Genesis 39:1-23, 40:1-23
Satan is notorious at attempting to derail the plans that God has mapped out for your life. Just when Joseph has gotten a good job working for Potiphar, a lying woman tries to seduce him and tells her husband that this Hebrew whom you have brought in our home has tried to rape me.
He has just gotten out of a pit, just gotten out from being sold as a slave, just been lied on, and now this, a prison cell, "Come On?" Things have gone from bad to worst. How many times have you had doubts that the dream and the design for your life is all a hoax?
Dreams take time to be developed. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12) When the dream is on hold, hell works overtime to get you to abort and to abandon the dream in your heart.
Would Joseph hold on to his dream? Would he take the bait from hell that God had shortsighted and shafted him? Would he lose confidence in His God? Stand up and refuse to believe lies that come from Satan. There is no truth in him.
Most of us miss the unpacking and the developing of the dream that comes to us. Hell hates our dream so much that he will go to any distance to rip it from our hearts. Would Joseph pass the test? Would he hold on to his dream? Would he lose heart and passion for God and the dream?
Listen to me friend, God believed in Joseph and God believes in you. He chose Joseph knowing that he would pass the craziness that would come his way. Joseph was not perfect, but God called him knowing the stress and the mess and the test that he would wrestle with.
God knew his brothers would abandon him. God knew friends would turn their back on him. God knew leadership would not believe his story. God knew the odds were all against him, but yet God still knew he was up for the test.
In the end, God has a man Joseph in the right place at the right time to save thousands that otherwise would have died in a famine. One of the greatest parts of this story is his words to his brothers," What you did, you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good." Don't lose your dream, God knows you'll pass the test, and fulfill the reason for the seasons in your life. Where you are today doesn't define where your heading. Dreams were given to be delivered.
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He has just gotten out of a pit, just gotten out from being sold as a slave, just been lied on, and now this, a prison cell, "Come On?" Things have gone from bad to worst. How many times have you had doubts that the dream and the design for your life is all a hoax?
Dreams take time to be developed. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12) When the dream is on hold, hell works overtime to get you to abort and to abandon the dream in your heart.
Would Joseph hold on to his dream? Would he take the bait from hell that God had shortsighted and shafted him? Would he lose confidence in His God? Stand up and refuse to believe lies that come from Satan. There is no truth in him.
Most of us miss the unpacking and the developing of the dream that comes to us. Hell hates our dream so much that he will go to any distance to rip it from our hearts. Would Joseph pass the test? Would he hold on to his dream? Would he lose heart and passion for God and the dream?
Listen to me friend, God believed in Joseph and God believes in you. He chose Joseph knowing that he would pass the craziness that would come his way. Joseph was not perfect, but God called him knowing the stress and the mess and the test that he would wrestle with.
God knew his brothers would abandon him. God knew friends would turn their back on him. God knew leadership would not believe his story. God knew the odds were all against him, but yet God still knew he was up for the test.
In the end, God has a man Joseph in the right place at the right time to save thousands that otherwise would have died in a famine. One of the greatest parts of this story is his words to his brothers," What you did, you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good." Don't lose your dream, God knows you'll pass the test, and fulfill the reason for the seasons in your life. Where you are today doesn't define where your heading. Dreams were given to be delivered.
Oceanwayag.com
Amen.
ReplyDeleteGod bless you!