EVIDENT AT THE RIGHT TIME

There is no better example of a dreamer than Joseph. Joseph was loved. He had the evidence of love, a many-colored coat upon him and he walked around in so much love and favor from his father that his brethren envied him. But one day he had a dream and he dreamed how the sheaves and stars bowed down to him. Young Joseph came to his dad and his brethren and said, “Listen, I had a dream. I am going to be a ruler one day and you are all going to submit to me.” And the brethren all praised him and helped to fulfill his dream in every way that they could. No! Joseph was a teen-ager so he told things he should not have. Some of us tell of our dreams things we should not tell. That is why we don’t have any dreams because they are not ready to be told. We don’t need to tell every one our dream. It will become evident at the right time.

What God says in darkness, He will reveal in the light. God is not just in the light. Moses knew in thick darkness where God was, and when God speaks to you in darkness in the night, it is just you and Him. We don’t have to prove it. He is going to reveal it in the light, and when He reveals it in the light, it is visible to all. That’s a sign of a dream given by God. If we have only dreams that we like to fulfill at night, they are not God’s dreams. Dreams of passion and dreams of sin and dreams of imagination are not God’s dreams. Every dream received at night has to be visible in the day. If we have dreams that we only try to work out at night, they are with certainty, not of God.

Some of us are filled with vain imaginations that we pursue in secret that become destruction to us. Let’s face it, The Church has many secret dreams, fantasies and desires consuming us, but we do not bring forth men and women of power and of glory.

We know what happened to Joseph. Joseph was favored. There is a place in us that we have struggled with rejection so much. To come into the fullness of God, grace speaks of favor, and if we cannot see God’s favor upon us and only see God’s love in rejection, we can never be the dreamer that we were meant to be. We have to know the favor of God, and God will give us favor. We all go through rejection.

As Joseph suffered from his brothers, God gave him favor with Potiphar, but Potiphar’s wife desired him and Joseph was put in prison. In prison God showed His favor again to Joseph through the jail master. Favor and rejection have to go together. The world and the flesh will reject us, but we have to know the favor of the Lord that we can walk in the strength and liberty of grace and not in religion and tradition. When we don’t know that favor, our Christianity is filled with “don’ts” and tradition. Favor gives me the power to operate. If God doesn’t give us any favor, no one will want to listen to us, and it is difficult to speak what God places in our heart. I have seen people who did not like me, and God gave me favor with them. They have told me after I preached that they could hardly digest what I preached, and in the natural, wonder how I was invited to speak in their church. God touched something in their spirit, and it by-passed their brain and their opinion, even their dislikes. Some of the biggest macho men stepped aside in their pulpit to let me speak on Sunday morning. Why? It is not because they like my style, but God gave me favor. You have to know God’s favor that transcends emotion and tradition of man to bring forth what God wants to bring forth in His power and His glory that He might establish what He wants.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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