May 01, 2008
Steps verses Leaps, continued
I just finished teaching the chapel service at Decatur Master’s Commission. I taught on the subject of “Steps verses Leaps.” Using the life of Joseph, I demonstrated how God leads us in steps not leaps.
Joseph’s life is a series of steps.. the steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord. His life was a Messianic prophesy on display.
1. He had a dream (Genesis 37). He prematurely told the dream to his brothers. His youth and naivety trusted that his brothers would celebrate his dream. In reality, they despised him for it.
2. Those who don’t dream despise those who do. In the night, God instructed the heart of Joseph. He assumed that his brothers heard from God as well, but they did not have an ear to hear from God.
3. God will NOT speak over your ipod. Most people are afraid of silence. They fill their life with “voices” and “noises”. God will not interupt the “voices” to speak to you in intimacy.
4. The brothers began to identify Joseph by his dream. You know that you have a dream from God when others no longer identify you by your birth-name but by your dream. They said,”Here comes that dreamer.”
5. They feared the invisible dream within Joseph so much that they accepted the spirit of the abortionist. They said, ”Let’s kill him and then see what becomes of the dream.”
6. Instead of killing the dreamer they devised a plan to profit from him. The first attempt on your dream is to abort it. The second attempt is to profit from it.
- to be continued