Monday, March 14, 2016
8:20 PM

Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more. So he said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf." And his brothers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, "Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me." So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?" And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in  mind.
Genesis 37:5-11 NKJV

The functions of dream:
Speaks to us thru dreams and gives instruction
Warns us of impending events
Gives solutions to problems
Tests our hearts in the dream
Gives revelation thru dreams
Warns and corrects
Directs our steps
Gives us counsel

Daniel ability/gifted to interpret dreams
Daniel 1:17

3 abilities of Joseph
Ability to dream
To interpret dream
To implement the dream

Joel 2:28

Recovering our ability to dream:
1)Hang around people with Lofty dream
2)Take time out and give yourself space to dream
3)Keep a dream journal

God wants to conceive something in us.

Delight yrself in the Lord and He will delight you

Joseph saved his own people
Joseph created an environment for Israel to be borned. Lay the foundation.
Joseph implemented dreams
- interpret and give pharaoh solution
"Let pharaoh choose a man..."