🗣 Joseph’s brothers, being jealous of him and offended that he dared to believe a dream that he may one day rule over them, sought to do the one thing that would ensure that the dream 🌌🌠 never materialized: kill him. How would you like to be the victim of a plot to take your life to ensure that your dream never materializes? The truth is we all are a victim of dream killers. Satan works each day to plot and strategize how to kill you to ensure that your dream is never realized. That is why the Scriptures say, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8) 🙏 Thank God that we have His grace which abounds greater when we are being attacked by the enemy. And of course, when God does allow us to go through attacks, as He did with Joseph, He does it in order to work it together for our good. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

🤜 Though some of us will face physical attacks and betrayal like Joseph, the real battle that we all have to overcome is not physical, but spiritual and mental. It is the battle of the mind and spirit, or spiritual warfare. The enemy can bring you physical harm, but only you can allow the dream to be killed. The enemy uses various tactics that I call dream killers to ensure that our dreams are not realized. We must learn how to identify them and not give place for them in our lives. These dream killers are:

• Doubt – the Devil wants us to lose confidence in ourselves and our dreams so that we may stop dreaming and pursuing the dream. Be willing to be wrong, but reject doubt at all costs. Doubt is double-mindedness which creates an instability that guarantees your dreams will not be realized. James 1:2-8
• Fear – the Devil wants us to be afraid of success and/or failure more than we fear God. We are called to fear only one person: God. Be willing to fail and quickly recover so you can embrace the responsibilities of success as you realize your dreams. 2 Timothy 1:7
• Unforgiveness – the Devil wants us to hold grudges against those who harm us, which can block God’s ability to forgive us and become a weight that keeps us from running towards our dreams. Forgive and forget. You may be hurt again but you will never regret forgiveness. This will protect your destiny as your dreams are realized. Matthew 18:35, Mark 11:25-26
• Greed – the Devil wants us to fall in love with the trappings of success as our dreams are realized and love things more than God and people. Never be motivated by money, only by a love for God and people. This will keep your dreams pure. 1 Timothy 6:9-10
• Sin – the Devil wants us to compromise in our Christian walk and in our heart which keeps us from being intimate with God and pleasing Him. This keeps God from getting the glory as our dreams is realized. Reject sin at all costs. This will keep your dreams sanctified. 1 John 3:4
• Unbelief – the Devil wants us to doubt our faith so that we may question who God is and no longer recognize Him as the source of our dreams and manifestation. Even when you doubt, seek the help of God to give you the grace to believe. This will keep you in fellowship with God as your dreams are realized. Mark 9:23-24
• Discouragement – the Devil wants to use the daily challenges of life and our failures to discourage us from pursuing our dreams. Never, never, never give up. Never give up no matter what. This will give you the perseverance to persist until your dreams are realized. 1 Samuel 30:6
• Procrastination – the Devil will distract you with other things that bring you temporary pleasure to keep you from doing the heavy lifting to bring your dreams to pass. Have a mind to work. Work is worshiping God with your talents and procrastination is an attempt by the enemy to cause you to worship yourself rather than God. Working unto the Lord almost guarantees that your dreams will come to pass. Proverbs 6:6-11
• Lust – the Devil wants you to crave the trappings of success as your dreams are realized and abuse your body and mind. Cultivating an appetite only for the things God allows you to be moderate in all things so you can enjoy the fruits of your dreams without violating your vows and obligations. 1 John 2:15-17
• Pride – the Devil wants you to believe that you did it through your own ability, to think more of yourself than you ought to think, forget how you got there, who brought you there, and focus more on your talents and smarts. Remember that pride comes before the fall. It is a human smokescreen that allows us only to see what we want to see. This is a sure way to destroy everything that God has blessed you with. Proverbs 16:18-19

🌌🌠 Joseph did not allow the dream killers to get to him, and not only did his dream come true, but God used him to save a nation and a people who became a catalyst for the coming of the Messiah. Our dreams are never about us, they are always about those who God wants us to bless. Who may be missing out on a blessing because you have not realized your dreams?🙏

“And Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Please come near to me.’ So they came near. Then he said: 'I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.’” - Genesis 45:4-8

My prayer for you is that you would recognize the power and influence that the Lord has given you so that you may use it to protect others and advance God’s will.

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