Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. – Joel 3:10 You are strong. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are a unique expression of the very image and likeness of God. When we see you, we see God who lives in you. You are …
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Demand and supply
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. – Matthew 9:28 Demand and supply. You provide the demand, God provides the supply. Jesus has already done His part in …
Dare to see it on the inside
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. – Matthew 9:29 If you can will see it on the inside, then you can be it on the outside. This is not a question of ability. You can envisage and imagine whatever you decide to. And there’s no limit to …
Learning Egyptian
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. – Genesis 42:23 Somewhere between sharing dreams about sheaves of wheat and his brothers coming to buy grain from him…Joseph had learned Egyptian. He learned it because of being sold as a slave into Egypt. He used it to …
I’m not supposed to be here
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. – Genesis 40:15 You’re not supposed to be here…but you are. So the question is: What are you going to do about being somewhere that you’re “not …
Keep doing the right thing
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. – Genesis 40:23 Just because the Butler forgot you doesn’t mean that God has. He’s working all things together for your good (Romans 8:28)…and part of that involves timing. You’re not in this by yourself. Keep your expectation high, keep being who God created …
Ask a question
And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? – Genesis 40:7 Why do you look sad today? This question (paraphrased) unlocked the door on a conversation which led into an opportunity for Joseph to exercise his gift and have …
The place of restriction
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. – Genesis 40:3 The place where Joseph was bound, was the place that the Baker and the butler were brought to meet him. The place of restriction, shame and injustice was …
Bare what you have
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; – Genesis 35:11 Be fruitful and multiply. Two different things. Two different activities. To be fruitful means to “bear much fruit” (John 15:16) …