By Victor Salamba

Four Reasons Why Dreams are Delayed:

  1. You have not understood the origin of the dream. Where did it come from? If from God, then He is more responsible to accomplish it than you. In the book of Genesis, Joseph understood that the dream was from God and that God was responsible for it. Understanding the origin of your dream enables you to surrender, surrender increases your faith and eliminates stress.
  2. You are obsessed with the dream. It is important to note that the dream is not bigger than the dream giver, or the blessing bigger than the Blesser. Abraham and Sarah got the promise of a child, by their standards, the dream took too long to materialize, so they tried to fix it themselves and it cost them 13 years!
  3. You have limited God/put Him in a box. Don’t be angry and frustrated that God is working in a way that that is opposite to your expectations and you give up and walk away. In Luke 5, Peter is called to become a fisher of men, in John 29, he is back fishing again. Why? He lost sight of the promise because the methodology he expected is not how God worked it out.
  4. You are still immature. When God has a huge purpose for you He works hard on your character, character is the foundation of God’s promises. Some of us are stuck simply because we have refused to grow up and we fail the same character tests over and over again. Let us look at Joseph’s Character test :-
  • The Mouth test. God will not give you more than your mouth can handle. What we speak reflects who we are in the inside. You can talk yourself into or out of your dream.
  • The Privacy Test: what we do when no one is watching. Joseph overcame a big temptation with Potiphar’s wife. Our private lives determine our capacity to be trusted by God.
  • The Destination test. How do you behave when you get to your destination? What you did to get blessed, is what you should continue to do after you are blessed. This will sustain and develop you at your destination.
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