Watch out for dream killers!
Pastor Lorenzo Edwards
N.S.P.B.C. 1/19/2008
Jesus states in John 10:10 that the thief desire is to come steal kill and destroy your life. And to counter that Jesus say that he has come to give life in abundance. And if you would happen to look up the word abundance. You will find that it means beyond measure. To have an advantage, to be rich, and overflowing. So whenever the enemy knows that God has a plan for his children, whenever he knows that God has a blessing for you, he will try to step in and intercept what is coming your way. He doesn’t want to see you living in abundance he doesn’t want to see you walking upright with the Lord. So he comes to steal your riches, he comes to kill your inheritance and he comes to destroy your faith in God.
And a lot of times when we think that the thief comes to steal us generally think that he comes to take some tangible things from us. You know something’s that we can feel something’s we can see. And when we think that, the enemy comes to kill we may generally think that he comes to kill our body or to put sickness upon us. But I want you to think a little deeper today. Yes all those things are true the devil comes to take all that he can. Your passions your health and he comes to destroy everything that he comes in contact.
But as we see in Gen. 37:5 that when Joseph had a dream. (Let me hear somebody say a dream.) And he related that dream to his brothers. That is when the enemy stepped in. See you can have a dream but it is when you plan to live out that dream, is when the enemy tries to destroy it. When you make up in your mind that I am going to walk in my dreams and the desires and the visions that God has giving me. That is when the enemy looks to see who he may devour. When you began to walk in what you know that God has for you that is when it seems like all hell has broken loose.
See Joseph brothers already disliked him because he was his father’s favorite. His father made him a coat of many colors. But it was not until Joseph had a dream is when the enemy thought that now I got to destroy him. If he began to walk in the dreams and the Visions that God has giving him he will be a success. See it is not until you make up in your mind that you are going to live out your dream that is when the enemy comes in like a flood. But I am here today on divine assignment to tell you to watch out for those dream killers. Don’t let people stop you from dreaming. His brothers said here comes that dreamer. People that you think you can trust with your visions, people you think you can trust with your dreams. And hope they will be there to support you. The devil will use them to destroy your dreams. Does any one here know what I am talking about? Everything could be find in your relationship with someone a brother or a sister or a close relative, and sometimes even your own spouse. Than all of a sudden they just turn left. Things began to fall apart. The devil will use the ones that is close to you. The ones that you thought should support you he uses the same people to distract you.So he can kill your dream, Kill your future, and kill your desire, your ambitions. But I am here to tell you today to watch out for dream killers. Watch out for ones when you say that God has called you to something and they say how you are going to do that. Watch out for the dream killer. Watch out for the one that you share your ambitions with. And they laugh in your face. Watch out for dream killers. Watch out for the ones that cannot see your vision. Watch out for the ones that do not support you. Watch out for the one, that when you say you are going back to get that degree. They say you are too old. Or you are just not smart enough. Watch out for dream killer.
Because what the enemy does he tries to stop you from progressing. If you are not doing the will of God you cannot progress on what God may have for you to do. If you are not walking in your gift and your talent. I don’t care what kind of job you have it just will not satisfy you, I don’t care what you have. If you are not `living your dreams you have faced some dream killers somewhere down the line.
The devil has killed some of us. Even though we are here today even though we are clapping are hands and praising God some of you are not living the dreams that you have, you are not walking in your calling. Some of you had dreams of starting your own business but somebody told you that you can’t. And I want to tell you watch out for those dream killers. Some of you had dreams of finishing college but some obstacles have gotten in your way. But I want to tell you to watch out for dream killers.
Some one here today God is calling you to go higher in him to go closer to him and he has called you to a higher calling, but the enemy is telling you that you are not qualified you are not anointed enough, he is telling you that you don’t want the problems that you will have to face. But I am here to tell you that I rather am with God and face problems. Than be without God and go through problems. If I am going to go through, if I going to have trials and tribulations in my life I might as well go through them with God than without God.
I don’t know about you but as long as I am walking with God he will be bring me through because he said =in his word be of good cheer I have already Overcome the world. And If Jesus had already overcome the world he has already overcame my problems. I just have to do what the Lord has called me to and watch out for dream killers. I tell you to be attentive to your dreams. Because God talks to man in his dreams the Bible tells me in Job. 33:14
For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
When you follow the dreams that God has giving you, when you go forth beside giving yourself a pity patty and you let no one stop your dreams than that shall keep you from the pits of hell. Don’t let no man no women no body from letting you live out the dream that God has for you. If you do you are letting them send your soul to hell. Tell your neighbor say neighbor “I am not going to hell for no body.” I am going to live my dreams. I am going to live out the vision I am going to stand on the word of God. The Bible says the Lord speak to us once he speaks to us twice so we may not go down to the pit and his life from the sword. When we are sleeping when we are resting God is opening up our ears to the vision that he has for us. And I what to tell someone today that it is time to wake up from your dream, wake up from the vision because as long as you are sleep you cannot life out your vision. He then already told you what to do. Wake up and do what God has called you to. Shake your neighbor and say neighbor it is time that you wake up. The alarm clock is going off today. Get up! Walk in your vision. Stand on your dreams. Go back to college get the degree finish your dreams wake up wake up wake up. The Dreamers are coming. Get away from those dream killers. Stop sleep walking and get up and do what God has called you to.
The wisest man that ever lived Solomon wrote in Eccl. 5:3 Ecclesiastes 5:3 (KJV)
3 for a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words. Tell your neighbor Say neighbor stop talking about it and be about it. There is no one that is successful today that did not have a dream yesterday.
Shake somebody hand and say it all starts with a dream it all starts with a desires it all starts with a vision.
Solomon said that from dreams come business. So from business bring wealth. You want to make it? You want to have an abundant life? You want to live your dream? Walk in your dream and posses your dream.
“Numbers 12:7” And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
God has been talking to you, you are not crazy you are not insane, you are chosen by God. You have to just watch out for the dream Killers.
You have to understand this. If he destroys your house, you can build another one. But if he kills your dreams if he destroys your visions. He can destroy your future. And I come to encourage the saints of God on today. Do not stand by and let the enemy destroy your dreams. The things about dreams are that can be passed down from generation to generation. I am standing here today off someone else dreams that the gospel of Jesus Christ will continue. It all starts a Dream.
Joseph had a dream they may have threw the dreamer in a ditch but the dream stayed alive. They sold the dreamer but the dream stayed alive. They cast the dreamer into prison but the dream still lived. And as long as the dream stayed alive the dream can come true, that one day his brothers will bow down to him.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a Dream, and in 1968 they killed the dreamer but they could not kill the dream. The dreams continue the vision is still here because without a vision the people perish.
