Write The Vision
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 8/23/2023Ecclesiastes 1
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez encourages believers to move beyond just speaking their dreams to physically writing their vision down as a way to steward God's revelations and navigate seasons of delay with faith.
Key points
- •Vision must be documented because the human mind lacks the capacity to store every divine revelation without forgetting details over time.
- •Regret often stems from missing 'seasons' or opportunities where God was speaking, but the listener failed to act or prioritize His timing.
- •Prioritizing God (Matthew 6:33) ensures that dreams are added to one's life at the perfect appointed time, preventing the frustration of self-imposed deadlines.
- •Personal integrity and perseverance are required even during 'prison seasons' or times of difficulty, much like the biblical account of Joseph.
- •Writing the vision serves as a roadmap for faith, providing a tangible record to 'run with' when discouragement or delays occur.
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Life application
This week, set aside time to sit alone with God and begin a vision journal. Write down your raw emotions, current struggles, and specific dreams for the next five to ten years, then commit to trusting God's timeline for their fulfillment.
Reflection questions
- What specific 'seasons' or opportunities do you feel you have missed in the past, and how can you release that regret to God today?
- Is God truly your first priority, or are you trying to force Him to follow your personal schedule?
- Like Joseph, are you maintaining your integrity while waiting for your dream to manifest in a difficult environment?
- What is the most 'miserable business' or burdensome task in your life right now that you need to explore with man's wisdom and God's strength?
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0:00come on let's give them a praise
0:02and you may be seated in the presence of
0:06the Lord
0:09all day we've been talking about keeping
0:12the dream alive
0:15keeping the dream alive
0:18but apart from your dream
0:21God has given every one of you a vision
0:26a vision for your life
0:27and if you don't know what that vision
0:29is I suggest that you spend the rest of
0:33your life trying to discover why you're
0:37here on the Earth
0:39and when you discover it there's
0:40something you must do it's very
0:42important here you must do this
0:44you must go beyond just speaking your
0:48vision
0:50because we we we're a people who love to
0:53be vocal
0:55you know we like to say stuff or we may
0:58like to think things
1:02well there's something I believe that
1:03God wants all of us to do today and for
1:07the rest of our lives and that is to
1:10write the vision
1:13it's what I want to talk to you about
1:15this morning
1:16write the vision
1:19your mind does not have the capacity
1:23to store up everything that God would
1:28reveal to you
1:31that's why for me with my phone and my
1:34iPad I have it at my bedside every
1:37single night
1:39and I will sit there
1:41whether I would read the scripture or
1:44I'm going over my sermon notes or I'm
1:48actually typing in thoughts that the
1:51Lord would give to me
1:53why because I know that as the thoughts
1:56are coming if I don't write them down
1:59I'm going to forget it
2:01because my mind doesn't have the
2:04capacity to hold everything that God
2:06would download in me and you should do
2:10the same
2:11many people find themselves
2:14at a crossroad of trying to figure out
2:18whether or not they are loved
2:21appreciated
2:23accepted valued
2:26relevant
2:28and honestly these are all the things
2:31you and I are searching for as we
2:34journey through life we're looking for
2:37love
2:38we want to be appreciated
2:40by loved ones person you're dating
2:43person you're married to your children
2:46your siblings your relatives your family
2:49co-workers your employers we want to be
2:53appreciated and accepted
2:56you know uh there's a lot of people out
2:58there who are trying to change who you
3:00are to fit their narratives
3:04you want to be valued
3:06we're doing a poor job at valuing people
3:12you know in a society where the younger
3:15generation is living this entitlement
3:20entitlement I didn't grow up in an
3:22entitlement and environment
3:24you know they're entitled to things so
3:27because of that they don't value things
3:30anymore
3:31right kids don't value their parents the
3:34way they should
3:35because everything is so easy for them
3:38now
3:39they have no value to appreciate what
3:41Mom and Dad has done for them
3:45to have denied their own self-interest
3:48to give them a better life
3:50send them to college put themselves in
3:53debt
3:54so that they could have a better life
3:58and so these young people grow up today
4:01with the mentality as if their parents
4:04had to do it and it's no big deal it is
4:08a big deal
4:10what your parents did for you it is
4:13a big deal because I will guarantee you
4:1680 percent of the treatment you receive
4:19from your parents they never got it
4:24let that settle in for a moment
4:26right
4:27so I think we need to understand that we
4:30need to Value one another we're all
4:33seeking for that right when you're
4:35dating someone or you're married to
4:37someone if you're not careful in a
4:39relationship you become so common with
4:42the person that you don't value that
4:44person you don't value that woman that
4:46that woman is the one who is working and
4:49still got to come home and still be a
4:51wife and still be a mother and still try
4:53to raise the kids and still try to teach
4:56them and get them to do their homework
4:58and still try to deal with their
4:59craziness and so forth and yes you are
5:02the breadwinner and so forth yeah you
5:03may go out you may make more money and
5:05so forth but the fact that she has
5:08multitasked all of these things to get
5:11done and to so that you can go out there
5:15and come home and still have a home you
5:18ought to value that woman
5:20right
5:22you ought to value that man if that man
5:26is a good provider that man has been
5:29faithful to you that man has done
5:31everything possible and a lot of times
5:34we don't value one another in
5:36relationship we take each other for
5:38granted right but we're looking to be
5:41accepted we're looking to be valued and
5:43we're looking to be what relevant and
5:46all of these things we want in life and
5:49you must understand that God has given
5:51you an incredible opportunity watch this
5:54to explore life for all the things he
5:58desires for you to have
6:01God wants you to explore life
6:03certainly he wants he wants you to
6:07explore life
6:09he doesn't want you to sit in life every
6:11day waking up
6:12not willing to find out to discover
6:16what the day has for you what tomorrow
6:18holds for you so therefore it's very
6:21important to know that some of you have
6:24stopped dreaming
6:27you've packed your bags and are just
6:30waiting for your untimely departure from
6:33this life
6:35let that settle in for a moment
6:38you stop dreaming
6:40you don't dream anymore I get it I get
6:43it life happens to everybody
6:45but you've stopped dreaming you no
6:48longer believe anymore
6:50you no longer say well you know what I'm
6:53going to make something good out of my
6:54life I'm on the planet for a reason you
6:56stop dreaming in fact your bags are
6:59packed and you're waiting for God to
7:01take you out of here
7:03and some of you have the nerve to even
7:05say I'd rather die
7:08than go through what I'm going through
7:10hmm
7:12you no longer have the vision for life
7:16for Life contrary to how you feel and
7:19what other people are saying life is
7:21good
7:23life is good
7:27I'm telling you life is good
7:33you don't believe me
7:35drive by the cemetery and start talking
7:37to the Dead
7:40and you'll discover that they would
7:42trade places with you in a heartbeat
7:46life is good
7:48and here's the sad part about what you
7:50are doing to yourself
7:51as an individual
7:54you will live longer yes you will live
7:57longer
7:58you're going to live longer
8:01and
8:03fortunately as you're living
8:06longer
8:10if you don't unpack your bags
8:14if you don't unpack your bags
8:16and begin to write your vision down your
8:19dreams down
8:21and go after them
8:25you will live with regrets in your
8:28senior years
8:32I submit to some of you today some of
8:34you are living with regrets today
8:39you had a pathway to take
8:43the last 10 years of your life there
8:46were multiple opportunities God gave you
8:49year after year as you were walking
8:52through life opportunities God was
8:55saying by that do that
8:58do this do that start that start this he
9:03was talking to you and here you are in
9:062023 living with regrets
9:11because I hate to be the bearer of this
9:14bad news
9:16some things that you have lost
9:21you will never get it ever again
9:26those losses
9:28were opportunities locked up in seasons
9:34so could it be that you missed your
9:37season
9:38when you needed to start that business
9:42you missed your season
9:43when you should have proposed
9:47you missed your season when you should
9:49have gone to college
9:51when you should have signed up for some
9:53trade
9:55you missed that season when you should
9:57have bought the house
10:00you missed that season when you should
10:02have apologized to the person and now
10:05the person is dead
10:08you're living with that guilt knowing
10:10that you should have apologized
10:14it's very sad that some of you are going
10:16to live with regrets for the rest of
10:19your life
10:20you're going to regret not taking
10:22advantage of times when you had the
10:25opportunity to start something and to be
10:28someone to possess something and to live
10:32through something do not know how many
10:36people have committed suicide
10:38because they were unwilling to go
10:40through
10:42what they were going through
10:44and they will live in Eternal regrets
10:48because they thought what they were
10:51currently going through at that time was
10:54too much
10:55to handle
10:57so therefore they blew their brains out
11:00therefore
11:02they put a knife
11:04to their stomach
11:06the end of their lives not knowing there
11:09was a brighter tomorrow
11:11not knowing every problem has an
11:14expiration date
11:19listen to the word of the Lord today
11:21so God sent me here today to wake up the
11:25dreamer in you
11:27to wake it up
11:29to allow you to see that there's
11:31greatness locked upon the inside of you
11:33and to get your attention so that you
11:37can set your mind to believe that in
11:41spite of all the negatives in this world
11:44you can still dream big
11:48in spite of everything that's going on
11:50you can dream big
11:53Ecclesiastes 1 verse 13 it says and I
11:58set my mind to speak I love this and
12:02explore by man's Wisdom all human
12:06activity that has been done under heaven
12:09it is a what
12:12it is a what
12:13a miserable miserable business
12:17and a burdensome task which God has
12:20given the sons of what men with which to
12:26be busy in distressed oh this when you
12:30look at this scripture man he said put
12:32it up please please leave it there when
12:33you look at this scripture man it it it
12:35makes you kind of like what
12:39God is saying
12:41I set my mind with our job is to set our
12:45mind to explore I love that
12:48life is about exploring
12:51you get up every day
12:53to discover what the Lord has for you in
12:55that day but then it switches it says to
13:00explore men's wisdom our ability to
13:03discern to to use our human activities
13:06if you will our abilities to get things
13:09done and then it says to do it under the
13:11heavens but watch this it is a miserable
13:14business
13:16you think God didn't understand it's
13:18confusing and frustrating what you're
13:20going through
13:21it's miserable
13:23trying to figure out the opposite sex
13:27trying to figure out your boyfriend or
13:28your girlfriend how crazy they are why
13:30they act the way they act trying to
13:32figure out how how did you stay with
13:35that person now 10 years 20 years trying
13:37to figure out if you birth those crazy
13:40kids
13:43trying to figure out why you're
13:46struggling financially trying to figure
13:48out why government don't get their act
13:50together trying to figure out why your
13:53workplace is so toxic it's a miserable
13:57business and a burdensome task
14:01laughs
14:03huge
14:05it's easy to get us all confused
14:08but the word of the Lord says here God
14:12has given the sons of men God gave you
14:16the responsibility to explore and the
14:20power and the ability to navigate
14:23through the burden of discovering who
14:27you are and why you're here on the Earth
14:31so don't you ever get frustrated over
14:34life and think that you can't make it
14:37yes you can just keep on dreaming
14:40Keep On Believing
14:42keep on saying to yourself I know that
14:45God has a purpose for my life
14:48and there's not one person in this
14:50sanctuary of those of you who are
14:52streaming who can say you are not in
14:55search of something we're all in search
14:58of things
15:00every day we wake up we're in search of
15:04a better life we're in Pursuit of
15:06Happiness and so on
15:08we are all searching for this better
15:11life
15:12for some it is pursuit of understanding
15:16God
15:17and you should
15:19you should go after who is God
15:22what is this Faith Journey all about
15:25how can I be stronger in it
15:28how can I not look at man but look at
15:30God who's the author and the finisher of
15:33my faith
15:35how can I go in Pursuit Of Love love
15:40we all want love
15:43you cannot exist without love
15:46so that's our job to pursue happiness
15:50education career a spouse if you so
15:54desire to have children good health
15:58and to have wealth to be able to pay our
16:01bills and pay them on time and to have
16:04enough resources where we're not
16:06financially stressed
16:10don't let anyone
16:12don't you ever let anyone discourage you
16:14from pursuing these things
16:17don't don't let anybody stop you from
16:20pursuing God
16:22they're going to tell you it doesn't
16:24make sense God doesn't exist
16:26don't go to church don't believe in
16:29these preachers don't believe in
16:31religion and they'll come up with all
16:33kinds of stuff but if you know better
16:35that you're not serving religion you're
16:38not serving a man you know God for
16:41yourself you have had a personal
16:43encounter with him do not let anybody
16:46discourage you to go in pursuit of God
16:50don't let anybody discourage you in
16:52going in Pursuit Of Love I don't care if
16:55somebody else broke your heart
16:58I'm telling you love still exists
17:02if you are a Christian you should be a
17:05carrier of love the fruit of the spirit
17:07love should be in you the
17:09characteristics of God God is love
17:14and go searching for love I don't care
17:17if you've been divorced I don't care if
17:19if all the men in your life did you
17:22wrong I don't care if all the women in
17:24your life Did You Wrong love still
17:27exists
17:29[Applause]
17:31you gotta believe that
17:33go in pursuit of happiness
17:36yes and by the way listen happiness
17:40starts at home it starts with you
17:43if if you're not happy nobody else I
17:46don't care if you if you're not happy
17:48and you get hooked up with a happy woman
17:51you are going to make her unhappy if
17:54you're not happy and you get hooked up
17:56with a happy man you're going to destroy
17:58that man's life get happiness first be
18:02happy first and then when you're happy
18:04you can identify What happiness looks
18:06like
18:10come on now
18:13but we're in search of happiness and
18:15we're not happy
18:18looking for a career a spouse children
18:21and our health and so forth listen God
18:25is
18:26your first priority
18:28in everything that you're pursuing God
18:30is your first priority
18:32and when God is your first priority you
18:34won't get distracted nor frustrated when
18:37the list of the things you're dreaming
18:41about don't happen when you schedule
18:44them to happen
18:46hmm let me say it again because somebody
18:49need to hear this
18:50when God is your first priority
18:54you won't get distracted nor frustrated
18:58when the list of things you are dreaming
19:02about
19:03don't happen
19:06when you schedule when you you not God
19:11when you schedule them to happen
19:16when God is your first priority
19:20and you say well you know by 2023
19:23I'm gonna get married
19:26you schedule that
19:342023 I'm going to get out of debt 20 23
19:38I'm gonna buy the car 2023 I'm gonna get
19:41pregnant
19:42you schedule that
19:45so then you get angry at God
19:49when December 31st
19:51comes
19:52and it didn't happen
19:55not knowing it wasn't God's schedule
20:03you trust him see if he's your priority
20:06you trust that he knows best
20:09and when to make things happen so you
20:11don't get angry at God or get angry at
20:13him because as long as God is first in
20:16your life watch this all things will
20:18find their way to you at the perfect
20:21appointed time
20:24can I get an amen in the building and
20:26online
20:28when God is first everything will happen
20:31at the appointed time
20:34we're no different from the people in
20:35the Bible
20:36in Matthew chapter 6 verse 23 Jesus
20:40addressed the concern of his followers
20:43when they were worried about what they
20:46were going to eat
20:49where they would sleep in
20:52you know would they have enough clothes
20:54to keep up with the fashion trends of
20:57society
20:59they were asking him in chapter 6.
21:02you know how are we going to survive
21:06and I love the answer that Jesus gave
21:09them
21:09in 33 of Matthew chapter 6. he said
21:13watch this but first
21:16and most importantly
21:20AMAC
21:21strive after
21:23his kingdom and his righteousness in
21:26other words his way of doing and being
21:28right the attitude and character of God
21:32and all these things will be given to
21:35you also
21:36but when God is first
21:38your dreams will come alive
21:41the word added I love to expound on this
21:44to add dead to your life
21:46he didn't say he's going to give it to
21:48you all at once instantly
21:51God determines
21:53on your journey
21:55what to add
21:57each year each month
22:01come on now
22:02he's the one not you
22:05all your job is is to put him first and
22:07sometimes our vision is blurred because
22:10our goals seems Out Of Reach
22:15simple because we have put our
22:18priorities
22:19out of order God's not first he's not
22:24first
22:25there's a lot of things that are first
22:28and then we kind of put him somewhere
22:30number five maybe he's number 10.
22:33but he's not your first priority but God
22:35must be first
22:36you have to get in alignment with his
22:39word pray frequently get involved with
22:43your church and stay connected there and
22:46keep on growing in the faith
22:51it's amazing
22:53everybody in the world are join in clubs
22:56and and and and and join in all kinds of
22:59stuff
23:00but the people in the kingdom of God
23:02don't want to join the kingdom of God
23:06crazy
23:08it's crazy
23:10how people feel after a long week
23:14especially the young people after a long
23:16working week
23:18they'll tell themselves I got to unwind
23:22I got to unwind so they'll go to happy
23:25hour
23:27they go weekends to clubs and bars and
23:30so forth here's what they're saying I
23:33have worked all week long
23:35I need to just enjoy myself and to have
23:38fun
23:40but the church
23:46we don't see the The Need to Be refueled
23:51the need to find a church that you're
23:54connected to
23:56that you call your covering
23:59to say this is the covering this is
24:03the place I go to every week
24:07to get information
24:09to be empowered
24:12to be strengthened
24:14because I've got a long journey ahead of
24:16me to keep my my vision alive because
24:20there's a lot of things that are out
24:22there trying to kill my dreams
24:26so once God is first then these things
24:29will come love will come I promise you
24:32those of you who are looking for love it
24:34will come keep on dreaming first make
24:37sure you possess love and you get all
24:39get rid of all bitterness and anger
24:42out of your life love will come
24:44happiness will come and if you pursue
24:47your education it will come your career
24:49keep believing and so forth a spouse
24:52your spouse will get better and your
24:54spouse will come your children stop
24:56believing God I am a living witness no
24:59matter what doctors will say to you that
25:01it's medically impossible for you to
25:03have children I don't care what you feel
25:05and your age whatever I had my first
25:08child at 37.
25:11did I wish to have a child at 37 no
25:16I would hope that I got married way
25:20young 30. I mean excuse me 20.
25:23I got engaged at 19.
25:27nine
25:28gee
25:32so I got married at 20.
25:34think about that
25:36but I never had my first child until 37.
25:40that's a long time
25:48long time
25:50so don't tell me
25:51that God won't honor his word
25:55if you're waiting for children
25:57believe
25:59write the vision down believe
26:02if you're believing for God to take you
26:04out of debt follow biblical principles
26:07you've tried the world's principles you
26:09have tried your way it's not working
26:11it's putting you more in debt For
26:13Heaven's Sake try God this time and
26:16stick with this plan
26:22so I urge you
26:24to stop allowing yourself
26:26to be angry at God because you didn't
26:29get
26:31to check off the things that you wanted
26:34in the order that you wanted them
26:38some of you God is blessing you but your
26:40top priority was okay I want to find
26:42love I want to be happy I want to have
26:44an education career and so forth okay so
26:46what God did he gave you the kids first
26:50right and watch this you got the kids
26:54you're not married
26:56right you're not married your wish was I
27:00wish I was married first before I had
27:02the kids but okay you went out and you
27:04had your fun
27:07and kids were produced
27:10you're not even grateful that you have
27:12children
27:14you know how many people sitting around
27:16wish they could have babies
27:19[Applause]
27:23so just because God didn't give it to
27:25him the order that you wanted it
27:28you mad at him
27:30so you like okay I'm bearing my dreams I
27:33don't believe that certain things can
27:34happen anymore no you need to stop it I
27:38urge you to stop it today stop getting
27:40angry at God because you only turn your
27:43attention to him in hopes that he would
27:46give you everything you needed and
27:49wanted exactly when you needed and
27:51wanted them
27:53you cannot bribe God
27:57you cannot force him to do what you want
28:00him to do when you want him to do it
28:03you can so I encourage you today to rise
28:06up and trust God trust God and Trust the
28:09process that he's allowing in your life
28:12trust the process and in the meantime
28:15keep believing
28:18keep dreaming
28:21when I was believing God for children
28:23and it was not happening
28:26did I stop dreaming absolutely not
28:29I could teach myself every day to have a
28:33good attitude about it
28:34and maybe it's not a child you want but
28:36I'm going to use my own experience of
28:38wanting kids to kind of help you that
28:40maybe you're dreaming for something and
28:42you're believing and it's just not
28:44happening and sometimes what God will do
28:47he'll put you in a real awkward position
28:49to watch your attitude because I was
28:52waiting for children I was not having it
28:55I was not seeing my kids born and then
28:58God placed me in a very unusual position
29:01month after month it would have me stand
29:04on this same pulpit and watch parents
29:06bring their children down on baby
29:09dedication day and wanted me to blast
29:13what I wish I had
29:15watch your attitude come on touch
29:18somebody tell them watch your attitude
29:25I could stand here and get mad and angry
29:30at God because why would you want me to
29:34pray for a couple
29:36a family
29:37with their gift in their hands
29:41when I've been praying to you and I'm
29:43supposed to be your leader I'm supposed
29:45to be your man to the best of my ability
29:48I'm doing what you've called me to do
29:49and you won't give me what you want me
29:52to bless
29:56is anybody feeling that way
29:59talk to me here God
30:01you're visiting people's house blessings
30:05and they're inviting you and you go and
30:07they're showing you the bedrooms and
30:09they're showing you the driveway and
30:10you're saying to God but I've been
30:12praying now she ain't safe
30:17she's not a Christian he's not born
30:20again last time I checked they don't
30:24even make that much money
30:27because we all up in people's business
30:31and you want me to come to her house
30:34and then God will set you up
30:37because they know you're a Christian and
30:40they will ask you to bless their house
30:42to bless something you want for yourself
30:44do I have some real people in the
30:46building
30:47[Applause]
30:53but I kept on dreaming
30:55I kept on believing I kept on writing my
30:58vision down
30:59I'm gonna have kids I'm going to have
31:01kids I'm going to have kids I'm going to
31:04have kids I'm going to have kids I'm
31:06going to have kids 31 I'm going to have
31:09kids 32 I'm going to have kids 35 I'm
31:11going to have kids and yes one part of
31:13my mind was saying you're crazy you're
31:15getting older your wife is getting older
31:16all that kind of stuff and so forth and
31:18we have especially women
31:22ah
31:24God
31:26if you don't give it to me by 33
31:30I want it
31:39but I kept on speaking it
31:41you've got to keep the dream alive
31:46and how do you keep the dream alive you
31:49write it down somebody say write it down
31:52you write it your mind cannot contain
31:55all the ideas and thoughts that God's
31:57going to give it to give to you so you
32:00got to learn to write it down start
32:02writing what's in your mind what your
32:05mind is exploring right down what's in
32:10your mind it contains the possibilities
32:12of your future your mind is like the
32:16vault
32:16it's like a vault every day he's given
32:20you no new mercies and that vault is
32:22opening up
32:25and your next season depends on what you
32:29are writing down
32:342023 opens up a brand new door for us
32:40to get in alignment with the word of God
32:42and you have to see that in your next
32:45season God has blessed you God has
32:48prospered you God has opened doors that
32:51no man can shut you've got to see in
32:53your next season God will shut down your
32:57enemies you've got to see in your next
32:59season God has already provided for you
33:02and somebody giving praise
33:05[Applause]
33:08you got to see that
33:12I'm gonna put
33:13God
33:15notice and say God I believe your word
33:18I'm going to place every dream
33:20on your calendar God
33:23which will become Your Divine appointed
33:27time
33:28I'm not going to worry and stress myself
33:30I'm going to write it down because I
33:32believe it shall come to pass and trust
33:34me when you when it's your time
33:38listen to me when it's your time
33:45y'all not with me when it's your time
33:49nobody can stop the door or close the
33:54door that God opens up in your life can
33:58somebody give him praise in this house
34:01today
34:02[Applause]
34:03when it's your time it's just your time
34:06so Keep On Believing keep on praying
34:10keep on rejoicing because when your time
34:13comes glory to God God is going to show
34:16up and show out in your life somebody
34:19giving praise in this house today
34:22[Applause]
34:26so today I command you to come out of
34:30depression
34:31start writing your passions down
34:35especially the ones that are divinely
34:38inspired
34:40it's time to write your vision down
34:43your mind needs to be cultivated by
34:47dreams that are god-given that God has
34:51given you over the last few years
34:53remember Joseph
34:55how Joseph he dreamed that he was going
34:58he was going to be if you will the
35:02deliverer of his family
35:04remember that
35:06remember that he just believed
35:10and people hated him
35:12and guess who hated him
35:14his own Brothers
35:18sometimes your family could be your
35:20worst haters
35:25but I don't care if it's family I don't
35:27care if it's co-workers I don't care if
35:29it's church members do not let anybody
35:32kill your dream don't you ever allow it
35:36keep dreaming oh I felt that one keep
35:40dreaming keep dreaming don't you let
35:43them steal your dream come on hit three
35:46people and tell them don't you let them
35:47steal your dream
35:50won't you let them steal it
35:54Joseph had to go through a series of bad
35:57circumstances to see the manifestation
36:01of his dream
36:03he had to go through and I'm here today
36:06to talk to somebody who's in the
36:08building who's streaming sometimes God
36:10will let you go through difficulties
36:14but keep your eye on the prize
36:17oh keep your eye on the prize I don't
36:22care if you're going through hell keep
36:25your eye on the dream baby it shall come
36:28to pass
36:29[Applause]
36:32it's gonna be worth it
36:35it's gonna be worth it
36:37the weight is almost over it's gonna be
36:41worth it baby all the tears you have
36:44cried all the hustling you did it's
36:47gonna be worth it all
36:51God's about to bless somebody I don't
36:54know who that word is for God's about to
36:57bless bless somebody keep the dream
37:01alive hang in there Square your
37:05shoulders and March on to where God is
37:08leading you
37:10keep the dream alive
37:15I'm gonna try to close this this morning
37:21Joseph had to go through
37:24so you and I will have a testimony
37:27so here's my question to you today
37:30why did you allow bad circumstances
37:34to cause you to bury your dreams
37:37why did you allow circumstances
37:41to cause you to settle in
37:43or settle to be a complainer
37:48someone
37:50who's angry
37:52at parents siblings relatives
37:56co-workers brothers and sisters in the
37:59faith and Friends
38:01Joseph could have gotten angry
38:05cause I'm gonna tell you
38:15can we get some real people up in here
38:16today
38:17I know I'm reading about Joseph
38:19Henry Benito and Tony Marshall Fernandez
38:22is not
38:24Joseph
38:27do you understand what they did to him
38:31maybe you don't know your Bible
38:34say
38:36literally stole the jacket his daddy
38:39gave him
38:42and then what they did
38:46they put him in a pit
38:48go kill an animal
38:50and took the blood of the animal
38:53and plastered it on the jacket and went
38:56back to his daddy and said Joseph is
38:59dead
39:05they put a story together that their
39:08brother is dead
39:10all because of jealousy
39:13and one I mean sometimes one thing a
39:17person do to you can set you back for
39:19life
39:21Joseph was then put and sold into
39:25slavery and then put into a woman's
39:27house and he never touched a woman she
39:29was a fine woman she he never touched
39:32her because some of y'all ladies don't
39:34understand some men will see you butt
39:36naked but won't touch you
39:40they still got integrity
39:42oh look at the brothers come on I need
39:45you to be clapping these sisters ain't
39:47clapping now that they think all men out
39:49there doing the same thing
39:53[Applause]
39:55read your Bible
39:56the Bible is better than the soap opera
40:04he was in the woman's house and she lied
40:07to her husband
40:09who said he tried to rape me
40:13and Joseph ended up into a prison
40:15cool thank you God but he was in the
40:17prison
40:18God start turning ah
40:23I know you feel like you're in the
40:25prison but you better stay right there
40:27like Paul and Silas your midnight is
40:30coming baby your midnight is coming
40:33God's gonna break every chain that has
40:37held you Bound for years
40:40oh don't let me go Pentecostal on you
40:43right now God's about to break every
40:45chain slap three people and tell them
40:48God's about to break every chain of your
40:51life
40:54[Music]
41:00can I finish this
41:01[Applause]
41:03so God told me to tell somebody today
41:05that the reason you stop dreaming is
41:08because you've allowed some people to
41:09Define you
41:12some people to measure your abilities
41:14some people to manipulate you and some
41:18people to embarrass you
41:20but this is your last day for you to
41:23allow people to Define you you know who
41:26you are you are the Apple
41:29of God's eye you are fearfully and
41:34wonderfully made if they don't like you
41:36so what
41:39God created you
41:42they'll tell you you can't do it but you
41:45tell yourself I can do all things
41:48through Christ who gives me the strength
41:51they tried to manipulate you tell them
41:54get your hands off me get your mouth
41:57away from me I'm God's woman I'm God's
42:00man leave me alone I'm about to fly I'm
42:06oh my god oh glory to God oh God help me
42:12here today
42:14[Applause]
42:15yes yes yes
42:18[Applause]
42:18[Music]
42:21I'm about to reach my full potential
42:24[Music]
42:30[Applause]
42:37so let me show you what the scripture
42:39says about letting God be your portion
42:43and not people especially your enemies
42:47let's look at Psalm 119 verse 57 to 64.
42:51it says I have said that I would keep
42:54your words
42:57watch this well first of all it says in
42:58verse 57 you are my portion O Lord
43:02you are my portion O Lord and then it
43:07says I have said that I would keep your
43:10words and and treated your favor
43:15with my whole heart be merciful to me
43:17according to your word
43:20I thought about my ways and turned my
43:24feet to your testimonies
43:27I made haste and I did not delay to keep
43:30your Commandments watch this now the
43:33cords of the wicked have bound to me
43:37a whole lot of people don't like to see
43:39you be free to do what God has called
43:42you to do but here's what the psalmist
43:45says but I have forgotten not forgotten
43:48your law what your law says whom God
43:52bless
43:53if God before me
43:58talk about me all you want
44:00set traps for me all you want but God
44:04has a way to let me eat and drink deadly
44:07things and it won't harm me you can set
44:11all the traps from me but the Lord would
44:14order my steps
44:16[Applause]
44:17oh God oh God I'm feeling this this
44:21morning at midnight I will rise to give
44:24thanks to you because you because of
44:27your righteous judgments
44:30I am a companion to all who fear you and
44:34for those who keep your precepts the
44:36Earth O Lord is full of your mercy teach
44:40us your statue so don't you ever let
44:44in this life things that to stop you
44:47from believing that you are loved
44:49unconditionally you're called to the
44:52kingdom of God that you are blessed and
44:54you have the favor of God on your life
44:56watch this that you are provided for to
44:59fund the things you were born to do if
45:03God put it in you he'll bring the
45:06resources for you to finish it
45:10you have to see yourself that you're
45:12appointed to do great things so today I
45:16take authority over the principalities
45:19that have controlled your mind and your
45:22emotions for years preventing you from
45:25dreaming and writing your vision down I
45:29commanded to leave your mind everybody
45:31touch your head I commend it to leave
45:33your mind I commanded to stop
45:36manipulating you you're a great woman
45:38you're a great man of God and I'm
45:40telling you everything you've been
45:42through in life God is preparing you for
45:44something great come on keep the dream
45:47alive
45:51stop allowing your mind to be overloaded
45:53with things
45:55that you have no control over
45:57people you cannot change
46:01stop it
46:03stop trying to change people who do not
46:05want to change
46:07leave them alone to bury themselves in
46:11their dirty nasty ways but as for you
46:15you serve God
46:18you begin to live out your dreams and
46:21watch what God is going to do in your
46:23life baby I've come to tell you it is a
46:26new day
46:27oh it's a new day it's a new day it's a
46:32new day filled with new possibilities it
46:35is a season to recalibrate and to do
46:38things differently and allow God to lead
46:42you as you go into the future
46:46it is a new day
46:48so my question to you
46:51has a backer chapter 2.
46:54the scripture
46:56never said to us think of it
47:02that's your problem
47:04you're thinking too much
47:09you're too busy thinking you're too busy
47:11talking
47:15or maybe what God sent me here today to
47:18tell all of you
47:20those of you are streaming
47:23you're too busy
47:24accomplishing nothing
47:33where you are going in the next season
47:37requires you
47:39to sit down
47:47be alone with God
47:50[Music]
47:56listen to me where you're going
47:58requires you at this season
48:01to be alone with God
48:04to sit down
48:07sit down
48:10stop going to some of the places you're
48:12going
48:15stop talking to some of the people
48:16you're talking to
48:20and according to habakkuk chapter two I
48:22want them to put it up
48:25it's telling you
48:27watch this it never said think the
48:30vision
48:34then the Lord answered
48:36okay God I got a vision
48:39a vision from what should I do here's
48:40what the Lord says
48:42he said right
48:45the vision
48:47then say think
48:50he didn't say stored up in your brain
48:54write it down
48:57you know why a lot of you won't write
49:02because when you write
49:05and you begin to read what you wrote
49:10it's the raw you
49:16and you try to cover up
49:19you
49:22because right in the vision we have a
49:25pin please
49:26a pin anybody
49:28get me a pen get me a pen yeah thank you
49:31she threw that pen she threw it she
49:34threw it she's like wait the pastor is
49:36asking for a pen you're slow
49:41he says write the vision
49:43watch this
49:45make it plain on tablets
49:48we use paper today
49:50in those days
49:52they had stones
49:55or in this case it was really Stones it
49:59wasn't the Scrolls or something like
50:01that they used
50:02scripture says write it down
50:06so on August the 13th
50:092023
50:14I woke up this morning Lord
50:17wasn't feeling so well
50:20I had a very difficult week
50:24I'm feeling kind of low empty bitter
50:31in 19
50:3399 I got a divorce
50:36I was left with two children
50:40I've never recovered since
50:49battled breast cancer
50:52and
50:54it has wiped up my life savings
50:59my child is suffering depression and
51:02it has caused me to be in a depression
51:09financially I don't know what I'm going
51:12to do next month
51:17but God
51:21you told me
51:24you will give me the desires of my heart
51:28so here's my desire
51:33heal me first God to heal my emotions
51:38I'm angry
51:41I'm frustrated
51:45I want to behold again I want to have a
51:48spouse one day
51:50to love me
51:52I want to see my children get off drugs
51:54and my children to be strong healthy
52:00I want to change that workplace that job
52:02I don't like it there anymore
52:06in fact God you know I like it but just
52:08replace the manager
52:23replace that person out of my life
52:28five years from now God
52:30I want to pay off my house
52:33by 2025 I want to close on my house
52:38I want to be completely debt free
52:41I'd like to see my church be completely
52:44debt free
52:46I mean
52:47right
52:48the vision
52:50down
52:52because your mind
52:57is like a vault
53:01that has your next season in it
53:06and when you write the vision watch this
53:10you've got to make it plain
53:14be honest this is this this is your
53:17Journal this is your intimate time with
53:20God this is it
53:23that you're talking back to God and he
53:24says make it plain watch this that he
53:28may run who reads it wait a minute now
53:31it's anybody that when you take it back
53:33up
53:34in those moments where you're
53:36discouraged or maybe just need to remind
53:38yourself you can go back and such a date
53:40these are the things that I wrote
53:43so you know what
53:44I'm gonna run with it
53:47maybe you shared with someone if they
53:50read it they run with it watch this and
53:52I love it for the vision is yet for an
53:55appointed time
53:58it's only for an appointed time the
54:00vision in other words you could write it
54:02down and for a season it will just be
54:05words on a piece of paper
54:12but the Bible says it will not lie
54:18though it tarries
54:21just wait
54:24all you got to do be patient wait for it
54:26because it will surely come
54:30it will not Tarry
54:33I want to pray
54:35this
54:36afternoon
54:38for people are streaming and those in
54:40the house I want you to buy your heads
54:42this morning because
54:43if there's ever a Time
54:47you need to maximize the moment
54:52seize this moment of opportunity
54:55and right
54:58your vision down it is now
55:04do not let 2023
55:07end
55:08and you not write down what you're
55:10believing for for the next 10 years
55:14if not 10 years from now you're going to
55:17live
55:18with regrets
55:20father
55:23I've done my best to
55:27get them to understand
55:31it's action time
55:35I've been talking too long
55:38they've been thinking too long
55:42it's time they now write down
55:45their dreams
55:48and for them to dream big
55:53for them to not allow the circumstances
55:55of life
55:56to stop them from dreaming
55:59today
56:01I hope every person whether online or on
56:05campus
56:07would make this truly a new day for them
56:13you know that man that is sitting in his
56:15seat watching
56:17fired by the internet YouTube you know
56:21this message literally
56:24hit him hard
56:29if there's ever a message
56:32that has affected his life this is the
56:34one
56:38there are many women
56:41who almost gave up
56:44but today I see them with the shovels
56:48go into the grave site
56:51and they're digging up the stuff that
56:55they were dreaming about in the past
56:59and I believe you're going to breathe
57:01into that idea
57:04breathe into the words
57:07that they're going to put down on these
57:10pages
57:12I thank you that they're going to put
57:15you first
57:17when you're first
57:19then just we just need to ask you for
57:22things but we're not to tell you the
57:25order in which we want them
57:28we leave that to you things will be
57:30added
57:33so we thank you because you're first
57:36our vision will come alive
57:40I pray for a Ronald
57:44Somebody by the name of Ronald
57:47I pray for him today
57:50that in his next season
57:54in his next season
57:57he will see
58:00that the words that he has declared in
58:02the past
58:04is manifest
58:06we give you praise for it
58:08in the mighty name of Jesus
58:11amen I want those of you streaming
58:13everybody to stay where you are
58:16and I want you to look at me for those
58:18of you are streaming
58:21it does not matter what you have been
58:23through
58:26I want you to write your vision down
58:31perhaps in the chat right now you need
58:35to write what are you dreaming about
58:38is it healing is it Deliverance it is
58:41for your children it is it for your
58:43parents is it Financial Freedom is it to
58:46own a home what are you dreaming
58:49what are you dreaming about write it
58:52down
58:53and watch what God will do in your life
58:56here's what I'm going to ask
58:58everyone to do
59:03I have my new Journal that we've put
59:06together this was birth out of a sermon
59:08I preached
59:10and I was inundated with calls Bishop I
59:13thought you had the journal ready that
59:15Sunday
59:16I said no I was just using it as a
59:18prompt
59:20and the lord gave me an idea
59:23where every day you can put the date
59:26down
59:28and have a raw conversation with god
59:32start writing stuff down
59:36it's your next season Journal
59:39and I hope you'll get your copy in the
59:41lobby
59:43and start the journey
59:47of fulfilling your dreams is there a
59:51Ronald in the house Ronald
59:55if there's a Ronald wave your hand raise
59:57your hand up Ronald
59:59is there one I don't see any
60:02there's no Ronald in the house okay all
60:05right
60:06if you're a Ronald online indicate that
60:09you're Ronald
60:10and I want to show this book into
60:12someone's name Ronald
60:15Ronald anybody has a father
60:18my dad's name
60:20was Randall
60:22is that your dad come on sweetheart I'll
60:25give it for your dad then
60:27come on
60:28[Music]
60:32I guess it was meant to be for him I
60:35wrote in it Toronto
60:37may the Lord bless you a thousand times
60:39more as he has promised Deuteronomy 1
60:4311. I dedicate this journal to all those
60:46who will find themselves on a journey of
60:48discovering their purpose those who have
60:50a passion to become their the best
60:52version of themselves
60:54you are at a pivotal point in your life
60:57a season where things are changing
60:59rapidly seize the moment as you move
61:02into the next season pray and purpose to
61:05become all that God has called you to be
61:08and do so your footprints on the Earth
61:12make an incredible impact on the world
61:15get ready to embrace your next season to
61:18tell people
61:19I Told You So
61:23that God was going to do it God bless
61:25you God bless you God bless you
61:30okay
61:33he doesn't have dementia like his
61:34dementia isn't anything like what people
61:36thought it was going to be so I feel
61:38like it's a blessing he couldn't move he
61:41couldn't talk wow
61:46and he's 80 years old can you imagine
61:48she said her dad is 80. and he suffered
61:52from dementia
61:54and now you're saying he's able to drive
61:57on his own
61:59he goes to the gym
62:01he's traveling he's doing all these
62:04amazing things and he keeps saying don't
62:06talk to me and tell me that I have
62:08dementia
62:10she's saying don't her dad is telling
62:13them don't talk to me to tell me I have
62:15dementia
62:17[Applause]
62:22I think you understand how amazing God
62:24is
62:25because what a perfect gift to give to
62:28her dad
62:30to write down is thoughts
62:33[Applause]
62:38thank you sweeter thank you thank you
62:41thank you extend everybody extend
62:42everybody wow
62:45wow so man
62:47did you get something from the word of
62:49God today
62:50[Applause]
62:53for those of you are streaming you can
62:55go online quickly right now at the Faith
62:58Center int.org our henryfernandez.org
63:00and you can purchase the QR code will be
63:02there you can purchase online we'll ship
63:04it to you or if you live in the area you
63:07can come and pick it up but I want you
63:08to go to the bookstore in the lobby and
63:10get your Journal today Father we thank
63:12you for the word
63:14that we have received today you said it
63:17we believe it
63:18it shall come to pass we're going to
63:21write the vision down and I declare it
63:24that Faith In Our God will always move
63:27mountains out of our Lives God bless you
63:29love you all see you on Wednesday make
63:31it a great afternoon everybody God bless
63:33you