FAITH CAPSULE: Be encouraged that God does have His own plan of taking you through.

Genesis 41:1-24

It does not matter how you get into the dungeon or how long you have been in the dungeon. However, it matters that if you will look up to Him today, He will look down to bring you out of the dungeon quickly. It is written, “Look up to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:22) The word of God cannot fail. Joseph was obediently attending to his father errand when he entered into a journey that led him all the way into a dungeon. Joseph was sent by his father Jacob from the Valley of Hebron to Shechem to look for the well being of his brothers. At Joseph’s arrival to where the brothers have been, his brothers sent him into the pit and later picked him up for sale to a company of Ishmaelite because of envy. While serving in his master’s house, the wife laid a false charge of sexual harassment on him and he ended in the prison. Joseph did not bargain for the entire unfavorable situation that came his way while going obeying his father. While in prison, he interpreted favorable and unfavorable dreams for two Chiefs (Butler and Baker) that were confined by Pharaoh. The dream’s interpretation came out to be true. The chief forgot Joseph despite’s Joseph’s plead to the chief to remember him. After two years that he has been forgotten by chief, God make a way for him to be remembered when Pharaoh had a dream that needed to be interpreted. Be encouraged that God does have His own plan of taking you through. Know that such is life and it is full of ups and downs but God that is up will lift you up at His divine timing. When it was time for Joseph to come out, there was no sign or any indication that he was to be released and nothing could stop the move of God to release him from the dungeon. Pharaoh’s dream demanded for an interpretation and none other than Joseph that could interpret the dream. As a result, the Chief Butler remembered Joseph. Chief Butler mentioned about Joseph to Pharaoh, “Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph and they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; and he shaved, changed in his clothing, and came to Pharaoh.” (Genesis 41:14) Besides the fact that his release came quickly, his garment was also changed and he was shaved. Can you imagine Joseph coming out of the dungeon quickly and neat (changed and shaved)? Imagine your coming out of dungeon and it shall come to be.

Prayer for today: In Jesus name, you will come out quickly and all that has become a stain on you will be cleansed and forever you will no longer go back into any self or man’s created dungeon.