Attitudes, Dreams, and Destinations

When people hear the word ‘Dream’, the first thing that crosses their minds is the dream in a sleep at day or night time. That’s not what I’m talking about in this subject. The point I’m addressing is the dream that takes place when both eyes are wide open; a conscious dream.

The attitude of a man determines the contents of his dream; the contents of his dream determine his destination. The attitude of a person decides the type and amount of symbols of his dream; the type and amount of symbols of his dream decide his end. For every dream, there are codes. The ability to decode the symbols of a man’s dream gives interpretation to his destination. Everybody wants to dream without realising that dreaming with a wrong attitude is disastrous. Everybody wants to dream without knowing that dreams can either make or maim depending on the attitude of the dreamer. Some dreams take a man to the palace; some take a man to the gallows. Attitudes determine dreams; dreams determine destinations.

Genesis 40:16

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and there were three white baskets on my head.

Some people never tell their dreams until they know how favourable the interpretation of another man’s dream is. That is a wrong attitude. People who refuse to say their dreams had wrong attitudes before they had the dreams, therefore, the interpretations never end up well. Those with wrong attitudes use the interpretations of other people’s dreams to determine the outcomes of their lives. Those with wrong attitudes use other people’s measuring scales to determine the weights of the values tied to their destinations. When Joseph asked the chief butler and the chief baker to narrate their dreams, the chief baker was reluctant until he heard the interpretation of the dream of the chief butler. People with attitude problems are always reluctant to tell you what they see. People with attitude problems only see when other people’s destinations have been defined. The chief butler had a right attitude, so he had the right dream; the chief baker had a wrong attitude, so he had the wrong dream. No one can dream a dream better than his attitude. Attitudes formulate the symbols of dreams.

Genesis 40:9-11

Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “Behold, in my dream a vine was before me, and in the vine were three branches; it was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes. Then Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

Some people die in codes because they don’t seek interpretations. Some people die in symbols because they don’t seek interpretations of their dreams from God. For the fact you have a dream does not mean you know the dream. For the fact you have a dream does not mean you know its outcome. If you have a dream, and cannot interpret it, you must seek the right source to interpret it. The dream I’m talking about is not the sleep dream but envisioning your future. Some people only know the symbols of where their going in life, but don’t know the destinations. Some people have the codes of where they want to end up in life, but don’t know the exact location. Except you know your destination and exact location, you will be beating about the bush. There are so many people with dreams, but beating about the bush because they can’t interpret their dreams. There are so many people with visions, beating about the bush because they refused to look up to God for interpretations. If you assign your own meaning to your coded dreams, you will end up doing the wrong assignment. You may have a good dream, but if you assign a wrong interpretation to it, you will be doing the wrong job. A person with the right dream but wrong interpretation is as bad as a person with a wrong dream.

Genesis 40:18-19

So Joseph answered and said, “This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

Dreams have two opposite destinations; palaces or gallows. For the fact a man is taken out of prison does not mean he is a free man. It is the dream of a man that either sets him free or gets him killed. The chief butler dreamt of freedom and restoration; he had exactly what he dreamt. The chief baker, out of attitude problem exposed the bread of royalty for birds to eat; he got himself killed. I believed strongly that anyone who the Son of Man sets free is free indeed, but I also believe that a man can reject freedom based on his type of dream. In conclusion I say, ‘attitudes determine dreams; dreams determine destinations. What you dream is where you end up’.

A Refined Talent is a Defined Talent

Talent must be cultivated; raw talent is unrefined, no one wears raw gold.

If talent remains raw, it will get rotten.

A raw talent is a talent that is untested.

The beauty of talent is only visible when it is refined.

Thorough and assiduous information cultivate potential talents.

Refine your talent; a refined talent is a defined talent!

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Stars That Can't See Themselves

Until a couple of years ago, I had a political ambition to become the President of my country. As far as I’m concerned, there is nothing wrong with dreaming big dreams. Timid people never dream big; timid people shiver when tough-minded people dream. One of my friends and a former postgraduate classmate was intimidated by my dream to the extent that he shared it with his mum. When he told me that he had a discussion with his mum about my dreams and ambitions, I was shocked. He believed in my dream but never believed in himself. No wonder he evaporated when I went into active writing; he couldn’t stand it, so, on his own volition, he disconnected from me. It may be strange to realise that some people fear other people’s dreams in spite of the fact that they too can dream. Some people are frustrated by other people’s futures in spite of the fact that they too have futures. People who are habitual onlookers may one day synthesise murderous ambitions. Someone there may say I sound very harsh, but the truth sometimes comes in very harsh structures. Many a time, one has wondered why a mere dream can scare people. Many a time, one has been perplexed that mere sharing of dreams get some people irritated. Why should a man get disturbed because someone has a dream? My reaction when someone shares a big dream with me is, dream my own dream so that me too can have something to look up to.

Genesis 37:5-7

Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more. So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: there we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Dreams can make people hate you; dreams can make people distaste you. Despite the hatred, never be afraid to share your dreams. Joseph knew he was hated by his brothers; that didn’t stop him from seeing and saying where he was going. Some people see their destinations, but can’t say their destinations; you need to see and say your destination for it to come to materialisation. With the heart, man believes in righteousness but it is with the mouth that confession is made unto salvation. The righteousness in the heart can only become salvation if it is verbally declared.

The brothers of Joseph could not see their sheaves; his brothers could not understand that they too had sheaves like Joseph. How can a man who has a sheaf get angry that another person has a sheaf? When a person’s attention is focused on another person’s dream, he can’t see who he is, and what he has. If I have a sheaf, it doesn’t matter what another man is seeing in his dreams; my attention must be on my sheaf. If a man tells me, ‘your sheaf stood up and bowed to mine’, it doesn’t matter to me because that is his dream not mine. Anyone has a right to see what he wants to see in his dreams; I also have a right to see what I want to see in my dreams. If you see my sheaf bow to yours, I will dream again and see your whole family and nation bow to me; and I will share it with you. What you dream doesn’t matter to me if I can also dream. What you dream doesn’t bother me if I can also dream. Your dream will not give me sleepless night; and mine shouldn’t do the same to you.

Genesis 37:9

Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”

How can you be a star and still get angry that you bowed before a person in his dream? A star should concentrate on his shining rather than focusing on another person’s dream. A star should concentrate on how to produce light in darkness rather than being distracted by another person’s creative imagination. It is stars that can’t see themselves that get angry at other people’s dreams. It is stars that don’t know what they’re made of that get enunciated by other people’s visions. It is stars that can’t see themselves that get infuriated by other people’s divine purposes. If you look inward, you will see the star in you. When you see the star in you, you will concentrate on you; concentration helps bring out what is within you. If you keep pondering on another man’s dream, you’re bound to become jealous; jealousy if not quickly dealt with, grows into murderous intentions. The brothers of Joseph were stars with sheaves, but they couldn’t see who they were because their focuses were on bowing to their younger brother; as a result, they sold him into slavery. Focusing on your star increases the intensity of the light you emit. Focusing on your star increases the amount of energy you produce. Focusing on your star increases your dimension and level of achievement. You can’t look outside and expect to build inside. See your star; be the star you’re created to be.

Civilisations, Dreams, and Purposes

Anyone who grew up in Africa wouldn’t be surprise if I say that the telephone use to be a luxury until modern times. In my era as a teenager, some of us never handled a telephone receiver except when we saw them in phone boots. After many decades of most nations embracing mobile phone technologies, my country decided to go with the flow; it was a huge relief that finally, we were following the world trend in telecommunication technology. I must confess that the first time I used a mobile phone; I was dazed by the awesome technology behind it. As I borrowed a classmate’s mobile phone to make a call, I kept wondering how radio waves send signals into little boxes called handsets.

 Civilisation has brought so much to our generation. Civilisation has changed our entire systems. Civilisation has re-patterned the way we do things. When some people born in modern times, crave for olden days, I feel they’re just being ignorant of the knowledge and wisdom behind times and seasons. If a person meant to be born in this generation was born in any of the past generations, that person would have been a complete waste to that generation. I love the way King Solomon addressed the issue of ‘TIME’ in his Ecclesiastical writing;

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die’.

 Everyone born into a generation has enough civilisations to fulfil the dreams and purposes of his birth. Everyone born into a particular time and season was meant to be born in that particular time and season to fulfil a specific dream and purpose. No matter how backward a season or timing may be perceived, there are sufficient resources and civilisations to actualise a person’s divine call on earth. If a person’s birth is rewound, there won’t be enough provision to make a vision of the man of today manifest. If a person’s birth is fast forwarded, there will be too much resources beyond what is required to make a person’s vision manifest; fast forwarding civilisation aborts destiny actualisation. In our present generation, there are governments and private institutions who want to fast forward civilisation, as a result, most young people miss their divine purposes on earth. When man wants to run faster than God, he makes errors that give him false impression that he’s on the right track. Any generation that takes God out of the equation of civilisation tends to fast forward it; taking God out of the equation spells doom for any generation.

Genesis 37:27-28

Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.” And his brothers listened. Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

 Using the life of Joseph the Dreamer as a case study; if Joseph were to live in our present generation, his destiny, purpose, and calling to preserve lives would have been scuffled. In his time, his brothers used their limited understanding to try hampering his divine purpose. Their main strategy was to kill him, because when a man dies, his dreams also die with him. An unfulfilled dream that is undocumented dies completely. Death kills undocumented dreams; death kills dreams that are not passed on in form of seeds through genealogical descents. So, Joseph’s brothers knew he had no children and no education; so there was no documentation and genealogy. Through Divine intervention, Joseph was sold as a slave rather than being killed. People with divine purpose should realise that it is not every slavery that is gravely; some problems are meant to direct us to our places of purpose.

Where does civilisation come in, in the case of Joseph? Egypt was the most civilised nation in ancient times. They had the best technological advancements and legal system in their time. But in spite of the great legal system, slavery was lawful! How would an unknown Hebrew boy find his way to Pharaoh’s palace, if it had not been for slavery? How would an unknown young man from a tribe with very few ancestors stand before Pharaoh to interpret his dream if it had not been for slavery? General Potiphar would have been jailed in our present civilisation if he had bought a slave. General Potiphar would have been shamed, disgraced and fired, if he had bought a slave in our modern civilisation. For every generation, there is a level of civilisation divinely allowed to lead and make a person fulfil his divine purpose. If you make excuses about insufficiency, you are probably not seeing what has been provided for you to fulfil your purpose of creation.

Genesis 37:31-32

So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood. Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said, “We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son’s tunic or not?”

 Still using Joseph as a case study, his brothers killed a goat, and used its blood to stain his clothes. The present civilisation would have detected through the process of forensic science that it was the blood of a goat. The present civilisation would have discovered the trick that the blood from Joseph’s clothes was from an animal; DNA test should have unveiled the secret. If the secret was unveiled, Joseph would have been found. If the secret was unveiled, the Police, Interpol, and Secret Agents would have traced Joseph to Egypt; he would have been brought back home. Bringing him back home would have punctuated his divine purpose because the truth is; purposes are never fulfilled at home. Purposes are fulfilled in the field; purposes are fulfilled where mere people perceive to be danger zones.

 Never wish you lived in the past; you’re born to make a difference today. Never wish you were born in the future; your being alive today is meant to satisfy a need today. Never think you don’t have enough resources to fulfil your purpose today; every prison you step into is only a gateway to the palace connected to your divine purpose. Life may appear fiery at first, but those who walk in their divine callings end up in palaces. Life may appear obnoxious, but those who hold on to their divine mandates preserve the lives of people on earth. You have a purpose; you have a divine purpose. Get up, discover it, and walk in it. You were born to meet a need; meet it now. You were born to answer a question; start providing the solution now. All the resources you need to meet the need of your visions, dreams, destiny, and divine purpose are at your disposal. They may not appear like resources, but they are. In that situation you call ugly, is something that brings beauty. On that road that looks like death is a pathway that leads to vision actualisation. There are enough civilisations in your generation to cause your purpose actualisation!

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