Life at the Speed of Relationships

Sermon Text: Genesis 37: 8 8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

Sermon Title: #Relationship Goals Part 3: Life @ the speed of relationships

Point 1: Joseph and [goal] dream killers Genesis 37:5: 19-20 5 Joseph had a [goal] dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 19 “Here comes that [goal setter] dreamer!” they said to each other. 20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his [goals] dreams.”

That is at the heart of every relationship goal killer.  

1. First they hate your dream/goal

2. Second they plot against your dreams/goals.

3. Third, they attempt to murder your/dream.  

Point 2: Joseph and dream wanter 39: 10,20 - 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined….

Point 3: Joseph and dream forgetters - Genesis 40: 8,16,23 8 “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.”16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread. 23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.

Point 4: Joseph and the dream maker Genesis 41:1 41 When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile,

Point 5: Joseph and the circular dream Genesis 19-20ESV But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people[a] should be kept alive, as they are today.

- Joseph dreams came true

- Joseph relationship goals became a reality

- He reigned over his bothers

- A famine in the land caused them to come to him

- Joseph says the defining words to the dreams…you meant it for evil God meant it for good

1. Godly relationships goals/dreams will prevail

2. They will be many ups and downs

3. Every relationship takes you closer to where God intends for you to go.

Life Application:

1. Connect someone to Christ…instead of them taking you on a journey connecting you to dreams that don’t relate to God what they mean for evil you connect them to God- fill a fish out.

2. You be the dream setter goal maker on your job

3. Write down five relationship goals – family, friends, your marriage, etc.