Do It Again

His Master replied, "Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!" Matthew 25:21 NIV

Good Morning Girlfriends:

Time and time again, as we read through the Bible on different accounts where God had brought people through their difficult situations, ones where they didn't know if they were going to make it through. There were some pretty scary and right down cruel things that these people had went through before coming to the end of it, and maybe you are feeling that way right now. You are wondering how much more, or when will it ever end. Let's look at Joseph's story and what he endured.

Joseph grew up in a large family, and he seemed to be favored by his parents, that's how the other brothers saw it. The brothers had devised a plan and lured Joseph off because they wanted to get rid of him. Their first plan was to kill him, but they decided they couldn't do that so if they threw him into an old well hole, no one would ever find him. Josephs brothers met Ishmaelites on the road, they decided to sell Joseph into slavery for twenty shekels of silver. He was then taken and sold to his new master, Potiphar, the captain of the Egyptian Pharaoh's guard, and he was made the over seer of Potiphar's household.

He was then wrongly accused of seducing Potiphar's wife, which was a lie, but Potiphar believing his wife, Joseph was sent to jail at the age of seventeen, where he spent twelve years. While in jail, there were two other men that were there with Joseph, they each had dreams that they were not able to figure out, and Joseph offered to interpret their dreams. Shortly afterwards, the two men were released from jail and they had promised to speak a good word to Potiphar for Joseph, so that he might be released. Two more years had passed when Joseph was called upon to interpret a dream for Pharaoh, who was ruler over all of Egypt. After interpreting Pharaoh's dream, Joseph was made "vizier" of Egypt, which was the prime minister, and he was given a gold seal of authority. Joseph was highly favored by the Lord, because he stayed faithful to God during everything he had went through, in which blessings were on Potiphar's household, as well as the fields, because of Joseph's faithfulness to the Lord.

The book of Ester is the same faithfulness of God, because Ester listened and obeyed God at the tender age of fourteen, therefore He used her to become Queen of the Persian empire. Moses was used by God to lead millions of Hebrews out of Egypt, where they spent forty years out in the desert until they were taken to the promised land. Spending forty years in the desert was not an easy task for any of them, but God provided for them with food and water. They went through many hard times, much frustration, unfaithfulness towards God, but in the end Moses did get them to the promise land.

Paul and Silas were thrown into prison for preaching the gospel, but they were released as the prison doors flew open because of their faithfulness to God as they praised and worshipped God during their trial. Daniel was thrown into a lions den for not bowing to the kings demands at that time, Daniel only prayed to God Almighty because that is who he listened to and was faithful to in every situation, and after thirty days, Daniel was released and unharmed.

Girlfriends, you may be going through a rough time right now, it's been a hard go, you have done the best that you can in your situation, you have stayed loyal to God, maybe you have had to go without sometimes in order to make it through, and God wants you to know that He sees all of it, and what God did for each of these people in the Bible, which are true account, God will do it again for each and every one of us. God is saying, that He has seen all of our pain, He has seen and heard the tears we have cried, He has seen our anguish, and He will turn our situations around just like He did for Joseph, Ester, Moses, and Daniel, because we have stood faithful and did not give in to the ways of the world, we did not listen to what other people may have been saying, we heard, listened and obeyed the voice of the Lord, and He will be faithful to reward us, for His glory. Praise God! Never give up on God because He never gives up on you.

Let's Pray,

Father God, I praise You, I thank you Lord that you are faithful to your people who are faithful to you. There is nothing that you do not see, Your word says that our latter days will be greater than our former days. Lord I am believing that now is our season to see the latter days come to pass, that the best is yet to come. We didn't know how long our tests and trials were going to take, but with your strength and our endurance to keep going each day, You are faithful to see us through and to reward us in the end, I thank you in the Mighty name of Jesus for each one that will see this come to pass, that this is their season in Jesus name, Amen.

Be blessed sweet one and pass the blessings on.