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Welcome to part 1 of this exciting series
where you'll learn about dreams that
lead to greatness, fame, recognition
and power.
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Joseph
Famous bible dreamer and interpreter
Let’s take off with this familiar one…
and learn a few things from there.
The Dreams
One night as Joseph slept he had
a dream.
In his dream he and his brothers were
bundling up stalks of grain into sheaves
and his brothers sheaves all bowed down to
his sheaf.
Another time Joseph had a different dream.
He dreamed that he saw the sun, the moon, and
eleven stars and they all bowed down to him.
He told his brothers about the dream. Which just
made them mad at him. He also told the dream to
his father, Jacob.
Jacob scolded him for telling
such a thing,
but he kept thinking about what Joseph had said.
One day Jacob sent Joseph out to see his brothers
who were caring for the sheep. Joseph found his
brothers but when they saw him, they were still so
angry that they threw him in a pit and took his coat.
They sold Joseph to a caravan that was traveling
to Egypt.
In Egypt Joseph was a slave but he was tricked and
thrown in prison. In prison he met the King’s cup
bearer who was also a
prisoner. The cup bearer
was freed, however, and went back to serving
Pharaoh his wine.
Pharaoh was the most powerful man in all of Egypt...
as powerful as the president of the United States today.
Whatever he said was law but today he was very troubled.
He had been having strange dreams that he could
not understand.
When the cup bearer heard this he told the Pharaoh
a story. When he was in prison he had a strange dream.
He dreamed he saw a grape vine with three branches.
When the grapes were ripe he squeezed them into
Pharaoh’s cup and gave it to him. Another prisoner,
named Joseph, explained that the dream meant that
in three days he would
be freed.
Another prisoner, Pharaoh’s baker, also had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking with three baskets of bread
on his head and
birds flew down and ate the bread.
Joseph explained that the dream meant
that in three
days the baker would be killed.
In three days it all happened as Joseph said it would.
Dreams Open Doors
Pharaoh sent for Joseph to
interpret his dreams.
Joseph explained that he could not interpret dreams
but that
God would give him the
answer.
Pharaoh told Joseph his dreams.
In his first dream, he saw seven fat cows come out
of the Nile River. They were followed by seven skinny
cows that ate the fat cows but still they were as
skinny as before.
In the second dream there was a stalk with seven full
ripe ears of grain. Out of the stalk grew seven
other ears, thin and dry and the thin dry ears
swallowed up the full ripe ears.
Both dreams mean the same thing, explained Joseph.
God is telling you what will happen. There will be
seven years of record harvests followed by seven
years of famine. You must store grain from the first
seven years to feed your people during the years of
famine.
Rewards
Pharaoh was so grateful to
Joseph
that he made him governor of all of Egypt.
Joseph had dreams of greatness. You may be
having the same without knowing it.
Question is:
Do you know how to catch your dream before
it fades into obscurity?
Or better still, do you understand what God
is trying to tell you through your dreams?
In case you think this only happened in Bible
days... below
you'll see how dreams helped
dream helped many people to
become world
famous.
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Jack Niklaus
World Champion Golfer
Some dreams can help solve
scientific
problems, paint a masterpiece, or
improve
at sports.
World champion golfer Jack
Niklaus told
a reporter in 1964 that he used
dreaming
to achieve championship standards.
"Last Wednesday night I had a
dream, and
it was about my gold swing. I was
hitting
them pretty good in the dream, and
all at
once I realized I wasn't holding
the club
the way I've actually been holding
it
lately.
"I've actually been having
trouble
collapsing my right arm, taking
the club
head away from the ball, but I was
doing
it perfectly in my sleep.
"So when I came to the course
yesterday
morning, I tried it in the way I
did in
my dream and it worked.
"I shot a 68 yesterday and a
65 today and
believe me it's a lot more fun
this way.
I feel kind of foolish admitting
it but
it really happened in my dream.
All I
had to do was change my grip just
a
little."
Jack had a dream that rocketed him
to
success, fame and prosperity. You
may be
having the same without knowing
it.
Question is:
Do you know how to catch your
dream before
it fades into obscurity?
Or better still, do you understand
what God
has been telling you through your
dreams?
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Francis of
Assisi
Saint/Founder - Franciscan Monks
Dreams played an important part in
the
life of St. Francis of Assisi.
They gave
him the strength to persevere with
his
life of poverty and establish his
order
of Franciscan Monks.
Just before a difficult interview
with
Pope Innocent III Francis dreamed
he saw
a tall tree with wide thick
branches.
The nature-loving saint looked
upon it
with wonder and realized that as
he looked
he grew in size until he was the
same
height as the tree.
When he touched its branches the
tree bowed
in reference. Francis took this as
a message
from God that Pope Innocent III
would
accept his ideas.
He did.
Saint Francis had a dream that
brought him
favor, recognition and respect.
You may be
having the same without knowing it.
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Adolf Hitler
Nazi Dictator
During the first world war
28-year-old Adolf
Hitler was a corporal in the
German infantry
fighting in the trenches on the
French
Front.
One night he dreamed of being
buried beneath
an avalanche of earth and molten
iron.
He could feel the terrible pain of
being
fatally wounded. He woke up and
felt compelled
to leave the trench.
As soon as he was clear of the
dugout he heard
a loud explosion behind him.
The trench he had been sleeping in
only
moments before was now a
smouldering pile
of dirt, hot metal and blood.
This event convinced Hitler he was
invincible
and destined for greatness.
Hitler had a dream that saved him
from
instant death (by the way,
millions of folks
around the world would wish he
never had that
dream). The point I'm trying to
bring
out here is that even you may be
having dreams of impending danger
without knowing it... and without
taking action about it!
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Oliver Cromwell
Founder of the English Parliament
When he was a young man Oliver
Cromwell dreamed that a huge
female figure
drew back the curtain around his
bed and
told him that one day he would be
the
greatest man in England.
The dream puzzled him because the
greatest
man in England was the king and
Cromwell
noticed that his dream made no
mention
that he would be king.
In 1648 after a bloody civil war
Cromwell
signed the king's death warrant.
He was now the greatest man
in England.
Oliver had a dream that
prepared him to
for the pivotal role he played in
shaping
the course of history. You may be
having the same without knowing
it.
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Charles Dickens
Famous Novelst
One night Charles Dickens dreamed
he saw a
woman in a red shawl with her back
toward
him.
"I am Miss Napier," she
said as she spun around.
The dream seemed to be nonsense
but the
next night after giving a literary
reading
some friends came backstage and
introduced
him to a woman they wanted him to
meet.
Her name was Miss Napier.
Charles had a dream that helped
him
find love, feel wanted and
appreciated.
You may be
having the same without knowing
it.
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Elias Howe
Inventor of the Sewing Machine
Even the sewing machine owes its
invention
to a dream.
Elias Howe was stuck for a
solution for
a working model.
One night he dreamed that a savage
king
ordered him to invent a sewing
machine.
When Howe said he'd tried but
couldn't
the whole tribe raised their
spears to
kill him.
Just before the fateful moment
Howe noticed
that each spear had a hole in it
just above
the point.
This was the vital clue needed for
the
commercial perfection of the
sewing machine.
Elias had a dream that helped him
solve
a big problem. It gave birth to
the
sewing machine, one of the key
inventions
that helped move human
civilization
forward.
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Niels Bohr
Physicist
Physicist Niels Bohr was trying to
understand
the nature of the atom.
One night he dreamed of a sun
composed of
burning gases with planets
orbiting it
attached by fine threads.
When he awoke he realized that
this was the
solution to the problem that had
perplexed
him for so long.
It explained the structure of the
atom
and heralded the birth of atomic
physics.
Bohr went on to win the Nobel
Prize for Physics.
Bohr's son Aage also became a
physicist
and shared the Nobel prize for
Physics in 1975
Niels had a dream that helped him
solve
a knotty scientific problem. You
may
not be a scientist but everyday
you may
be facing challenges in other
critical
areas of your life.
You may be receiving the solutions
to
such problems in the dream without
even
knowing it.
I hope you've been enjoying this
series
on dreams...
In
the next email in a few days, you will
see
how warnings in the dream can help
save
your life, or that of a loved one.
Expect it in a few days!
God
bless you!
elisha
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