God Delivers
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh. Genesis 41:14, ESV
I was up early one morning praying and I heard the Holy Spirit say, “Joseph could not move out of prison before I ordained it.” God knew very well that Joseph was in prison unjustly. Jospeh had even worked on his own to try and get out of prison. But God blocked his efforts.
And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined. The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody. And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation. When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, “Why are your faces downcast today?” They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.” So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me, and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. 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.” Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.” Genesis 41:2-15
It was not until two whole years later when Pharaoh had a dream that no one could understand that the cup bear would remember what Jospeh had said to him. Many times we do not realize that we are in the perfect position for the blessing God has for us, especially when we have been treated unjustly. Sometimes the circumstances that God allows to come upon us will make us believe that this could not possibly be what God had ordained for our life. But as we read through the Bible we will find that just like Joseph, God knows exactly what he is doing with our life. We just have to trust him. God did not allow the cup bearer to remember anything Joseph had said until it was time for Joseph to be released into the abundance that God had waiting for him.
Joseph was in the right place for many years and it probably seemed like to him, this could not ever be the place God wanted for him. But prison was where he needed to be to fulfill the calling God had told him about so many years earlier in Genesis 37. Joseph was seventeen when he received the dreams from God and he was thirty when the vision God had given him came to pass.
Your situation is not a surprise to God and he knows exactly what he is doing. Do not try and free yourself, God says vengeance is mine and he will fight your battles. Where God has you right now is exactly where he needs you to be. Let him deliver you into the blessing that he had planed for you before the beginning of time.
Key Points:
Just because it is unfair does not mean it is not a part of God’s plan.
When we try and do things on our own, we can miss the blessings that are right before us.
Obedience keeps us in alignment even if things are unjust.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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