Twice we read in that short account, “The Lord was with Joseph.” Joseph started to see the hand of The Lord God in his jail experience. In what might have been the direst of positions, the dreariest of places, Joseph thrived. Rodney Howard Brown explains that due to this, he was made available to be utilised by God strategically in the lives of at least 2 men. Fake accusations put Joseph in jail, but it was actually the Lord who stayed near him and nurtured his soul while he was there.

The warden trusted and respected Joseph such a lot that he “did not control anything under Joseph’s charge as the LORD was with him ; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper.”. You see, the Lord God stayed 1st in Joseph’s life ; He was the focus of his life. Rodney Howard Brown shares that the lens of the Lord God’s will stood between Joseph and his circumstances, enabling Joseph to see God in them, to read God in them—and enabling God to use him in them.

When a dungeon experience comes, the swiftest and easiest reply is to feel that you have been forgotten by God. I do not know if you checked out the cartoon “Ziggy,” but I enjoy him—maybe as he frequently claims the things I have been thinking. One of my tops shows Ziggy, with his giant nose and bald head, standing on a mountain and staring far above him.

The sky is dark, and there’s one lonesome cloud up there. Ziggy screams, “Have I been put on hold for the remainder of my life?”. You have felt like that, haven’t you? “Lord, will You ever answer?” how frequently the heavens appear more like cold brass than God’s loving abode. Make no mistake about it, Joseph did not merit jail, but he answered to it fantastically. Firstly in his life was his imperative and consistent relationship with his Lord. And due to that, God used him in strategic and important ways.

Rodney Howard Browne shares with us a story: In September , Belinda was walking the shops in Arizona. She knew precisely what she wished to get her hubby, John, for Xmas. A little shop attracted her attention, so she popped inside. Her eyes darted toward the corner display. Her grin faded into discontent as she realized David’s income as a cop could not stand such a jolt.

Yet she loathed to give up without a try, so she applied a little ladylike endurance. “Uh, what about putting this aside for me? Perhaps I could pay a little each week, then pick it up one or two days before Christmas?”. “No,” the merchant expounded, “I will not do that.” Then he grinned. You can take it with you and pay me later,” he claimed.

Her partner John, working the night shift, got a call in his squad vehicle. John reacted straight away, arriving on the scene nicely timed to see the suspect speed away. With siren hollering and lights flashing, he followed in hot pursuit. John conscientiously approached the suspect with his weapon drawn.

In a split 2nd, the door flew open as the burglar produced a gun and fired at John’s stomach. At 6 o’clock in the morning an officer came to the door of their home. Quietly and with great care, he told Belinda what had occurred. Surprised , Belinda thought how satisfied she was she had not waited till Yuletide to give her partner his present. How thankful she was the shopkeeper had been prepared to let her pay for it later. Instead, he was now in the hospitalnot with a gunshot wound, but with only a bad bruise.

Rodney Howard Browne explains that David was wearing the gift of life Belinda couldn’t wait to give his husband bulletproof vest. In the movement of events is God, who plans and prepares the times and the seasons, including the minutest detail of life. Folks who survive a tragedy do not have much tussle with sovereignty.