Practicing the Presence of God | Part 2

Dreams were supposed to have for our lives.

Listen to Adrian Rogers God has agreement for you and God wants us to bring great daydreams of God given great God and give Joseph a roadmap, but God gave to Joseph three metal say God to show him what will be due in August of I want to do. No sir what I'm talking about dreams on carnal ambition. I thought about a God given green no good to love worth fighting. You know God's will for your life, pastor, teacher and author Adrian Rogers once said, you don't find the will of God.

God's will finds you you practice God's presence. Joseph did. Joseph is considered one of the most Christlike figures of the Old Testament. The Bible says the Lord was with him.

The Bible says that it means that God was for him working on his behalf. God was with him in times of persecution, temptation of slander and suffering, God was with him how humbling it is to know God is with us to. If you have your Bible turn to Genesis 37 as Adrian Rogers talks about practicing the presence of God that we are going to study the life of a young man named Joseph, and I'm going to show you later on. There is a refrain about Joseph that comes in the story of Joseph and he says this and God was with, and God was living and God was with him. That is, here was a man who learned how to practice the presence of God is an interesting thing.

The book of Genesis is a wonderful book.

Let me give you an astounding 525% of the book of Genesis is about Joseph. That's an amazing thing because Genesis is also tells about the creation of the universe, and five were five words or says he made the stars also serves verse 25% of this one book about one man whose name was Joseph. It is a glorious store. It's one of the greatest stories ever written. I mean, it's not fiction it is fact. It is true, and it is full of Bible truth, there's a theme let's just look at Metro to chapter 39 if you will hear for just a moment. Genesis 39 verse two and the Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man BC that like in chapter 39 verse 21, but the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy and gave him favor in the side of the keeper of the prison like if you will, in verse 23, the keeper of the prison look not be anything that was under his hand, because the Lord was with him that is with Joseph and that which he did. The Lord was with them and made them to prosper. I love that the Lord was with the Lord was with them was what happened was a man was practicing the presence of God. Now would you like to do that.

Would you like to prosper running have real prosperity is not necessarily well prosperity is the progressive realization of the will of God for your life would you like to prosper before principles guide to let go back to chapter 37.

If you will hear principle number one express your God given difference when God saved you, God made you different, and Joseph expressed his God given difference. Read the first four verses, and Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob, Joseph, being 70 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren in the lab was with the sons of Bill Haw and with the sons of Zilpah. His father's wives and Joseph brought him to his father. The evil report that doesn't mean he was a tattletale that means he was a truth teller, not Israel lobby Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age, and he had made him a code of many colors and when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren. They hated him and could not speak peaceably to him now but down big plaintiffs right Joseph was distinct and Joseph was different and they multicolored coat that he wore was a mark of distinction now.

I believe in would get in. This later was because Joseph was given the birthright, which was spiritual as well as material that is he was distinct because of his nobility of the they multicolored longsleeve code was a a mark of nobility was that have say to you today folks. I want to tell you that we are nobility and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I'm a king and prints is that you're full of yourself again.

Alabama came prints you won't call me pastor just call me Prince Adrian the folks I tell you has made us pay of priests. We are somebody we are a chosen generation, the Bible calls us a peculiar people. We are different and the world presents are nobility and the Lord Jesus Christ in the world always wants to squeeze us into its mold as Paul said in Romans chapter 12 verse two.

Be not conformed to this world. Joseph was different. His brothers hated him he would not conform. I can hear these wicked brothers that Joseph you sissy Joseph taken rank of this Joseph take a puff of this must give old Joe a date with you know who you and Joseph.

They constantly trying to get Joseph to conform, but he will not do it. He would not conform.

Joseph refuses to conform.

He is different. I want to tell you, Frank, child of God is different what we believe starts at a different source and follows a different course. It ends at a different conclusion and whip twice born people in the world once more people and you're going to be going against the tide.

Most of the time you're to stand out like a diamond in a gold mine number two. Explore your God-given during explore your God given dreams look in verse five and Joseph drain the green and he told to his brethren, and they hated him. Yet the more penny send him dear, I pray you this dream which I have green for behold we were binding sheaves in the field. Hello, my sheep arose also stood upright, and behold your she stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheet and his brethren said in him shall bound evil reign over us or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us and they hated him yet more for his dream and for his words and then verse 9/11. He dreamed another dream, but here was a man who had a God given dream is just a T but God is putting a dream into his car mad tell you that youth is a wonderful time not to conform, but to green. Let God put a dream in your heart.

I was about Joseph's age a little younger when God called me into the ministry.

I was in high school and my pastor told me that God had a plan for everybody's life and I wanted to know God's plan for my life and I said to the Lord Lord Adm. which will me to do, but what ever it is I want you to show me your will and whatever it is I want to do now God spoke to Joseph through a dream he may speak to you some other way, but the point is this that God has a plan for your life would you like to know what God's plan for your life is really not remember Joseph just had a vision he had a hat that's all. God didn't give them a roadmap on how they Joseph would've been perturbed that God told him that the pit and imprisonment and the accusations all this banana green.

Yet something that he aspired to Romans 12 versus wanted to beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable under God which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world knows the order, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. You want to live God. There is there's a formula presentation plus transformation equals realization presentation just present yourself, have you presented yourself the care I am God.

Most people never to present yourself to sign the contract and handed to him and tell him to fill it in. Don't be afraid of that because when you present yourself to him. Then you transform. Be not conformed to this world but be transformed and the word transform is the word we get our English word metamorphosis from you will have a divine metamorphosis. What is a metamorphosis.

It actually means matter means change more office means form to change your phone. It literally means when that which is only inside comes to the surface. For example, of a worm goes into the cocooning comes out of moth or butterfly. It has gone through a math offices. They enter nature of that caterpillar is a beautiful butterfly.

Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. The Bible says he was transfigured is the same word metamorphosis.Jesus went through a metamorphosis.

What was his inner nature, glory it just came the surface. What is the inner nature of a child of God. If you are born again while this God's glory is Jesus your enter nature is Jesus Christ lives in you when you present yourself to him a living sacrifice, there will be a metamorphosis, and that was only inside will come to the surface, rather than letting the world squeeze it down. It begins to come presentation plus transformation equals realization and you will know what is that good perfect acceptable will of God. Hey folks, listen to me you will find the will of God. The will of God finds you, you get your heart right with God. You present yourself to him the glory of Jesus come out if you have the mind of Christ and you just get in the stream you find out that God will be guiding you gotta be guiding you my name Joseph got give Joseph a roadmap, but God gave to Joseph dream that all say God. You shall only do not consider I want to do. No sir now. Make sure it's God that speaking now when I talk about dreams Amoco McConnell ambition. I'm not telling you that God has promised to fulfill your fantasies. I'm talking about a God given dream.

I found this verse, Jeremiah 29 verse eight. The Bible says neither hearken to your dreams, which he calls to be dream, but that's a good derided them know you didn't write it down, hearken not to your dreams, which he had green God has a dream for you and God wants us to dream dreams not daydreams God-given dreams.

The book of Joel says in Joel chapter 2 verse 28, and to come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams here young men shall see visions, what to say anything like God be real and you cannot tell whether my dream is a God-given dream. Think about it, pray over when Mary had a vision about the coming Savior. The Bible says that Mary pondered all these things in her heart when my great verses that I love is Proverbs 4 verse 18 it says the path of injustice is a shining light shines more and more into a perfect day. What is that me sometimes you don't know what the will of God is for your life. Even the will of God for the day. But the path of the justice is a shining light that shines more and more into a perfect day. At first it's dark then it's great on no colors. You can only see shadows and then the sun is coming up and you can see the colors, with their long shadows and after a while it's time the path of injustice is a shining light that shines more and more onto a perfect day when I was a kid I said Lord what you want me to do that after a while I got low German. My heart Lord I think you will me to preach and I Lord, do you want me to preach and then after a while it was Lord. I think you want me to preach.

Then after a while it was Law Review, only to preach about. Let me know and then finally Lord, I know this is what you will be a safety check your dream out soaking in prayer. God will guide you say Lord if this is you speaking keep on speaking but explore your dreams. That's why Joseph that I wish I had more time to talk about that, by the way, there were plenty wet blankets in Joseph's time, they hated him because of his nobility.

They despised them and when you get a dream in your heart.

I can promise you that will see to it, they'll be a bunch of people only cold water committee and the wet blanket committee to keep you from doing I was a teen sleeping in the back bedroom or they cannot. My dad was out on the patio with a man named Bert he was the sheriff of that county and I respected him so much. Bert said my dad wants Adrian going to do a guess at high school. My dad says he thinks he wants me preaching. Bert said that boy will never be preach batboy will never make it. All I heard that by sitting there listening there plenty of people say that it can't be done but I'm telling you is your dream. It can be done but a big God-given. Remember three and/or your God-given difficult.

Now when there's a God-given dream. There will be some God-given difficulties and in this chapter. If you read from verse eight altar, 27, you would find just a few of the difficulties here's this man he's scorned by his brothers.

There is a conspiracy against Inc. he's thrown into a pity sold as a slave is falsely accused. He languishes in prison well was gone out of control. Not for any sick was God, not in control, not a nano second when it was all over and you can just put your margin Genesis chapter 50 verse 20 Joseph is confronting his brethren and he says. As for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it on to good to bring to pass.

It is this day to save much people alive now they meant it for evil God meant it for good.

What's a corresponding verse to let you know it. Romans 828 and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. God is going to allow you to have difficulties in life.

God does not cause these things God did not cause Potiphar's wife to accuse Joseph of right. God did not cause these things to happen but wherever man rules God over rules are you having difficulty. Did you have a dream and your dream is now shattered dream is shattered. I want to tell you that God is over it all, and no matter what Satan does, no matter what happens there's a God was in control this world and friend. You better get a lock on that okay now here's the fourth thing. If you would practice the presence of God in list your God given dynamic you got the dream got the difficulties but there is a dynamic and what is the dynamic go back again the Genesis chapter 39 and God was with him and God was with him and God was with him and you know in the book of acts whenever a preacher was preaching a sermon on the Old Testament did what he said about Joseph till I picked out I Joseph put in your margin acts chapter 7 verse nine in the says this and the patriarchs moved within the soul Joseph that the patriarchs were his other brothers. I called and patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt, but knows what he said but God was with God was with him all the boy stop me is a preach.

I got a question asking the what is it is it is God and he'll get theological question will look me like his 13 maybe 12 it easier. Maybe 18 what they think they said it is God in hell I said son there's nowhere were God is not God's inhale, Satan is a rule, inhale by God as an element God is giving Jesus a name which is above every name, that of things in heaven and things in earth, and things on the marriage shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

There is no place where God is not one philosopher said that God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere mutual that God is a circle whose center is everywhere is nowhere were God is not God's here as it got as if it is nowhere were God is not well then what is the difference in God being with Joseph and God being with Hitler you see the difference is not his actual grandson.

When the Bible says that God was with him. It means that God was for him. God was on his behalf.

God was engineering things for Joseph. God was with him in times of persecution, God was with him in times of responsibility God was with him in time of temptation will see later God was with them in times of slander and suffering God was with him. God was with a morning die, but I won't I won't God with me. I will that be something about Adrian that you cannot explain. Apart from the fact that God is with me I won't God to take his hand off of my life. I don't God to take his hand of our lives will have sorrows will have sickness you know the joys and I lost a little more little boy died on Mother's Day 10 Scribner's home Mother's Day I just raised on the doors of Christian home. We left that Sunday afternoon to go from Fort Pierce to West Palm Beach about 60 miles to be with family. They call somebody else in the past the little church and the church members a come by. We not been in the church, but just several weeks is just not backed out our automobile and have air conditioning in the church little white church building. I can see the yellow light as it was streaming out of the open windows in the congregation was singing in with everything.

No, never alone. No member alone.

Promise never to leave me never to leave me alone. I seen the lightning flashing I've heard the thunder role. I felt says breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul Jesus telling me if I'd known for his promise never to leave me never to leave me alone. I would not take anything for the conscious presence of God in this little phrase that speaks about Joseph's life and God was with God was with the imprisoned God's within in the God is with him and slander God is with him in business. God is within hand pain. God is with him him prosperity God is with him. He's dying. God is with him and I want to say that God is in Christ and he will God with you. You need Jesus and do not save today for a prayer like this. Dear God I am a son and I am lost and I need to be saved and I want to be saved and Jesus you're the son of God to pray for my sin on the cross and died to save in your promise to save if I would question come into my heart, forgive my sin.

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