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Joseph(1) Overcoming Life's Challenges
by Fenny West Overcoming Life's Challenges Rising Above the Tempests of Life. Requires accommodating changes, Soaring Above the Storms of Life. Treachery became a teacher. You can be sold by your brothers, betrayed by your friends and family, misunderstood by your siblings. They may plot to kill you, abort your dream. His father loved him more; That opened hatred-door. Favour bought and brought danger. The coat of many colours brought out their true colours. jealousy, envy, ran riot. 'That dream of dominion shall not be' They vowed. 'You will do it in the grave. 'You will reign over us on our dead bodies.' But in innocence he dreamed and told again, Fuelling the fire of fury, anger, hatred, betrayal and bitterness. 'Look the dreamer is coming, let's snuff his life out and kill the dream.' Stripped of his coat but not of his dream; Thrown in to the pit, Joseph escaped death by the skin of his teeth. Reason prevailed, compassion reigned Reuben, and Judah's voices ruled: 'Leave him alone. Why should we kill him? What would we gain? 'Let's sell him instead and make some money.' Amongst your enemies, God would raise a voice to support you. That voice may not know why it does what it does, but God knows how to turn the hearts of kings, princes, tugs and cowboys; like the courses of a mighty river, to speak His mind, vote for you,support you and do His will and bidding by His leading. You will not die before your time. You will fulfill the dream God ordained for you before the foundation of the world. Help shall arise from a quarter you least expected, to show that it is not by your might nor by your power but by the Spirit of the Living God. They did not like his dream but could they stop the dream? They ridiculed the dream But it did not stop him from dreaming. They opposed the dream but it gave him wings and he rose. So, Joseph became merchandise, Traded as a slave for some cash that turned out to be trash. God was still guiding and guarding. The merchandise changed hands from slave to servant of soldier- officer Potiphar. Now serving dignitaries, was the dream turned on its head? Back home his brothers lied and lied to cover their murderous tracks. They acted innocent blamed it on a wild animal, but their conscience disagreed. They turned veteran actors overnight; displaying shameful antics and acrobatics of contrived bogus grief, It was wanton, a conspiracy; a con on mum and dad. 'O how dreadful,' they said. 'We were so, so powerless; The animal was menacing, eyes blood- shut , spitting fire and brimstone like a dragon, hungry for human meat We were next on the menu, so we fled the deadly grizzly venue with our lives in our hands. 'It was awful to watch our brother torn and carried away by the beast. 'It's a miracle we escaped; luckily with his coat, full of blood. 'O, what a pity, and he had such a great future.' Jacob was so distraught and almost died but God was in charge and very much at work, sending his angel to protect.. Treachery would be turned into victory one day. Copy it rightly www.inspiration4generations.com [email protected] Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |