"Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him still more. And he said to them, Listen now and hear, I pray you, this dream that I have dreamed: We [brothers] were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, "my sheaf" arose and stood upright, and behold, your "sheaves" stood round about my "sheaf" and bowed down! His brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or are you going to have us as your subjects and dominate us? And they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said. -The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Sometimes, your dreams will cause men (or those closest to you) to hate you.
Joseph told his brothers, "I had a dream we were doing the same line of work and my results stood preeminent to all of yours combined." And they hated him for it.
Last week we spoke about Joseph's "sheaf" and how God showed him a dream at the age of 17 that stripped him of his life. Little did he know, he was predicting a famine that was coming to Egypt; and that in the midst of what would consume and starve others in the economy, HIS SHEAF, HIS SEED AND HARVEST would stand upright and cause the wealth, resources and labor of Egypt to come and bow to him in chains and subjection.
We understand that eventually God had to move Joseph's dream from an environment that wanted him to die, to an environment that needed him to live.
Because if the enemy can kill your anointing (bring uncertainty to your calling), he can steal your inheritance.
In Matthew 21:33-37, Jesus told his leaders a parable:
"There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a wine vat in it and built a watchtower. Then he let it out [for rent] to tenants and went into another country. When the fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his [share of the] fruit. But the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first time, and they treated them the same way. Finally he sent his own son to them, saying, They will respect and give heed to my son (the Anointed One.) But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, This is the heir; come on, let us kill him (the anointing) and have his inheritance."
RIGHT NOW, the enemy wants to beat, kill and stone everything God has planted, put a hedge around, dug a wine vat for, placed watch over and expected fruit from.
God always comes around to get His share of the "expected" fruit in your life. He is concerned about results; therefore, there is a constant war against what He has truly called you to do.
Since the beginning of time, there has always been a conspiracy against leadership or man's potential. That means there is a conspiracy against your parenting; a conspiracy against your marriage; a conspiracy against your heirs, dreams, church, business and work ethic.
In Num 14:3-4, the Israelites are grumbling and complaining about where the church is and the whole congregation cries: "Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness! Is it not better for us to return to Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us choose a captain and return to Egypt."
They had a promise, but protested the process to get there, so they conspired to kill Moses and his team.
But Ex 13:17 says: "God's way was not by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was nearer; but by the way of the wilderness towards the Red Sea, so the people would not question and change their purpose when they saw war and return to Egypt."
You see, until you experience a dry season in your life where nothing works, nothing grows, prospers or comes to pass, you will never fight or stand up against Jericho.
There are some things you cannot possess or enter into until what kept you from getting there in the first place, dies.
RIGHT NOW, what mindsets, traditions, habits, critical voices need to die because they keep you wandering in a wilderness of familiarity and unsubstantial results?
Over the next several weeks, I want to give you six things that will kill the conspiracy against your dreams and potential.
Today, I release you to be a conspiracy killer against all the enemy has planned for your family, business and church.
Stay tuned for more.
