Picking Up Dropped Dreams | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection I will not give up I will not let her because I know what God has promised me he's laid his hand on you he started it he's going to finish it he promised it he's going to perform it [Music] if you have your Bibles I'd like for you to open them to the book of Genesis chapter 21 I want to talk to you today about picking up dropped dreams picking up drop dreams and I'll show you where this is in in the scripture but I think a lot of times that we need to understand that God is a God who gives his people a dream a purpose a mission a plan for their life a dream is is a god-given projected destiny it means you see it out there or something that God shows you that he says this is this is who I I see in you and that's called a dream it's a designated in it's a vision of where I shall be when God places his hand upon my life and there's no question that God has a dream for every person but with that dream always comes with God's dream there always comes hell's nightmare to try to steal that dream and if you don't learn to endure the nightmare you will never experience the dream so many people give up and quit because they have a dream planted by God in their heart but then comes the nightmare I want to show you that this is a biblical pattern I want to show you that it is impossible for God to give a person a dream and he does give people dreams for their life a desired in a dream again is a projected destiny of where you shall be or your family shall be or your marriage shall be where your life shall be and never does God plant that in your heart with that dream that the enemy doesn't come with his nightmare and unless you can endure and unless you can endure hell's nightmare you'll never experience heavens dream for your life the moment that most people give up is the moment of the greatest opportunity everything you want is on the other side of not giving up and I promise you when God puts a dream in your heart the nightmare will come what is the nightmare it's it's the pathway to your destiny you cannot get to the dream without the nightmare and the pathway of the nightmare because it purifies you it purifies your motives the nightmare is the enemy trying to steal that dream and get you to give up the question is can God trust you with trouble because the moment that the enemy senses you have a God giving dream he will try to send the opposite and cause a nightmare and if God can put you in trouble it's a vote of heavens confidence in you trouble and the nightmare is a vote of heavens confidence in you your trouble is your pathway to triumph your pain is your pathway to a higher praise your mess is a pathway to the miraculous things of God in your life the dream is your destiny the dream tells you where you're going the nightmare is your pathway to it your adversity will advance you the nightmare is the pathway to the dream that you're called to Calvary was the pathway to the dream of the church God said I have a dream I want a church jesus said I'll build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it and he'll said I don't think so we'll stop you we'll nail you to a cross but when Jesus stepped out of that too guess what the nightmare became the pathway to the dream the purpose of the dream is twofold the purpose of the dream is to give you a sense of destiny that you're not just here wandering through life that there is a sense of destiny purpose and calling that is upon your life and you don't have to be in ministry to have a dream God has a dream for every person you're not an accident and the dream is about a sense of destiny on your life the second purpose of a dream is to inspire you to reach for it to stretch to get out of your comfort zone to go beyond what you think you think you're capable of doing that's what a dream that God plants in your heart will do for you the nightmare is threefold the nightmare when you're going through darkness when you're going through trial when you're going through setback and adversity then guess what you're gonna find out three things the nightmare is about self-discovery you're gonna find out who you are you're gonna find out that your security cannot be in what other people say or feel about you that at some point you have to get something inside of you that says I believe it and I don't care what anybody says I know what God has told me and you find out who you are and not only is the nightmare about self-discovery but it's also about God discovering you'll find more about God in the darkness in your life and you will in the sunshine days God said I dwell in thick darkness he actually said that he said I dwell in thick darkness in other words if you want to know more about God then he allows you to go through darkness it's not God's will for you to always be in sunshiney successful beautiful days but actually you'll learn more about God and who he is in the dark places in the lonely places in the times when you don't understand and you feel forgotten and you don't know who you are anymore and you don't know what's happening anymore and God is strangely silent and many of you're walking through that kind of darkness and you don't want to be alone but God has you alone he has you cornered I promise you he's doing a mighty mighty work in your life you're gonna find out who you are and you're gonna find out who God is and the nightmare thirdly is to shut the devil's mouth when your nightmare is over like Jobe it will shut the devil's mouth when your nightmare is over it's going to cause the the voice of hell that voice that tells you God is a liar and you are no good and you'll never do and be anything and all of those lies that hell screams that ass you might as well give up you might as well take your life you might as well know you just don't have it you're a failure that nightmare is going to shut the devil's mouth when God turns it around and I promise you he will turn it around do you realize everything that has been built is the direct result of a dream and persistence to that dream of someone who would not give up Jesus proved that you've got to go beyond the nightmare to get to the dream when he hung on the cross and he rose the third day job proved that if you will endure the nightmare you will experience the dream and God blessed him double even Joseph had a dream but then came the nightmare but the nightmare the prison was the pit the prison the false accusations it was the pathway to the dream and if you can endure the nightmare you'll never experience and Walt in the dream the closer you get to the fulfillment of your dream the tougher that it gets this is true and you see it on the sports field in football you'll see the tall skinny fast wide recievers run down the field they'll pick up 20 30 40 50 60 70 yards but when they get down to the five-yard line you'll see the defense on the the side trade out and out goes some pretty big guys but then comes in the behemoth guys they weigh about 400 pounds their meaning their breath stinks they said they look right there at you like if you try to come five more yards I will rip your head off and some of you right now are facing some behemoth demons you've never faced anything like it and you don't understand why and it's just a sign that you're closer than you've ever been before I still believe that some of you are so close that hell has brought out its biggest demons to get you to give up in the middle of the nightmare so that you'll never experience the dream I'm preaching to you today I'm preaching to you today the purpose of the nightmare is to discourage you to give up on the dream if you don't get fresh all every once in a while that's why you can't afford to go to some dead church every now and then you got to get fresh all or you'll quit and throw in the towel every now and then you've got to get the power of the Holy Spirit moving on your life again every now and then you need God to come and power and touch you afresh so that the enemy doesn't steal the dream of a blessed family and a blessed life and a blessed a career and a blessed marriage that's God's will for your life the nightmare is the dream stealer the nightmare says just give up you know somebody said many years ago anything worth doing is worth doing well but here's the new one for you anything worth doing is worth bailing at and that's why you have to endure the nightmare because if you want to give yourself to something give yourself to something worth failing over Christlikeness is worth failing over maybe maybe I'm not like Christ like I want to be but even if I'm failing my way toward being like Christ at least I'm trying I don't let non-christian people tell me how to be a better Christian at least I'm trying at least I'm striving at least I'm reaching you're not a failure because you fail you're a failure because you quit the nightmare was the pathway to the dream for Joseph the nightmare was the pathway for the dream for Joe the nightmare was the pathway for the dream for Jesus I'm on my way to my dream I'm going to be mighty in God I am NOT through I am not finished I am NOT settling I am moving forward if we concede our dreams we will wonder in a wilderness of stagnation the rest of our life a nightmare is like a dream but it's filled with hopelessness despair and no escape you can't wake up when you're in a nightmare you're following have you ever had a nightmare how many of you ever had a nightmare and you say to yourself in the nightmare you need to wake up now have you ever run off a cliff or something and you say I need to wake up in this I have I have I must be weird don't let the nightmare steal your dream Genesis 28 Jacob went to Bethel and he put his head on a stone and God opened up the heavens and gave him a dream for his life if you put your head on the rock God will give you your dream get your head in the right place and the heavens will open God's dream for your life will come when you start putting your head in the right place if you get the dream from heaven notice that the pillow became a pillar that texia said he then made it a pillar and he poured all on it and he built the house of God beth-el the pillow became a pillar and if you get a dream from heaven you can build on it you can build your life on it what God tells you he'll perform what are you laying your head on John laid his head on Jesus chest and that's how he could endure the nightmare of the island of Patmos he was alone there on that island but suddenly because he knew where to put his head he knew where to lean he knew where to rest it was Jesus God gave him and took him into heaven and gave him the 22 chapters of the book of Revelation because he had a dream while he was living a nightmare I'm telling you that you can't get one without the other I'm preaching to somebody who needs to get some determination I'm preaching to somebody who needs to get a spirit that says I will not quit I will not give up I will not let her because I know what God has promised me he's laid his hand on you he started it he's going to finish it he promised it he's going to perform it the nightmare gets loud the closer you get to the dream and God at the same time often chooses to go solid that's why so many people quit you're trying to get to the dream the nightmare comes and just when you think you need God to really speak to you he goes silent and the nightmare gets louder and in that moment you have to walk by faith you have to go because you know God told you what he told you and I'm not gonna give up now and I'm not gonna doubt it now I'm gonna believe God now don't let anybody else this opinion become your reality just because you're walking through the nightmare doesn't mean that the dream isn't real and don't you let other people's opinion become your reality ten people's opinion in the Old Testament calls 3 million people to live in the wilderness for 40 years and wonder in the wilderness for 40 years they let other 10 other people's opinion become their reality Saul had an opinion he said David you can't defeat Goliath with that slingshot in that stone you need this armor and you need to do this and you need to do that but David said I'm not going to let your opinions all become my reality I'm going to do what God has told me to do so many times people give up and they quit right on the verge that's why I wanted to end with this story in Genesis 21 because in this story we have Ishmael the boy and I just want to read it to you and I want you to see it and I want you to see what's happening she's out in the wilderness and the scripture said that God heard the voice of the lad the angel of God called to Hagar are out of heaven and said to her what eles you Hagar fear not for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is listen to these words verse 18 arise lift up the lad hold him with your hand and I will make him a great nation and God opened her eyes and she saw the will of water what I want you to see in this story is Ishmael Hagar stream what I want you to see in this story is is she had the dream but she gets into a wilderness and in a moment of discouragement she drops the dream she puts it under a bush she hears the child crying and she has no resources she has no food no water in a hot desert and so she can't bear to hear the baby die and suffer so she goes far enough away that she can't hear him but there's an amazing thing the Bible said God heard the dream or the child crying out which tells me something really powerful that if you have a god-given dream it can pray and cry even if you've given up on it and she had given up and she had dropped her dream and she had walked off somewhere and she was weeping because she knew her baby was dying her dream was dying but the dream was crying out the dream the dream was crying out and God didn't hear Hagar he heard the dream and then he said to that mother go back now I just really feel like this simple message is for somebody I want you to go back to some dreams that you've dropped and I want you to pick them back up because I'm not through with them I know that it looked like a nightmare but I just want you to know that if you endure the nightmare you're going to experience the dream and it's time to pick up some drop dreams again and it's time for you to take them in your arms again and hold them up before me again and watch me bring my power in my life and my resume action on those dreams that you have dropped picking up drop dreams is a word in season for somebody then the Bible said God showed her where the water was he opened her eyes God showed her how to keep the dream alive I'm telling you today that it's time to pick up the Trop dreams I'm so glad that God is faithful I feel like I'm just standing up your prophesy now I'm standing up here I'm gonna tell you something else you're looking at a preacher who has stood in this pulpit and I have preached preach real meaning before I got out of the storm and the nightmare with our family I had to stand here and preach someday God will someday God will someday God will Charice and I had to stand and say some way God will preach real pre-tribulation but now I stand listening to this post real post means after on the other side and I can tell some of you young little couples out there when I stood up here years ago and I had a house full of teenagers Saturday night my eyes were puffy because I hadn't slept all night and worrying about them and not knowing what in the world's going on we found out something and this and that or a phone call or this and that and we like the lost our minds and I'd still get up and grab my black Bob on my microphone that's for me and my house we shall be saved and I've got a covenant and I was preaching preach real but now I'm preaching post real Oh hallelujah I can tell you all of them love Jesus I can tell you all of them serve the Lord I can tell you all I believe church this morning and God can do it for you pick up those straw dreams and say hail can't have my family demons can't have my addiction can't have lesbianism homosexuality sexual immorality cannot have my children pick up your drop dreams somebody praise Him like you're not afraid of the enemy to death addiction can't have your chips roll people can't have your children you had a lujah let's get up on our feet and shout like we believe that what God said he's able to perform [Applause] [Music] I feel like doing something how many of you how many of you have dropped some dreams and you almost didn't want me to preach what I preached today because you had no intention of picking it back up because you've adjusted but just when you think you're safe God will come along and say it's time it's time I feel like today that you need to pick up drop dreams and in your hands hold them up just lift your hands representing drop dreams hold them before heaven and say God here it is hey everybody say this I'm going to trust you with this dream like never before you spoke to Pastor and you told him to trust you and now he's challenging me in my situation that I've been worrying about to trust you say this Jesus I trust you from this day forward I believe my dreams will live now give him praise one more time [Music] I want to thank you for joining us on Kingdom connection today our mission always is to lead people to Jesus Christ and if you need Jesus in your life today I want you to pray this prayer with me just say Lord Jesus thank you for your unfailing love thank you that you never give up on me thank you Lord that your grace and your mercy is already cleansing me when I breathe and call your name forgiveness comes to my life and I receive you Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I give you the praise in Jesus name Amen and in our closing moments I wanted to take just a moment to talk to you from 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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 12 2020