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MESSAGE TITLE:
How Do You Rise When Even Your Dreams Have Betrayed You? ( Day 4)
SCRIPTURE TEXT:
Jeremiah 18:12 (KJV)
“And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.”
DATE: April 23, 2025
BY: EFFIONG ETOK
Carrier of God’s Word
THOUGHT-PROVOKING STATEMENT:
It’s not just a staircase in your dreams-it’s a verdict in your spirit. And when your spirit cannot rise in your sleep, your destiny is already negotiating surrender. It’s a shame assigned to your elevation-and it’s time for spiritual war, not excuses.
MAIN MESSAGE:
Have you ever stood on a staircase-steep, uneven risers (steps), almost vertical-and watched others climb with ease?
Some pass without notice.
But You’re stuck?. Not because you won’t move-but because something unseen is holding you still.
You try to rise, but your legs betray you like you are having a stroke.
Yet,you’re not tired. You’re not lazy. But you remain grounded-while others ascend.
You try to go back-but the few steps behind you are just as steep as a wall.
You cry for help, but no one hears rather they watch you.
And this isn’t the first time.
In other dreams, you miss the bus by seconds. You arrive just after the gate shuts.
And when you wake up? You feel it-you’re always behind. Behind schedule. Behind purpose. Behind prophecy.
That’s where Jeremiah 18:12 becomes painfully real.
“There is no hope,” they said…
This wasn’t just rebellion-it was a verdict of exhaustion.
They had failed so often, they decided to stop fighting. They surrendered to stagnation and renamed it “normal.”
Could that be you?
Have you stopped climbing because your dreams always end in struggle?
Have you made peace with a pattern God never authored?
Beloved, that staircase wasn’t built to humiliate you-it was meant to lift you.
The enemy isn’t just after your dream life-he wants your belief system.
He wants you to accept failure as fate, delay as destiny, and brokenness as background noise.
But hear me:
The dream is not the final author of your destiny-God is.
Right now, you must rise.
Not just with your legs, but with your voice.
Command the staircase to shift. Break the cycle. Challenge the verdict.
Because you were not created to crawl.
You were anointed to ascend.
From now on-you will rise. In Jesus Mighty name.
REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
1. What cycles have your dreams been rehearsing?
2. Have you started adjusting to stagnation as identity?
3. Is it time to rewrite the spiritual script of your life?
TAKEAWAY STATEMENT:
When every night’s journey ends at the same failed step, it’s not just a dream-it’s a battle for your destiny. But when you rise in the spirit, the cycle breaks in the natural.
PRAYER POINTS :
1. O Lord, every spiritual staircase that has resisted my rising-collapse by fire! I command access to my next level, and I receive divine strength to ascend, in Jesus’ Mighty Name!
2. Every demonic pattern of failure and stagnation in my dreams-let it be scattered now and forever, in Jesus’ Mighty Name!
3. You voice of hopelessness speaking delay into my spirit-shut up and be silenced forever! I arise, I break free, and I walk boldly into destiny, in Jesus’ Mighty Name!
