Joseph was only 17 years of age and in the minority in this situation. · Ten bigger brothers were against him. · They were bad brothers. · Joseph brought an evil report to his father about them. · With them feeding the flocks, they probably took off to get drunk or slacked off in some other area. · They hated him. Most youth have NO VISION. · Joseph looked ahead in time! · He had dreams from God! "LET'S GET BOMBED FRIDAY NIGHT -- LET'S GET HIGH!!" · Most young people dream no further than seven days! · "the 'IN' crowd". · To be in the "IN CROWD" requires you to be a follower! I once asked a man who would drink with his buddies each weekend what beer was like to drink. · He said BEER IS PUKE, man. · The crowd pressures people to drink beer. · But when this guy was away from the crowd, he told me it tasted like puke. WIMPS do anything the crowd does, though. "IN CROWD" is made up of wimps. · They don't want to do certain things, but they do it to be accepted. One afternoon... · "Reuben, what did you do Friday night?" · GOT ZONKED, you? · Yeah, Zonked. · Who wants to get zonked tonight? · Ten "ME'S" : Me, me , me, me, me The crowd follows! "HEY ONE GUY DID NOT VOTE!" · "I only heard TEN "Me's"!" · "JOSEPH DID NOT VOTE!!!" JOSEPH says: · "Hey, guys! Guess what?!" · "I HAD A DREAM!" · "I was a sheaf and your sheaves bowed down to my sheaves." SHEAVES SPOKE OF JOSEPH'S EFFORTS. · What he was working on was better than what they were working on. · GET INTO GOD. · SOMETHING MIGHTY COMES OUT OF THAT EFFORT! They hated him! · Hey guys, it's Martin Luther King.... "I HAVE A DREAM!" · "LITTLE ZIT!" · "Who do you think you are?!" Enter the wimps... · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! · Yeah, zit! The TEN WIMPSKETEERS! "We wear Reebok!" · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. · Yeah, Reebok. They gang together. · Do "cool" things. · FOLLOWERS! · WEAK people. JOHN in Fredericton.
My brother in law, BRUCE, had a foul-mouthed friend named Kack. · With his buddies, Kack would mock Bruce for being saved. · One day they were alone. · Kack said, "It's all gonna be over soon, eh Bruce?" · Bruce told him, "Think of what you're saying!" Some youth say, "BUT, IF I AM DIFFERENT THEY WILL LAUGH AT ME!" JOSEPH WAS TAPPING INTO GOD! · AWESOME. · ETERNAL. · DREAMS! He was touching the ETERNALS! He was rising high above the crowd! · The crowd hated him. · BUT GOD LOVED HIM AND HIS DESIRES! "WHO CARES WHAT WIMPS THINK OF ME?" Wimps dream only seven days ahead! · BUT JOSEPH DREAMED AGES AHEAD! WE CAN AFFECT ETERNITY! I worked at a Transport truck terminal in the seventies. · Loading trucks. · One night during our break, on a Friday, the wimp gang started mocking me. · One guy started it all. · Later the next week, Tuesday morning at 6am, God woke me up and I knew I had to pray for someone in trouble. · I came to work a couple days later, and as soon as I walked in, the man who started the mockery said, "What did you do to me?" · He told me he woke up early one morning and saw a devil face in his pillow! · So he grabbed his crucifix necklace and held on to it. · I asked him if it was Tuesday morning about 6am, and he said no, he thought it was Monday. · Then he said YES, IT WAS TUESDAY! · I said I was awakened by God to pray for someone in trouble. · I was not hurting him I WAS HELPING HIM! The leader of the wimp gang at work (what a great position, eh?) locked horns with me one day about being a Christian. · I stood up to him and did not back down. · The others envied him. · One day one of the men asked me, "What do you get out of this thing being a Christian?" · Suddenly the leader of the wimps spoke up for me and said, "At least he's got goals. Leave him alone! He's going somewhere!" One day at work at a sign shop a woman painting a sign beside me complained about a sprained wrist. · She had tried being a Christian once and knew about God's goodness. · So I asked her if I could pray for her, and she said okay. · When I did the pain left her wrist! At another shop, a co-worker walked into the room and complained about his back hurting. · Suddenly I got a pain in th e lower right side of my back and pointed to it asking him if it was there. · He said that is exactly where it was. · So I said God wanted to heal him. · I prayed, and just then the boss was coming around the corner. · He asked what was going on, and I said God was healing Mike. · He looked at Mike, and Mike just bent over and held his hand on his back and walked a bit and said, "It's gone!". I watched Christians stand up and thought IF THEY CAN, I CAN! THE EDGE OF THE WORLD · I TOUCHED GOD! · Crowd never sees that. · It's like dropping a stone over the edge of the world into the vast eternal INFINITY. The world says, "You want to feel important? Then suck beer!" FOOLS! GO TO ETERNITY! · Like a speck in the eternals that looms out in vast infinity! · Dealing with God ! · THE CREATOR of the universe!!! · HE WILL HONOUR YOU! · LITTLE YOU! Some hope for a car. · Other hope for latest fashion in jeans. · I HOPE FOR RULING WITH JESUS THROUGHOUT ETERNITY IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE! · How can I turn and go back the same way I came after touching the eternals!? · We do that because the world around us doesn't believe it is real. · They can't!! · They never touched it like you did! · I cast out devils. · Healed the sick! · I saw how real this is! · And we see these awesome things in the Church and walk out into a world that chats so lively about other things that we unconsciously think THAT is cool, when if they could see and know what we saw and know, THEY WOULD BE TOTALLY AMAZED FOREVER! But They think it's dumb! · Of course they do... it's so awesome they cannot believe it, but you SAW IT!!! STAND STRONG!!!! Men's names are in the encyclopedia today for standing for God and God using them mightily in this world!!!! · Get away from the crowd. · GET HOLD OF GOD! Jeremiah 33:2-3 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; (3) Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED! I walked into highs school after getting saved, in Grade Ten. · They mocked me and made fun of my haircut. · SO I told one guy if he like feathering his hair why not put real feathers in it like a sissy! · (I should not have said that, but I was standing up and not letting their words bother me). · I even carried my bible into class some days. Teacher in English class asked why women's lib only occurred recently, so I said its because people do not live buy the bible anymore. · I said the bible says the man is the head of the house, etc. · She said that was not in the bible, so I said it was. · She asked me to show here so I said I had to go to my locker and get my bible. Genesis 3:16 KJV Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. She said she was glad we don't live by that any more. · I said, "I live by that book!" · A girl snickered at me, but I did not care. · Then later that week a guy in that class came to my locker and asked me what do I do when people curse around me, and I am a Christian! · I did not even know he was a Christian! The librarian saw me walking with my bible in the library and asked me where it was in the bible that the man was delivered of devils, who lived in the tombs. MINISTRY IS EXCITING! POWER! MIRACLES! GET AWAY FROM THE CROWD! · Get VISIONS and DREAMS! Hope for something further than seven days! · HEAVEN · ETERNITY! · INFINITY! Hope helped Joseph stand up against his brothers. Hebrews 6:19 KJV Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; · Past the VEIL! · Past things of the flesh! · INTO THE UNKNOWN! · Jacob fought with an angel, like grabbing God, and was turned into Israel! · GOD HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN! Iris and I came home from church when we were dating, and she complained of a headache. · I commanded the headache to go and IT WENT!!! Do not be intimidated! We were having a little service in the senior's home and I prayed for some of them. · Later that week the nurse phoned someone in the church and told them that one man we prayed for was able to see better than he did before we prayed! · Another woman who had Alzheimer's was need less medication after we prayed! · THEY WANTED US BACK! · One day all treasures in this world will be gone to dust! · I’LL BE LIVING IN GLORY FOREVER! · GET AN EXPERIENCE WITH GOD! |