And I'm excited today to speak a message to you on the subject of living the dream.

One of the reasons I'm particularly excited is as I was in worship,

I saw a picture and it was of like the start of a running track and I just felt the

Lord gave me the phrase new beginning and I felt for people all across gateway in all your campuses, this is going to be a day of new beginnings for many of you.

Some would be on the journey for years, but the Lord said, see, I'm doing a new thing. So with that as a kind of a

prophetic undertone let's look at this glorious subject of living the dream. Here's the headline

God has an amazing dream or plan for your life.

And he wants you to dream the dream, but even more than that, he wants you to dream that dream

and then live it for your good and for his glory.

And I want to use as a text today, a focus on Joseph, Old Testament character Joseph. What a great picture of

somebody who not only dream the dream but actually lived the dream. The full

story of Joseph is found in the Old Testament but

chapters 37 through chapter 50 of the book of Genesis. And I know in the past

you've done a great sermon series here at Gateway on that subject.

I've written a book on that subject.

It's kind of a life message with lots of applications from the story called Living the Dream that you can get after the service. of the

applications from the story called Living the Dream

that you can get after the service.

But today, what we're going to do is we're going to do

like a summary and an overview of the Joseph's story.

Just as Stephen summarized the Joseph story in

Acts chapter 7, verse 9 to 10, let me read you this summary of the Joseph story.

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