Power for Life by Matt Sorger

Author:Matt Sorger [Sorger, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2011-09-05T21:00:00+00:00

—DR. DALE E. TURNER

Psalm 105 talks about what Joseph had to walk through. It shows us that God’s perspective can be completely opposite to man’s perspective. The circumstances may be the same, but God knows the end result.

Psalm 105:17–22 states, “He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold as a servant. His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron and his soul entered into the iron, until his word [to his cruel brothers] came true, until the word of the Lord tried and tested him. The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go free. He made Joseph lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, to bind his princes at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.”

Verse 17 explains it all. “He sent a man...who was sold as a servant.” From the earthly perspective Joseph was sold into slavery. He was abused and mistreated by his brothers. They were so jealous they wanted to kill him. They sold him as a slave so his destiny could never be fulfilled. They tried to destroy him. This was man’s perspective. It seemed as if the actions of Joseph’s brothers were causing the exact opposite thing to happen than what God had spoken. From the earthly perspective man was destroying Joseph’s dreams and destiny.

God saw things very differently. Joseph was not just a man being sold into slavery. He was a man being sent by God. Man’s viewpoint said, “Sold”; God’s viewpoint said, “Sent”—same situation, different interpretation. The problem is, God does not always send us the way we think He should. But Joseph needed to be divinely positioned by God so that at the right moment he could be promoted to his place of destiny. God knew that the best way for Joseph to get near the king was to be placed in the dungeon where he would meet the chief butler. It would be this one connection that would bring Joseph from the dungeon to the palace. But Joseph had to be in the dungeon to make this connection!

The entire time, even when man couldn’t see it, God’s hand was at work to position Joseph exactly where he needed to be to fulfill the dream. God even used Joseph’s brothers’ ungodliness to fulfill His purposes. Each painful experience pushed Joseph closer to his divine assignment. Each act of betrayal and accusation caused Joseph to be divinely positioned by God. Then when the right moment had arrived, God shut off all the revelation in the land. No one could interpret Pharaoh’s dream—no one but Joseph, that is. This is what God was doing all along. Then in one single moment of breakthrough, Joseph was promoted to the top!

Bird’s-Eye Perspective of Training

As a new baby eaglet grows in size, at some point it becomes time to fly. The parents encourage the eaglet by flapping their wings above the nest. If that doesn’t work, the parents entice the young eagle to fly by holding food just out of reach.

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