FAITH CAPSULE: No matter what your challenges are, the blessing of God is always present.

Genesis 37

Prayerfully, meditate on Psalm 34:15, “The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.”
With God, to be broken is to be blessed.
In life, to become broken comes before experiencing the blessing of God.
Abraham experienced brokenness when he answered God, who sent him out of his comfort zone, his family.
Out of the brokenness in Abraham, the revealed blessing of God.
Are you facing challenges that persist or refuse to cease?
With an understanding of God, one will know that God will give the strength to rest on Him for divine intervention.
Understand and know that Psalm 34:19 speaks to you, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Joseph answered the calling of God, but not with the idea of the blessings of God that would become manifested in his life.
No matter what your challenges are, the blessing of God is always present.
At age 17, Joseph went to Jacob (his father), who was unknowingly the architect of the route to the assignment.
Jacob said, “…Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks and bring back word to me.” So, he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.” (Genesis 37:14) 
Joseph answered the calling of his father, which was not outside of God.
The book of Psalm 105:17-22 confirms the calling of Joseph as it states, “He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.” They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. “Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him; the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.”  
Genesis 37:2  records the brokenness of Joseph.
Joseph experienced a painful broken relationship, not seeing his beloved father Jacob for over 30 years. (Genesis 41:46) 
Joseph, the beloved of Jacob (his father), unknowingly answered the call as a prized slave who became blessed as prime minister. 
Regardless of where you are today, do you know if you are answering God with pain resulting in the blessing of God?
Joseph became a slave; he could no longer move at his own will.
Joseph came under the authority that he could not control. 
The calling of God will lead the called one into an unknown journey to learn to wait on God.
Jesus was broken and answered as the blessing of God to become the blessing of all.
Philippians 2:8 testifies of Jesus, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
God blesses the broken one before Him.

Prayer for today: Ask that the strength of God shall have a place in you to answer the calling of God.