What Do We Do When We 

Lose Our Dreams 

11-30-25  Freddie Valero

1. Dreams are _________________ in the pit 

 So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?”  Genesis 37:10 NKJV 

I sink in deep mire, Where there is no standing;  I have come into deep waters,  Where the floods overflow me.  Psalm 69:2 NKJV 

HOW TO KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE THROUGH DIFFICULTIES

2. Keep a right _____________ with God 

Deliver me out of the mire, And let me not sink;  Let me be delivered from those who hate me,  And out of the deep waters.  Psalm 69:14 NKJV

Joseph called the name of the firstborn [j]Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.” 52 And the name of the second he called [k]Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”    Genesis 41:51-52 NKJV 

3. ___________________ dreams are still working even if we forget. 

Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke [a]roughly to them. Then he said to them, “Where do you come from?”  And they said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”   So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.  Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them.  Genesis 42:7-9 NKJV 

4. _______________ your dreams 

STUFFING MY PAIN HURTS ME MOST

1. God wants to ____________ and ______you 

 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV 

2.  ___________ your ________ to surface 

Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.  James 5:16 NKJV 

He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.  Proverbs 28:13 NKJV 

3. ______________ yourself to experience _________________  

Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Make everyone go out from me!” So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.  And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it.  Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph; does my father still live?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence.  Genesis 45:1-3 NKJV 

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps.  Psalms 40:2