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A Dream Worth Millions
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| I just feel led to say something. | |
| There's this little chapter in there in the book that I talk about restoration, and I just felt that so strong when you said that. | |
| And this is a true story, Jim. | |
| A guy by the name of Steve Wynn, who is a famous developer in Las Vegas. | |
| He's built the Bellagio and all the great hotels there, the Wynns. | |
| Many give him credit for kind of bringing back Vegas. | |
| And he bought a painting. | |
| It's a true story. | |
| He bought a painting, a Picasso, back in 1991 for $50 million. | |
| And it was called Le Rêve, which is French for the dream. | |
| A painting called the Dream. | |
| And he would hang it in the lobbies of his hotels because he loved it and he had an emotional attachment to it. | |
| This is his own words. | |
| Because it represented his life in the dream. | |
| And he would hang it in the hotels of where he was and all the hotels that he had. | |
| Well, five years later, an investor from New York called him and said, I want to buy the dream. | |
| I want to offer you $139 million for it. | |
| He paid $50 million. | |
| So he sold it five years later. | |
| And to celebrate, he had a huge party in Vegas at one of his hotels. | |
| All of the wealthiest, famous movie stars, they flew in to say goodbye to the dream. | |
| While he was up talking, true story, while he was up talking, he has an eye disease. | |
| He lost his balance, and he almost fell, and he put his arm out, and his arm went through the painting that was on an easel behind him. | |
| It destroyed the painting so much so that the investor said, I withdraw my check. | |
| I do not want that painting. | |
| The dream is torn. | |
| I mean, if you're a preacher, you know where I'm there. | |
| The dream is tattered. | |
| It's worthless. | |
| But Steve Wynn loved that painting so much, he searched the world, went to Europe, and found what he called a surgeon of art. | |
| Yes. | |
| Brought him in, and it took, listen to this, talk about restoration. | |
| One year of working on the tear. | |
| And when he got through, it was so remarkable that when you looked at the front of the painting, you could not tell. | |
| The greatest experts could not tell. | |
| When you looked at the back, if they could see inside what had happened. | |
| But here's the point. | |
| This is what's remarkable. | |
| The same investor who said, it's worthless, it's trash, the dream is torn and tattered and worthless, called Steve Wynn back. | |
| And even though he offered him $139 million before it was torn, after it was restored, he offered him $155 million. | |
| It was worth more after it had been torn and devastated. | |
| You're worth more after you've been restored than you were before you went through what you went through. | |
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Believe Through Trials
00:00:51
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| I will restore the years the canker worm and the locust have taken from you. | |
| And when God gets through with you, you'll be more valuable than you were because of what you went through. | |
| Because of the tears that you prayed, and the trials that you went through and the faith that had to be developed in that fiery furnace. | |
| God says, I'll use all of that to make you more valuable for my glory and to the kingdom. | |
| And I really believe that that is what God is doing in people's lives. | |
| When he allows our dreams to be torn, our marriages to be tattered, our life turns into a nightmare, we don't quit. | |
| We don't give up. | |
| That's it. | |
| Everything you're dreaming for is on the other side of not giving up. | |
| Don't you give up. | |
| Don't give up. | |