Hold On To Your Dreams

I begin to think about my dreams that I have told to others and they have went on to do
them saying that it was their ideas. Some I have told to friends and family that had laughed
and said “That’s no way possible”. Dream killers. I was led by the Holy Spirit to share this
message with you today. 
 Unfortunately there are dream killers all around us. There are people who in your life will
try to keep you from what God has called you to do. There will always be people in your life
who will always try to kill your dreams. They try to kill your dreams because they cannot
see the possibility of that dream . God has given you that dream and since they can not see
it the only thing they think they can do is kill. Hold on tight to your dreams.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a professional American basketball
player, Olympic athlete, businessperson and actor. Considered one of the best basketball
players ever, Michael Jordan dominated the sport from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He
led the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association championships and earned the
NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award five times. With five regular-season MVPs and three All-
Star MVPs, Jordan became the most decorated player in the NBA.
Growing up in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan developed a competitive edge at an early
age. He wanted to win every game he played. As his father James later noted, “What he
does have is a competition problem. He was born with that … the person he tries to outdo
most of the time is himself.”
Dream killers are okay with the status quo because there is no need for change . Dream
killers try to hinder whatever hinders the way things are. Dream killers are filled with negativity,
doubt and fear that will try to shoot down hope and assassinate possibility . How many of you
know some dream killers out there? I am going to say that again, dream killers will shoot down
hope, assassinate possibility and struggle creativity.
Dream killers can be anyone. You know who they are. They could be husbands or wives,
parents or children, associates or friends , family members or strangers, and even believers of
the same faith or no faith at all. They are not limited to any particular type of relationship .
They can be anyone. A dream killer would listen to your dream and tell you only the things that
are wrong with it. Dream killers will keep you from moving forward by trying to make you
ashamed of your past. Here Me now. A dream killer will walk into a church or any social media
platform and listens to the prayers and teachings of the saints.
God has given us a way to deal with the dream killers and aren’t you glad that you made it this
far despite of the people that tried to hinder you on this journey. Here we are introduce to you
a young man by the name of Joseph. Joseph is one of the youngest sons of Jacob, Jacob had
two wives Leah and Rachel. He had several boys by his first wife Leah but he was not drawn to

them because he was not drawn to her. When the wife he loved ,Racheal, had a son that his
hurt was drawn toward Joseph . Jacob loved Joseph so much that he favored Joseph among so
many other children. In fact , symbolic of his favoritism was this robe that he gave him which
was filled with brightening and many colors. This was a sign for Joseph but also a sign to his
brothers that he was favored highly among the rest. Well as it happen this brought parental
favoritism, brought brotherly disaffection, and his brothers hated him.
One day in the midst of all that hatred, Joseph had the audacity to tell them about a dream he
had. This dream pretty much went to the effect that one day they would be bowing down to
him. Now imagine if you will the contention that was amongst them already. But now this
young lad now tells his brothers and father that one day that they are going to serve him. As
any jealous person while hearing this they let that get into their heart and they disliked their
brother even more.
One day Jacob sent his young son Joseph to check on his brothers and when his brothers saw
him in the distance they looked at him and said “Here comes that dreamer”. When people see
you coming with that smile of happiness and joy on your face and with that glow of peace they
cannot stand it. It’s not you it’s the determination, perseverance and the strength that other
may see. Here comes this one who said we are going to bow down to him. “ Let’s kill him and
put him in a cistern and say that an animal got to him. Since he wants to dream so much . Lets
just kill him and then let’s see what happens to his dream.” It’s a horrible thing that your
brothers or sisters would want to kill you only because you had a dream.
The truth is since the beginning of time there where many brothers that was put against
brothers. In this story I just want to tease out some tales on how we can deal with the dream
killers in our lives. Whether you like it ,believe it or not just as these brothers would like to keep
Joseph from dreaming . There are people who are in your life to keep you from reaching your
goal. Hold on to your dreams.
I know you want to think that everybody likes you and I know that you want to think that
everybody is in your corner rooting for you on . We must understand that in this life there are
people in your life that their one task ,their one goal, their main objective is to keep you from
dreaming and to keep you from reaching the place that God wants you to be. I need you to
understand there is a way you can deal with dream killers. See if you are going to deal with
dream killers you got to understand that silence proves golden. I got the t-shirt that reads
“Silence is as golden as duct tape, silence proves golden.” In other words you don’t have to tell
everybody everything. A friend told me as I read in my Bible, “Don’t let the left hand know what
the right hand is doing.” ( clapping my hands with joy)
If you don’t believe me just read the story about how Joseph got in trouble merely by telling
his dream to his family members. I can imagine that he told the story with a little arrogance and
assurance. This same little brother was already being favored by the father and of course he
wanted to flaunt that in front of his brothers. And being the youngest and didn’t know what he

was doing was just telling them the dream a way that would make anyone that heard it would
be annoyed.
What ! God had given Joseph these dreams. The truth is when God gives you something you
can’t tell everybody, somebody needs to get that, not everyone has to know your dream or
your plan . I have found out that they will take your dream and try their best to stop you .
Not everybody is going to root you on , they are not going to pat you on the back, and they
are not going to be cheer for you. So, you don’t need to tell everybody everything because the
truth is not everyone can handle your dream and not everyone can be trusted with them. I am
doing the best I can. That’s why you have to discern who you talk to just because they are
family doesn’t mean you need to talk to them about your dreams. Just because someone is
connected to you doesn’t mean you have to tell them about your dreams.
There are some people if you tell them about the dream that God has given will not accept it.
Sometimes they will have jealously towards you because they are not dreaming. If they are not
dreaming they don’t want anybody else to dream. Have you ever met people like that? Have
you ever met people who are down in the dumps and would not be happy unless they keep
anyone else down in the dumps with them. I have reached a point in my life that if I see
somebody else being lifted up by God I want God to use me to help them the best way possible.
Stop hating on people, stop trying to bring people down and learn how to lift somebody up. Lift
somebody up today!
There are so many people who dreams has been assassinated by others. You give them the
bullets when you tell people everything, silence. Let me see if I can make this little plain here;
There was a man by the name of (?) he did a little prep talk that I listened to at this seminar. He
goes on to say that there is a study that shows when you tell someone your goals or ideas that
you are less likely to achieve them . He says that when you tell others there is something that
triggers in your mind that you are already satisfied just by telling them.
As a lesson in life I’ve learned not to tell people and to continue to work instead of talking . In
this you are more motivated to do it because you haven’t told anyone. Now if the truth be told
that when God gives you something you don’t have to worry about somebody taking it from
you. You all heard the saying that “ What God has for me is for me.” The truth is we given away
when we talk about it and we don’t put our foot to the pedals and get the work done.
Joseph got in trouble only because he talked about it to people who could not handle it. The
good news is that even though he made that mistake God still proved faithful. In spite of what
they did God used it for His glory and shows us that separation produces growth. If you don’t
believe me it’s in the story.
Finally, When they decided that they were going to kill him, one of the brother stood up and
said “ No let’s not kill him. Let’s just give him away . Lets just sell him into slavery.” They sold
him to some Egyptians and they took his coat and tore it up and put animal blood on it and took

it back to their father and said that an animal had killed him. Jacob was greatly grieved and
they thought that they were done with Joseph. Joseph was not killed but separated from his
brothers which was taken to another land where he actually end up in Potiphar’s house. He was
separated from the people that tried to kill him, let that sink in. They meant to get rid of him
but God used that separation to help grow him. See this is something that I have to learned
that sometimes separation produces the growth. Sometimes to fulfill your dreams there has to
be some disconnection with some people. There are some people who don’t mean you any
good and are trying to kill your dreams. But God . God will use this separation from them and
to bless you. It was not until Joseph was separated from his family that he began this journey
where he would grow and mature . God use him and it happened through the act of his
brothers, his brothers would not know it but they were setting a stage for God to do something
miraculous.

God is going to use you for his glory . I know you got tears in your eyes now but separation
produces growth. Sometimes God has to get you away from people and things so that he can
speak to you . Sometimes God has to separate you to talk to you and shape you and mold you
while getting you ready for what you have to do. There are some as long as you are close to
them they will drain you .

Superman was this super hero that had astronomical strength. Superman could leap over
buildings in a single bounce , he could shoot death rays with his eyes, he had the strength of ten
thousand men. He was stronger than anybody else in the world . But as the truth be told, all
strong women and men , so did Superman had a weakness . That weakness was kryptonite. No
matter how strong he was if he got close to kryptonite it would sup him of his strength and sup
him of his energy. Somebody ought to get this because there are some people whenever you
get close to them they sup you of your energy. They sup you of your strength. They sup you of
your joy. They sup you of your smile and God said in order to keep your strength I’ve got to
distance you from them because they are kryptonite.
Sometimes separation is preparation for elevation. Somebody ought to tweet that. You ought
to get that , that sometimes God use separation as preparation for elevation and if you are
ready to go a little higher get ready for some people to fall by the wayside. If you are ready to
go a little higher be ready for some people to say goodbye. If you are ready to go a little higher
be ready to walk away. So don’t cry too hard when people leave. Just try a little bit harder and
began to give God praise cause now that God is going to strengthen you . No matter who walks
out of your life just step away God is still with you.
And that’s why if you going to defeat dream killers you got to stay with God. It’s right there in
the story as you read on in the thirty- ninth chapter of Genesis. It says that as Joseph went into
Egypt, he was a slave and the text says that God was still with him. The good news is that no

matter who you are separated from you can never be separated from the love of God . No
matter who walks out, who steps away ,and whoever gets pulled away you can never be
separated because God is with you. You have to remember that not only is God with you but
you need to be with God because sometimes God would be with us but we would be so
focused on other thing or other people that we won’t be with God . But Joseph will show that
not only was God with him but he was alone with God.

And when you are with God and when God is with you, you will see how God will orchestrate
everything according to his will . We serve a God who would takes all the different parts of our
lives and will orchestrate it so that we will work according to his will and in the end God will get
all the glory .God took all the events of your life when Joseph was in isolation and not making
sense but once you put it all together and you see the outcome you see how God was
orchestrating everything to his will. God is the great orchestrator.
If you ever been to a symphony and heard an orchestra in the beginning before they begin to
play everything sounds chaotic. The wood wing they are doing their own thing, the brass
department are doing their own thing, the string are tuning up and the percussion is getting
ready. Everybody is doing their own thing getting ready to play but then there is a moment
when the orchestrator , the conductor, he or she stands on her platform. As he or she begins to
raise their hand everybody stops and at that moment no one else does their own thing but they
work according to the orchestration of the conductor. When the conductor starts to move
their hand everything sounds beautiful and sink because they are all now focused on the
conductor.
Sometimes there are situations in your life where it seems chaotic and it looks like it is out of
control. It seems like things are going the way that you don’t understand just the tune up at
some time the conductor is going to step on the platform, lift his hand and work everything
according to his will. Until he lifts his hands, I am going to keep lifting my hands and say thank
you, I am going to stay focused on the conductor. With my eyes on the conductor , I know
that all things work together for good. Don’t lose heart because of dream killers because God is
orchestrating everything according to his order.

Keep on dreaming no matter what tries to kill your hope, keep on dreaming no matter what
tries to bow down your head in shame,, keep on dreaming and God will lift his hands and
orchestrate things in your favor.
Be Blessed Today!
Faith Hopewell