Life Journal Entry

Here was a devotional from my LifeJournal last week. I found it to be incredibly helpful:

Title:

Dream a Dream…

Verse:

Genesis 37:10-11

But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” ¹¹And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

Observations:

- Joseph is the favorite son of his father, Jacob.

- Joseph is a young man of seventeen years.

- Joseph is quite arrogant even though he has the low position in the family

- This is the second of two dreams that had to do with his family bowing down to him.

- The dreams were from God. However, he handled them with great immaturity and arrogance.

Applications:

- God the motivator

- Every person is motivated differently. I content that God gave Joseph dreams to keep him going; knowing that he would have to go through unbelievable pain in order to be in the place God had predestined for him.

- God the breaker

- God breaks you so that He can use you.

- Broken Defined: Tamed, Trained, Submitted, Humbled, Useful for service

- It’s not a comfortable thought that we need to be broken in order to fulfill God’s call on our lives, but it is a reality.

- He corrects those He loves. He humbles those He wants to exalt. If you aren’t ready, He will break you.

- It’s critical that we don’t view “God the breaker” in a negative light. Being broken is an extremely POSITIVE and VITAL part of our journey. Those who are greatly used are also greatly broken.

- Never Forget

- One of my favorite parts of this story is in verse 11 “…but his father kept the saying in mind.”

- Just because his son was arrogant, doesn’t mean he was wrong. You can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

- Just when you think the dream has completely died, God can revive it.

- God can revive a dream from a pit.

- God can revive a dream from a dungeon.

- God can revive a dream from a foreign land.

- Never forget the call of God, and the dreams that He has put in your heart. If you submit to his process, they will come to pass.

- PN

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