A huge thank you to our worship team for leading us so well.

I have been anticipating this moment all week long because we are coming to the end of one of my all-time favorite sermon series.

Dreamer has been special.

And if you haven't been with us this month, we've been looking at the life of Joseph

and saying that God has connected God-sized dreams for your life with daily frustrating struggles.

And so what we're seeing in the life of Joseph is God can have this amazing picture and vision

for places and spaces and people he wants to carry you to, but that's not separated from the

struggle that you're facing today. In fact, that is dependent on you facing the struggle that you're

facing today with a heart that is faithful before God.

So we're believing God for the impossible, and it's been cool to watch people dream big.

It's been cool to watch people dream again, especially the older adults in our church going,

man, dreaming is not something that I've even thought about doing for a decade,

but I feel like God is resurrecting something on the inside

of me and doing something new. That's awesome. We're believing for the impossible, but we're also

not denying the immediate. Like we don't live in denial as Christians. We don't live in this

space where we're like, it's actually not going to be that hard and not going to be that difficult.

No, the fact that you do know Jesus makes it more complicated and more difficult. And the complication might not be the revealer that God is absent. It

might be the exact revealer you need to be reminded that God is very present. He's ever

present in his help to us while we are in trouble.

And so tracking through the life of Joseph has been a game changer for me.

And what we've seen is that too many Christians get overwhelmed by the difference between the dream and their experience.

Like if Joseph receives that dream and then looks at his life right after he has that dream,

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