DAY 44: WHAT IF GOD WAS PREPARING YOU?

Good morning. Welcome. What a delight to have you. Thank you to Maria for your beautiful letter. I received it. It is amazing. Total blessing. Thank you so much. Sent sent to me through the website. I can't appreciate it more. I tell you, I'm I'm all by those kind of things and just the letters and all of what y'all do. Beautiful. Beautiful. Today it's gonna come at you like a fire hose. Because it has to. That's just the way it is. Hang on. Here it comes. I want you to think about. Yes, absolutely the biblical tether. I want you to think about where you are in your life. What you're experiencing. What if the delay wasn't wasted? What if the years you thought only loss? What if the years you thought were only forming wisdom, endurance, humility, discernment, and capacity? What you you thought loss was just thrown away for naught? What if God was doing something special in the dark? You couldn't have survived in the spotlight yet? What if the prison wasn't the end of Joseph's story, but the hidden place where God was preparing him for responsibility? It's not easy to believe when you're still waiting. It's not easy to trust when the door's still locked. It's not easy to hold steady when other people seem to move forward while you keep sitting in the same place asking the same questions, carrying the same ache. But Genesis 41 shows us something we cannot afford to miss. God's timing isn't laziness. God's silence isn't absence. God's preparation isn't punishment. Somebody out there is living through that right now. Look, Joseph has been betrayed by his brothers. He's been sold into Egypt, faithful in Potiphar's house, falsely accused, thrown into prison, and used by God to interpret dreams. And then he got forgotten by the cupbearer. And now after two full years, everything changes in a day. By the way, how's this sound? Good morning to everyone in live chat. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Love to you all. After two full years, everything changes in a day. But the change doesn't come because Joseph forces the door open. It comes because God's appointed moment arrives. Good morning. Good morning. God's moment, that appointed time, that Moedim, that appointed time arrived. Two years he waited. And he was faithful. Oh I should introduce myself. I'm Dr. Sean. And this is true word faith for life. Before we go further, I have a book. It's my second book. Thank you, Miss Linda. Love you, dear. True Word Faith for Life. True Word Faith for Life.

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Sean. Come on now. I'm not so good with my left hand. This is a note given to me by somebody, one of me shipped it to me to sign it. That's how big the print is, and that's how much the space is. This is a well-made book. You can get it anywhere, but it helps the ministry the most if you if you uh you buy it through TrueWord FaithforLife.com. If you buy it through that, we get a little more money. Uh Amazon, I'll just tell you, we don't even I think we get a dollar, maybe a little less. Per book. I know. Yeah. And, you know, what are you gonna do? Anyway, it's available in this store on Trueword FaithforLife.com. You can buy it wherever you want. I I I really believe. Look, it I know why I wrote it. I wrote it to help you stop surviving on religiosity and start walking in the truth of God's word with courage, clarity, and faith for real life. It is a no-fooling book. I don't tiptoe around anything. So here's the question for your heart today. What if the place you've been calling delay is actually the place where God has been forming you, not wasting you, not forgetting you, forming you. Because Genesis 41 isn't mainly about Joseph getting promoted. It's about God preparing a man to preserve life. Genesis 41. Here's the context if if you're wondering. Genesis 41 begins with a with a time marker. And you have to feel this time marker. After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed. Two whole years. Joseph had to ask. Look, remember, remember when he asked the cupbearer? Right? This was just yesterday. He asked the cupbearer, you can go back and listen to it free. True Word, Faithful Life with Dr. Sean on YouTube. Click on the little subscribe, click on the like and little bell that says all notifications. You never know what I want to do. Good morning, Sean. Spelled the correct way. Do you remember when the cupbearer forgot him? You remember that? The dude forgot about him. Then two years passed. The Bible doesn't rush over that. It lets the wait sit there. Two years is a long time when you're waiting. Two years is a long time when you're innocent. Two years is a long time when someone could speak your name and they don't. Two years is a long time when you know God gave you gifts, but your life still looks confined. Joseph isn't in Pharaoh's court yet. He's still in prison. Two years. But heaven hasn't lost track of him. They know where he is. The fine Mai in heaven, God's fine Mai is really good. Then Pharaoh dreams. He's standing out by the Nile. Out of the Nile come seven cows, attractive and plump, feeding the reed grass. They're feeding in that reed grass that's right there at the edge. Then seven other cows come up after him, ugly and thin, and they eat the seven, they eat the seven attractive plump cows. Pharaoh awakes. Then he dreams again. Seven ears of corn, grain. We'll say, plump and good grow on one stalk. Then seven thin ears, bladed by the east wind, swallow up the seven plump ears. Pharaoh awakes and the spirit is troubled. Yeah, we we laugh at it because we're like, dude, you make a decision for real, for real, on that? Did you did you really? I mean, that you you hey, you're making big decisions based on your dreams. Okay, don't give smoky. But in ancient Egypt, dreams could be taken very seriously, especially dreams given to kings. The Nile was Egypt's lifeline. It meant fertility, food, stability, and national survival. So when Pharaoh dreams of the Nile and sees abundance swallowed by famine, this isn't some private emotional dream. You know what I mean? This touches the future of the nation. Crisis is larger. This crisis is far larger than Joseph. The moment is larger than his pain. Oh my. So, Pharaoh calls the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. He tells them his dreams, but no one can interpret them. Wow. That matters. You know, Egypt has power, it has wealth, Egypt has learning. They're smart folk. Egypt has religious specialists. You know, it's amazing to me. It's just amazing to me. Egypt has royal advisors. But Egypt cannot unlock what God has revealed. He can't do it. They have all these advancements, all the wealth, all the power. They can't figure it out. Then the cupbearer finally remembers. He says to Pharaoh, I remember my offenses today. He tells Pharaoh about the time he and the baker were in custody. He tells them about the young Hebrew man who interpreted their dreams, and he says, everything happened just as Joseph said. Hey, how about that time for the cupbearer to wake up? He wakes up at the, you know, his memory wakes up at the appointed time, does it not? It's not early. It's not when Joseph wanted it for sure. Two years. Two years. Two years in prison. The appointed time. Not early. Certainly not when Joseph wanted it. But when Pharaoh needs wisdom and God's purpose is ready to move. Then Pharaoh sends and calls Joseph. And they quickly bring him out of the pit. That word matters. Joseph has been in pits before. The pit of his brothers, the prison pit of Egypt. Now he's brought up. They bring him up, they clean him up, he shaves, he changes his clothes, he comes before Pharaoh. And in one day, Joseph goes from prisoner to royal counselor. One day. Don't miss this. One day. The movement. Look, this moment is quite sudden, but the preparation wasn't sudden at all. You know it. Some doors open quickly after years of formation. People may see the opportunity. Well, they see it. They may see the platform. They may see the public trust. They may see the title. But God saw the pit. God saw the house. God saw the temptation. God saw the accusation. God saw the prison. God saw the years when Joseph kept serving when no one was clapping for him. Promises were not kept. The promotion is sudden, but the preparation is slow. So Pharaoh says to Joseph, I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said that you said of you that when you hear a dream, you can interpret it. Well, this is Joseph's moment. He can exalt himself if he wants. This is his chance to say, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're right, well, I mean, Pharaoh, I'm the man with the dreams plan, you know. Yes, that's my gift. I don't know if he talked like that. I don't think he did. This is his chance to make sure Pharaoh knows how important he is, but Joseph answers, it is not in me. God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer. What? This sentence tells it tells us that Joseph has been formed. Do you see today your real life coming through the well-worn pages of the Old Testament? Do you see it yet? Your life. Listen closely, my friends. Today, look, this is one of the marks of hidden preparation. When God has formed you in the dark, you don't need to steal his glory in the light. Joseph doesn't deny the gift. He knows the source. He doesn't pretend he has nothing to offer. But he also doesn't pretend that the gift came from inside himself. He doesn't laud himself. He's learned to stand before power without worshiping himself. Breathe that in. That's rare. And it's deeply needed, especially today, because many people want visibility before they have humility. Influencers. They want influence before they have integrity. They want the platform before they've been formed in obedience. They want Pharaoh's court, but they haven't learned faithfulness in Potiphar's house. They want public assignment, but they keep compromising in private. How many know what that's all about? They want responsibility. Look, this is real life here. This is real life. This is how you live it, you know. They want responsibility, but they haven't learned to serve when nobody notices. Oh, I just gotta be noticed. Genesis 41 warns us not to despise hidden formation. Joseph didn't wake up wise in Pharaoh's court. Wisdom had it had been carved into him through suffering, obedience, patience, service, and dependence on God. He learned administration in Potiphar's house. He learned faithfulness under temptation. He learned endurance under false accusation. He learned attentiveness in prison. He learned to interpret dreams without making himself the sinner. The hidden years weren't wasted. They were forming capacity. Come on, somebody, somebody's living that right now. Every experience, every job, every every relationship forming you. Every prayer. Are you talking with God? I didn't say to, I said with. Are you talking with God? Are you communicating with God? Are you communicating with his word? Are you digging in deep in his word? Pharaoh tells Joseph the dreams. Joseph explains that the two dreams are one. God has revealed what he's about to do. Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout Egypt. And after them will come seven years of famine. The famine will be so severe that the abundance will be forgotten. The doubling of the dream means the thing is fixed by God and God will shortly bring it about. But I'm going to tell you something. Joseph doesn't merely interpret, he gives wise counsel to Pharaoh. He just came out of jail, folks. Two years. Good morning, Miss Sharon. So good to see you. He tells Pharaoh, look, come on, come on. You know, you know, hey, we look at this and we go, what? Two years in jail, and now, next, you know, little bit of days, puff. He's changing the future. Come on, somebody, somebody. He tells Pharaoh to appoint a discerning and wise man over Egypt, gathering one-fifth of the produce during the abundant year, store grain, and preserve food for the famine. Do you see this? Joseph doesn't give Pharaoh a dramatic word and walk away. He gives a plan. That matters because biblical wisdom isn't vague inspiration. Biblical wisdom knows what to do next. It prepares, it stores, it organizes, it acts before the crisis arrives. Breathe it in, folks. Come on. Some of us call it faith when we're really refusing wisdom. We say, I'm trusting God. I'm just trusting God. I'm standing on the promises. But we don't prepare. But we don't order the house. We don't address the pattern. We don't save. We don't plan. We don't make the appointment. We don't have the hard conversations. We don't build habits in years of plenty that can sustain us in the years of famine. Come on, that's a word for somebody. Joseph chose us something better. Faith listens to God and then it acts wisely. Faith doesn't panic. Faith prepares. Faith builds. Faith stores grain before the hunger arrives. Faith puts structure around revelation. Faith asks, what obedient action does this truth require? Oh, we don't like that. Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust. Hey, I don't want to do the obey part. I don't like the obey part. Because sometimes the obey part is rough. Some of us who are listening, we say, I don't, I don't, I've been through two years, I've been through ten years, been five years, however long it's been, I've been through this thing. And you look back and you say it didn't go the way I thought it was going to go. Were you faithful? Did you do all those things I just said? Did you act wisely? Did you listen to God and act wisely? Did you did you panic? That's not faith. Did you prepare? Look, people say, hey, if you prepare, that's not faith. Wrong. Faith prepares, faith builds, faith stores grain before the hunger arrives. Come on now. That's a that's a common sense word right from the Old Testament scripture. You better put a little bit away. Before the hunger comes, you better have a little food up in that closet before the hunger comes. Too late when the hunger comes. It's just like with blood sugar and and severe diabetics. Remember, diabetes is not um it's it's not high blood sugar, it's uncontrolled blood sugar. I have that, and others listening have that, and you know the biggest danger is low blood sugar. You better eat before the blood sugar goes down because you're in deep trouble. Your blood sugar goes way down. You can't even say your name. You don't even. There have been times where I couldn't even open a package. The things were sitting right there, and Miss Colleen had to open the thing for me because I couldn't, I couldn't put the two together. It messes with your brain. Faith puts structure around revelation, my friends. Faith asks, what obedient action does this truth require? What do I need to do? There's some doing that needs to be done. So here is here's concrete obedience for today. Look at the area where God is warning you to prepare. Marriage, your money, your health. Look, and your marriage could be your relationship. Maybe you're not married. Your relationship. Better prepare. Bunny, you got to handle your money right. Your health. Look, you got to do it. As a guy who is, you know, terminally ill. I'm just going to tell you. You got to pay attention to your health. You're right, Nicole. So many times we are told to be aware and prepare. Amen. Look, the warning is you've got to prepare your mind. You got to prepare your health. You got to do what you can. You might not be able to do a million things, but you got to do what you can. How about your calling? You got to prepare within your calling. Your habits. Do you have good habits or bad? Your prayer life. Some folks, many folks, don't have one. Your household. It's a mess. Literally, it's a mess. It's not being managed properly. And it's physically a mess. It's not healthy. Your work. Maybe you have a job, whatever it is you do. And you're a mess at work. You're not prepared. Now the next one, you're gonna hate it. You're gonna hate it. I know that you will. Teshuva, repentance. Stay up to date on your repentance. Don't wait until famine to start building what abundance was supposed to prepare. Use the season you're in faithfully. I'm here. I'm in prison. I gotta, I gotta do right here. I gotta prepare. Whether I'm in here forever or when I'm gonna be released, I just know I gotta prepare. No matter where you are, you gotta prepare. You gotta learn from everything. If you're in a season of plenty, store grain. If you're in a season of waiting, let God form wisdom. If you're in a season of responsibility, lead for preservation, not your ego. If you're in a season of opportunity, give God the glory and serve people well. If you're in a season of famine, don't forget that God can preserve life even there. How do I know? Because he's done it. He's done it in our own lives. Miss Gaulle can testify. We've been through some tough times, and God has always come through. Pharaoh recognizes the wisdom in Joseph and he says, Can we find a man like this in whom is the Spirit of God? Pharaoh. Pharaoh, think about that. Pharaoh. Pharaoh go. Then Pharaoh sets Joseph over his house and over the land of Egypt. Joseph is giving author. Look, Pharaoh says, hmm, okay. I'm with this boy Joseph, this good-looking fella. Joseph is given authority, garments of fine linen, a gold chain, and a new name. And he rides in Pharaoh's second chariot. Man, that's a big deal. The one who was stripped is clothed. The one who was thrown down is lifted up. The one who was forgotten is entrusted with preserving life. Come on, somebody make the connection. Before, look, we can't, we can't rush beyond this chapter. We can't. This isn't yet family reconciliation. Joseph hasn't faced his brothers. Joseph doesn't yet know that, or Jacob doesn't yet know that his son is alive. The wound in the family hasn't yet been healed. Genesis 41 isn't the end of the story. It's the moment when hidden preparation becomes public responsibility. God raises Joseph, not merely to make Joseph feel better, but to preserve many lives. He sure could. Look, when you can bring people back from death, from being dead, surely he stinketh. And somebody walks right on out of that grave. When you can do that, hey, you can self-exalt. But he doesn't. Jesus doesn't do that. He uses it to give life. Joseph stores bread so people can live through famine. Yeshua is the bread of life who gives himself for the life of the world. Joseph is raised to preserve physical life in a coming famine, and Yeshua is raised. Come on, somebody, somebody make the connection. Come on now. Come on now. Come on now. Gotta make this connection. We gotta, we gotta, this is gotta, we gotta make this connection. We gotta make it happen. Don't miss it. Yeshua is raised to give eternal life to all who trust him. That doesn't erase Joseph's own story. It deepens it. The God who prepared Joseph for preservation was always moving the covenant story toward the one, the one who would save far beyond, far beyond Egypt. Not just one nation from famine, sinners from death, you and me, not just bodies from hunger, souls from judgment, not just temporary survival, everlasting life in the kingdom of God. The challenge, I have it, I have this challenge and choice for you every day. Today, the challenge today, the challenge today, are you ready? Stop asking God to explain every chapter of your life before you obey in the chapter you're actually living. Stop asking for that. Name where you are. Be real about where you are. Betrayal, exposure, temptation, false accusation, forgotten faithfulness, preparation, responsibility. Then ask, what does faithfulness look like here, not later when things are better, not when everything makes sense, right here, today. That's where your faith is real. Man, getting sick, getting hurt, that brought it into refinement for me. It brought it into refinement. It's like, oh, okay. Stop playing around with your faith. It's not just gonna come on you accidentally. You have an option. Here's your choice. Here's your choice. I gave you the challenge. Here's your choice. Will you demand that God explain everything before you obey anything? Oh, come on, Lord. You got to make this clear to me. You got to give me all this before you obey anything. Or will you become faithful in the chapter you're actually letting come on? Some of you are living in a rough, rough chapter. You are in a storm, brothers and sisters, and you know it. Will you become faithful in the chapter you're actually living in right now? Will you let betrayal make you bitter? Will you let hidden sin keep poisoning your soul, your hidden hurts, habits, and hangups? Are you going to let it keep poisoning you? Will you let temptation redefine your identity? Will you let false accusation silence your obedience? Come on, somebody, somebody, you're there right now. Will you let delay convince you God forgot about you? Oh, he didn't forget. Will you let promotion become pride? Maybe God hasn't promoted you because you got a little pride problem. Or, or will you say, God, I don't understand it all, but I'll obey you here. I will tell the truth here. I will flee sin here. I will serve faithfully here. I will prepare wisely right here. I will not worship the pit, my problem, my hurt. I won't worship it. I won't make it my identity. I will not worship the palace. I will worship you. My friends, brothers and sisters, that is the way of shalom. Not comfort first, not control first, not clarity first, God first, truth first, obedience first, wisdom first, mercy first, a life reordered under the rule and goodness of God. Your step today, concrete. It's concrete. Couldn't be more concrete than this. Identify which chapter you're living in right now. Genesis 37, betrayal, Genesis 38, exposure, Genesis 39, temptation and false accusation, Genesis 40, forgotten faithfulness, Genesis 41, preparation and responsibility. Name it. Name it. Then ask God, what does faithfulness look like here? What does faithfulness look like here? Not somewhere else, not someone else's life here today. Then take the step. Make the call. Tell the truth. Set the boundary. Confess the sin. Flee the temptation. Serve the person. Ask for help. Store the grain. Give God the glory. That's how the word becomes flesh in your actual life. That is how doctrine becomes discipleship. And that's how hearing becomes obedience. That's how your life starts moving towards shalom. And if you are still in the hidden years, hear me carefully. Hear me carefully. There's nothing easy about this. Hidden doesn't mean useless. Some of you feel useless. Unseen. Waiting doesn't mean wasted. Unseen doesn't mean unformed. The pit didn't cancel Joseph. The prison didn't cancel Joseph. The delay didn't cancel Joseph. And your hidden season doesn't cancel what God can still do in your life. Let him form you. Let him steady you. Let him make you faithful before he makes you visible. That is shalom. That is shalom. Ordered life under God. Wisdom before crisis. Humility before authority. Preparation before preservation. Courage with peace. Stillness. With obedience. Oh, somebody. Prayer. It's not asking for an easy journey. It's asking for a strong back, Father. Teach us to trust you in the hidden years. Teach us not to despise preparation just because it's painful. Give us wisdom like Joseph, humility like Joseph, and courage to serve when the door finally opens. Show us where we need to store grain before famine comes. Show us where we need to prepare, repent, plan, forgive, build, and obey. Keep us from wasting seasons of your abundance. Keep us from demanding visibility before formation. And when you entrust us with responsibility, help us to use it to preserve life, serve people, and point to you. Bring our lives into shalom under your timing, your wisdom, and your authority in Yeshua, Jesus, your son's name. Amen. Today, maybe you realize you've been trying to live on your own wisdom, your own strength, your own timing, and your own control. This is where you come home. This moment is where you come home. Joseph told Pharaoh, it is not, Pharaoh, it is not in me. That's where salvation begins in every one of us. It is not in me. I can't save myself. I can't cleanse myself. I can't raise myself from death to life. I need mercy. I need forgiveness. I need Yeshua. He died for sinners, was buried, and he rose again. He is the bread of life. He is the bread of life. He is the risen King. And if you're ready to turn from sin, your hurts, your habits, and your hangups, and trust him. Pray this from your heart. You ready? Here we go. Father, I know, and say it out loud. Say it out loud. Doesn't matter where you are. Father, I know I've sinned and I need your mercy. I believe Jesus died for me, was buried, and rose again. Today I turn from my sin. I place my trust in him as my Lord and my King. Forgive me, make me new, and fill me with your Spirit. From this day forward, I want to follow you. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. What a moment. What a day. If you breathe that prayer today, welcome to the family of God. We're not perfect. We're not. We will be. One day we will be. We're not now. Have patience with us. You don't have to, you don't have to figure out all of this by yourself. You don't have to. If you gave your life to Yeshua, Jesus, or if you still have honest questions, reach out to me at true wordfaith for life.com slash contact. Made in those, you reach out to me. I'm telling you, as soon as I get your message, I will absolutely reach back out to you. No fooling. And I'll help you in any way that I can. I'll personally connect with you and I'll help you take your next step. You are not alone. Just reach out. Listen, two years passed. I want you to take this in. Don't miss this. Two years passed. A king dreamed. A servant remembered. A prisoner was called. A man shaved, changed his clothes, and stood before Pharaoh. But the wisdom didn't begin in the palace. It was formed in the pit. It was formed in the house. It was formed in the temptation. It was formed in the accusation. It was formed in that prison. It was formed in that waiting. And when the moment came, Joseph knew what to say. It is not in me. That's where wisdom begins. That's where shalom grows. That's where God receives the glory. If this helped you today, send it to one person who needs hope. There's so many that do. I'm not asking you to send to a million. I'm asking you to send to one. The right word at the right time can help someone keep walking. May Adunai bless you and keep you. May Adonai make his face to shine upon you and show you his grace. May Adonai lift up his face toward you and give you shalom. Until Sunday at 6 30 p.m. live. Shalom Bishem Yeshua. This has been True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Shawn. For more teachings, visit TrueWordfaith for Life.com. Until Sunday at 6 30 p.m. Eastern. Shabbat Shalom.