﻿Psalm 105 verse 19 : Until the time that his word came to pass the word of the
LORD tested him. This speaks actually about Joseph. If you read a little bit earlier it says that
He sent Joseph during the time of famine they heard him. He was sold as a slave they heard his
feet. He was laid in irons and then it says, until the time meaning he went through suffering : he went
through disappointment , he went through hardship, he went through a very challenging time in his life;
Until somebody say, until. Until the time that His word came to pass. There is going to be a time
when God's word comes pass. When God's promise comes to pass. When God's purpose for your
life comes to pass. But I want you to notice it says before God's word came to pass : it says this
the word of the Lord tested Joseph. So there's three types of Words there is the written word of
God which is the Bible, there is the living word of God which is Jesus and then there is the Rhema or
the prophetic word of God. It's the word that God quickens a promise. He makes it real for you, for
your situation and that's the third one that I'm referring to. It's that dream, that prophetic word,
it's that call from God, it's that anointing, it's that assignment that you have.
And it says until the time that this word came to pass, this word tested Joseph.
Everything in our life is either a reward or a test : write that down.
Everything in my life is either a reward or right now it's a test. God does not trust until He tries,
until He tests men. We see this in the Bible. The Bible tells us to test prophecies.
The scripture says examine yourself meaning even test yourself. The scripture even says to put God
to a test through tithing. So testing is not anti-biblical thing and thank God for tests!
I wouldn't want to drive a car that hasn't been tested. On average a car goes through 1000 tests
before it goes on the market. A vaccine goes through 10 to 15 years of research and then
three clinical tests before it's available in the market. A lot of people do you have to go
through a test if you're a doctor. You have to go through a test if you're a lawyer. Right now
in the Bible college and every week I have to take a a quiz and I have to take a
test on Saturday. And so because they can't let you go to the next level until you take a test.
Same thing with God, God gives you a word. I want to share something with you right now. If you're right
now waiting for the passing of God's promise in your life that means you're currently in the test.
If you're waiting for the passing if what God promised has not come true that means that promise
right now is testing you. You're being tested. Five tests Joseph went through. Test number one
is the test of time. This is the hardest one because it develops our patience.
See God's tests are not only to reveal that we are impatient : it's also at the same time to
build something. They expose and they also expel. They reveal and they also refine us. And that's
the first test : It's the test of timing. You know, I'm always in a hurry. Unfortunately God is not.
It's God develops patience by what ! By letting us go through time where His word is not coming true
on our time schedule. God cannot develop patience if He does not let you wait for things.
Waiting is God's game it's what he does. That's why we need to learn to wait on him and we will have
to wait on his promise as well. You don't get everything in the microwave. It's not a drive
through God did not invent those things. He is slow. And then if you think He's slow : He's slower.
But he develops something : develops patience. The second test is the test of ;
Come On, Ruby! A test of faith. What is the test of faith : it purges our mood swings. The test of faith
is this : I don't feel God, I don't feel like He's with me, I feel like God left me. What is happening
is test of faith. Joseph went through this test. Because the Bible says, two seasons in Joseph's
life where it says the Lord was with Joseph. It was not in the season when he received
the dream and he was favored by his father and it was not in the season when he was promoted
twice in his life. It says the Lord was with Joseph : it was in the season where he was sold as a slave
and then when he was thrown into a prison as a prisoner. Surprisingly those are the twice,
two seasons the Bible says the Lord was with him. And it's interesting because usually in those
seasons we need an extra reminder that God's presence is not contingent on the presence of
your problems or absence of them. Another thing is God's presence does not hinge on your mood.
God's presence with you does not depend on your feelings. In fact I think sometimes God develops
our faith by withdrawing the manifest presence where we feel him for a season so that our faith
has a chance to grow. You cannot get a fulfillment of God's promise in your life until God develops
your faith and God cannot develop your faith until your feelings fail. Absolutely fail ! I'm
talking about splash blood all over kind of a fail. And you're like man I don't feel God anymore!
God has left me, I have in such a dry place! I don't judge that I don't even know if he's real !
What happens : you're being tested. Your faith is being tested. Your faith is like gold going
through the fire and all the impurities are freaking out and the gold is switching its
form but it's not stopping being gold. Your real faith it might be small but it's real.
Your faith might not be big but it's genuine because if it's based in God it can't be destroyed
any more than gold cannot be destroyed by fire. It takes 1940 degrees Fahrenheit to turn gold from
solid to liquid but you can't burn it with fire. Real faith cannot be destroyed. It can only be
purified. Never be afraid of a test of faith. So what do you do if you are in a season right now
where your faith is being tested : Very simple, when you don't feel God's presence feed on His promise.
If you don't feel Him : feed on Him. Feeding is a choice : feeling is not. You don't control what you
feel but you can control what you feed. Your mood have it go up and down your feelings will go up
in there you can't control that sometimes you can make your feelings feel better. Even though you can
choose to have joy in the Lord but you can't control your mood. Don't take drugs to change
your mood just change what you feed yourself with. Feed yourself with God's word. I love Bartimaeus.
Bartimaeus was a blind man and the Bible says he well he was blind so when you're blind you can't
see. But the scripture says this and Bartimaeus heard Jesus. And the Lord spoke to me one time and
He said this when you can't see me: hear me. And how did he was able to see Jesus because when he heard.
When you use what is open it will unlock what is closed. As he heard Jesus, he was able to then
cry out to Jesus and then Jesus opened his eyes and he was able to see Jesus who saw him before he
was able to see him. Jesus sees you when you don't feel him .Jesus knows you when you don't feel. He
is near you and so what you got to do right now is hear Jesus when you don't see Jesus. If your faith
is being tested, faith comes by hearing of the word of God. If you don't feel his presence, hear him.
Hmm ,where was I during the first service, why didn't go didn't flow like this during the
first service ! My God, I'm just kidding ! The third test, the third test and this is a test of purity.
Joseph had to be tested in the area of purity. He fled temptation he didn't flirt with temptation.
He went to prison after the temptation and then he went to the palace. Purity
is the way through prison to the palace. Purity is choosing prison of restriction before you embrace
the relationship : the benefits of that relationship. Everybody who wants to walk in sexual purity has
to understand one thing, there's a price to pay for purity and this price is prison to your desires :
what is available to you and not sinful you have to put that into prison.
Everybody wants to be in purity but what we don't like is the prison. Meaning :
I want to still be able to do what I want, I want to follow whoever I want to follow,
I want to look at whoever I want to look at, I want to watch what I want.
If you ever are giving your flesh no boundaries, no restrictions, no prison : you'll never walk in purity.
To walk in purity: the test of purity is this, is that you have to put yourself in the prison.
You don't look second time. Come on, older man ! Ladies, you don't read 50 shades of stupid.
You don't watch that thing. And people will look at you say, Oh you're a legalist : no
I have to put myself in a prison because that's what purity demands. If you don't choose prison you
will be enforced eventually a prison of failed relationships, dirt into your eyeballs and then
just having all of these troubles. And Joseph choose this prison not necessarily that he chose
prison but his purity forced him into prison. He fled from a temptation. You don't overcome lust : you
don't pass the test of lust by flirting with lust. And a lot of us this is why we fall into lust and
we fornicate it's because we say flirting is that sin but falling is sin : so I will see how I can
flirt to as close to the line as I can possibly can without falling. You can't flirt and not fall.
You can't make out and not commit fornication. I know the Bible doesn't say don't make out
with your boyfriend but listen the moment you begin to play with the line and play
in the grey you will fall and it's not because the devil is bad it's because you are careless.
And why are you careless because you're afraid of a prison. I don't want to put restrictions in
my life! There is no other way to pass the test of purity than choosing prison.
You got to choose prison. Amen !
Who you talk to, who you DM at first they may seem, oh that's a lot of legalism
but if you're if you're a woman here and you're married : you're like my husband better be in prison.
Emotionally, he better be in prison on his instagram or no instagram at all.
Why, because you know one thing there is no way he can walk in purity, she can walk in
purity without a prison. Everybody needs a prison : the better your prison, the better your purity.
Ouch ! To pass the test, you have to choose your prison. If you don't like prison and you're like
I'm going to do whatever I want ! Mark my word you will never walk in purity. You will struggle with
purity, never walk in it because you have to impose restrictions on your liberties.
Everything is, I can do everything but not everything's beneficial and therefore I have
to restrict my liberties. Amen. The test number four; Are you with me ! Is the test of offense and this is
the test of forgiveness. Joseph had to go through that. In fact, this I think is the hardest one.
Especially if God has given you the grace and you've conquered the purity part,
if you conquered the faith part. This one will jab you so bad because you feel a little bit
entitled to God's favor and God's grace and what begins to happen is people come alongside
and give you such a bad time. And the worst part is these are not strangers or spam bots on youtube,
these are people who actually you know. The reason why pain of rejection is the deepest is
because it comes from the closest people. Jesus was rejected by his own, Joseph was rejected by his own
and this is extremely, extremely painful. You cannot be fruitful, if you're not forgiving.
Every person in this room who will see the fulfillment of God's promise will be hurt.
You will, you will get hurt. Some of you, you were hurt and some of you, you're getting: you're
you're being hurt right now. I am not saying you should stay in the abusive relationship :
what I'm saying it's not possible to see the fulfillment of God's word we take without taking
this test and this is the test of hurt of offense. Forgiving somebody does not mean I minimize what
they did, it doesn't mean I overlook what they did, it doesn't mean I blame myself for what they did.
Forgiving somebody does not mean I am waiting for them to apologize.
Jesus did not wait on the cross for pharisees to apologize before he forgave them.
Till this day, they still think what they did was right. Forgiveness is not does not mean that
what they did, did not matter or did not hurt; As simple it means my future is bigger than my hurt.
That's all it means. You made my life miserable but you I do not give you the authority to make
my future miserable. My future, you caused a lot of pain but you do not have access to my to my to my
to my future you had access to my past, you took away five years of my life: I cannot give you 50.
And therefore I choose to forgive you not because you deserve it it's because I
don't deserve to let you repeat this for the rest of my life. This stops today. When you
forgive somebody, you set the prisoner free and then you realize that prisoner was you.
You release yourself from the shackles of them controlling your life in the future. It's not being
a victim, it's being a victor when you release your ex. When you release the person that hurts you, when
you release the person that meant to do you well and then God takes the unfortunate situation and
use it for your good because the Bible says Joseph looked at his brothers after the death of Jacob
and they said we feel so bad about what we did and Joseph says do not be afraid because what you
meant for evil you didn't do it unintentionally, you meant intentionally : God turned it for my good.
Why, because I refused to stay bitter : I refused to stay offended, I refused to switch churches, I
refused to hold a grudge, I refused to walk around not talking to anybody, I refuse to let to develop
this very thin thick skin and a very thin skin in my heart I chose to keep my heart soft: I
forgive you, I love you and I'm expecting God to reward me in Jesus name. The last test this is
the test of diligence and the test of diligence means you don't wait for a new season in life
before you start to do your best in the season that you are in. Destination disease has caused
too many people never to do anything in their present. Destination diseases once I get married :
I will lose my weight; once I get married : I'll pay off my debt. The destination disease is
this once they give me a title at HungryGen then you will see me fasting in prayer,
once they give me this that's what I'm going to do that. Joseph did not wait until he reached the
palace to live pure. He did not wait to reach the palace before he exercised his skills to manage
places and to cause places to prosper to such a good degree that in prison they put him in
charge of a prison he was a prison warden. Why was he that because he looked at every situation in
his life and he says I'm now waiting for that season to practice and maximize my
effectiveness in this season and that is one of the reasons his branches climbed over the wall.
Actually the gifts of the Holy Spirit did not show up in the palace they showed up in prison.
God spoke to him when he was a teen the you will have people bow to you but you don't
see one mention of the gifts of the Holy Spirit operating in Joseph's life until he's in prison.
And watch this, one of the boys is sad which is a prison you're supposed to be sad
and Joseph comes to him and says why are you sad. Tells me the way Joseph ran the prison
there was nobody sad. I don't know what he was doing telling them jokes or
cheering them up with jello's sermons every morning, I don't know what he was doing but
everybody was happy seems like because the guy who was sad Joseph highlighted him.
And the guy says I had a dream, now watch this think about it : Joseph had a dream too, yeah !
So if you hear somebody saying I have a dream this would be a good moment to say,
Bro! Did you eat a lot of pizza? Did we spice a drink yesterday? This would be a good moment
to say please please do not pay attention to them because I did look what it got me.
And God was testing Joseph: will Joseph open himself up to a divine flow of wisdom
from God to help somebody in the very area God is not moving in this area in his life.
And supernaturally the gift begins to flow, he translates the dream and it works for somebody
and he still spends two years in the same prison. Because God's anointing will always work better
through you than for you. And if you're not allowing God's anointing to flow through you
because it hasn't done anything for you, you failed the last test. Amen.
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