People's rejection can be God's Direction and Protection. What does this mean? You get kicked
out, that means, it's your time to go. Joseph was an example of that. Joseph gets kicked out.
He is not planning to leave, that wasn't part of his agenda. He didn't
want to leave his father. He didn't want to leave his brothers. He gets kicked out
and so that was a sign to go. So, how do you know, it's your time to go? When you get asked to get to
leave. When you get asked to go. That is a sign. Now, you will feel rejection, when you get kicked
out, when you get removed, when you get asked, no matter how, please, no matter what reasons,
no matter whatever package they send you with. It will hurt. Somebody drop that in the chat,
Rejection hurts. Rejection is not fun. Rejection is not easy. Nobody likes it. Rejection sucks.
But Genesis 50:20 says this, But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good,
in order to bring about as in this day, to save many people alive. Please hear me loud and clear,
Rejection could be God's Protection. Rejection could be God's Redirection
to your life. Joseph would have never went to Egypt, if his brothers wouldn't sell him.
Think about our Lord Savior Jesus Christ, in Psalm 118, it says, The stone builders rejected
became our chief cornerstone. This is marvelous in our eyes and this was the Lord's doing. That
means that, sometimes rejection is God's doing. How could it be, where God is positioning you
into a place, you otherwise wouldn't go unless you get rejected.
Nobody likes that. Nobody likes to hear that. But at the same time, that's the case, in so
many cases. Jesus says, if they reject you in one city, shake off the dust and go to the next city.
You can't go to the next city sometimes until they reject you, out of the one that you are in.
Samuel was rejected by Israel. He anointed Saul and then Saul rejected the Word of the
Lord through Samuel. Samuel cried, mourned and God came to Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:1 and he says,
How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I've rejected him from reigning over Israel. Fill
your horn with oil and go. I'm sending you to Jesse, the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for
myself a king among his sons. Samuel would have never found David, I think personally if Saul
wouldn't reject him. Saul would have been the king and I wonder sometimes, if you know, I don't like
rejection but God in His wisdom and sovereignty can use rejection of people to redirect your life
and so, while you're not excited for that. being let go, sacked, fired, removed.
But sometimes, honestly you won't leave any other way. You won't because you're too comfortable. You
will never approach yourself from there until somebody comes in and honestly, brutally pulls
you out and you end up crying. But what if it's the Lord's doing, what if it's marvelous in your
eyes at the end of your life, you will look at it and say, if it wouldn't be for that, I wouldn't be
here today. You know, I'll be honest with you, people are saying God doesn't reject you. No,
I'm not saying God rejects you. I'm saying people will reject you and God will use that.
There was a girl that I liked before I met Lana. She rejected me and honestly, I look back at it,
it hurt me for a little season. I am so glad, I was rejected because I would've never met my wife.
And later on, when I found out, where this girl end up and kind of all this stuff like,
it wasn't. I knew that my life wasn't tied to to her life. It wouldn't be where I needed to be
but it wouldn't happen, I probably wouldn't have the guts to walk away from that, if
I wouldn't be rejected. It stinged for a little bit but rejection is what brought redirection
and it can bring that direction to you. What if you're like Joseph and God is taking you from your
family, from your home into your destiny, that one day, you can be a blessing to your family and it's
happening through rejection. How do you know it's my time to go? Very simple, you get kicked out.
Painful? Yes. Fun? No. Can God use it? A hundred percent.
Second reason, how do you know it's your time to go? When the place of your provision
in the previous season, has become a place of pain in the current season.
How do you know, it's your time to go? When the place of your provision in the previous season,
has become a place of pain in this season. Israel came to Egypt at one time
and this was an answer to their prayer. If you remember, there was a famine. Israel comes to
Egypt, Joseph supplies for their needs. They live there comfortably but this wasn't a promise
from God for Israel. Egypt was God's temporary provision. It wasn't God's permanent promise.
When you stay in your temporary place too long, your temporary place becomes toxic.
How you know sometimes when what used to be a blessing and now, it has become a burden,
is that it's causing you now, pain and this pain is not leaving. Israel was in Egypt.
They were comfortable. They were provided for, this was an answer to their prayer.
They prospered there. Thank God for it. And now, Egypt has become a place of
toxic, painful and mistreatment. This was the time to go. Just because it was good old days,
it doesn't mean the good old days are coming back. You have to leave and for most of us, we're like,
I don't want to go. I just want to bring Joseph back. I just want to bring the good old days,
you know but when that place has become a place of abuse, when that place has become a place of
toxicity, it's toxic, it's emotionally destroying you, it's destroying your spiritual life,
that's probably a sign to go. Israel left Egypt because of the torment.
It used to be a place of blessing but now, it has become a place of torment.