Text: Gen. 37:1-11

One of the most difficult things that a man that has a mandate from God deals with his family. It is not always easy to get your family to understand your purpose in life, especially when it is not in line with their plans for you. Your family will want to approve what kind of education you get, who you would marry, even the job you will do and so on. Every father will always desire the best for the child and will do everything within their power to ensure the child fits into the plan. Most often than not, this forms a huge wall that tries to limit the child.

I have a friend who the father desired him to be a medical doctor. He failed in the initial attempt to get admission to study Medicine, but he was admitted to study Pharmacy. The father allowed him to go for it in order to avoid him staying home, but still had his plans. After two years in school studying Pharmacy, which he had become fond of, he got admission to study Medicine. Obviously, his father influenced it. My friend refused to leave Pharmacy that he had already loved for Medicine, which the father wanted. In a bid to get my friend to change his mind, the father cut him off every means of finances. In the end, he was coerced to leave Pharmacy for Medicine.

I can imagine Joseph before the father narrating his dream. Though the father loved him so much, the father still scolded him. What Joseph was telling his father was definitely contrary to the father’s plans for him. Joseph was expecting the father to encourage him, but what he got was a scolding.

Please know this today that God does not need anyone’s permission to bring to pass what he has said about you. If your family is not in support of the fact that you are following your God-given dream, do not be dismayed, God has a plan that will make that dream come to pass. Just stay on course.

In the next episode, I’ll share with us some tips that will help us deal with this family limitation.

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Text: Gen. 37:1-11

God speaks to us in diverse ways. Dreams are one of the ways God speaks to us. Here He gives us information through visible pictures. If you are reading this, then you should know what I mean by that. Nevertheless, I will proceed with what God has placed in my heart to share.

Often times, our mind replays our thoughts to us in dreams. This is why you are most likely going to have a dream that is a visual replay of the things you think about, especially before you sleep. For instance, if your thoughts were occupied with food, you are most likely going to find yourself eating in your dream. Taking it a bit deeper, you are most likely going to dream of where you are involved in romantic/sexual activities with a particular person if that occupied your mind before you slept.

Dreams occur as a result of Rapid Eye Movements (REM). Experts say it occurs at a 90-minute interval. Which is why when you dream, you can find yourself at a particular scene and all of a sudden it changes. It happens to me in as many dreams as I can remember.

There are times when you have a particular kind of dream coming repeatedly within a period of time, sometimes the objects used may change. My friend, that is more than a dream. That is God telling you something. The interesting part of it is that it will not stop coming until you start up a kind of follow up action.

This was the situation Joseph found himself in. He was dreaming every time he slept, but one particular dream stood out. God was showing him his destiny in fast moving pictures. Notice he first shared the dream with his brothers. But when the dream reoccurred, he knew that it was more than a dream, so he got his father involved.

My friend, it is not all dreams that occur due to Rapid Eye Movements when you sleep. Some dreams are not just ordinary, they are laden with prophetic messages for the future. You need to have high sensitivity to know when God is giving you a heavy message through dreams. It may appear to be bigger than you can comprehend, but God has chosen to give it to you anyway. Joseph’s position in the family naturally should have hindered him from having such a big dream, but God chose to give it to him. If God decides to commit a mandate in your hands, your present status is not a determinant.

My prayer for you today is that God gives you a dream that will open your eyes to the great potential God has put in you. A dream that will fire you up to become what God has predestined you to be.

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Text: Gen. 37:1-11

I got born again the same year I got admission in the university. Before then, I had friends that I usually hung around with, who had hideous tendencies. I found myself deep in these relationships before I was arrested by God. One of the challenges I had was to translate what has happened to me to my friends. I saw the need to break out of that circus, but I lacked the will power to. For about a year after I got born again, I was struggling to get my friends to understand that I was a different person. Well, God helped me and I was able to declare my stand and break out of that circus.

It is easy to do the pulpit gymnastics on the necessity to stand out, but trust me, when your life is at stake, that is when you will fully grasp what is involved.

Standing out is not something you do by your own strength, you need God’s help. In standing out, you will make a whole lot of enemies, who might go to the extent of wanting to take your life.

Joseph faced this situation. He made a choice not to be part of what his brothers were doing. I can imagine a scenario where the brothers will connive and sell some of their father’s sheep and agree to tell their father that they were either stolen or attacked by wild animals. Joseph may have eavesdropped on their plan and reported to their father. It made the brothers hate him. Of course you are not expecting Simeon to come back and give him a pat in the back and say, “well done Jo”. There was a big rift between Joseph and his elder brothers.

Joseph knew he was a special child, so he was more interested in doing what pleased the father than collude with his brothers. He cherished his father’s love more than his brothers’ praises.

As a believer, God has special love and a great plan for your life. You ought also to reciprocate this love by doing the things that pleases Him. The world will hate you, that’s alright. People will scorn you, it’s okay. Just take a stand to sustain what you share with your father, that’s all that matters.

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