When Your Dreams Are Crushed?

WHEN YOUR DREAMS ARE CRUSHED… ?

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

13 LONG YEARS OF DASHED DREAMS… JOSEPH WAS 17, HE IS NOW 30. 13 YEARS OF CRUSHING… I HAVE A DREAM…THAT ONE DAY EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED, EVERY MOUNTAIN SHALL BE MADE LOW… I DREAM WE CAN MAKE THIS A BETTER PLACE… I HAVE A DREAM FOR THE LITTLE CHILDREN… WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT LIFE IS BANKRUPT… WE CANNOT TURN BACK… I HAVE A DREAM TODAY…

My dream is that we can all sing together… I dream that freedom rings across this land. Joseph brought on many of his own dream’s to a nightmare by pride, arrogance and by being a braggart.

Genesis 37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

JOSEPH’S 10 BROTHERS COULD NOT STAND TO SEE HIM. PART OF HIS PROBLEM WAS BIRTHED BY AN ARROGANT ATTITUDE ABOUT HIS DREAMS. SEEMS THE LITTLE BROTHER WAS GOING TO RULE OVER THEM. THEY WERE ALL GOING TO BOW AND KISS HIS FEET? Young brothers in a patriarch society are to be seen not heard? Elder rules? Dysfunctional dad and 2 moms? Crushed?

Genesis 37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. 19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. 20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

IS THAT YOUR FINAL ANSWER? JOSEPH HAD TO STAY FOCUSED BEYOND THE CRUSHING… GOD’S PLAN SEEMS TO BE A GREAT MYSTERY. THE CRUSHING IS NOT THE WORST THING. THE PROBLEMS WERE BUT STEPPING STONES…

Genesis 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

THE DREAM CAME TRUE JUST AS JOSEPH DREAMED IT… JOSEPH’S DAD AND 11 BROTHERS WERE AT HIS MERCY.

Genesis 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

THE ATTAR OF ROSES or OTTO OF ROSE is a very expensive perfume or oil…

The master raises big beautiful roses until they reach maturity. The master cuts the roses from the plant. Then the rose petals are separated from the buds and placed in a VAT with sweet oil. The master then SMASHES, SQUEEZES AND CRUSHES THE ROSE PETALS INTO SMALL PIECES. The rose petals in the oil starts making a “SCUM” like substance on the top of the oil. Then daily a large feature is used to lift the paste from the top of the oil. The feather is rubbed on top of the bottle. After many days the rose oil fills the bottle with the EXPENSIVE PERFUME.

WHEN LIFE BECOMES CRUSHING… CRUSH: something that presses very hard, breaks into pieces, to destroy. Once we feel like a failure we start to worry and question our SELF-VALUE AND SELF-WORTH. When we are crushed, disappointed and our energy is drained we become GRASSHOPPERS IN OUR OWN SIGHT.

THE CRUSHING ON THE CROSS… THE DREAMS ARE DASHED… THE TWO MEN WALKING ON THE EMMAUS ROAD? WE BELIEVED? THE D AT THE END OF THE WORD MAKES IT PAST TENSE.

THE DREAM? REMEMBER? REMEMBER GOD IS WITH US… FROM WHERE WE HAVE COME? …

Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.