EXCITEMENT CAN BE FATAL
When the Lord speaks, excitement follows. Why is this dangerous? When you share your excitement about God’s plan with those less enthusiastic, you set yourself up for discouragement. Remember, church folk love to gossip, and they will kill your dream before starts.
My excitement was fatal, and it was my own fault for talking too much. I learned that in church there was not much encouragement. Some people were spiritual, others were skeptical. What God said did not excite everybody. By sharing the vision, I gave assassins ammunition to use against me. Not everyone shared my excitement, and Dream Killers frustrated my efforts.
Revealing your dreams can also stir up hatred and your vision provokes Character Killers to up the ante. They graduate to Dream Killers. These churchgoers do not experience God’s power in their lives. God’s presence in your life gives them reason to hate you more. Joseph is a prime example.
In Genesis 37:6, Joseph told his brothers his dream. He received a vision from God and it excited him. His brothers already hated him because of Jacob’s favoritism. So, when Joseph shared the dream of their sheaves bowing to his sheaf, the eighth verse says, they hated him even more. Not only were they angry at what Joseph said, they were angry about the revelation itself. The Scripture says they were angry at the dreams and the words of Joseph.