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Be the God’s dreamer

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When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
[NIV] 2 Samuel 5:3

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(It’s a sermon for Children’s day.)

It is Children’s Sunday today. God bless all of you, children.

I hope God make you leaders with great faith.

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What do you dream?

There are many people who dreamed in their childhood, but most of them could not fulfill their dreams.

In the Bible, you can see faithful people who fulfilled their dreams from God as their childhood.

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First, it’s Joseph. As his youth, in his dream God showed that he would be a great man.

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One night, Joseph had a strange dream.

In a great wide field, a lad, Joseph, was binding bundles.

Around him, his brothers were binding sheaves.

Then as the sheaf binding by this lad stood up, the ones by his brothers gathered around his.

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The sheaves of his brothers bowed down to the sheaf of Joseph just as a man bows to others.

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Soon Joseph had another dream.

This time, in the vast space there was a star of Joseph.

The sun, moon and eleven stars gathered around him and bowed down to him.

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It was the dream from God that Joseph would be a great ruler whom his father as well as his brothers should bowed down to.

Joseph engraved these dreams in his mind.

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Joseph had his fill of trouble.

He gained in an awful experience that he had been sold as a slave by his brothers because his brothers were jealous of Joseph.

But Joseph a slave in Egypt did not give up his dream from God, and he worked hard so that he could be a house steward of his master’s.

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There Joseph was faced with more difficulty.

He was falsely accused of a crime by Potiphar’s wife, followed by several years in prison without any guilty.

It was an angry and resentful thing.

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But there Joseph never gave up his dream.

 “God trains to make me strong through difficulty.

 I will not give up the dream from God.”

Joseph did not give up his dream from God.

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God made faith-filled Joseph to become a ruler of Egypt.

Any difficulties could not make Joseph give up his dream from God.

Joseph became a great overseer as God said.

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Here is another person.

His name is the very David.

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In his childhood, David was anointed by Samuel.

God saw that David served God with reverence though he was young,

and was pledged for David to be a great king of Israel in the future.

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Saul, who was a king of Israel at that time, hated David received recognition from people.

For that, Saul was to remove David.

Saul continued to pursue David.

God carried David through the crisis.

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There was ever a case for David to have to seek refuge in a neighboring country and to act like the mad for his life.

David did not still give up his dream from God no matter how hard situation he was in.

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He set psalms in his free time, and prayed God without cessation

but with faith that God’s dream fulfilled.

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God had David who never gave up the dream with faith of

God to be a great king of Israel.

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A faith-filled man did not give up the dream from God and is patient no matter how hard situation he is in.

God granted people who do not give up his dream from God and wait for God’s timing to fulfill his dream.

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God chose you and gave you a dream to be a great faith people like Joseph and David.

As enduring hardships, don’t give up your dream and triumph over your difficulties.

Be the believer fulfilled dreams like Joseph and David.