Teaching | Dreams: Different, Harder, Longer, Better | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E06
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Our God-given dreams are how God leads us and guides us into our identity and calling, to be who God made us, and to do what God made us to do. But dreams can be difficult to live with because there is always a gap between the dream and its fulfillment. In this teaching, John Mark lays out a theology of biblical dreams by exploring the story of Joseph. Through it, John Mark shows that God's fulfillment of our dreams is different, harder, longer, but also better than we can imagine. By remaining faithful to how God is calling us to live in the here and now, we can live with boldness and conviction in the identity and calling that God has for us.
Key Scripture Passages: Genesis 37v2 - Genesis 45v8; Philippians 4v11-13
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Discovering Your Identity and Calling series. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, tonight we are wrapping up our fall practice on discovering your identity and calling. |
| 0:26.7 | And this is just something that I have been learning in my own journey of discovering my |
| 0:32.1 | identity and my calling that I find helpful and I think you will find it |
| 0:37.3 | helpful as well. |
| 0:38.7 | If not, come back next week. |
| 0:41.1 | Okay? |
| 0:42.1 | Let's start off here in Genesis chapter 37. Take a look at verse 2. |
| 0:47.2 | This is the account of Jacob's family line. Joseph, a young man of 17. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm just saying, was tending the flocks. |
| 1:01.0 | That could be your vocationocation prophetic word over your life |
| 1:05.7 | I hope not with his brothers the sons of Bilha and the sons of Zilfa his father's wives and he brought their father a bad report |
| 1:16.2 | about them. He's a bit of a title tale. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he had been born to him in his old age and he made an ornate robe for him. |
| 1:28.0 | When his brother saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. |
| 1:36.4 | And Joseph had a dream. And when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. He said to them, listen to this dream I had. |
| 1:45.0 | We were binding sheaves of corn out in the field |
| 1:47.7 | when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright |
| 1:50.5 | while your sheaves gathered round mine |
| 1:52.4 | and bowed down to it. |
| 1:54.0 | Now like before we read the next part how would you feel if your little brother |
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