Killing Dreams

Killing Dreams
Last week some ladies was sharing with me about how they were being mistreated by their mothers and could not understand why. These ladies are single mothers and students in school trying to better themselves and pursue their dreams. They depend on their parents for help because they feel as if they don't have anybody else, but they are hurting because of how they are being treated and they feel as if they are stuck. My heart was filled with compassion and i knew at that moment  it was a time for ministry.

We are all here for a purpose, regardless of what our lives look like today. We were born with dreams and our dreams are our purpose that God has placed in us to pursue. See it's like this, we were not placed on this Earth to please ourselves nor other people, but we were placed here to please God.  God knows exactly what it is that He wants us to do, where He wants us to go and what we are capable of doing. We make the mistake of making our decisions based on what other people think and how it makes us feel.  Later on in life we end up regretting some of those decisions.

We are all born with a gift. There is something great in each of us. Other people will see your gift before you do. Satan doesn't want us to recognize our greatness. That is his biggest fear because when we recognize our greatness and began to pursue our purpose we become a powerful nation. Satan will use as many people as he can to keep us from doing just that. To keep us from pursuing our dreams/purpose satan will find those what i call "dream killers", but he doesn't have to go very far because most of those "dream killers" are members of our household, also known as family members. Well Tamara, why do say that? Is what most of you may be thinking. It is not I who says it I can only agree based on experience.
Matther 10 verses 34-36 says "Think not that I am come to send peace on Earth: I came not to send peace but a sword. For I am come to set a man against his father, daughter against her mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law and a man's foes (enemies) shall be they of his own household."  There it is right there.  Everybody will not agree or like your purpose. Apostle Ron Carpenter said today "Hardest people to see you going anywhere are the family members who know you best." It's true. It hurts too because we don't expect for our family members to be the ones to criticize our dreams, to talk down to us, to hinder us from going certain places, to give such negative opinions on decisions we make, but they do. They become our dream killers. Don't get me wrong, that may not be their intentions, for some anyway, but that's what they do. Those family members could be parents, siblings, spouses, grandparents, aunts,uncles, children,etc.

The two ladies that I spoke of earlier their mothers talk down to them. Telling them that they are not going to make it or be anything. They are wasting their time going to school when they have children to raise. These women keep striving to prove something to their mothers but they don't need to worry about that. All they need to focus on is pleasing God. That goes for all of us. They didn't understand why their mothers treat them the way that they do. I informed them that their mothers recognize something great in them that they probably don't recognize in themselves and their mothers are afraid that they will pursue their greatness. So they are trying to kill it.
Even with children that wants to leave home to go to a particular college, go into the service or pursue a career. Some parents will keep them from going to where ever it is that they want to go or attempt to talk them out of what it is that they want to do. Maybe it's because they are afraid for that child to leave home or they feel that child will not have a future in the career they have chosen. Regardless, you are killing dreams. Parents, you don't know your child's purpose and what God has called them to be or to go. Again, we are not here to please ourselves or others we are here to please God.
Spouses will hold one another back from pursuing their dreams. The husband may want the wife to stay at home or keep the job that she has because of the money she makes. The wife doesn't agree with her husband quitting his job to start that business that he has always dreamed of. She is afraid that it will not work and they will lose all that they have.

See what i mean. Satan will use members of our household against us to keep us from pursuing our dreams because of fear.  That's why Jesus went on to say in verses 37-38 "He that loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me."
Yes, we are suppose to love our parents,children and all our family members. But not more than we love the Lord because when God says go we have to pick up and go. You know what's in your heart. You know what it is God is telling you to do or where to go. Listen to the voice of the Lord. Beware of how much you share with others and the voices that you allow to get in your head. If it's negative cast it out. If it's wicked cast it out. If  it's unfruitful, cast it out. If' it's not what God has said to you, cast it out. Cast out the voices of "dream killers" and take heed to the voice of God.