murdock Mike Murdock has been a friend for 40 years Mike is a prolific gospel songwriter and especially in the 80s and 90s Mike wrote a number of songs for me which I premiered on national television and made famous for him and made him a lot of money by the way and helped helped his that helped him out but he would write great songs and then I would take them in sand them arranged and we record them and then I would sing them on national television all over the world and one day my dad said Richard call Mike and tell him that I'd like him to write a song on dreams and visions and Mike was the kind of guy who could just sit right down and do it so we got on the speakerphone with Mike and my dad and I and and we were in Tulsa Mike was in Dallas where he lived at the time and he said right by by the way someone who has pain in your right knee even in the middle of my story you know God can interrupt my story anytime he wants somebody has pain in your right knee if you'll just stand up you're gonna find the knees being healed right now you just lift it you're gonna find you're able to lift it and move it without pain in the name of Jesus just lift it move it twist it turn it do whatever you're gonna find pain is leaving you now in Jesus name hallelujah somebody give praise to the Lord thank the Lord you've always got time for healing you know so we're on the phone with Mike and and Mike Mike says well just a minute so he he brings his phone over to the piano in his home and he starts composing right there on the phone and I I got it on my phone this morning I want to read to you what he wrote literally on the spur of the moment just sitting there at at his piano because it's appropriate to what I'm gonna give you this morning here's what here's what Mike wrote don't give up your dream don't turn loose of your vision it's not over yet my friend what he's promised he'll do for the seeds in your hand decide the harvest God's plan God plans for you and me so remember today don't give up your dream and he wrote some verses to it and a few weeks later I recorded it and then I premiered it on national television Mike was that kind of guy he could just take it he just take an idea and just create it right on the spot God had a great anointing upon his life to do that don't give up your dream everybody has a dream everyone has a dream they say that researchers say that people dream one sometimes to two hours a night seldom do we remember all of what we're dreaming sometimes sometimes we forget we we dream and and we we have a consciousness that we were dreaming but we cannot remember what we dream sometimes our dreams are vivid and sometimes we can rehearse them in great detail but everybody dreams some people think their dreams are nightmares but everybody dreams Joseph had a dream and we're gonna share about that in the few minutes and I was looking down through history at some of the people who had dreams and visions that came to pass I'm thinking of the Wright brothers who had a dream of flying and they said it was impossible impossible to fly you know they say it's impossible for a bumblebee to fly because the wingspan of a bumblebee is too short for its body but nobody told the bumblebee and so the bumblebee just flies and makes a little honey on the way you know the Wright brothers had a dream and people said they were crazy it's impossible but the day came in Kitty Hawk North Carolina when they took off and flight became possible thank God for the Wright brothers Charles Lindbergh had a dream his dream was to fly a single-engine aircraft from New York City to Paris they said it was impossible for a solo no just one pilot a solo transatlantic flight but on that day he took off in New York City on Long Island and flew all the way non-stop to Paris he didn't think he was going to make it but his dream came to pass I read about this young girl Kylie Jenner who had a dream of turning her $29 lipstick company into a multi-million dollar affair and something happened that was absolutely amazing in 18 months that $29 lipstick company became a four hundred million dollar Empire dreams can come true and if they can come true to people who don't know the Lord how much more so should our dreams come true I look at the great Canadian singer Celine Dion who my mother used to call died and so on she said to me one day have you heard that Canadian girl sing that French girl died on salon I said mother do you mean Celine Dion said oh yeah that's who I mean I once heard her say at five years old I dreamed of being a singer yeah and through a series of events and and concerts and contests that she want all through the the 80s it wasn't long until she became an international singing success the most successful female singer of all time right here from Canada dreams come true I heard Jerry Savelle whom I know you all know and love her Jerry tell the story of how he sold his aircraft and he felt that it was time for a shift in his ministry and he no longer needed an aircraft to fly and so he took the model of a plane that he had been believing for and he put it in the closet and the Lord spoke to him and said who told you that you did not need an airplane to do what I've commanded you to do and Jerry said I kind of began to shake that the Lord would say that to me and Jerry looked around there's nobody in the room just him and the Lord and the Lord said to him take your dream out the closet and Jerry went and got that that model that he'd been believing for but had given up on took it out took the cover off of it sent it back up on his desk and the Lord said to him get your faith moving again and just a few weeks ago I flew in that airplane that he dreamed that dreams come to pass how I thank God for that there was a partner in our ministry whose name was William screen D he lived out in the Great Northwest in the state of Washington and he had a dream of inventing something for the Jeep for the Jeep that was that was produced by the United States Army back in the 1950s and he developed this this a piece that would go on the hub of a jeep and time after time after time he presented it to the United States military and it was turned down and he finally took the dream and folded it up the architectural plans folded it up and put it in his attic and one day he was watching television and he heard my father say something along these lines it's time to find that dream that you put away and take it out and put your faith on it again and Williams grinde reminded himself and was reminded that he had put that invention of his for the hub of a jeep in the Attic and he went up into God's sent it on his kitchen table and in a flash of a second he knew the mistake that he had made when he created it and he made a few minor changes and went back to the military after many many years of trying to get them to accept it and they took it just like that and that part was was adapted on to the hub of every jeep in the United States military he became a multi-millionaire become a partner of our ministry and served on our board of directors for a number of years it's time to take your dream out of the closet turn to your neighbor and say it's time for you to take your dream out of the closet let's look for just a moment at Genesis chapter 37 Genesis chapter 37 beginning at verse 18 and when they saw him afar off even before he came near unto them they conspired against him to slay him and they said to one another behold the dreamer cometh come now therefore and let us kill him and cast him into some pit and we will say some evil beast hath devoured him and we shall see what shall become of his dreams Satan will do everything in his power to wipe your dreams out he comes before to steal and to kill and destroy but don't focus on the first part of John 10:10 focus on the second part where Jesus said I've come that you might have life everybody say life and that you might have it more abundantly Joseph came from a dysfunctional family is there anyone here who's come from a dysfunctional family look straight ahead don't look to your left or right Joseph came from a dysfunctional family his his father had been married a number of times he was his father's favorite his father gave him a funny coat a coat of many colors and his brothers hated him for it hated him for it and looked for ways to destroy him because they knew that he was their father's favorite and the brothers did everything in their power to destroy him and that's the story of many people today many people have dreams and visions and and it seems like their family is against them and it seems like those things are unsurmountable and as time went by the dreams and visions started coming out of Joseph Smith you know sometimes you have to be very careful who you tell your dreams do he saw sheaves in the field bowing down to him and he made a mistake he told his brothers about it and then he saw his entire family bowing down to ya and he made another mistake he told his brothers about it and they hated him and one day while they were out in the field father his father Israel sent him to check on his brothers and they said look here he comes here he comes here comes the dreamer let's kill him and let's tell our father that a wild animal hath devoured him and so they took him and threw him in a pit and took his coat and they spattered it with animals blood and they planned to go back and tell the father that an animal had destroyed him they said let's kill him but Reuben being a good Jewish businessman said no let's don't kill him let's sell him at least let's make something let's make some profit on the deal and so they sold him to a Midianite caravan all the way to Egypt Egypt was not part of Joseph's dream but Egypt became a stop along the way Malta was not part of Paul's dream Paul's dream was to go to Rome Malta became a stopping place along the way but did you know that because the Apostle Paul was shipwrecked at Malta that percentage-wise per capita Malta today is the most Christianized nation in the world the more Christians per capita in Malta than any nation in the world and today they still celebrate Saint Paul's day in Malta it was a stopping place along the way for Paul's dream for God had given him a dream and a vision of preaching the gospel even in the household of Caesar don't give up your dream don't turn loose of your vision and Joseph was sold into slavery working for a man by the name of Potiphar but the Bible says the hand of the Lord was upon Joseph you cannot keep a good man you cannot keep a good woman down you just can't do it they will continue to rise and Joseph continued to rise up so much so that Potiphar made him chief of the entire house but it wasn't long until Potiphar's wife cast her longing eyes at Joseph a man said that she rolled her baby blue eyes of him and he picked him up and rolled him right back at her and she organized a time when her husband and the others would be gone so she could try to convince him to sleep with her and Joseph refused to do it and she she forgot the outer part of his clothing often and he ran and left it in her hands and she concocted a scheme that he had tried to rape her right in the middle of your dream right in the middle of vision that you have Satan will try to come in and wreck the deal and the next thing you know he found himself in prison the lowest station in life but even in prison they could not keep him down he kept rising until soon he was in charge of the prison the very prison that he was in that he was in that he was in charge of and there were two others that were with him the the King's Cup mare Pharaoh's cup bearer and his Baker and they had dreams and Joseph had an anointing and an ability to to interpret dreams and he interpreted the cupbearers dream and the Baker's dream and said to them remember me when you stand before Pharaoh well both men's dreams came true and they stood before Pharaoh and the cup bearer was elevated and the other one was killed just the same way that Joseph said they would but the cup bearer forgot about Joseph and the years continued to linger how long does it take a dream to come to pass well sometimes it takes longer than you want most people want an instantaneous dreams they want a microwave miracle I want it now I want to serve my way and we tell god what to do we tell God how to do it when to do it or to do it and who to do it to why don't we just get on his way it was in the city once preaching and there was a street call this way and I thought well that's unusual for a street and I got to the next block on the next street was called that way and I thought well that's even stranger this way in that way but the next street there were a bunch of churches on and that Street was called his way and I thought to myself that's interesting cuz I've been this way in my life and I've been that way in my life but I want to go his way his dreams and visions take time and I'll share that in just a minutes time Joseph continued to languish in prison until one day the king himself had a dream and no one could interpret it someone remembered there was a man in prison who could interpret dreams and Joseph was brought forth and he interpreted the King's dream there would be seven tremendously blessed years of great crops great harvests followed by seven disastrous years of drought and Pharaoh was so pleased to have the foreknowledge that he promoted Joseph and Joseph became prime minister of the nation and the very thing that he had seen in his dreams of the sheaves the crops bowing before him and his own family coming to Egypt and bowing before him happened and when his brothers came they thought that that Joseph would remember and want to kill them but there was forgiveness in his heart there was forgiveness in his heart and Joseph was able to bring salvation to his entire family and to the nation of Egypt which was the greatest nation on earth at that time from the pit to a prison to a palace that's Joseph my father Oral Roberts had a dream to build a university God had spoken to him and said build me a university build it on my authority and build it on the Holy Spirit and raise up your students to hear my voice and to go where my light is seen dim where my voice is heard small where my power is not known even to the uttermost bounds of the earth and their work will exceed yours and in that I am well pleased the reason I know that prophetic word which God spoke so well is because I heard it as a child over and over and over and over and over and over until it became a part of me it's a dream but it was impossible there was no way he had no money he had no land he had no buildings he had no curriculum he had no faculty he had no students and yet he had a call and there was a piece of land that he wanted to purchase he didn't have enough money to buy it but he knew that that was the spot and he would go out there and knock on the man's door and the man would say I'm not interested in selling it was a horse ranch with cattle and horses and and several working oil wells and he would knock on the door and say I've come to buy this land the man refused to sell time after time after time and one day he was praying and the Lord impressed him go one more time and he said Lord I've been over and over and over and the Lord said go one more time but Lord I've been over and over and the Lord said go one more time but Lord I've done it over and over go one more time and this time when he knocked the man said I'm so glad you came we decided to sell last night and my dad asked the the $64,000 question how much money do you want the man said I want a small down payment and you can pay it out over the years it'd be easier on my taxes which was music to my father's ears because he had no money to begin with they put a small amount down on that piece of land and we would put my bicycle in the back in the in the trunk of the car and to go out there and the birds and the rabbits and the squirrels and the trees and he would walk and pray and I'd ride my bicycle and I'm hearing all this going on and the Lord spoke to him and said do you have the Holy Spirit he said well sure I have the Holy Spirit and the Lord said to him do you know who you have well the mere fact that God would say to him do you have the Holy Spirit and do you know who you have musta meant he didn't know who he had and the Lord's my father said what are you trying to say to me and the Lord said you have the unlimited power of God available to you and if you begin to pray in tongues and then interpret back as the Apostle Paul taught us in 1st Corinthians 14 I'll show you how to do what looks impossible and I'm riding I'm just 12 13 years old I'm riding my bicycle and I'm hearing all this I'm hearing his conversation with God and I hear him begin to pray in tongues and interpret back to his mind and suddenly in the flash of a second he knew how he knew how to build a university he knew how to get the money he knew how to build the buildings he knew and he was under architect but he knew how to do it he knew how to get the curriculum and the faculty he knew how to get students and the reason I know because I graduated from there three times I got my bachelor's degree I got my master's degree and later I got my doctorate degree I know it's true because I served as an assistant I served as an assistant vice president I served as a personal assistant I served as a vice president and executive vice president and then for 15 years I served as president I know what I'm talking about it's real because during my tenure I graduated eight thousand kids and many of them from Canada somebody give a shot praise to the world I know dreams come true I've watched it happen over and over and over and over again praise God I had a dream of a healing ministry I was a guest on a talk show in 1977 and there was a woman who came on the program that night after I had been interviewed and I didn't like her I was disappointed when I found out she was going to be on the program I was hoping that they would let me leave and she could come on by herself much to my amazement the guest asked me early host asked me to stay and she came out and sat down right next to me and I was offended because I didn't like her I thought she was a fake and I scooted over to my chair to get as far away from her as I could we were on live television and it was awkward and when the end of the program came the host asked me to pray and I prayed a healing prayer and then he asked her to pray but instead of praying she began to prophesy over me and she said the healing ministry that you have dreamed of since you were a child is coming into your life she said it will be different than the ministry of your father your father predominantly laid hands upon the sick but the Lord will use you through the word of knowledge ministry you will speak like I did last night and people will be healed and you'll stand before great crowds around the world and you won't face what your father faced of the disappointment when when he didn't have enough strength to lay hands on everyone that wanted prayer you won't face that and you have great crowds of a hundred two hundred thousand people at a time and you speak the word and people will be healed all over thousands at one time you could have knocked me over with a feather I didn't like her and yet here I'm hearing the fulfillment of the dream that I'd had since I was a boy and when the program was over I said to her Vicki I I don't like you she looked at me like you know what do you mean I said I don't like you I said I thought you were a fake but the Lord showed me that I'm wrong and I apologize and ask you to forgive me that was Vicki Jamison Peterson tremendous woman of God with she and my wife and I became great friends and III performed her wedding a few years after that and we became great friends and God began to bring the dream that I had had into reality Lindsey and I got a hold of the scripture in mark 11:24 what things soever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them we had a desire for a healing ministry and there was a period of time there was a schooling in faith sometimes sometimes it takes a while for your dreams to come to pass sometimes it takes a schooling of your faith to believe and to release your faith for it to happen we kept holding on we didn't tell anybody we just believed between the two of us what things ever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them we prayed for a healing ministry and we believed that we received it now make no mistake about it nobody was getting healed but we had a healing ministry by faith we didn't have the physical manifestation but we had it by faith we didn't announce it on television we didn't tell me and if our friends we didn't tell our families we just confessed it by faith we confess that dream or day after day and week after week and month after month we just kept on and we kept on and we kept on and we kept on and we wouldn't give up that's how you bring your dreams to pass you just refuse to give up and one night we were in a certain city and the word of knowledge which had never been in my life before began to flow people began to get healed and my wife I remember looking her she pointed her finger at me and said this is it this is what we prayed for this what we believe for this is what you believe for all your life and it came to pass and I shared with you last night the sense that day in April of 1980 people have been healed and every service I preached around the world somebody gave a shout and praise to the world dreams come to pass get your smartphone out or your tablet or something to write on and take these things down let me give you five things about dreams five things about dreams dreams number one take time write that down dreams take time I know you want it instantaneously so do i but most of the time God doesn't work that way sometimes healings are instantaneous and we saw a lot of that last night most of the time healing comes over a period of time why why does it come more of a period of time we'll ask me ask me why I don't know don't ask me such dumb questions I don't know I'm not in menace but I'm in sales look I don't know how a black Cal can eat green grass and give white milk and make yellow butter either I don't know stop asking me so many dumb questions and stop being so doggone analytical who gave you the right to try to figure everything out you know it's like the story I heard of Bill Bill was asleep in the theology class and the professor had just asked an unanswerable question and when he saw the bill was asleep and they walked over and tapped him on the shoulder bill woke up said bill can you give us the answer bill not having any idea what the question was replied sir I used to know the answer but I forgot the pictures that the teacher said this is a red-letter day in our class only two people in the history of the world had ever known the answer to this question God and Bill and Bill has forgotten dreams take time everyone watched innocent teen once it instantaneously dreams take time second dreams take tests if you have a dream I'm Garrett I guarantee you Satan will do everything in his power to destroy you and make you quit and give up on your dream but don't give up on your dream don't turn loose of your vision because it's not over yet like Mike Murdock wrote what he promised he'll do for the seeds I'll get to that in a minute the seeds the seeds of the seeds dreams take time and dreams take tests my father faced every obstacle possible in building that school the city of Tulsa opposed us in everything that we did I could tell you a story after story after story of how the media and how the city fought us and stood in our way to do everything that we did but there's something about a test that makes you strong and my father always told me Richard if you're going to obey god you're going to go through things and you're going to find out what you're made of so not only dreams take time but dreams take tests you're gonna face tests in life but tests make you strong tests make you determined tests helps you to have a fierceness in your faith where you say to the devil no you're not gonna stop me number three dreams take teamwork dreams take teamwork a church is not built just by the pastor this church is not being built and grown just by pastors Craig and Jenny it takes teamwork because teamwork makes the dream work it's you it's all of you pulling together it's all of you using your faith and believe in God dreams take time dream takes dreams take tests dream takes teamwork number four dreams take seed dreams take seed dreams take seed Mike Murdock wrote on this song in that song for the seeds in your hand decide the harvest God plans a national to Cistus statistic I read recently said that 28% of church goers tithe 28% now that's in the United States I don't know what it is in Canada I doubt it's that much different 28% most of the pastors and ministers that I know nationwide and worldwide do not have money to match the vision to match the dream many of the pastors that I know around the world are battling to make payroll on Fridays and to keep the lights on and they're not able to do the dreams and visions that God has laid upon their heart many have more dreams and visions than they have finances can you imagine what would happen in Canada and in the United States if every member of every church was at either there would be no shortage there would be world wide evangelization there would be healings there would be miracles there would be the prophetic output if we sewed unto the Lord dreams take seed something about seed when you plant seed something supernatural happens you take a little seed and you put it in the ground and you cover it over with dirt and you add some water and you step back and something begins to happen the first thing that happens is the dirt begins to talk yeah and the dirt says hello seed I'm up here and you're down there and I weigh more than you and you're never ever coming up through me and that's how the devil talks but something about God and that little seed causes the seed to begin to talk and the seed begins to say the life of God the miracle life of God is in me I've got no worries I've got no frets and the dirt says shut up I weigh more than you and you're never coming through me but something about God and that little seed causes no little tent tender green shoots to begin to come through the ground and while the dirts having a nervous breakdown that seed is beginning to grow nothing can defeat your seed except your mouth your mouth is the most unruly member of our body my mouth is what gets me in trouble what I say and what I don't say when you plant your seed like you're going to do a little while and then you turn around and walk out of here and say well I wonder if this is gonna work you pour petrol right on top of your seed and you burn it out instead of saying by the grace of God I believe that I receive as a result of the seed that I have just planted what you say is so critically important that's why Jesus said if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed Matthew 17:20 that is a seed that you will so then you can speak to your Mountain the difficulty the problem whatever it is and you can command it to be removed and cast into the sea and nothing shall be impossible unto you many Christians today don't have any concept of the power that's in the seed that's in their hand seed does not grow in your hand it doesn't grow in the barn it grows when it's sewn dreams take seed sow into your dreams and visions that's what Joseph did he sowed in the house of Potiphar he sowed in the prison he sowed in the palace until he was promoted and number five dreams take trust trust job said yet you've yet even if you slay me I will trust in you and job lost everything that he had he lost his family he lost his property he lost all of his crops he lost his animals he lost everything that he had and yet he trusted God and he planted seed and his friends when he prayed for them and God restored him ten times what he had trust our us money says In God We Trust there's a group of people right now in the United States trying to take that off and want us to say In God We Trust they would rather have on their in the money we trust my trust is in God my trust is not in the money because if I trust God God will take care of the money I trust him and you got to have trust and you know in this world today it's hard to trust people it's really difficult in trusting people because nine times out of 10 people will let you down because they're just people and we make a terrible mistake of trying to make people sources people are not your source God is your source your bank is not your source your job your ministry is not your source your husband your wife your children your grandchildren they're not your soul furniture source God is your source whoever is in the the prime minister's seat or the president's chair or they're not your source your your your House of Commons our our Congress they're not your source those things are instruments but they're not sources people make lousy sources God is your source people let Joseph down wherever he went his brothers who sold him into slavery Potiphar let him down by believing a lie the the prisoner who's the prisoners who interpreted dreams for did not did not keep their part of the bargain Joseph kept sowing his seed and kept trusting God he kept sowing a seed and kept trusting God he kept sowing his seed and trusting God and every time you do that the devil will keep dumping trash on your head heard the story about the old mule that braids so loud that the farmers around decided to get rid of the mule but they didn't have the heart to kill the mule so they threw the mule down a well and they're at the bottom of the well when he braids they couldn't hear him as loud but when he made noise they would take their trash and they would drop it down on his head in the well hoping to keep him quiet and every time the trash came and hit him in the head he just stepped on it and they throw more trash and each step on it and they throw more trash and he stepped on it and they threw more trash and he stepped on it and they threw more trash and rubbish on his head and he stepped on it until he kept climbing higher and higher and higher and walked out of the well that's a picture of us the devil will dump so much rubbish so much garbage so much trash on your head until you think these weren't dreams these were nightmares but don't give up on your dream don't turn loose of your vision it's not over yet what God said he will do for the seeds in your hand decide the harvest God plans so remember today don't give up your dreams every one of you has a dream it's a dream that God put in your heart some of you have put it in the closet and you've covered it over and you've forgotten it it's time to reach into the closet and pull that dream out uncover and say god I'm renewing my faith I'm renewing my vision in the name of the Lord I'm gonna see that dream that thing that you've shown me come to pass right now I have a dream in my heart I'm 70 years old and I've not stopped dreaming i'm dreaming of touching underdeveloped nations pastors around the world with healing the holy spirit and seat just a few months from now I'll be overseas again in India with 2000 perhaps even more than 2000 pastors from rural areas areas where there's no internet pastors who've had virtually no teaching pastors who have given their hearts to the Lord in a crusade and said hey let's start a church we don't know how to do it but let's do it you be the pastor I'll be the Sunday school administrator I'll be the accountant and they're working they don't know exactly how they're doing it but they're doing it and they have no one investing in their lives until I'm coming along and I'm investing I'm sowing seed to have that conference that we're talking about it's going to cost me a lot of money I can cost them anything financially because I'm doing as a seed and because I'm sowing it as a seed into their lives and taking care of their lodging taking care of their food giving them our tablet with 20,000 pages of material as well as hundreds of hours of audio and video because I'm doing that God will take the seed that I say and he'll multiply it back to me good measure pressed down shaken together and running over he will take care of me I'm still dreaming I still have visions and I praise God for it stand with me for a minute please kela masanjia Tanaka Sabra just begin to pray in tongues Celia una casa para casa que Sunday Orinoco sobre casa da da nakka samba my message is not long this morning you may have been expecting me to preach an hour and a half but you know the old saying he who speaketh short shall be invited again evangelists are not long-winded okay masya tanaka Sombra casa le chien danaka sbrick a satanic Asiya more do you want to do some business this morning I know you want to do some business here the promise of life you want to renew dreams and renew visions you want it to take those dreams and visions out of the closet take them out from under the chair from under the bed take them out from the Attic take them out of the back recesses of our mind and our memories and bring them to the forefront you want to suggest them off and renew our vision in what you calls to do Lord's not a matter of age whether you're 15 or you're 25 or you're 55 or you're 70 like me or you're 85 I thank you Father Abraham had a dream he had a dream of a son and at a hundred years old with his wife 90 the dream was fulfilled and Isaac would born Isaac who founded a nation Joseph had a dream seventeen but it didn't become prime minister until he was thirty takes time Lord and I thank you I give you praise this morning for every dream and every vision that you've fulfilled in my life and that which you are fulfilling now and that which is to be fulfilled and I refuse to give up I refuse to be weary in my well doing for the Bible says that I shall reap in due season if I quit if I don't quit if I faint not and I pray over each one of you today I pray in the authority of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth for the Holy Spirit to come welling up in you and for your vision for the dream that you have to come welling up in you again and you can say to the Lord Lord I'm sorry that I put that dream on the shelf I know it came from you but Lauren I'm gonna renew I'm gonna renew my mind and renew my strength on the dream and my efforts on the dream that you've placed in my heart Lord I know there may be obstacles then maybe those have stood in the way but I believe Lord that you will remove the obstacles you'll move them out of the ways and somehow someway in your timing you'll bring them to pass you did it for Abraham you did it for Isaac you did it for Jacob whose name was changed to Israel you did it for Joseph you did it all throughout the New Testament and you're no respecter of persons what you did you're still doing for the Bible says you are the same yesterday today and forever and Lord as far as I'm concerned I recommit myself a fresh in a new today to the dreams and the visions that you've given me some of which I've mentioned some of which I've not mentioned some of which I can make public and some it's too personal and Lord I do that in behalf of everyone here that promise of life I pray over you today I pray for a fresh new unction of the Holy Spirit to rise up in you and that as you pray in tongues and pray back with your understanding as the Apostle Paul taught us in 1st Corinthians 14 that those dreams and visions will come up in your spirit again and you'll say Lord I'm renewing I'm renewing my faith for this dream and vision no matter what condition I'm in no matter what my age is no matter what the circumstances are and I believe Lord that I release my faith and that you will bring it to pass in Jesus mighty name I pray I believe and my friends I expect a miracle and that everybody say Amen now just lift your hands and rejoice and thank you thank you and even as you do God will begin to show you things he'll begin to bring things to your memory things that you may have long since forgotten he'll bring them to you again aren't you glad for a God who gives you a second chance he's the God of a second chance that means a continual second chance I praise God for that I praise God don't give up your dreams don't turn loose of your vision it's not over yet what he promised he'll do for the seeds in your hand decide the harvest God plans so remember today don't give up your dreams let's just rejoice in thankful hallelujah just rejoice give him praise give him honor give him glory this one to spank him you say Ghana I take those dreams in again visions just say God I don't know how but somehow I don't know one way but someway I released my faith on I just say that out loud I release my faith under God I know that you'll bring it to pass I don't know how I don't know win that's not my job my jobs to believe you I thank you father I praise you worship you this morning now Lord in the name of Jesus I come against every sickness and every disease I come against every fear and every doubt I come against anything and everything that's unlike God is tried to attach itself to you I curse it I bind it in the name of Jesus I command the devil to take his hands off of you let's take his dirty rotten stinking filthy hands off and for God to make a way where it looks like there's no way to make a river in the desert a way in the wilderness I hear him saying behold I'll do a new thing I'll make a way in the wilderness I'll make a river in the desert shall you not know it I hear the Lord saying that this morning that's the scripture but I hear it prophetically I will make a way where there seems to be no way praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God praise Him praise Him praise Him praise Him praise Him praise Him praise Him praise Him praise him praise him [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise Him praise Him praise Him the Lord inhabits the praises of his people and when the praise goes up the walls come down hallelujah put your hands together to give praise to the Lord

Channel: Promise of Life Church

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Length: 55min 57sec (3357 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 03 2019