"Sons of Bilhah, sons of Zilpah." - Gen 37:2d
The sons of Bilhah and Zilpah were children of Jacob born to him by the nurse maids of his wife. These other brothers represent the worldly friendships that surround people keeping them from serving God. They are hindrances to our dream and stumbling blocks to destiny. As long as we are attached to godless friends, we will never achieve God’s purpose.
When God began to call me, the hardest decision was breaking away from my friends in the world and the lifestyle we shared. We had grown up together experimenting our way into the initiations of young adulthood. These sons of the world had shared with me my first cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs. I belonged to a company of friends with the same sounds, and we allowed our life to become isolated from the values, the friends, and family that had for years been our most stable source of solace. Music of the age first put our minds adrift, and it was not long before actions followed.
Before any young man begins to hear the dreams of the King, these voices of the world and popular culture must be turned off in his mind. Joseph’s life from the very beginning was marked with destiny and promise. He knew he was called to something great; but as long as he remained in the same house with his common brethren, he would never be fully prepared for the purpose for which God had specifically designed him. Many a young man or woman must be called out of their familiar home, out of their comfort, friends, and even family to be ushered into the higher purposes of God.
There is a great fear in leaving the sons of Bilhah, our trusted acquaintances, our familiar job, our local community. They represent safety and security for a generation who has known much rejection and isolation. Gangs running in the street, drug addict friends, a partying crowd are the closest thing to a family many youth of today know. Asking them to forsake their friendships of the world is asking for the same type of separation that Joseph underwent when he left his family. Yet such a separation is crucial if we are going to pursue the dreams of God. It is a pattern of a dreamer.
Joseph’s life could have remained uninterrupted feeding the flock with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, but God had a higher plan. If you are to enlist in God’s army of dreamers, you must be willing to leave behind the mediocre life and surroundings you presently enjoy. As you separate yourself from friends that have no vision and hunger for the things of God, God will open your ears to hear His dreams for your life. Leave all to follow Him; here it begins. This is the awakening to something greater.
Free me from harmful influences,
Let your destiny burn out all the rest.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Buying Time
“Feeding the flock with his brethren.” - Gen. 37:2c
Few tasks could be as menial as watching sheep graze on a hill. So boring is the pastime that counting sheep is proven to produce sleep. The beginning of Joseph’s story is about as regular and monotonous as anyone’s. He finds himself in a similar situation to many young men who are sitting idle in today’s society. They are like the workers Jesus described in his parable who “sit idle in the marketplace.” (Matthew 20:1-15)
They are hanging around without a mission, without direction, or a will to obey. Since the late 1960s a booming counter-culture has successfully dismantled the institutions that used to give a young man direction, purpose, and challenge in his life. The government can no longer be trusted following decades of deceit and scandal. The institution of the family has been steadily eroded to the point that parents have little influence over the morality, career decisions, spirituality, and life paths of youth. The church has become labeled a hypocritical, irrelevant institution with little to offer the post-modern, technology driven world. Schools, civic institutions, military, and the traditional morals of Western society have lost their influence on the minds of youth, and therefore left a great vacuum in which there is little compelling vision to be had. “Where there is no vision, the people perish,” (Prov. 29:18) and the practical result for man is the life of quiet desperation, “counting sheep,” and a resignation to the insignificance of post-modern man.
We have been disconnected from the center and many are wandering aimlessly in search of a higher purpose. Video games, i-places, cyberspace, headphones, and a fixation with entertainment serve to soften the pain.
Boredom is becoming the grand destruction of many a youth in our culture. The fruit of boredom in America is widespread drug and alcohol abuse, senseless violence, and increasingly disconnected behavior. If there is one word that could describe the feelings of many between the ages of 14 and 21 it would be apathy. No passion, no purpose, nothing to live or die for, no challenge, no variety, no call greater than themselves, and no abiding sense of mission and purpose haunt the lives of many an idle teenager in this land of plenty.
These are shepherds passing time in the field of the father. These are young men the age of Joseph who have yet been challenged to dream a dream larger than their ability to achieve. And these are the idle workers that Jesus wants to enlist into His service. Consider yourself called.
Lord, enlist me in your service,
Capture my heart for Your purpose.
Few tasks could be as menial as watching sheep graze on a hill. So boring is the pastime that counting sheep is proven to produce sleep. The beginning of Joseph’s story is about as regular and monotonous as anyone’s. He finds himself in a similar situation to many young men who are sitting idle in today’s society. They are like the workers Jesus described in his parable who “sit idle in the marketplace.” (Matthew 20:1-15)
They are hanging around without a mission, without direction, or a will to obey. Since the late 1960s a booming counter-culture has successfully dismantled the institutions that used to give a young man direction, purpose, and challenge in his life. The government can no longer be trusted following decades of deceit and scandal. The institution of the family has been steadily eroded to the point that parents have little influence over the morality, career decisions, spirituality, and life paths of youth. The church has become labeled a hypocritical, irrelevant institution with little to offer the post-modern, technology driven world. Schools, civic institutions, military, and the traditional morals of Western society have lost their influence on the minds of youth, and therefore left a great vacuum in which there is little compelling vision to be had. “Where there is no vision, the people perish,” (Prov. 29:18) and the practical result for man is the life of quiet desperation, “counting sheep,” and a resignation to the insignificance of post-modern man.
We have been disconnected from the center and many are wandering aimlessly in search of a higher purpose. Video games, i-places, cyberspace, headphones, and a fixation with entertainment serve to soften the pain.
Boredom is becoming the grand destruction of many a youth in our culture. The fruit of boredom in America is widespread drug and alcohol abuse, senseless violence, and increasingly disconnected behavior. If there is one word that could describe the feelings of many between the ages of 14 and 21 it would be apathy. No passion, no purpose, nothing to live or die for, no challenge, no variety, no call greater than themselves, and no abiding sense of mission and purpose haunt the lives of many an idle teenager in this land of plenty.
These are shepherds passing time in the field of the father. These are young men the age of Joseph who have yet been challenged to dream a dream larger than their ability to achieve. And these are the idle workers that Jesus wants to enlist into His service. Consider yourself called.
Lord, enlist me in your service,
Capture my heart for Your purpose.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Sweet Seventeen
“Joseph, being seventeen years old." - Gen. 37:2b
Oh, to be seventeen again. A beating package of emotions tightly wound around an ever inquisitive mind. This time of exploration and testing of all known boundaries for many American youth is also a time of severe upheaval.
We live in a land which glorifies youth. Every commercial, every model, all the prizes and temptations of our culture are fixated on the energy and often reckless desires of youth. As the fountain of youth was the quest for early American explorers, our culture still searches for creams, balms, cures and cars which capture the essence of youth.
I remember getting the keys to my first car. Being put behind the wheel of a half-ton V-8 Pontiac was like throwing fire into the simmering cauldron of teenage emotions. The power of being behind the wheel, the freedom to chart my own destiny, the command of speed and agility of control all feed deeply into the emerging soul of youth. But with this new freedom, comes a tremendous amount of responsibility that few teenagers can handle.
Car insurance speaks this truth. To insure the passions of a young man turning 17 requires a significant premium—based purely on the driving statistics. When you put power, force, and direction into hands unprepared to handle them responsibly, accidents are bound to happen. Joseph's dream was like a revving engine in the hands of a wound up teenager.
Young men yearn for speed and long for living on the edge. Adrenaline, testosterone, and endorphins are running through their blood, and with this release of passion comes a need for power, conquest, and challenge. Our society rarely offers this outlet. The young soul of a man entering adulthood is longing to know he has the power to make a dent on the world. Impurely directed, this quest for impact takes dangerous turns into drugs, vandalism, womanizing, or crimes.
But this desire comes from God, and something of this passion must be harnessed and caressed in early youth so that these youth have the initial fuel to carry their deepest dreams through. When Joseph was seventeen, God began to speak to him about the destiny he was to carry. God is reaching out to many at this turbulent and impulsive age to saddle them with a vision of the conquest for their own generation.
As we harness the energy of this emerging generation, temper it with character and patience, God will fulfill his prophetic promise of turning the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children. This merging of the generations is destined to bring a blessing on the earth.
Those who wait on the Lord will renew their youth,
They will mount up with wings as eagles.
Oh, to be seventeen again. A beating package of emotions tightly wound around an ever inquisitive mind. This time of exploration and testing of all known boundaries for many American youth is also a time of severe upheaval.
We live in a land which glorifies youth. Every commercial, every model, all the prizes and temptations of our culture are fixated on the energy and often reckless desires of youth. As the fountain of youth was the quest for early American explorers, our culture still searches for creams, balms, cures and cars which capture the essence of youth.
I remember getting the keys to my first car. Being put behind the wheel of a half-ton V-8 Pontiac was like throwing fire into the simmering cauldron of teenage emotions. The power of being behind the wheel, the freedom to chart my own destiny, the command of speed and agility of control all feed deeply into the emerging soul of youth. But with this new freedom, comes a tremendous amount of responsibility that few teenagers can handle.
Car insurance speaks this truth. To insure the passions of a young man turning 17 requires a significant premium—based purely on the driving statistics. When you put power, force, and direction into hands unprepared to handle them responsibly, accidents are bound to happen. Joseph's dream was like a revving engine in the hands of a wound up teenager.
Young men yearn for speed and long for living on the edge. Adrenaline, testosterone, and endorphins are running through their blood, and with this release of passion comes a need for power, conquest, and challenge. Our society rarely offers this outlet. The young soul of a man entering adulthood is longing to know he has the power to make a dent on the world. Impurely directed, this quest for impact takes dangerous turns into drugs, vandalism, womanizing, or crimes.
But this desire comes from God, and something of this passion must be harnessed and caressed in early youth so that these youth have the initial fuel to carry their deepest dreams through. When Joseph was seventeen, God began to speak to him about the destiny he was to carry. God is reaching out to many at this turbulent and impulsive age to saddle them with a vision of the conquest for their own generation.
As we harness the energy of this emerging generation, temper it with character and patience, God will fulfill his prophetic promise of turning the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children. This merging of the generations is destined to bring a blessing on the earth.
Those who wait on the Lord will renew their youth,
They will mount up with wings as eagles.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Trans-generational Vision
"This is the history of Jacob: Joseph,” - Gen. 37:2a
"This is the history of Jacob, Joseph…” the story begins in Genesis 37. Though Jacob was memorialized, his historical destiny only began to manifest as he transcended generations and served a vision much larger than his own.
Jacob's impact would ultimately reverberate vicariously through the life of his son. This is a key to making history--you must begin with a vision that is bigger than you, larger and longer than your lifetime, more than you could possibly accomplish, and outside the realm of your own personal charisma and charm. God sponsors such visions that could only come from Him.
The story of Joseph is not only for young men who have visions, but as Joel said, old men who have dreams. The standard American self-help book has limited success to the span of one lifetime and thus failed to inspire men beyond their own generation. According to Genesis 37:1, the true history and greatness of Jacob did not occur during his own watch, but in the generation that sprang from his loins. Children are part of the multigenerational blessing that God wants to give His people, but few modern Americans can picture their influence across the lives they leave behind.
Jacob was the father of twelve sons of Israel who would carry the mantle of Jehovah's providential purposes into every nation on the face of the earth. "In you,” God said to Abraham, "all the families of the earth will be blessed." (Genesis 12:3). God thinks trans-generationally. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, so for anyone to fully leverage their potential destiny and impact, they must begin to expand their vision to their children's children.
Such thinking will revolutionize a young man's decisions. When entering marriage, there will be a deep desire to build a godly foundation that will support the fathering of Godly seed. "God makes them one spirit because He seeks Godly offspring." (Mal. 2:15) Financial decisions and ministry commitments will be better evaluated across the generations. Men who think three generations deep will not rush to obtain success or fame in ministry. They will not be driven by our society's constant need for results but will realize the process of building may take tens or even hundreds of years if it is to maintain.
The history of Jacob only begins in his lifetime. His greatest contribution to the survival of his people comes through the providential life of his son Joseph. As fathers and young men, we should carefully cradle the purposes of God in their infancy. We should never despise or neglect the smallest baby or task that God has given us, knowing that though our beginning may be insignificant, our latter end will be great.
Let me see the generations to come
And leave a blessing for my children’s children.
"This is the history of Jacob, Joseph…” the story begins in Genesis 37. Though Jacob was memorialized, his historical destiny only began to manifest as he transcended generations and served a vision much larger than his own.
Jacob's impact would ultimately reverberate vicariously through the life of his son. This is a key to making history--you must begin with a vision that is bigger than you, larger and longer than your lifetime, more than you could possibly accomplish, and outside the realm of your own personal charisma and charm. God sponsors such visions that could only come from Him.
The story of Joseph is not only for young men who have visions, but as Joel said, old men who have dreams. The standard American self-help book has limited success to the span of one lifetime and thus failed to inspire men beyond their own generation. According to Genesis 37:1, the true history and greatness of Jacob did not occur during his own watch, but in the generation that sprang from his loins. Children are part of the multigenerational blessing that God wants to give His people, but few modern Americans can picture their influence across the lives they leave behind.
Jacob was the father of twelve sons of Israel who would carry the mantle of Jehovah's providential purposes into every nation on the face of the earth. "In you,” God said to Abraham, "all the families of the earth will be blessed." (Genesis 12:3). God thinks trans-generationally. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, so for anyone to fully leverage their potential destiny and impact, they must begin to expand their vision to their children's children.
Such thinking will revolutionize a young man's decisions. When entering marriage, there will be a deep desire to build a godly foundation that will support the fathering of Godly seed. "God makes them one spirit because He seeks Godly offspring." (Mal. 2:15) Financial decisions and ministry commitments will be better evaluated across the generations. Men who think three generations deep will not rush to obtain success or fame in ministry. They will not be driven by our society's constant need for results but will realize the process of building may take tens or even hundreds of years if it is to maintain.
The history of Jacob only begins in his lifetime. His greatest contribution to the survival of his people comes through the providential life of his son Joseph. As fathers and young men, we should carefully cradle the purposes of God in their infancy. We should never despise or neglect the smallest baby or task that God has given us, knowing that though our beginning may be insignificant, our latter end will be great.
Let me see the generations to come
And leave a blessing for my children’s children.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Wrestling for a Blessing
"Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger." - Gen. 37:1
God's dream since creation is for a people He could plant in a better land. Joseph's story actually begins where another great figure’s ends. Joseph is the eleventh son of Israel, the father of the Jewish nation. Israel's story is recorded in the Chapters 27-37 of Genesis, a tale fraught with deception, dysfunction, depravity, and desperation. But through all his failings, Jacob wrestles his way into the heart of God and history, and ends up fathering the twelve tribes of the Hebrew nation who inherit the Promised Land.
Jacob's defining moment is an all-night wrestling match with God Most High. Left alone before facing the brother from whom he has stolen everything, Jacob encounters a pre-incarnate Christ who "wrestles with him to the breaking of day." (Gen. 32:25) The result of this wrestling is a face to face encounter with the living God who redefines Jacob’s life forever. As the angelic figure says, "Let me go!" Jacob retorts, "I will not let you go until you bless me," and it is with that tenacity that a trickster becomes transformed into a Prince with God—Israel who will father the Jewish lineage and nation.
Perhaps you have had such an encounter with God. Probably most people who read this book will have already had some salvation experience in which they gave their lives to the Lord and received, in essence, a new name and a new calling to obey God. Wrestling with God is a prerequisite to working under his blessing. Something in us must be touched as Jacob's hip was, and our walk will be forever changed. This defining moment for many is salvation. For others the touch comes at a vital period of transition in their lives. On the edge of a blessing and the verge of entering the promise, God has for you an encounter with an angel of the Lord. For many, this encounter is anything but friendly and fun.
You are being tossed out of your normal career or life into a new and Promised Land. You are wrestling with angels in the dark. Your muscles are tired, your grip is loosening, but something deep inside is welling up and saying, "I will not let you go until you bless me."
Congratulations. You are on your way to a destiny. You have decided the ordinary American dream of 1.8 kids and a picket fence will not satisfy your soul, so you have thrown your lot in with Jesus, like the early disciples, "forsaken all to follow him." You need a new name. This period of your life is a defining chapter, and the name God chooses for you from these wrestlings is a legacy that will endure forever. But you must realize that history and destiny is much larger than yourself. It goes beyond Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and touches all future generations.
Let me not let you free
until you bless me.
God's dream since creation is for a people He could plant in a better land. Joseph's story actually begins where another great figure’s ends. Joseph is the eleventh son of Israel, the father of the Jewish nation. Israel's story is recorded in the Chapters 27-37 of Genesis, a tale fraught with deception, dysfunction, depravity, and desperation. But through all his failings, Jacob wrestles his way into the heart of God and history, and ends up fathering the twelve tribes of the Hebrew nation who inherit the Promised Land.
Jacob's defining moment is an all-night wrestling match with God Most High. Left alone before facing the brother from whom he has stolen everything, Jacob encounters a pre-incarnate Christ who "wrestles with him to the breaking of day." (Gen. 32:25) The result of this wrestling is a face to face encounter with the living God who redefines Jacob’s life forever. As the angelic figure says, "Let me go!" Jacob retorts, "I will not let you go until you bless me," and it is with that tenacity that a trickster becomes transformed into a Prince with God—Israel who will father the Jewish lineage and nation.
Perhaps you have had such an encounter with God. Probably most people who read this book will have already had some salvation experience in which they gave their lives to the Lord and received, in essence, a new name and a new calling to obey God. Wrestling with God is a prerequisite to working under his blessing. Something in us must be touched as Jacob's hip was, and our walk will be forever changed. This defining moment for many is salvation. For others the touch comes at a vital period of transition in their lives. On the edge of a blessing and the verge of entering the promise, God has for you an encounter with an angel of the Lord. For many, this encounter is anything but friendly and fun.
You are being tossed out of your normal career or life into a new and Promised Land. You are wrestling with angels in the dark. Your muscles are tired, your grip is loosening, but something deep inside is welling up and saying, "I will not let you go until you bless me."
Congratulations. You are on your way to a destiny. You have decided the ordinary American dream of 1.8 kids and a picket fence will not satisfy your soul, so you have thrown your lot in with Jesus, like the early disciples, "forsaken all to follow him." You need a new name. This period of your life is a defining chapter, and the name God chooses for you from these wrestlings is a legacy that will endure forever. But you must realize that history and destiny is much larger than yourself. It goes beyond Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and touches all future generations.
Let me not let you free
until you bless me.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Dreaming Under Open Windows
Modern day Americans have forgotten how to dream. The average man or woman is so consumed with daily affairs—paying the mortgage, paying the car bill, advancing a career—that they have neglected to imagine what God Almighty could with our lives if His hand were revealed.
Early explorers who left the comforts of Europe in search of a New World dreamed of a land of riches and religious freedom. We are heirs of that dream. The great movement of America westward was spurred forward by the idealistic, dreamlike consciousness that our Manifest Destiny was to spread across the continent. We poured over mountain ranges searching for fruitful land and golden treasure with dreams of conquering the earth and bringing a vast wilderness into subjection.
Early inventors planned elaborate, time-saving devices which would bring electricity, railroad, telegraph, and telephone to shorten the spaces across the nation. John F. Kennedy gave the nation a dream of putting a man on the moon in his generation. Martin Luther King simultaneously dreamed of a nation of racial equality, where little black children would hold hands with little white children and sing the song Free at Last.
Dreams are the substance of nations. Dreams are the infancy of ministries, movements, revolutions, and reformations. Yet many of us have turned off our dream machines. We must allow ourselves to imagine the impossible.
In 2 Kings 7, the nation of Israel was experiencing a time of dire famine. The city was under siege, no food was to be found, and prices were unbearable. All hope was lost when suddenly the word of the Lord came through the prophet Elisha that tomorrow they would be able to buy anything for almost nothing because of such an outpouring of God's abundance. The message was unbelievable, and one of the king's lords remarked, "Even if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" (2 Kings 7:2)
Such doubt hinders God and mocks His position of Almighty. Such an attitude is found in those too afraid to dream. The prophet replies, "You will see it, but you will not partake of it." (v.2) Likewise in our days a miracle is coming. God says, “If I were to tell you about it, you would not believe it.” The time of outpouring and open windows of heaven is on the way, but the question for young dreamers is whether they will simply be spectators in this move of God, or will they partake of the fruit and be used of Him in the field. In order to be there, you must allow yourself to dream.
Join us on this journey of a dreamer that begins in the Book of Genesis, chapter 37. We will follow the dreamer line by line.
God, ignite my dream machine to envision things I’ve never seen.
Early explorers who left the comforts of Europe in search of a New World dreamed of a land of riches and religious freedom. We are heirs of that dream. The great movement of America westward was spurred forward by the idealistic, dreamlike consciousness that our Manifest Destiny was to spread across the continent. We poured over mountain ranges searching for fruitful land and golden treasure with dreams of conquering the earth and bringing a vast wilderness into subjection.
Early inventors planned elaborate, time-saving devices which would bring electricity, railroad, telegraph, and telephone to shorten the spaces across the nation. John F. Kennedy gave the nation a dream of putting a man on the moon in his generation. Martin Luther King simultaneously dreamed of a nation of racial equality, where little black children would hold hands with little white children and sing the song Free at Last.
Dreams are the substance of nations. Dreams are the infancy of ministries, movements, revolutions, and reformations. Yet many of us have turned off our dream machines. We must allow ourselves to imagine the impossible.
In 2 Kings 7, the nation of Israel was experiencing a time of dire famine. The city was under siege, no food was to be found, and prices were unbearable. All hope was lost when suddenly the word of the Lord came through the prophet Elisha that tomorrow they would be able to buy anything for almost nothing because of such an outpouring of God's abundance. The message was unbelievable, and one of the king's lords remarked, "Even if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" (2 Kings 7:2)
Such doubt hinders God and mocks His position of Almighty. Such an attitude is found in those too afraid to dream. The prophet replies, "You will see it, but you will not partake of it." (v.2) Likewise in our days a miracle is coming. God says, “If I were to tell you about it, you would not believe it.” The time of outpouring and open windows of heaven is on the way, but the question for young dreamers is whether they will simply be spectators in this move of God, or will they partake of the fruit and be used of Him in the field. In order to be there, you must allow yourself to dream.
Join us on this journey of a dreamer that begins in the Book of Genesis, chapter 37. We will follow the dreamer line by line.
God, ignite my dream machine to envision things I’ve never seen.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Dreams of the King
One night I was awakened by a severe thunderstorm. As I rose upon my bed, a haunting phrase rang in my mind. The words sounded clearly in my mind like the thunder that was surrounding me. I propped up, looked into the darkness, and repeated the phrase as loud as the thunder, "Are your dreams such that I can make them reality?"
Are your dreams such that God can make them reality? Could He breathe upon the desires of your heart and create them into tangible realities that glorify Him? This is the beginning question for dreamers.
Are your dreams the dreams of the King?
"This is the generation of them that seek Him, the generation (or children) of Jacob, who seek His face." (Ps. 24:6) The generation of Jacob is typified in the beloved son Joseph. If you are to partake of the historic outpouring and revival of these last days, if God is going to use your life to preserve many as he did Joseph's, the most fundamental question for you to consider is “How do your dreams align with the dreams of the King?”
Are your dreams such that God can make them reality?
For if they are, you are well on your way to making history. Once you have understood the plans of the King, submitted to his purposes and timing in your life, and overcome the tests that accompany a vision from God, you will be ready and prepared for the positions of prominence God has intended for His people in these final times.
These pages will shed light on that process of preparation and reveal the King's dreams exposed and interpreted by the Biblical story of Joseph. The voice of thunder that awoke me that night is again awakening the spirits of His people in these days. God's promise is to pour out His Spirit on the young men and women of our age, and his desire is to grant them dreams that become visions and then reality. Allow Him to breathe your deepest desires, and you will find yourself caught up into the most amazing adventure of your life.
Dream the dreams of the King.
God, may Your voice like thunder within me ring,
Awaken my heart to dream the dreams of the King.
Are your dreams such that God can make them reality? Could He breathe upon the desires of your heart and create them into tangible realities that glorify Him? This is the beginning question for dreamers.
Are your dreams the dreams of the King?
"This is the generation of them that seek Him, the generation (or children) of Jacob, who seek His face." (Ps. 24:6) The generation of Jacob is typified in the beloved son Joseph. If you are to partake of the historic outpouring and revival of these last days, if God is going to use your life to preserve many as he did Joseph's, the most fundamental question for you to consider is “How do your dreams align with the dreams of the King?”
Are your dreams such that God can make them reality?
For if they are, you are well on your way to making history. Once you have understood the plans of the King, submitted to his purposes and timing in your life, and overcome the tests that accompany a vision from God, you will be ready and prepared for the positions of prominence God has intended for His people in these final times.
These pages will shed light on that process of preparation and reveal the King's dreams exposed and interpreted by the Biblical story of Joseph. The voice of thunder that awoke me that night is again awakening the spirits of His people in these days. God's promise is to pour out His Spirit on the young men and women of our age, and his desire is to grant them dreams that become visions and then reality. Allow Him to breathe your deepest desires, and you will find yourself caught up into the most amazing adventure of your life.
Dream the dreams of the King.
God, may Your voice like thunder within me ring,
Awaken my heart to dream the dreams of the King.
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