“And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more, ” Genesis 37:5.
The Biblical definition of dream is to bind firmly. Whenever God gives you a dream like the one He gave Joseph, it is to make sure the vision and the promise He has for you stay firm and fixed in your mind so that when you face circumstances that challenge your dream it can stand up to the trials and tests.
When you’ve committed your life to God, and what seems like unexpected, uninvited trouble enters into your equation, especially when you did not cause it, is God way of preparing you to enter into your purpose and calling.
The law of preparation means that God will never put you in a situation you are not prepared for. You can put yourself in situations and circumstances that you are not prepared for but God won’t. He will always test you and make sure you pass the tests before He promotes you. You can put yourself in situations and circumstances that you are not prepared for but God won’t.
Not because He doesn’t want to promote you but because He doesn’t want you to fail at your next level. God prepares you so that you can handle a heavier weight of glory.
Even Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness before God sent him into his ministry. Not only did this prepare Him for the ministry but for the ultimate reason He came in the volume of the book to die for us and be raised to live. (Psalm 40:7)
Nothing surprises God. He looks at his enemies and laughs because He wrote the story and He sees and controls the end. (Psalm 2:4 and 37:13)
I love what one pastor wrote on BibleHub.com,
God never acts suddenly. He who sees the end from the beginning never needs to act suddenly, for he never can be taken at unawares. It is easy to grasp this thought when we consider only material things; but it is not so easy when we take account of the complications introduced by the ever-varying human will. Do man’s impulsive actions never call for Divine promptitude in response to them? To this we answer – No. God’s ommscience is to be thought of as including, as anticipating, every movement of the human will.
Joseph’s dream was seemingly put on hold due to his brothers plotting against him because of their jealous feelings toward him. But they nor Joseph realized it was God working His plan for Joseph’s ultimate good and theirs. However because of Joseph’s character and his relationship with God he tapped into the law of preparation that positions people for purpose.
These are the things Joseph did to prepare for his dream and these same principles apply to you too.
- Continue to pray and submit your life to the true and living God knowing who you are and whose you are. Instead of getting mad at God and turning from Him, Joseph pressed in and kicked up his prayer life. He believed he was who God said he was and that he could do and have what God said he could.
- Continue to do the right thing even if it cost you everything. When Potiphar’s wife tried to sleep with Joseph he could have taken the opportunity to be with this woman who could have made things easier for him. However, knowing that she could make things worse if he didn’t comply with her wishes he still didn’t compromise and he went to jail for something he did not do.
- Continue to serve wherever God places you. While in jail Joseph served the guard with the same excellence he had served Potiphar before.
- Continue to use your God-given gifts and trust God that your gift will make room for you. Joseph not only served the prison guard but he used his gifts to interpret the dreams of the baker and the butler. When the butler got out of promise as Joseph foretold he forgot his promise to Joseph to make mention of him to Pharaoh. But when Pharaoh dreamed a dream and they could find no other, Beloved, the butler remembered Joseph! And just like that, his gift made room for him in the place and the plan God had shown him years before.
See, God had to prepare not only Joseph but the plan for Joseph that had been formed before the foundation of the world.
Joseph couldn’t step into his calling until the set time on God’s calendar when everything was ready for him and he was ready for everything. Selah.
Beloved, don’t be discouraged by what looks like a hold or a no. If God gave you the dream, even when people come against you because of your dream, though you may not be able to see it while you’re in it, even what they mean it for evil God has already orchestrated for you good. He is preparing you. Join us for the Called Conference for more teachings like this!
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