In the kickoff to our new series Unbroken: Healing Minds and Mending Hearts, Pastor Jocelyn Perez delivers a deeply personal and prophetic message for anyone carrying a dream that feels delayed, broken, or completely lost.
Through the story of Joseph—and her own testimony of betrayal, grief, and ultimate forgiveness—Pastor Jocelyn brings a word of healing and hope to the weary and the wounded. Your dream may be shattered, but your faith doesn’t have to be. God is still working. The pit doesn't cancel the promise, and the prison doesn't nullify your purpose.
This message will confront codependency, awaken compassion, and stir up courage to believe again. Whether you’re in a season of delay, heartbreak, or restoration, this word reminds us that God wastes nothing—and He is faithful to finish what He starts.
🔑 Key Takeaways
- God often gives the dream before revealing the battle
- Delays and detours do not mean denial
- The shattering is part of the shaping
- Forgiveness is a sign of unshaken faith
- God’s presence in the pit proves the promise still stands
📖 Featured Scriptures: Genesis 37–45, Romans 5:3–4, Romans 8:28, Matthew 6:33
Let this message revive your faith and remind you: what was meant to destroy you, God will use to develop you.
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The title of my message isshattered dreams, unshaken faith.
And so Apostle Mike is reallycontending for.
Because, you know, ProphetJeremiah Johnson said, don't be pretenders,
let's be contenders.
And our apostle is a contenderfor healed minds and mended hearts.
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And so when he presented this,I was like, man, it just shook me
to my core.
Because this is like, notonly, like, my thing.
Cause I love to love peopleand see them healed, but it's also
a part of his DNA, right,where he is contending for freedom
in people.
And he wrote the book, inherityour freedom, shameless plug.
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Go buy it.
Inherit your freedom through Jesus.
And we just wanna.
I just wanna honor our apostleand Pastor Julie.
We love them so much asthey're away on their sabbatical.
We just honor you.
We love you.
If you're watching later,after the sabbatical, Pastor Mike,
Apostle Mike told me he wasgonna be binge watching all of our
sermons.
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I hope I do a good job and Ido you well, Apostle.
We love you.
And so my sermon is calledShatter dreams Unshaken.
And so have you ever carried a dream?
You woke up from a dream andit was so vivid?
If you have, what I tell youis write it down.
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Journal your dreams.
I have journals of dreams.
And it's been a blessing in mylife to be able to go back and see
God's hand move throughout allof the dreams that I've ever had.
So journal them.
So if you've had a dream thatwas so vivid, so divine, that you
knew that it was from God andyou saw it, you felt it burning in
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your chest, you prayed overit, you believed it.
And then life hit the doorclosed, people changed, the dream
stalled.
And the silence from heavengrew louder.
And you ask the question thatmany of us have whispered through
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tears, God, where are you in this?
I came today to talk to the dreamers.
Where my dreamers at?
I came to talk today to thewounded, to the weary, to the ones
who feel like what you saw infaith does not match what is in reality.
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Your dream may be shattered,but your faith can remain unshaken.
That's why we are beginningthis series, Unbroken, Healing minds,
Mending hearts.
Because you may feel cracked,but you are not crushed.
What was meant to destroy you,God is using to develop you.
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Father, I thank you that yourword brings so much life.
Lord, today, even as we weredeclaring in worship to live, to
live, for our dry bones tocome alive again.
Father, I pray in the name ofJesus that dreams would come to life
again.
Lord, that people that havebeen shattered where their dreams
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have been shattered, Lord,that you would shake up this their
faith again, oh God.
And that they would arise infaith that they would be unshaken,
unmovable, in Jesus, mightyname, Amen.
And amen.
I'm sorry, guys, I am fiery today.
Come on.
So there's three points I'mgoing to talk about today.
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Shattered dreams, unshakenfaith, the dream, the shattering,
and the unshaken faith.
Those are my three points.
And we're going to read fromGenesis 37, verses 5 to 11.
And so you can read with me.
I'm starting from verse five.
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Now, Joseph had a dream.
And when he told it to hisbrothers, they hated him even more.
He said to them, hear thisdream that I have dreamed.
Behold, we were bindingsheaves in the field.
And behold, my sheaf arose andstood upright.
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And behold, your sheavesgathered around it and bowed down
to my sheaf.
And what sheaf means here inthis dream is a bundle of grain.
It's like long stalks of grain.
And so if you picture it, it'sthe sheaves, the bundle of grain
bowing down to his.
And what those sheavesrepresent in the dream, for all my
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dream interpreters, whatsheaves represent are his brothers
and his father and mother.
And so the sheaves bow down to him.
Verse 8, his brother said tohim, and this is how I read my Bible,
y'.
All, are you indeed to reignover us because tone is everything,
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or you are indeed to rule over us?
So they hated him even morefor his dreams and for his words.
Then he dreamed another dream.
And he told his brothers andsaid, behold, I have dreamed another
dream.
Behold, the sun, the moon andthe 11 stars were bowing down to
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me.
But when he told it to hisfather and to his brothers, his father
rebuked him and said, what isthis dream you have dreamed?
Shall I and your mother andyour brothers indeed come to bow
ourselves to the ground before you?
And his brothers were jealousof him.
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But his father kept the sayingin mind.
You see, Joseph, he was ateenager with a God given dream.
And he saw elevation.
He saw leadership.
The sheaves were bowing downto him.
He had a revelation, but no roadmap.
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He didn't see what the pathwas to get there.
He had promise, but didn'tunderstand the process.
How many of you had aprophetic word?
How many of you had a dreamthat you dreamed, but you didn't
understand what that processwas going to look like?
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And when God shows you a bigdream, he doesn't Always show you
the battle attached to it.
Because there have been somebattles, y'.
All.
I know many of you who's beenthrough some battles.
I've been through some battles.
Come on, let me see a show of hands.
Come on.
Indiana, Long Island, Miami.
Let me see the hands of thebattles you've been through.
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Joseph's brothers hated himfor it.
They were jealous.
How many of you know when youhave offense in your heart and when
you have jealousy, there aresome things that you think about
that you don't even want totell people what you're thinking
about.
And his brothers were mad.
They hated him.
And let me tell you, noteveryone can celebrate what God has
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shown you.
Not everyone can.
But don't water down thevision because they're insecure,
okay?
Don't bury the dream becauseothers don't see what God said.
If the dream came from God, itwill require God to fulfill it.
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Joseph, he was young.
He was idealistic.
He was unprepared for the cost.
But God wasn't giving him a dream.
He was preparing him to carrya legacy.
I'm talking to the legacycarriers in this room.
Across all campuses, we havelegacy carriers.
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We are kingdom minded.
God is gonna mend hearts today.
He's gonna heal minds.
Because there's a legacy thatwe need to carry on the Earth for
the kingdom of God.
Come on.
That leads me to point numbertwo, the shattering.
I'm gonna summarize Genesis38, because we're gonna go through
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the whole, whole life ofJoseph, and there's not enough time
to be able to talk, to readevery scripture to you.
But from Genesis 37, from 18all the way to 20, Joseph had been
sent by his father to go checkon his brothers.
They were working on thefield, so they were like, go.
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He said, go, go check on your brothers.
See what they're up to.
So here goes Joseph.
You know, he's eager.
He's this teenager.
Like, yeah, you know, the sheaves.
Yeah, I'm the man.
I'm leaders elevated.
He's walking down the road,and then they're like, oh, here he
comes.
Because Joseph had a coat thathis father gave him many colors.
And it just showed how his dadeven favored him.
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And so as he's walking,they're like, oh, here goes the dreamer.
Here goes the one with thecoat of many colors.
Let's kill him.
Let's kill him.
So they plotted to kill him.
And so one of the brothers.
I'm gonna read from verse 23.
He says this to his brother sowhen Joseph came to his bro, they
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stripped him of his robe, therobe of many colors that he wore,
and they took him and threwhim into the pit.
The pit was empty.
There was no water in it.
We're going to skip down toverse 27, where one of his brothers
say, come, let us sell him tothe Ishmaelites.
And let not our hand be uponhim, for he is our brother, our own
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flesh.
And his brothers listen to theother brother, to him.
Then Midianite traders passedby, and they drew Joseph up and lifted
him out of the pit and soldhim to The Ishmaelites for 20 shekels
of silver.
And they took Joseph to Egypt.
And then the Midianites, theycame and they sold him to a Egyptian
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named Potiphar.
And the officer, he's a.
He was an officer of Pharaoh.
He was a captain of the guard.
And Joseph found favor with Potiphar.
And then he became ruler overthe house.
Joseph became ruler overPotiphar's house.
And then when Joseph wasliving and ruling in Potiphar's house,
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Potiphar's wife came and sheaccused him of raping her.
And so then Joseph was throwninto prison.
Okay, guys, he had a dream.
The sheaves bowing down.
He saw leadership.
He saw elevation.
But now he's in prison.
And it looked like that dreamwas stalled.
Joseph's dream didn't just get delayed.
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When he was in prison, he meta cupbearer.
And Joseph interpreted dreams.
And, you know, I mean, theseinterpreting dreams.
I know I have dreams.
I wrote down.
And we interpret them, me andmy friends, we're like, this is my
dream.
Interpret our dreams.
And if you want dreamsinterpreted, email Edwin One church.
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He got you.
He's going to interpret your dream.
I'm just kidding.
He doesn't interpret dreams at all.
It's not his gifting.
He's a teacher.
But I just had to throw thatin there.
Okay, so he's in the prisonand he meets a cup bearer.
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And these are his boys inprison, and he's interpreting their
dreams.
They're like, man, this guy'son point.
He's interpreting dreams.
They're like, don't worry, wegot you.
When we go up to Pharaoh, whenwe get out of here, we'll remember
you.
But they didn't.
It went.
Two years went by, and theydidn't remember him.
So Joseph's dream didn't justget delayed.
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It looked destroyed.
He was betrayed by his brothers.
He was thrown in a pit.
He was sold, like, property.
He was Falsely accused, and hewas forgotten in prison.
Joseph's dream seemed fartherand farther away.
His dreams were kind ofshattered, you could say.
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And this is where many give up.
Because it had been years thatwent by.
And sometimes when our dream,we may not see our dream come to
fruition, our vision, ourprophecy, we may not see it come
to fruition.
It may be years that pass by.
And this is where many wouldhave given up.
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And maybe.
I know there have been timesthat I gave up.
But God does something in thatno pain is wasted.
None.
When what God said and whatlife looks like feel miles apart,
he must have asked God, Ithought you chose me.
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I thought you called me.
I thought there was favor onmy life.
But here's the truth.
The pit doesn't mean Godchanged his mind.
Hello?
The prison doesn't cancel the prophecy.
The shattering is part of the shaping.
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Do you hear me?
It's part of the shaping.
Romans 5, 3, 4, says, we canrejoice too when we run into problems
and trials.
For we know that they help usdevelop endurance.
And endurance developsstrength of character.
And character strengthens ourconfident hope of salvation.
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God is trying, not trying tojust elevate you.
He's trying to form Christwithin you.
You know, when I was younger,and I'm not telling this story in
chronological order, however,when I was younger, in my 20s.
I know I'm not 20.
I know I look it, but I'm not.
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Yes, yes.
In my twenties, I remember Iwas struggling as a young adult.
Come on.
Young adults, Single young adults.
Because I was a single youngadult, and I was struggling in my
walk with God.
I remember this day, I was inthe club the night before, and I
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felt so convicted.
And then I went to a women'sbreakfast the next morning that my
friend invited me to, and oneof my sisters came with me, and we
go to this woman's breakfast,and there was this white woman.
I had never seen this before.
This is why I'm saying it.
There was this white womanthat was a missionary from India.
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And I was like, interesting, okay?
And I'm listening to thiswoman preach, and she was preaching
on the woman with the issue of blood.
And she was preaching this word.
And I'm.
My heart is like, I'm struggling.
I was in the club the nightbefore, guys, and I'm like, okay.
She's like, if those of youthat want Jesus, come and reach the
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hem of his garment.
I had accepted Christ before, right?
But I was struggling in my faith.
So she's like, come to the altar.
So I go to the altar, and Ihad never experienced this before
in my life.
I was in a Pentecostal church.
I did see things that Ithought was weird sometimes, but
I was like, all right, cool.
And I was standing there, andshe was like, jesus, when I touch
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her, you touch her?
No.
She said, holy Spirit, when Itouch her, you touch her in Jesus
name.
And she just went like this.
And I went.
And I felt like something leftmy body, and I fell out.
And I said, oh, my God, I amon the floor.
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What is happening to me?
I had seen it, but I neverexperienced it.
And I heard the worship teamreal far, and I remember, like, oh,
my gosh.
I felt like I was floating inthe air.
Actually, I didn't say this infirst service.
I felt like I was being liftedup, and I was like, this is wild.
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What's happening.
My mind was just like.
I got up, I stood up, and Isee women on the floor, and some
of them just look like theywere just receiving from God.
And I was like, man, I want toreceive like that.
What's she doing?
What God is doing to her.
I want to receive like that.
And I just stood there.
And the woman comes again tome, and she was like, God wants to
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do a surgery on you, honey.
And she put her hand on mybelly, and I screamed, scream came
out.
And I was like, oh, my God,I'm screaming.
And I was like.
And then I fell out again.
If my husband was there, hewould have been like, she crazy.
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He wasn't there.
I met him later.
And I'm on the floor, and Ihear the worship team fire again.
And I hear God.
I heard the audible voice of God.
And he said, seek me, seek me.
And I said, God, but what about.
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I was the only one saved in my family.
I got saved at the age of 16.
And I said, God, what about Mommy?
What about Daddy?
What about my sisters?
He said, don't worry, I have them.
Seek me, seek me, seek me,seek me, seek me.
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And then I just heard itlouder and louder, and I'm weeping,
and I'm like, okay, God.
Okay, okay.
I'm gonna seek you.
And what I didn't know thepromise that he was giving me was
Matthew 6:33.
But seek first the kingdom ofGod and all his righteousness, and
all of these things will beadded to you.
And so I went on the journeyto seek the Lord by myself, going
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to church by myself, sittingin the pew by myself, worshiping
God by myself, growing by myself.
And it was Hard.
It was hard doing that.
I remember when I had gottensaved, I had gotten baptized.
I had gotten baptized.
I was a spontaneous baptism.
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But I remember one morningbefore I had gotten baptized, I was
sleeping on the couch.
I guess I used to stay up lateand sleep on the couch.
And I'm sleeping on the couchand I hear my dad on the phone with
someone.
He was fighting with thisperson, like, real hard.
It woke me up from my sleep,and I was like, sassy and nosy all
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at the same time.
I won't say.
All the nosy people give me ashout, but you know.
You know who you are.
And so I was like, I'm gonnapretend like I'm sleeping.
Because what is happeningright now?
And I'm listening to my dadtell this person, for 10 years, you
don't kiss me, you don't hugme, you don't love me, you don't
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tell me this, you don't tellme that for 10 years.
And I'm tired of it.
And I'm thinking, hmm, 10 years.
Mommy's in the room, you ain'ttalking to her on the phone.
You've been cheating on hersince I was six years old.
Dreams shattered.
Betrayal in family.
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Betrayal from my father, whowas supposed to be my protector,
who was supposed to be theprovider, who was supposed to be
the priest of the home.
Dreams shattered.
And I'm going to go to that later.
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That leads me to point number two.
The shattered dream.
No.
Yes.
The shattering.
Genesis 39.
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I'm sorry.
Point number three is theunshaken faith.
Genesis 39.
Two says, the Lord was with Joseph.
So he succeeded in everythinghe did as he served in the home of
the Egyptian master.
Verse 21.
But the Lord was with Josephin the prison and showed him his
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faithful love.
And the Lord made Joseph afavorite with the prison warden.
The Lord was with Joseph.
That's the.
The key verse.
The Lord was with Joseph.
Not that Joseph succeeded, butGod was with him in the pit.
God was there in Potiphar's house.
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God was there in the prison.
God was there.
He was forgotten by people,but he wasn't forgotten by God.
Unshaken faith doesn't meanthat you don't cry.
It's okay to cry.
It means you don't quit.
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Joseph kept his posture.
He kept his purity.
When Potiphar's wife tried totry to.
What do they call it nowadays?
Glaze on him, he kept his perspective.
He didn't wait until thepalace to act like God's son.
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Sometimes God delays a dream,because he's preparing you for what
you couldn't have imagined.
Joseph later becomes second incommand, and he essentially becomes
the governor of the land.
Because there was a dream thatPharaoh had that there was going
to be seven years.
There was seven years ofgreatness and seven years of famine.
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And Joseph had interpretedthat dream.
And when he interpreted thatdream, Pharaoh heard about it, and
he was like, I'm going to makeyou governor over the lands.
And so when there was a famineand people were coming from all over
the world into Egypt to buygrain, guess who came to buy grain
from him?
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His brothers.
And he recognized them.
They didn't recognize him, buthe recognized them.
And it says in chapter 43 thathe grew compassion for his brothers.
I tell you what that is,unshaken faith.
They betrayed him.
They threw him in a pit.
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They left him to die.
Then they sold him to slavery.
And that's only God, that hegrew compassion in his heart for
his brothers.
And then Joseph, in chapter45, he reveals himself to his brothers.
And in chapter 47, he'sreunited from his family.
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So from the time of the dreamwith the sheaves bowing down to Joseph,
he was about 17 years old.
And to the time of thefulfillment of that dream, it was
about two decades when hereunited with his family.
Two decades.
I don't know about y', all,but that's some unshaken faith.
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And, you know, remember thatstory I said about my dad breaking
up with his girlfriend on the phone?
For years, I was angry.
I was angry at my mom forsaying, I forgive you.
And because I didn't justsweep it under the rug, y', all,
I confronted it.
So I had gotten baptized a fewdays later, after I had heard that
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interaction with this personon the phone.
And I'm gonna say her name wasJane to keep privacy for her.
But I had gotten baptized, andmy dad pulled me into the room, and
he was like, how dare you?
Cause we weren't born again Christians.
He was like, how dare youchange your faith?
How dare you?
Da, da, da, da.
And I was like, bro, I want toknow Jesus.
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I want to know him.
I want to have a personalrelationship with him.
I got baptized because I wasdead, and now I'm alive, and my dad's
sitting there, and he's like,I don't understand.
No.
And I'm like, dad, I got toask you a question.
Who's Jane?
Because I was sassy, and itwasn't like I was being, like, relentless.
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But I was like, no, I'm Goingto confront this thing.
Who's Jane?
And he was like, she's a friend.
And I was like, no, she ain't.
I heard the conversation.
I heard the things that youtold her.
You told her this, that, thisand that.
And he was like, okay.
And he confessed it, and heconfessed to me, and he started to
pour his heart out.
And then I was like, oh, my God.
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I'm becoming my father's counselor.
This is not healthy.
And for years, I wanted todefend my mom because she couldn't
defend herself.
She was very meek.
So I would stand up in herhonor and her defense.
And it took years offorgiveness that I had to have toward
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my father and in theirrelationship because I was trying
to defend her.
And that's called codependent.
I had savior complex.
I was a Christian, and I hadsavior complex.
I was trying to save my momfrom my dad.
Yeah.
It took a long time to unlearnand unwind that codependency in our
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life, in my life.
That was codependent with my husband.
When I met him, I was like, Iwant to love him to health because
he was broken.
And I was like, hi, I want tolove you.
He was so emo, too, when I met him.
Like, you see different, buthe was emoji.
He cried a lot.
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I was like, yes.
But I was co dependent, y'.
All.
I wanted to take on a project,but he was God's project, not mine,
so I had to let him.
Jesus, help me, Lord.
Five minutes.
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But I'm gonna.
I'm gonna take a moment.
Not right now, but I will.
Years later, my mom passed away.
She had cancer.
She passed away during theCOVID season.
Her immune system was compromised.
She ended up getting Covid.
And she went in, like, 15days, just like that.
15 days.
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But I believe that God honoredher prayer.
She said, God, don't letcancer wither me away.
I want to go, and I want to go quick.
And so I took that, and I waslike, God, you, honor her prayer.
She went quick.
She didn't wither away.
And so my mom passed.
Two years later, my dad has a girlfriend.
He didn't say she was his girlfriend.
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It was the day of my husband's birthday.
It was Labor Day weekend.
And he comes in with her, andhe's like, hey, guys.
This is my friend Jane.
Jane.
Same name.
Remember?
I changed it, but same name.
And I thought, ooh, I know whothis is.
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This is Jane from a long time ago.
And in my heart, I wasprocessing alone.
I didn't tell my Sisters yet.
Because I was like, I can'twait to tell them.
This is two years ago, guys.
I was a pastor at V1 Church.
Been a Christian for years.
And I'm like, man, all right,Jane's here.
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What do I do?
Do I tell my dad, how dare youbring this woman around.
How dare you do that?
No.
I grew compassion in my heart.
And a few days later, becauseI let him rock my sister, actually,
because I needed confirmation,you know, was that really her?
But I knew it was.
I just knew within my bones,my discernment was telling me, that's
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her.
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And my other sister, Jasmine,goes, so, how'd you guys meet?
And my dad had lookedunsettled the whole time.
That's how I knew it was her,because he just looked unsettled
the whole time.
Like, I hope they don't askthe question.
And she was like, he just puthis head down.
And she goes.
We reconnected recently.
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And I was like, that's her.
I knew it.
A few days later.
I remember my dad was sittingon the couch, and I was saying goodbye
to him, and I whispered in his ear.
I said, I know who Jane is.
I know it's the Jane from whenI was 16 years old and you broke
up with her on the phone.
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I know it's her.
But, dad, it's okay.
I forgive you.
I love you.
He just put his head down andhe just nodded.
You see, my.
My husband was a pivotal timein our life where my dad came to
know Jesus Christ as Lord.
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And all of my family did.
And Matthew 6:33 did come to fruition.
It did.
But my dad lived a life ofregret, great regret and remorse.
Even though he was saved, eventhough he knew Jesus, he still had
remorse.
He still had regret.
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And I didn't want him to livehis life like that.
I wanted him to create memories.
I wanted for him to live for Jesus.
He got some deliverance.
Suicide canceled.
I mean, there were things thatwas happening in his life, but he
just couldn't see past it.
I know he went to be withJesus because he died last month.
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June.
In June.
And I remember Jane was aroundbecause, you know, she was a part
of him.
And so she was around.
She was with us in the hospital.
And I remember that he was intubated.
He was in the emergency room.
And I go to his bedside, andthey told me that he had minimal
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brain function.
And I go to his ear, and Isaid, daddy is Jocelyn.
He opened his eyes, and I seehis chin quiver.
He couldn't move.
And his chin was quivering.
And I said, he just looks sovulnerable and helpless and broken.
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And I said, daddy, go with Jesus.
He loves you.
Go with him.
He's with you.
And he's just looking straight up.
And I.
And I'm praying for him.
And I only had 15 minutes with him.
And I'm praying and I'mtelling him, just go.
Go with Jesus.
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And then I had to leave hisbedside so my other sisters can come
and see him.
And Jane was with us.
And the day of his burial, Igo to Jane because she knew that
I knew who she was.
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It was unspoken, but she knew.
And I said, jane, after wehave the burial, we're gonna have
dinner with my dad.
I mean, with the family, afterthe burial, after we bury him.
It would be an honor if youcome and have dinner with us.
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And she looked at me and shesaid, this means so much to me.
Thank you.
And I said, you're welcome.
And I gave her a hug.
And that was showingcompassion to someone.
I could have been in my fleshand said, that's the woman.
I didn't.
Because it doesn't take for meto go to a palace, to be a daughter
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of a king.
Maybe this could have beensomething that was meant to destroy
me.
To think about the betrayal,to think about the pain.
But God was using it todevelop me to be more like Christ.
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Joseph saw it.
He connected the dots.
All the betrayal, all thepain, all time, the.
All the delays.
They didn't derail the dream.
They fulfilled it.
Romans 8:28 says, and we knowthat God causes everything to work
together for the good of thosewho love God and are called according
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to his purpose.
Every pain, every delay, everybetrayal is for his purpose.
It's for your shaping.
It's for your molding.
It's to mold Christ in you.
It's to develop you.
Don't let the dream die.
Don't let the shatter.
Don't let it shatter.
Don't let it shatter.
Unshaken faith.
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You might feel broken, butyou're not abandoned.
You might feel shattered, butyou are still standing.
And the God who gave the dreamis faithful to finish the completed
work.
See.
Stay faithful.
Stay yielded.
Stay unshaken.
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Your dream may be shattered,but your faith will not be broken.
Stand to your feet with me,and I want you to hear this.
Joseph's story is powerful,but Jesus story is perfect.
Jesus came with a mission, adream to redeem.
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But he was betrayed,abandoned, mocked.
He was crucified.
It looked like the dream died,but it was just the Beginning what
looked like a tomb was alaunching pad for salvation of the
world.
Joseph was thrown into a pit.
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Jesus was placed in a tomb.
Joseph saved Egypt.
Jesus saved the world.
Joseph fed a nation.
Jesus is the bread of life.
And because he was broken, youcan be made whole, your heart can
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be mended.
Let's take our elements andwe're going to have a moment.
The same God who walked Josephfrom the pit to the palace is walking
with you.
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And we're going to takecommunion today.
And we're going to do it inremembrance of what he did for us.
He was broken for the unbroken.
And before we take communion,Jesus didn't just die for your sin,
he died for your healing.
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He died for your mind.
He died for your heart.
He died for your future.
And as we take the bread, Ijust keep seeing, like as I've been
praying over this word andreflecting, I keep seeing a father,
a father that's broken, thathas regret and remorse in his life,
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that may even have imposter syndrome.
Today, as we take the bread,many of you, where you may feel broken,
where you may feel like you'rean imposter, where you may be struggling
in your own faith.
Today, as we take the bread,we're going to do, then say, do this
in remembrance of Jesus wherehe was broken, so we didn't have
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to stay broken.
So Jesus, we take this breadin remembrance of you where you were
broken, you were not destroyed.
And Lord, we take this breadin remembrance, believing that we
can be made whole in our spirit.
In Jesus name, take the breadwith me.
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He was broken, so you don'thave to stay broken.
Jesus, as we take this cup,take your cup and as we drink this
grape juice, as a resemblance,as a symbolism of your blood, it
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is only the blood that breaks.
It breaks the yoke of bondage.
It breaks the unshattered, theshattered dreams.
It breaks it and it bringsunshaken faith in our lives.
And Jesus, as we take thiscup, we do it in remembrance of you
that you would heal ourhearts, that you would mend it back
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together.
Everything that has shatteredour lives, Lord, we give it to you
today, Lord, that you wouldmake us whole.
In Jesus name, let's take thecup together.
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Jesus.
Jesus, we receive your healingpower in mending hearts today.
Jesus, come and heal.
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Do a surgery on many hearts today.
God.
Jesus, it's only your blood.
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Jesus, I want you to say thiswith me across all campuses.
I may have been shaken, butI'm not broken.
My dream may be delayed, butit's not denied.
I am unbroken.
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I am rising.
I am restored.
In Jesus name, Sam.
The title of my message isshattered dreams, unshaken faith.
And so Apostle Mike is reallycontending for.
Because, you know, ProphetJeremiah Johnson said, don't be pretenders,
let's be contenders.
And our apostle is a contenderfor healed minds and mended hearts.
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And so when he presented this,I was like, man, it just shook me
to my core.
Because this is like, notonly, like, my thing.
Cause I love to love peopleand see them healed, but it's also
a part of his DNA, right,where he is contending for freedom
in people.
And he wrote the book, inherityour freedom, shameless plug.
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Go buy it.
Inherit your freedom through Jesus.
And we just wanna.
I just wanna honor our apostleand Pastor Julie.
We love them so much asthey're away on their sabbatical.
We just honor you.
We love you.
If you're watching later,after the sabbatical, Pastor Mike,
Apostle Mike told me he wasgonna be binge watching all of our
sermons.
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I hope I do a good job and Ido you well, Apostle.
We love you.
And so my sermon is calledShatter dreams Unshaken.
And so have you ever carried a dream?
You woke up from a dream andit was so vivid?
If you have, what I tell youis write it down.
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Journal your dreams.
I have journals of dreams.
And it's been a blessing in mylife to be able to go back and see
God's hand move throughout allof the dreams that I've ever had.
So journal them.
So if you've had a dream thatwas so vivid, so divine, that you
knew that it was from God andyou saw it, you felt it burning in
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your chest, you prayed overit, you believed it.
And then life hit the doorclosed, people changed, the dream
stalled.
And the silence from heavengrew louder.
And you ask the question thatmany of us have whispered through
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tears, God, where are you in this?
I came today to talk to the dreamers.
Where my dreamers at?
I came to talk today to thewounded, to the weary, to the ones
who feel like what you saw infaith does not match what is in reality.
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Your dream may be shattered,but your faith can remain unshaken.
That's why we are beginningthis series, Unbroken, Healing minds,
Mending hearts.
Because you may feel cracked,but you are not crushed.
What was meant to destroy you,God is using to develop you.
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Father, I thank you that yourword brings so much life.
Lord, today, even as we weredeclaring in worship to live, to
live, for our dry bones tocome alive again.
Father, I pray in the name ofJesus that dreams would come to life
again.
Lord, that people that havebeen shattered where their dreams
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have been shattered, Lord,that you would shake up this their
faith again, oh God.
And that they would arise infaith that they would be unshaken,
unmovable, in Jesus, mightyname, Amen.
And amen.
I'm sorry, guys, I am fiery today.
Come on.
So there's three points I'mgoing to talk about today.
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Shattered dreams, unshakenfaith, the dream, the shattering,
and the unshaken faith.
Those are my three points.
And we're going to read fromGenesis 37, verses 5 to 11.
And so you can read with me.
I'm starting from verse five.
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Now, Joseph had a dream.
And when he told it to hisbrothers, they hated him even more.
He said to them, hear thisdream that I have dreamed.
Behold, we were bindingsheaves in the field.
And behold, my sheaf arose andstood upright.
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And behold, your sheavesgathered around it and bowed down
to my sheaf.
And what sheaf means here inthis dream is a bundle of grain.
It's like long stalks of grain.
And so if you picture it, it'sthe sheaves, the bundle of grain
bowing down to his.
And what those sheavesrepresent in the dream, for all my
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dream interpreters, whatsheaves represent are his brothers
and his father and mother.
And so the sheaves bow down to him.
Verse 8, his brother said tohim, and this is how I read my Bible,
y'.
All, are you indeed to reignover us because tone is everything,
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or you are indeed to rule over us?
So they hated him even morefor his dreams and for his words.
Then he dreamed another dream.
And he told his brothers andsaid, behold, I have dreamed another
dream.
Behold, the sun, the moon andthe 11 stars were bowing down to
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me.
But when he told it to hisfather and to his brothers, his father
rebuked him and said, what isthis dream you have dreamed?
Shall I and your mother andyour brothers indeed come to bow
ourselves to the ground before you?
And his brothers were jealousof him.
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But his father kept the sayingin mind.
You see, Joseph, he was ateenager with a God given dream.
And he saw elevation.
He saw leadership.
The sheaves were bowing downto him.
He had a revelation, but no roadmap.
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He didn't see what the pathwas to get there.
He had promise, but didn'tunderstand the process.
How many of you had aprophetic word?
How many of you had a dreamthat you dreamed, but you didn't
understand what that processwas going to look like?
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And when God shows you a bigdream, he doesn't Always show you
the battle attached to it.
Because there have been somebattles, y'.
All.
I know many of you who's beenthrough some battles.
I've been through some battles.
Come on, let me see a show of hands.
Come on.
Indiana, Long Island, Miami.
Let me see the hands of thebattles you've been through.
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Joseph's brothers hated himfor it.
They were jealous.
How many of you know when youhave offense in your heart and when
you have jealousy, there aresome things that you think about
that you don't even want totell people what you're thinking
about.
And his brothers were mad.
They hated him.
And let me tell you, noteveryone can celebrate what God has
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shown you.
Not everyone can.
But don't water down thevision because they're insecure,
okay?
Don't bury the dream becauseothers don't see what God said.
If the dream came from God, itwill require God to fulfill it.
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Joseph, he was young.
He was idealistic.
He was unprepared for the cost.
But God wasn't giving him a dream.
He was preparing him to carrya legacy.
I'm talking to the legacycarriers in this room.
Across all campuses, we havelegacy carriers.
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We are kingdom minded.
God is gonna mend hearts today.
He's gonna heal minds.
Because there's a legacy thatwe need to carry on the Earth for
the kingdom of God.
Come on.
That leads me to point numbertwo, the shattering.
I'm gonna summarize Genesis38, because we're gonna go through
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the whole, whole life ofJoseph, and there's not enough time
to be able to talk, to readevery scripture to you.
But from Genesis 37, from 18all the way to 20, Joseph had been
sent by his father to go checkon his brothers.
They were working on thefield, so they were like, go.
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He said, go, go check on your brothers.
See what they're up to.
So here goes Joseph.
You know, he's eager.
He's this teenager.
Like, yeah, you know, the sheaves.
Yeah, I'm the man.
I'm leaders elevated.
He's walking down the road,and then they're like, oh, here he
comes.
Because Joseph had a coat thathis father gave him many colors.
And it just showed how his dadeven favored him.
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And so as he's walking,they're like, oh, here goes the dreamer.
Here goes the one with thecoat of many colors.
Let's kill him.
Let's kill him.
So they plotted to kill him.
And so one of the brothers.
I'm gonna read from verse 23.
He says this to his brother sowhen Joseph came to his bro, they
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stripped him of his robe, therobe of many colors that he wore,
and they took him and threwhim into the pit.
The pit was empty.
There was no water in it.
We're going to skip down toverse 27, where one of his brothers
say, come, let us sell him tothe Ishmaelites.
And let not our hand be uponhim, for he is our brother, our own
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flesh.
And his brothers listen to theother brother, to him.
Then Midianite traders passedby, and they drew Joseph up and lifted
him out of the pit and soldhim to The Ishmaelites for 20 shekels
of silver.
And they took Joseph to Egypt.
And then the Midianites, theycame and they sold him to a Egyptian
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named Potiphar.
And the officer, he's a.
He was an officer of Pharaoh.
He was a captain of the guard.
And Joseph found favor with Potiphar.
And then he became ruler overthe house.
Joseph became ruler overPotiphar's house.
And then when Joseph wasliving and ruling in Potiphar's house,
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Potiphar's wife came and sheaccused him of raping her.
And so then Joseph was throwninto prison.
Okay, guys, he had a dream.
The sheaves bowing down.
He saw leadership.
He saw elevation.
But now he's in prison.
And it looked like that dreamwas stalled.
Joseph's dream didn't just get delayed.
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When he was in prison, he meta cupbearer.
And Joseph interpreted dreams.
And, you know, I mean, theseinterpreting dreams.
I know I have dreams.
I wrote down.
And we interpret them, me andmy friends, we're like, this is my
dream.
Interpret our dreams.
And if you want dreamsinterpreted, email Edwin One church.
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He got you.
He's going to interpret your dream.
I'm just kidding.
He doesn't interpret dreams at all.
It's not his gifting.
He's a teacher.
But I just had to throw thatin there.
Okay, so he's in the prisonand he meets a cup bearer.
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And these are his boys inprison, and he's interpreting their
dreams.
They're like, man, this guy'son point.
He's interpreting dreams.
They're like, don't worry, wegot you.
When we go up to Pharaoh, whenwe get out of here, we'll remember
you.
But they didn't.
It went.
Two years went by, and theydidn't remember him.
So Joseph's dream didn't justget delayed.
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It looked destroyed.
He was betrayed by his brothers.
He was thrown in a pit.
He was sold, like, property.
He was Falsely accused, and hewas forgotten in prison.
Joseph's dream seemed fartherand farther away.
His dreams were kind ofshattered, you could say.
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And this is where many give up.
Because it had been years thatwent by.
And sometimes when our dream,we may not see our dream come to
fruition, our vision, ourprophecy, we may not see it come
to fruition.
It may be years that pass by.
And this is where many wouldhave given up.
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And maybe.
I know there have been timesthat I gave up.
But God does something in thatno pain is wasted.
None.
When what God said and whatlife looks like feel miles apart,
he must have asked God, Ithought you chose me.
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I thought you called me.
I thought there was favor onmy life.
But here's the truth.
The pit doesn't mean Godchanged his mind.
Hello?
The prison doesn't cancel the prophecy.
The shattering is part of the shaping.
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Do you hear me?
It's part of the shaping.
Romans 5, 3, 4, says, we canrejoice too when we run into problems
and trials.
For we know that they help usdevelop endurance.
And endurance developsstrength of character.
And character strengthens ourconfident hope of salvation.
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God is trying, not trying tojust elevate you.
He's trying to form Christwithin you.
You know, when I was younger,and I'm not telling this story in
chronological order, however,when I was younger, in my 20s.
I know I'm not 20.
I know I look it, but I'm not.
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Yes, yes.
In my twenties, I remember Iwas struggling as a young adult.
Come on.
Young adults, Single young adults.
Because I was a single youngadult, and I was struggling in my
walk with God.
I remember this day, I was inthe club the night before, and I
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felt so convicted.
And then I went to a women'sbreakfast the next morning that my
friend invited me to, and oneof my sisters came with me, and we
go to this woman's breakfast,and there was this white woman.
I had never seen this before.
This is why I'm saying it.
There was this white womanthat was a missionary from India.
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And I was like, interesting, okay?
And I'm listening to thiswoman preach, and she was preaching
on the woman with the issue of blood.
And she was preaching this word.
And I'm.
My heart is like, I'm struggling.
I was in the club the nightbefore, guys, and I'm like, okay.
She's like, if those of youthat want Jesus, come and reach the
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hem of his garment.
I had accepted Christ before, right?
But I was struggling in my faith.
So she's like, come to the altar.
So I go to the altar, and Ihad never experienced this before
in my life.
I was in a Pentecostal church.
I did see things that Ithought was weird sometimes, but
I was like, all right, cool.
And I was standing there, andshe was like, jesus, when I touch
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her, you touch her?
No.
She said, holy Spirit, when Itouch her, you touch her in Jesus
name.
And she just went like this.
And I went.
And I felt like something leftmy body, and I fell out.
And I said, oh, my God, I amon the floor.
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What is happening to me?
I had seen it, but I neverexperienced it.
And I heard the worship teamreal far, and I remember, like, oh,
my gosh.
I felt like I was floating inthe air.
Actually, I didn't say this infirst service.
I felt like I was being liftedup, and I was like, this is wild.
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What's happening.
My mind was just like.
I got up, I stood up, and Isee women on the floor, and some
of them just look like theywere just receiving from God.
And I was like, man, I want toreceive like that.
What's she doing?
What God is doing to her.
I want to receive like that.
And I just stood there.
And the woman comes again tome, and she was like, God wants to
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do a surgery on you, honey.
And she put her hand on mybelly, and I screamed, scream came
out.
And I was like, oh, my God,I'm screaming.
And I was like.
And then I fell out again.
If my husband was there, hewould have been like, she crazy.
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He wasn't there.
I met him later.
And I'm on the floor, and Ihear the worship team fire again.
And I hear God.
I heard the audible voice of God.
And he said, seek me, seek me.
And I said, God, but what about.
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I was the only one saved in my family.
I got saved at the age of 16.
And I said, God, what about Mommy?
What about Daddy?
What about my sisters?
He said, don't worry, I have them.
Seek me, seek me, seek me,seek me, seek me.
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And then I just heard itlouder and louder, and I'm weeping,
and I'm like, okay, God.
Okay, okay.
I'm gonna seek you.
And what I didn't know thepromise that he was giving me was
Matthew 6:33.
But seek first the kingdom ofGod and all his righteousness, and
all of these things will beadded to you.
And so I went on the journeyto seek the Lord by myself, going
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to church by myself, sittingin the pew by myself, worshiping
God by myself, growing by myself.
And it was Hard.
It was hard doing that.
I remember when I had gottensaved, I had gotten baptized.
I had gotten baptized.
I was a spontaneous baptism.
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But I remember one morningbefore I had gotten baptized, I was
sleeping on the couch.
I guess I used to stay up lateand sleep on the couch.
And I'm sleeping on the couchand I hear my dad on the phone with
someone.
He was fighting with thisperson, like, real hard.
It woke me up from my sleep,and I was like, sassy and nosy all
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at the same time.
I won't say.
All the nosy people give me ashout, but you know.
You know who you are.
And so I was like, I'm gonnapretend like I'm sleeping.
Because what is happeningright now?
And I'm listening to my dadtell this person, for 10 years, you
don't kiss me, you don't hugme, you don't love me, you don't
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tell me this, you don't tellme that for 10 years.
And I'm tired of it.
And I'm thinking, hmm, 10 years.
Mommy's in the room, you ain'ttalking to her on the phone.
You've been cheating on hersince I was six years old.
Dreams shattered.
Betrayal in family.
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Betrayal from my father, whowas supposed to be my protector,
who was supposed to be theprovider, who was supposed to be
the priest of the home.
Dreams shattered.
And I'm going to go to that later.
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That leads me to point number two.
The shattered dream.
No.
Yes.
The shattering.
Genesis 39.
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I'm sorry.
Point number three is theunshaken faith.
Genesis 39.
Two says, the Lord was with Joseph.
So he succeeded in everythinghe did as he served in the home of
the Egyptian master.
Verse 21.
But the Lord was with Josephin the prison and showed him his
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faithful love.
And the Lord made Joseph afavorite with the prison warden.
The Lord was with Joseph.
That's the.
The key verse.
The Lord was with Joseph.
Not that Joseph succeeded, butGod was with him in the pit.
God was there in Potiphar's house.
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God was there in the prison.
God was there.
He was forgotten by people,but he wasn't forgotten by God.
Unshaken faith doesn't meanthat you don't cry.
It's okay to cry.
It means you don't quit.
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Joseph kept his posture.
He kept his purity.
When Potiphar's wife tried totry to.
What do they call it nowadays?
Glaze on him, he kept his perspective.
He didn't wait until thepalace to act like God's son.
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Sometimes God delays a dream,because he's preparing you for what
you couldn't have imagined.
Joseph later becomes second incommand, and he essentially becomes
the governor of the land.
Because there was a dream thatPharaoh had that there was going
to be seven years.
There was seven years ofgreatness and seven years of famine.
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And Joseph had interpretedthat dream.
And when he interpreted thatdream, Pharaoh heard about it, and
he was like, I'm going to makeyou governor over the lands.
And so when there was a famineand people were coming from all over
the world into Egypt to buygrain, guess who came to buy grain
from him?
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His brothers.
And he recognized them.
They didn't recognize him, buthe recognized them.
And it says in chapter 43 thathe grew compassion for his brothers.
I tell you what that is,unshaken faith.
They betrayed him.
They threw him in a pit.
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They left him to die.
Then they sold him to slavery.
And that's only God, that hegrew compassion in his heart for
his brothers.
And then Joseph, in chapter45, he reveals himself to his brothers.
And in chapter 47, he'sreunited from his family.
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So from the time of the dreamwith the sheaves bowing down to Joseph,
he was about 17 years old.
And to the time of thefulfillment of that dream, it was
about two decades when hereunited with his family.
Two decades.
I don't know about y', all,but that's some unshaken faith.
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And, you know, remember thatstory I said about my dad breaking
up with his girlfriend on the phone?
For years, I was angry.
I was angry at my mom forsaying, I forgive you.
And because I didn't justsweep it under the rug, y', all,
I confronted it.
So I had gotten baptized a fewdays later, after I had heard that
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interaction with this personon the phone.
And I'm gonna say her name wasJane to keep privacy for her.
But I had gotten baptized, andmy dad pulled me into the room, and
he was like, how dare you?
Cause we weren't born again Christians.
He was like, how dare youchange your faith?
How dare you?
Da, da, da, da.
And I was like, bro, I want toknow Jesus.
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I want to know him.
I want to have a personalrelationship with him.
I got baptized because I wasdead, and now I'm alive, and my dad's
sitting there, and he's like,I don't understand.
No.
And I'm like, dad, I got toask you a question.
Who's Jane?
Because I was sassy, and itwasn't like I was being, like, relentless.
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But I was like, no, I'm Goingto confront this thing.
Who's Jane?
And he was like, she's a friend.
And I was like, no, she ain't.
I heard the conversation.
I heard the things that youtold her.
You told her this, that, thisand that.
And he was like, okay.
And he confessed it, and heconfessed to me, and he started to
pour his heart out.
And then I was like, oh, my God.
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I'm becoming my father's counselor.
This is not healthy.
And for years, I wanted todefend my mom because she couldn't
defend herself.
She was very meek.
So I would stand up in herhonor and her defense.
And it took years offorgiveness that I had to have toward
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my father and in theirrelationship because I was trying
to defend her.
And that's called codependent.
I had savior complex.
I was a Christian, and I hadsavior complex.
I was trying to save my momfrom my dad.
Yeah.
It took a long time to unlearnand unwind that codependency in our
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life, in my life.
That was codependent with my husband.
When I met him, I was like, Iwant to love him to health because
he was broken.
And I was like, hi, I want tolove you.
He was so emo, too, when I met him.
Like, you see different, buthe was emoji.
He cried a lot.
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I was like, yes.
But I was co dependent, y'.
All.
I wanted to take on a project,but he was God's project, not mine,
so I had to let him.
Jesus, help me, Lord.
Five minutes.
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But I'm gonna.
I'm gonna take a moment.
Not right now, but I will.
Years later, my mom passed away.
She had cancer.
She passed away during theCOVID season.
Her immune system was compromised.
She ended up getting Covid.
And she went in, like, 15days, just like that.
15 days.
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But I believe that God honoredher prayer.
She said, God, don't letcancer wither me away.
I want to go, and I want to go quick.
And so I took that, and I waslike, God, you, honor her prayer.
She went quick.
She didn't wither away.
And so my mom passed.
Two years later, my dad has a girlfriend.
He didn't say she was his girlfriend.
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It was the day of my husband's birthday.
It was Labor Day weekend.
And he comes in with her, andhe's like, hey, guys.
This is my friend Jane.
Jane.
Same name.
Remember?
I changed it, but same name.
And I thought, ooh, I know whothis is.
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This is Jane from a long time ago.
And in my heart, I wasprocessing alone.
I didn't tell my Sisters yet.
Because I was like, I can'twait to tell them.
This is two years ago, guys.
I was a pastor at V1 Church.
Been a Christian for years.
And I'm like, man, all right,Jane's here.
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What do I do?
Do I tell my dad, how dare youbring this woman around.
How dare you do that?
No.
I grew compassion in my heart.
And a few days later, becauseI let him rock my sister, actually,
because I needed confirmation,you know, was that really her?
But I knew it was.
I just knew within my bones,my discernment was telling me, that's
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her.
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And my other sister, Jasmine,goes, so, how'd you guys meet?
And my dad had lookedunsettled the whole time.
That's how I knew it was her,because he just looked unsettled
the whole time.
Like, I hope they don't askthe question.
And she was like, he just puthis head down.
And she goes.
We reconnected recently.
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And I was like, that's her.
I knew it.
A few days later.
I remember my dad was sittingon the couch, and I was saying goodbye
to him, and I whispered in his ear.
I said, I know who Jane is.
I know it's the Jane from whenI was 16 years old and you broke
up with her on the phone.
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I know it's her.
But, dad, it's okay.
I forgive you.
I love you.
He just put his head down andhe just nodded.
You see, my.
My husband was a pivotal timein our life where my dad came to
know Jesus Christ as Lord.
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And all of my family did.
And Matthew 6:33 did come to fruition.
It did.
But my dad lived a life ofregret, great regret and remorse.
Even though he was saved, eventhough he knew Jesus, he still had
remorse.
He still had regret.
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And I didn't want him to livehis life like that.
I wanted him to create memories.
I wanted for him to live for Jesus.
He got some deliverance.
Suicide canceled.
I mean, there were things thatwas happening in his life, but he
just couldn't see past it.
I know he went to be withJesus because he died last month.
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June.
In June.
And I remember Jane was aroundbecause, you know, she was a part
of him.
And so she was around.
She was with us in the hospital.
And I remember that he was intubated.
He was in the emergency room.
And I go to his bedside, andthey told me that he had minimal
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brain function.
And I go to his ear, and Isaid, daddy is Jocelyn.
He opened his eyes, and I seehis chin quiver.
He couldn't move.
And his chin was quivering.
And I said, he just looks sovulnerable and helpless and broken.
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And I said, daddy, go with Jesus.
He loves you.
Go with him.
He's with you.
And he's just looking straight up.
And I.
And I'm praying for him.
And I only had 15 minutes with him.
And I'm praying and I'mtelling him, just go.
Go with Jesus.
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And then I had to leave hisbedside so my other sisters can come
and see him.
And Jane was with us.
And the day of his burial, Igo to Jane because she knew that
I knew who she was.
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It was unspoken, but she knew.
And I said, jane, after wehave the burial, we're gonna have
dinner with my dad.
I mean, with the family, afterthe burial, after we bury him.
It would be an honor if youcome and have dinner with us.
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And she looked at me and shesaid, this means so much to me.
Thank you.
And I said, you're welcome.
And I gave her a hug.
And that was showingcompassion to someone.
I could have been in my fleshand said, that's the woman.
I didn't.
Because it doesn't take for meto go to a palace, to be a daughter
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of a king.
Maybe this could have beensomething that was meant to destroy
me.
To think about the betrayal,to think about the pain.
But God was using it todevelop me to be more like Christ.
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Joseph saw it.
He connected the dots.
All the betrayal, all thepain, all time, the.
All the delays.
They didn't derail the dream.
They fulfilled it.
Romans 8:28 says, and we knowthat God causes everything to work
together for the good of thosewho love God and are called according
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to his purpose.
Every pain, every delay, everybetrayal is for his purpose.
It's for your shaping.
It's for your molding.
It's to mold Christ in you.
It's to develop you.
Don't let the dream die.
Don't let the shatter.
Don't let it shatter.
Don't let it shatter.
Unshaken faith.
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You might feel broken, butyou're not abandoned.
You might feel shattered, butyou are still standing.
And the God who gave the dreamis faithful to finish the completed
work.
See.
Stay faithful.
Stay yielded.
Stay unshaken.
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Your dream may be shattered,but your faith will not be broken.
Stand to your feet with me,and I want you to hear this.
Joseph's story is powerful,but Jesus story is perfect.
Jesus came with a mission, adream to redeem.
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But he was betrayed,abandoned, mocked.
He was crucified.
It looked like the dream died,but it was just the Beginning what
looked like a tomb was alaunching pad for salvation of the
world.
Joseph was thrown into a pit.
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Jesus was placed in a tomb.
Joseph saved Egypt.
Jesus saved the world.
Joseph fed a nation.
Jesus is the bread of life.
And because he was broken, youcan be made whole, your heart can
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be mended.
Let's take our elements andwe're going to have a moment.
The same God who walked Josephfrom the pit to the palace is walking
with you.
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And we're going to takecommunion today.
And we're going to do it inremembrance of what he did for us.
He was broken for the unbroken.
And before we take communion,Jesus didn't just die for your sin,
he died for your healing.
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He died for your mind.
He died for your heart.
He died for your future.
And as we take the bread, Ijust keep seeing, like as I've been
praying over this word andreflecting, I keep seeing a father,
a father that's broken, thathas regret and remorse in his life,
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that may even have imposter syndrome.
Today, as we take the bread,many of you, where you may feel broken,
where you may feel like you'rean imposter, where you may be struggling
in your own faith.
Today, as we take the bread,we're going to do, then say, do this
in remembrance of Jesus wherehe was broken, so we didn't have
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to stay broken.
So Jesus, we take this breadin remembrance of you where you were
broken, you were not destroyed.
And Lord, we take this breadin remembrance, believing that we
can be made whole in our spirit.
In Jesus name, take the breadwith me.
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He was broken, so you don'thave to stay broken.
Jesus, as we take this cup,take your cup and as we drink this
grape juice, as a resemblance,as a symbolism of your blood, it
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is only the blood that breaks.
It breaks the yoke of bondage.
It breaks the unshattered, theshattered dreams.
It breaks it and it bringsunshaken faith in our lives.
And Jesus, as we take thiscup, we do it in remembrance of you
that you would heal ourhearts, that you would mend it back
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together.
Everything that has shatteredour lives, Lord, we give it to you
today, Lord, that you wouldmake us whole.
In Jesus name, let's take thecup together.
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Jesus.
Jesus, we receive your healingpower in mending hearts today.
Jesus, come and heal.
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Do a surgery on many hearts today.
God.
Jesus, it's only your blood.
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Jesus, I want you to say thiswith me across all campuses.
I may have been shaken, butI'm not broken.
My dream may be delayed, butit's not denied.
I am unbroken.
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I am rising.
I am restored.
In Jesus name, Sam.
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