Dream Killers
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(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
- KJV
December 7, 1941
December 7, 1941
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. Oklahoma. The attack sank or beached a total of twelve ships and damaged nine others. 160 aircraft were destroyed and 150 others damaged. The attack took the country by surprise, especially the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
As early as 1927
Minimum age was 17
Most were around 3 years old when the enemy started planning their death
Sink a Battleship
Immobilize them for at least 6 months
The enemy is a dream killer.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].
- AMP
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].
- AMP
He doesn't want you and I to live the life God has planned and given us.
He doesn't want you to dream and pursue your dreams.
Fear
“Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.”
— Unknown
He tries to talk us out of something before we even begin. He plants seeds of doubt, what if's, and hurdles that seem insurmountable. The moment we begin to speak something, he goes to work to sabotage it. He will get you to fear, to become afraid of the unknowns, that what could happen scenarios.
Confidence
Fear leads into attacking your confidence. Satan uses fear to attack your confidence into doubting your ability to even accomplish what you dream about for your life. He wants you to doubt yourself. He uses thoughts like:
You aren't good enough
You don't have what it takes
You will fail and never accomplish your dream.
Because of lack of confidence, many give up and never finish achieving their dreams.
Some get past the fear and begin the first steps into achieving their dreams. Some even push through the confidence issue and continue the necessary steps of what it takes to finish. However, the enemy uses a third approach to killing your dreams by using:
Some get past the fear and begin the first steps into achieving their dreams. Some even push through the confidence issue and continue the necessary steps of what it takes to finish. However, the enemy uses a third approach to killing your dreams by using:
Frustration
The feeling of being upset or annoyed, especially because of inability to change or achieve something.
He causes things around you to become hectic, chaotic, and unpredictable. He will come at all angles to cause you to be frustrated. This is the third and final attack on your dreams. Like the Japanese that bombed Pearl Harbor, he wants to sink your dreams and immobilize you. He has not preference, he is after everyone in this room.
How we overcome.
Prayer and fasting
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
- KJV
To overthrow demonic strongholds, you will have to pray and fast. Prayer and fasting are a deadly combination in the tearing down of strongholds.
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
- KJV
Unity
Satan doesn't want you and I to ever come together. He attacks relationships so that it causes division.
Vision is singular meaning one
Di-vision is plural meaning two
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- KJV
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
- KJV
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
- KJV
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
- NIV
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
- NIV
Unity is how we fight back. We quit fighting each other and fight together.
Keep the vision in front of you
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
- KJV
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Know what you are trying to achieve and continue to rehearse it in your mind each day. Make it know, make it clear, make it visible.
Know what you are trying to achieve and continue to rehearse it in your mind each day. Make it know, make it clear, make it visible.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- KJV
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
- KJV
Satan is a liar. Any and everything he says to you and about you is a lie.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
- KJV
God wants us to pursue the dreams He has placed inside of us.
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
- KJV
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
- KJV