TWENTY-ONE (21) LESSONS FROM THE CLASSROOM OF JOSEPH

16814. TWENTY-ONE (21) LESSONS FROM THE CLASSROOM OF JOSEPH

1. JOSEPH WAS A LATECOMER SON BORN WHEN HIS FATHER WAS 91 YEARS OLD (GENESIS 37:3)

YOUR CURRENT STATE DOES NOT MATTER. EVEN WHEN SITUATIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES SEEM TO CONSPIRE AGAINST YOU, YOU CAN STILL TRIUMPH OVER AND ABOVE ALL OF THEM BY DEPLOYING FAITH. FAITH IN GOD CAN CATAPULT YOU FROM LATECOMER TO FRONTRUNNER

2. JOSEPH WAS WRONGLY DEFINED BY HIS MOTHER AT BIRTH AS A SUPPLEMENTARY SON, SHE CALLED HIM AN “ADDITIONAL SON”, AND NOT AS FIRST CHILD THAT OPENETH HER WOMB. (GENESIS 30:24) “And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.”

JOSEPH’S MOTHER, RACHEAL, DIDN’T SEE HIM AS HER FIRST BORN SON, HE WAS TO HER HER, JUST “ANOTHER SON” BECAUSE ALREADY HAD TWO SONS BY PROXY – “DAN” AND “NAPHTALI” THROUGH HER MAID – BILHAH, WHOM SHE BETROTHED TO HER HUSBAND (GENESIS 30:3-5).

THE CULTURE THEN IS THAT IF YOUR SLAVE BORE CHILDREN FOR YOUR HUSBAND, ALL THOSE PROXY CHILDREN ARE AUTOMATICALLY YOUR OWN CHILDREN.

I DON’T KNOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR BIRTH, AND I DON’T KNOW HOW YOUR PARENTS DEFINED YOU WHEN YOU WERE BORN. BUT IF THEIR DEFINITION DID NOT MATCH GOD’S DEFINITION FOR YOUR LIFE, YOU MUST REDEFINE YOURSELF FOR YOUR DIVINE DESTINY. YOU MUST REDEEM YOUR LIFE BACK FROM THE STRANGE DEFINITION YOUR PARENTS GAVE YOU AT BIRTH.

IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW YOUR PARENTS SEE YOU OR HOW YOUR SIBLINGS OR RELATIVES SEE YOU. WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT AND NOT NEGOTIABLE IS HOW GOD SEES YOU. AND UNTIL YOU BEGIN TO SEE YOURSELF AS GOD SEES YOU, YOU CANNOT ASCEND YOUR DESTINY’S THRONE IN LIFE.

JOSEPH REDEFINED HIS LIFE DON’T LET ANY OF LIFE’S CRISIS OR UNFAVORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES (INCLUDING THIS CURRENT BUT TEMPORARY CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL PANDEMIC) TO DEFINE YOU! YOU MUST REDEFINE YOUR LIFE QUICKLY AND ALIGN YOUR DESTINY WITH DIVINITY! IF YOU DON’T REDIFINE YOURSELF, YOU’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!

3. JACOB SAW JOSEPH WHO WAS HIS 11TH SON AS A CROWNED PRINCE 🤴 AND MADE HIM WEAR A RICH ROBE OF A RULER CALLED “COAT OF MANY COLOURS” (GENESIS 37:3)

THIS IS AUDACIOUS FAITH. HE WAS 11TH POSITION, BUT THE FATHER CROWNED HIM 1ST POSITION!

FATHER JACOB SAW SOMETHING SPECIAL IN JOSEPH, AND FAVOURED HIM ABOVE ALL HIS SIBLINGS. EVERY ENTHRONEMENT BEGINS WITH VISION. WHAT DO YOU SEE ABOUT YOUR DESTINY’S THRONE?

EVERY ONE OF US HAVE A DESTINY THRONE IN LIFE. BUT IF YOU DON’T SEE IT, YOU CAN’T ASCEND IT! (JEREMIAH 17:12) “A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary”

YOU MUST ENVISION YOUR GLORIOUS FUTURE AND ACTIVATE IT BY AUDACIOUS FAITH. DON’T SQUIRM, DON’T BE NERVOUS, LAY HOLD AND BOLDLY GRAB THAT THRONE DESTINY THRUST AT YOU! IT IS THINE! TAKE IT! WILL YOU TAKE IT TONIGHT? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH WITH GAMES OF COWARDICE, SERVITUDE, AND SLAVERY! YOU ARE WHAT GOD SAYS YOU ARE! YOU’RE A KING 👑 AND A PRIEST, NOT A SLAVE OR INFERIOR TO ANY MAN BORN OF WOMAN!

UNTIL YOUR AUDACITY OF FAITH DEFIES YOUR IMPOSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU WILL NEVER RISE ABOVE AND TRIUMPH OVER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES!

4. JOSEPH WAS A FIGHTER. HE WAS NEVER SHY OF RESPONSIBILITY OF LEADERSHIP THAT DESTINY PLACED ON HIS SHOULDER. HE ALWAYS ROSE TO FULFILL THAT ROLE.

WHEN HIS FATHER MADE HIM A CROWNED PRINCE 🤴, HE NEVER FAILED TO WATCH OVER AND REPORT EVERY EVIL THINGS HIS ELDER BROTHERS WERE DOING TO HIS FATHER (GENESIS 37:2) HIS BROTHERS CALLED HIM A SNITCH, HE WAS NEVER ASHAMED TO BE A SNITCH FOR THE TRUTH! A SNITCH AGAINST EVIL HE NEVER LET THAT LABEL 🔖 DEFINED HIM!

5. JOSEPH WAS CONSECRATED AND SEPARATED. JOSEPH KNEW HE WAS SET APART, AND WAS NOT SHY OF IT. HE KNEW HE WAS DIFFERENT AND THEREFORE, ACTED DIFFERENTLY. HE DIDN’T COMPROMISE WITH HIS BROTHERS IN THEIR EVIL AND ENVIOUS WAYS.

JOSEPH WAS NOT A BANDWAGON PERSON. HE WALKED ALONE WITHOUT ANY FEAR. HE SINGLEHANDEDLY RAN THE COURIER SERVICE BETWEEN HIS FATHER AND HIS SIBLINGS IN THE FIELD (GENESIS 37:12-17).

ANYTIME YOU CLAIM YOU’RE FEELING LONELY, KNOW THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU. I AM MOST PRODUCTIVE WHEN ALONE! I AM MOST SPIRITUALLY FRUITFUL WHEN ALONE WITH GOD AND NOT WITH MAN!

LONELINESS IS A SICKNESS OF THE MIND AND BODY. IF YOU MUST BE USEFUL AND FRUITFUL, YOU MUST CULTIVATE BEING ALONE WITH RABBONI.

LET ME SHARE THIS TEAR-JERKING 😭😭😭TRUTH WITH THEE.

ADAM GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH GOD BECAUSE OF THE SICKNESS OF “LONELINESS”.

HE HAD SUCH A SWEET AND SWELL TIME WITH GOD. HE NEVER FELT LONELY IN GOD’S PRESENCE. (PSALM 16:11) “Thou wilt shew me the path of life: IN THY PRESENCE IS FULNESS OF JOY; AT THY RIGHT HAND THERE ARE PLEASURES for EVERMORE.”

STOP SEARCHING FOR WHAT IS NOT LOST! MARRIAGE CAN’T CURE LONELINESS! COMPANIONSHIP CANNOT CURE LONELINESS! THE ONLY TRUE AND EVERLASTING CURE FOR LONELINESS IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD!

EVE WAS NOT A CURE FOR ADAM’S LONELINESS. GOD CREATED EVE AS A SUITABLE, RIGHT, AND FITTING COMPANION OR HELPER FOR ADAM. (GENESIS 2:18)

WHY WOULD ADAM LEAVE HIS COMPANION ALONE TO FALL CHEAPLY TO THE CRAFTY SERPENT, IN SEARCH OF WHATEVER? WHAT WAS ADAM SEARCHING FOR ALONE THAT HE COULDN’T CARRY HIS COMPANION ALONG? ONLY THE FULLNESS OF GOD THAT FILLETH ALL IN ALL (EPHESIANS 1:23) CAN CURE THE LONELINESS OF MAN. NO MAN OR WOMAN, NO STIMULANT, ALCOHOL OR DRUG CAN CURE THE LONELINESS OF MAN.

6. JOSEPH WAS A VISIONARY DREAMER.

MANY OF US DREAM TOO BUT WE ARE POOR DREAMERS. YOU ONLY NEED TO SEE THE JUNK DREAMS PEOPLE SHARED IN THE SCHOOL OF DREAMERS 1 AND 2 GROUPS, BEFORE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH US.

MATTHEW 5:8: “Blessed are the PURE IN HEART: for they shall see God.”

WE DIDN’T KNOW THERE’S A CLEANSING AND PURIFYING POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD. WHEN YOU READ FREQUENTLY AND MEDITATE ON IT. YOU’RE PAVING WAY FOR GLORIOUS DREAMS OF YOUR ENTHRONEMENT (PSALM 119:9)

WHAT MANY OF US SEE IN OUR DREAMS ARE SO UGLY, AND WE RARELY SEE GOD IN OUR DREAMS. WE LIVE A LIFE OF GARBAGE-IN-GARBAGE-OUT, 40% OF GLOBAL POPULATION ARE ON LOCKDOWN BECAUSE OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC DISEASE CALLED CORONAVIRUS. INSTEAD OF READING, STUDYING AND WATCHING THE WORD OF GOD, MANY ARE JUST INDULGING IN MAKE-BELIEVE MOVIES 🎥 THAT DOES NOT EDIFY THEIR SPIRITMAN. WHY WON’T YOU COMPLAIN OF BAD JUNK DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES!

WHAT YOU WATCH IS WHAT YOU SEE! IF YOU WATCH GOD THROUGH HIS WORD, YOU WILL SEE GOD! IF YOUR DREAMLIFE IS BAD, IT’S BECAUSE YOU HAVE OPENED THE CHANNEL OF YOUR SPIRITMAN TO BAD STATIONS TO FEED YOUR SPIRIT!

LISTEN 👂 TO ME: JOSEPH WAS HATED DAILY BY HIS BROTHERS, AND HE KNEW IT, BUT JOSEPH NEVER DREAMT OF ENEMIES PURSUING OR STABBING, OR FEEDING, OR STRANGULATING, OR BURYING HIM. ALL HE DREAMT WERE HIS ENEMIES AND SIBLINGS BOWING TO HIM.

JOSEPH WAS A GOOD FUTURISTIC OR VISIONARY DREAMER BECAUSE HE LOCKED-DOWN HIS MIND INTO POSITIVE VISIONS. HE CAME FROM A FAMILY OF POLYGAMOUS WITCHCRAFT, BUT HE NEVER LET THE NEGATIVE VIBES OF THE POLYGAMY OF HIS FATHER’S HOUSE OVERTOOK HIM!

YOU KEEP DREAMING BACKWARD DREAMS, THERE’S NO GOOD FUTURISTIC DREAM IN YOUR LIFE, IT’S BECAUSE YOU HAVE BUILT A TABERNACLE OF CARNALITY FOR THE EYES OF YOUR MIND! YOU OPENED WRONG GATES INTO YOUR DREAMLAND.

ISAIAH 26:2-3: “Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in PERFECT PEACE, WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON THEE: because he trusteth in thee.”

WHATEVER ARRESTS YOUR MIND IS WHAT WILL LOCKDOWN YOUR DREAMLAND AND DREAMLIFE! THE PURITY OF JOSEPH’S HEART IS WHAT GRANTED HIM ACCESS TO DREAMS, VISIONS AND REVELATIONS OF PEACE, PROSPERITY AND GREATNESS! WHAT DESTINY MOVIE ARE YOU WATCHING NOW? IS IT FROM THE HOLY BIBLE?

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