Dear Co-labourer,

This is another word of exhortation on day 5 of a five day “window in time” to re-engage with dreams in your heart. The time has come to celebrate dreams you have had but felt inadequate to celebrate. The time has come to celebrate your self. It should no longer matter to you how you got where you are today. Now is the time to encourage yourself with Joseph’s attitude to his sufferings. He simply informed his brothers their conniving evil ways was meant for harm but God turns harmful experiences to glorious promotions. Five is the number for grace.  Receive abundant grace from your inheritance in the blood of Jesus to celebrate your dreams one more time. 

Be blessed,

Obii Pax-Harry 

Mon 17th March

CELEBRATING YOUR DREAMS

“Then he dreamed still another dream.” (Genesis 37:9)

Eleanor Roosevelt said; “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Unless you believe in your dreams you may expose your hope to the demonic spirits that cause abortion and miscarriage.  Unless you believe that there is something in you worth celebrating, you may never have another dream.  This in effect is the essence of what Eleanor Roosevelt is saying.  The worth of a dream is in your ability to carry it from conception to actualisation or birthing.  Now unless you quickly shift into celebrating your achievements the reality of discouragement from the “Sanballats and Tobias” of our time will soon hit you.

These were the same spirits that tried to discourage Nehemiah and other wall builders in the book of Nehemiah.  Remember, you are the one that had the dream in the first place so you alone know what it ought to look like.  Therefore you need to celebrate what you have been able to achieve or make out of your dream.

As we read a few days ago, Walt Disney could never have celebrated his dream if he did not give life to the sketches he made.  Trying to seek opinion from people who are not able to catch your vision is a sure way of exposing it to embalmment.  The words of men can kill your dream instantly if care is not taken.  Nehemiah had a dream to rebuild the broken down walls of Jerusalem, and the gates that were burned down by fire.  Nehemiah pursued his dream by making a request of leave of absence from his job as the King’s cup bearer.  He knew that to realise his dream of rebuilding “the city of my father’s tombs” he had to be rightly positioned.  He could not celebrate a dream he did not attempt to birth, and the same is the case with you.  Location is extremely important to realising and celebrating your dreams.  You may need to move towns, homes or change friends in this season in order to get to the point of celebration.  Sanballat and Tobiah mocked the Jews but instead of getting angry the Jews asked the Lord to give them the two men as “plunder” (Nehemiah 4:4).  Plunder is usually “booty” from a war you have won.

The possessions such as peace of mind, joy, childbirth, healing and so forth that you recover from the devil in spiritual warfare are plunder.  Pray today, asking the Lord to keep your detractors alive to see you celebrate your dreams.  Don’t allow their negative comments put you off dreaming.   Concerning Joseph the bible says; “Then he dreamed still another dream.” (Genesis 37:9).  You see child of God, a carrier of hope is a carrier of light.  You may not understand that you are carrying a great dream for the deliverance of many people but, today is a day you must choose to understand that in celebrating dreams you are keeping them alive.  Celebration prepares your heart to receive bigger dreams from God.

If the devil working through humans can expend energy in trying to kill your dreams, why don’t you purpose in your heart today to celebrate your achievements? 

Further Scripture Reading: Genesis 37, Nehemiah 1, 2, 3

Prayer: Thank you Lord for depositing a dream (dreams) in the womb of my spirit. I pray Father for uncommon favour with people predestined to stand by me and also to celebrate my dream (dreams) come true in Jesus name.