This is a long message … but I implore you to read it and listen to the song at the end!

Genesis 37 5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

In one conversation, Joseph set his life on a different course.

When you approach older brothers and make statements like this, you are showing yourself to be arrogant, entitled, pompous, ungrateful, clueless, … just to name a few …

And not long after this, he was enslaved, falsely accused, and thrown into prison.

Reading the story, it is by God’s protection alone that he lived through the incident with Potifer’s wife.

But that is not what this is about.

This blog is about YOU and it is about YOUR DREAMS.

  • It is about knocking the baggage off of your life and reclaiming what you have lost …
  • It is about you fighting to get back in the driver’s seat while at the same time allowing God to be the driver.
  • It is about us facing the realities in front of us.  It is true, when we enter into this world, we start with two strikes against us.
    • Strike One is talked about in Revelation 12:10B, and it relates to the Accuser.  Day and night, he releases accusation after accusation that do nothing but condemn us.
    • Strike Two is that those accusations, for the most part, are true.  We are guilty as charged in most cases.  And, the reality is, we have nothing on this earth to defend ourself from those serious charges.
  • It is about us not letting the story end here.  Just like Joseph, our actions have been a viable part of our destination at the prison cell.  We are there for good reason.  But we are not there to stay.  We are there to be released by what Jesus said in John 3:16.  We are there so that we can truly understand the freedom that He is granting.

God convicted me this last weekend about one of the greatest stories in the Bible, and I never would have connected it to Genesis 37, but I was happy to see the connection.

Matthew 25 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. 17 So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. 18 But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

19 “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20 The man who had received the five talents brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’

21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

22 “The man with the two talents also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two talents; see, I have gained two more.’

23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

24 “Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’

26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

28 ” ‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Jesus is challenging us to stand up and dream again.  But He is challenging us to give these dreams away even as we pursue them.

He is challenging us to be Kingdom builders … to not bury our talents … to not view Him in our world but as He is … to GIVE OUR LIVES FULLY AWAY.

If we don’t use our talents to bless other people, not only will it cost them, it will cost us too.

If we bury our abilities, not only will they die, but we will to.

If we want to be more fruitful, we must aspire to be more faithful.

I believe that these are biblical truths that we must truly try to find in all that we are aspiring to do … and in them … we will have life.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J