Your Joseph is Alive

Your Joseph is Alive

For some few days since my friend and brother Pastor Martins Fatola posted on his Facebook wall the word '... Your Joseph is not dead...' my mind and spirit have been reverberating with those words.

Jacob was brought the message that his brightest, most promising dynamic son who he loved so much was dead. The evidences were too obvious. 10 well groomed men can't all tell a lie, after all, only two or three are enough witnesses to establish a fact. The beautifully colored cloth he bought for him, that was the talk of the town was there to show that he has been mauled and fed upon by some wild beasts. His sorrow was unconsolable. To him that was it, he was going to his grave with that pain and broken heart. His begotten son among many was gone. His dreamer boy was gone. His expectations were dashed. He was the beacon of hope, he had dreams of greatness which he gleefully shared with anyone who cared to listen. He was different and was someone to look ahead for what he was going to become with his dreams...both for good expectations and for scorn... He was the audacious son of Jacob's bosom, though younger and sissy, always around daddy and mummy, yet had great dreams that had no respect for his elders opinions about his dreams either out of naivety or just plain lack of intimidation which put everyone on edge. But now, he's gone forever. Jacob could hold the cloth that once covered him and gave him pride throughout the neighborhood.

Though the brothers knew he was only sold off to slavery, they never betrayed emotions for almost twenty years. They never gave anything away to make Jacob doubt their initial claims until they themselves began to accept their own lies as true that he was dead. That rested the case with everyone. Joseph was dead! Their Joseph was dead!

So everyone moved on without Joseph not expecting that he could show up forever. That dream was gone!

Maybe you share that same sense of loss...and to you it's going to ever be like this disappointment you are currently experiencing and nothing is betraying any emotions to even make you doubt the loss....then you need to read this to the end, this is your story!

But it's not true! He's alive! And going through all that he went through, he became prime minister in the then super power.

He also carried his father and home in his heart even as he was preoccupied with pharaohs job. He longed for his father and brothers.

God also working to bring them back together.
Then one day, they showed up! He recognized them instantly but they couldn't. How could they have known it was him with the dead mindset they had concerning him? Even if the thought of him being alive ever crossed their minds, it's not that he'll be the head of the Egyptian economy, how can..?

He recognized them and wept. The pain of betrayal of trust and the joy of reconnection were overwhelming...his tears flowed.

After all the pranks he played with them, he revealed himself and they wept too in guilt but hid their fears and apprehension.

The part where he demanded they brought Benjamin was quite scary with the mindset of having lost Joseph. Jacob was devastated at such a request. "How would you do this to me, I'm yet to get over the loss of Joseph, now you want to take Benjamin from me". If he had never suspected them before concerning Joseph's 'death', now he's beginning to wonder if they had not being accomplices...they were the harbingers of sorrow!

And they could feel it even from the time that 'wicked Egyptian' asked them to bring their remaining brother and they had protested but he wouldn't bulge... So they had to vow to their father to bring him back...

Eventually, Jacob got the news that his beloved son, Joseph was alive...and would want to see him.... The rest is history!

We often believe we have lost the most precious of our past opportunities, something good that pointed to a great future. We often think we can't ever recover. We often think some of the things we gave birth to are forever gone never to add any value anymore. Maybe like Joseph's brothers, we had made a mistake to sell the greatest thing we had to strangers and we have come to think they are gone forever, dead, rotten and forgotten!

We often think only our bad past has relevance to our future. We believe God doesn't remember the good we did, they are dead but our errors, mistakes and bad decisions are the only things waiting for us in the future. We can even hardly remember the good we did, but our mistakes are ever before us... The Josephs are dead and only the scoundrels are present ever with the bad news breaking daily in pains and regrets.

But it isn't so. God forgives our past errors when we bring them to the blood fount of Jesus Christ. What remains are the good we did and most importantly the good He did and is doing.

Joseph was a divine gift. A mystery to parents and to brothers. Irrespective of the good or the bad of Jacob, there was a destiny working for him, he was loved, chosen above his brother Esau and Joseph had a role to play in a destiny revealed to Abraham, Jacob's grandfather. They must go to Egypt to sojourn for four generations and someone must be there to go ahead and to preserve their lives and that has to be Joseph.

Joseph was God's marvelous doing to fulfill His plan.

God's plan for our lives are beyond us. Yet we rate our outcomes not even on the good we did but on the errors of our past and worse off on the powers of our enemies, while we leave God out of it all.

We believe our Joseph's are dead. We think God had abandoned us because of our sins. We face a future less than what God told us at the beginning and that because our sins are more powerful than God in our own sights but it isn't so.

God had gone ahead to prepare a place in our future. And someday that Joseph gone ahead will be revealed if we don't give up believing.

The gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. God hasn't changed His mind concerning His purpose and plan. He is working towards the fulfilment and we need to be hopeful to see. We need to believe in hope against hope.

Jacob would have saved himself some sorrow if he had known his Joseph wasn't dead and that he had only gone by prophesy to prepare for their preservation.

I hope you too would be able to rev up your joy today, knowing your Joseph isn't dead, knowing your God given dreams are not manifesting yet not because they are dead but because the time is not yet. Knowing that soon you and your long lost Joseph will meet again and he'll bring you to divine prophetic destiny in Goshen!

Folks, rejoice and be glad, let your hope come alive, know that God's power is working out a great future for you. You are a person of destiny. God's bringing you to the place prepared. Cheer up! Just wait and get ready! This is your story... It's unfolding marvelously in our eyes...

Good Morning!