Can you believe how God treatedHis missionary friend Joseph?
Genesis 37:25-28
Genesis 37:25-28 says, “And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt. So Judah said to his brothers, ‘What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.’ And his brothers
listened. Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.” Joseph had to be contemplating whether hewould die in the pit. He was then suddenly saved from death only to be sold into slavery. Can you believe how God treatsHis friends? Joseph had a high call, and that call was to be a redeemer. Who trains redeemers by selling them into slavery?
Only God engineers circumstances that are so devastating that it develops in us a heart for redemption. God did in Joseph, and He will do the same in us. That is the power of the Cross when it is applied to a life. We get delivered from being self-focused and receive a heart for people who have had to experience circumstances as difficult as the ones we have faced. We do not hear the Cross peached that much today and we consequently have a church that does not recognize Jesus at work in their own lives. Is Jesus at work in your life to make you a redeemer?
- Pray that we will not act out of time!
- Moses acted outside the boundaries of the Kairos of deliverance and killed the Egyptian. The power of God and the revelation of God is bound up in the Kairos time.
- There is something bound up in the season of fruitfulness. When Moses was not positioned inside the Kairos boundaries, the power needed to shake an empire did not flow.
- Pray that we will be willing and will completely depend on the Holy Spirit for leadership. (Is 30:21; Prov. 4:18; 2 Pet 1:19).