Don't Let Your Dream Die In The Pit

Don’t Let Your Dream Die In The Pit

Gen. 37

• As Humans we like or tend to focus on the NEGATIVE

• We like to look at the negative as if it tells the whole story

o Each one of us tonight sit in this place as an incomplete story.

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• GOD LIKES THE NEGATIVE

o If it wasn’t for the negative GOD couldn’t show out like He does

o If it wasn’t for the negative He couldn’t bust into the middle of your situation and blow you mind with His awesome power

o He couldn’t just turn the negative into a positive like He does

• GOD LIKES THE NEGATIVE

o In order to understand the negative we first must understand Darkness

• The Understanding of Darkness (Gen. 1:2)

o Darkness is the image and the appearance of everything negative.

o Darkness is an opportunist.

 Seizing every moment that is available.

o Darkness is a very dominant force to be reckoned with.

 Because it is so powerful its stubborn.

• GOD LIKES THE NEGATIVE

o If we go back and look it was in a negative situation where the Bible begins recording.

 The very story of creation begins with a negative.

 Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. 2 And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

 The very first recorded act of God was in the dark.

• Why? Because what He was working on wasn’t ready for the light.

• The Dark Room

o As we take a picture there is a very quick yet small burst of light onto the roll of film.

 This image is burned into the film and it awaits to go through the process of development

o The process of development must be taken in an environment that will insure that the image will be preserved.

 And that all necessary measures must be taken to protect the image from premature light.

o This piece of film that goes through the process of the dark room is called a negative.

o After all of the solvents and solutions it’s been through

 After the fan and the drying has taken place and now the negative has light applied to it.

 The positive image begins to come forth

• Something that was preserved by darkness

• Something that was there all along …you just couldn’t see it

• Don’t let your dream die in the pit

o God wants to develop you

 He sees what your not and he wants to make you what you could be

o Don’t fight the pit

 He sees a diamond in the rough

o Don’t fight the pit

• The pit

o The pit is a place separation

o The pit is a place of darkness

o The pit is a dry place

o The pit is a place in the wilderness

 In the midst of a barren land

o The pit is a place where you loose your identity

o The pit is a place where you feel cut off

• Don’t fight the pit

 Even though the pit is full of the negative it can only produce the positive

o The pit comes to us in many forms

 All of us at some time or another have found ourselves in the pit

• If your having problems with your children ---your in a pit

• If your in a place of confusion ----your in a pit

• If your battling financial problems ---your in a pit

• If your battling material problems ----your in a pit

o You cant get discouraged in the pit

• Many men of God through-out the Word have found themselves in the pit

o Moses asked to see the glory of God

 Moses found himself between a rock and a hard place with the hand of God covering the only way out. (ex. 34)

 Job

• Lost everything he had ..yet he kept on praising God

 The three Hebrew children

• Found themselves in a fiery furnace

o Yet there was a Fourth Man in The Fire

 Daniel found himself in the lions den

• But the angel shut the lions mouth

 Jonah – found himself in a pit of his own doing

• 3 days in the belly of the whale

 Paul and Silas –found themselves in prison

• But even though the circumstance they still had a praise

 Peter found himself in jail

• But he had such a steady assurance in God that he fell asleep

o The angel had to smite him to get him up