Drama

You can't avoid drama, but don't invite it.  People who like drama are emotionally expensive. 

Psalm 105:19 (NKJV)

19 Until the time that his word came to pass,

The word of the Lord tested him (Joseph).

Was it God's word to Joseph or not was the test?  Your dream can't be manifested until it is first tested. 

1. A good teacher will never test you on something that has not been covered.  

The answer to your test is already in you. Testing is God's method of promotion.  Tests will get you from the 1st grade to the 2nd. 

The answer to the prayer that you prayed is God's tests. Do you want blessing or not?

Every test is open book. I don't know what your current test is. Get away from Facebook and put your face in the book.  The Bible stands for...

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Genesis 39:4-6 (NKJV)

4 So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority. 

5 So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had in the house and in the field. 

6 Thus he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand, and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate.

Joseph was favored because He served.  A dream can't be trusted until it is tested. 

1. Joseph passed the responsibility test.

When God gives you a dream, it doesn't belong to you.  It belongs to God. Everything that we have is borrowed.  All is from Him, and it is to be used to serve Him.

  

Joseph was required to serve another man's dream.  Joseph passed this test by serving the Egyptian, Potiphar. 

If you can faithfully steward another man's dream, God will give you a dream of your own. 

Hold to stuff loosely, but cling to Jesus tightly. 

God has given us our children as a stewardship responsibility.    

Genesis 39:6-12 (NKJV)

Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

7 And it came to pass after these things that his master’s wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.”

8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. 9 There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

10 So it was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with her.

11 But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside, 12 that she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside.

Temptation doesn't just knock on the door, but leans on the doorbell. You don't have to go looking for trouble.  Trouble will find you.

  

2. Joseph passed the integrity test.  

Reputation is who I am in front of everybody. Integrity is who I am before God. Integrity takes years to build but moments to destroy.  

What is on you will destroy you if what's in you will not sustain you.  Christine Caine.  

Joseph was thrown into the prison that he used to run.

Genesis 40:7-23 New King James Version (NKJV)

7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in the custody of his lord’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

8 And they said to him, “We each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.”

So Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.”

9 Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “Behold, in my dream a vine was before me, 

10 and in the vine were three branches; it was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes. 

11 Then 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.”

12 And Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days. 

13 Now within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand according to the former manner, when you were his butler. 

14 But remember me when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me; make mention of me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house. 

15 For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing here that they should put me into the dungeon.”

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and there were three white baskets on my head. 

17 In the uppermost basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”

18 So Joseph answered and said, “This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days. 

19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

20 Now it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. 

21 Then he restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. 

22 But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. 

23 Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

3. Joseph passed the obscurity test.  

Joseph was forgotten.  It was like he was invisible. The key to passing this test is knowing God is with me. 

Not much is known about Jesus after His birth to His ministry years (Luke 2:52). Jesus knows what it is like to be obscure. 

Jesus had 30 years of silence for a 3 year ministry.  Alignment comes before assignment.  Aligning your will to God's will.  

  

Mike Haman, Healing Place Church

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