August 21, 2025 • 12 mins
Delayed on purpose, for a Purpose. No matter what you going through or have gone through, know that God has a plan to Bless you in a place you never expected to be.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
Spending every morning in quiet time, never know what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We're growing Henri's by now by tars As.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You got good choices.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Now, if you are Joseph sitting in a prison for
a space of two years, feeling as if the prime
of your life is rotting away, and you are rotting away,
and your physical strength is rotting away, only to find
out that maybe the reason that God kept you in
that situation for that length of time, maybe the reason
(01:52):
the Cupbearer forgot you so you stayed in there, was
because if you had been released from that prison one day,
sooner you would have missed the window of opportunity for
you to demonstrate the gift that God gave you.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So tell your neighbor you're not rotten, You're right.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I see people in my heart who are feeling right now,
like it should have happened a long time ago, Like
I'm behind all my friends, Like it's not going to
happen for me because I'm supposed to be married by
the age of twenty four. But God said, I know
what right looks like.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
God said, I.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Know the difference between when you're still getting ready and
when you think you're ready.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
God says, I.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Know how to leave the thing in the obscure place
until the opportunity has reached its optimal positioning high five
three people say.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm right, I'm right now.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This will work against discouragement, because the enemy will tell
you that too much time has passed, Too many years
have gone, how many other people have gone ahead of you,
Too many experiences have eluded you. Too many things that
you should have learned you didn't learn. I feel like
preaching to tell somebody that's just the right time if
(03:11):
you humble yourself under his mighty hand.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm rusty, but I'm ripe mixing my metaphors. Let's get
back to the text.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The Bible says that Joseph had two children before the famine.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Now it's good that he had.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Them before the famine, because sometimes God will send you
a blessing before a trial to remind you of who
he is, so that you don't let the trial discourage
you to the point that.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You want to quit.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The Bible says that two sons were born of Asanath,
the daughter of Potiphara, the priest of an In case
you're wondering who that.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Is, she was really important.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
These people were royalty, but they were not Hebrews.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
They were Egyptians.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Imagine Joseph's surprise when he realized God is going to
give me a family, but He's.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Going to do it through foreigners.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know how we get in our mind how God
is going to do things in our life. You know
how you were picking out what college of kids were
going to go to. When they were three months old.
You bought them a little duke fassy and they had
to be a tar heel. But you know, this serves
to illustreet the principle that I really stood up to
(04:40):
preach to you today, and.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
It's this It's going to happen here.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Long were the days that Joseph would think, Maybe one
day I'll get to go back home to Canan. Maybe
one day I'll get to reconcile with my brothers who
betrayed me. Maybe one day they'll tell me that they're
sorry and that they were wrong. Maybe one day I
will again get to take in the familiar sights and
(05:14):
sounds the place where I came from. And imagine Joseph's
surprise when, instead of God taking him back to his homeland,
he gave him the gift of a family in the
place of his hardship. Usually when we preach about Egypt,
(05:40):
we talk about coming out of Egypt. In fact, the
Bible says, give me the scripture from Leviticus that I
sent earlier, or Deuteronomy rather, where the Lord tells his
people after he brings them out of Egypt, be careful
that you do not forget the Lord who brought you
what out of.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
God's warning his people after he brings them out of
that place that grew to be so dreadful for them,
bricks without straw and forced labor under the heavy whips
of their masters, who knew not of Joseph.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He said, be.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Careful, don't forget when I bring you out. And yet
we're reading a passage today that suggests that even in Egypt.
Everybody say, even in Egypt, there are some things that
God can do even though you didn't choose to go there.
(06:43):
I am preaching to somebody today who is in a
place in your life where you did not choose to
go there, dealing with the situation that you did not
choose to create for yourself. Joseph did not go to
Egypt as a traveler.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He went to eat as a slave.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And yet the Bible says in verse fifty two, watch
this God has made me fruitful in the land of
my sufferings. So now here comes the question, how can
God make you fruitful in something that you want to.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Be free from.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We all have things, and you can shake me off
if you want to, and you can pretend like this
is for the person sitting.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
On your row, if you want.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
We all have things that we need to be freed from,
want to be freed from.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
We all have places that we never plan to go.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Some of us have mental conditions that were passed on
to us genetically. They are not even the result necessarily
of behavior. Some of the demons that you're fighting are
from your daddy. And the demons don't leave just because
you said the name of Jesus. They still have to
be fought against for.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
The rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And you imagine a day when I'll be free of this,
when I no longer desire this, when I no longer feel.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
This way, when depression will.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No longer show up like a dark cloud over my life,
when anxiety will no longer overwhelm my soul. One day,
I'm gonna be free from this. But I came to breach.
You can be fruitful in it. Why you're waiting to be.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Free from it, That is gonna happen the moment you'll
decide to name it manassa.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Manassa means forget yet, No, let's study this, say down,
we gotta study it.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
We gotta study it. Sounds good, but let's study it,
he said.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Joseph named his first one and verse fifty one Manasa.
Everybody said manassa and said it is because God has
made me forget all my trouble and all my father's
household why if you forgot it, why are we still
talking about it.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You don't forget something like this.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You don't forget having your your coat of many colors
stripped from you, dipped in animal blood, presented to your
father as a proof or a token of your death
when you are still very much alive.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You don't forget being pushed in.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
A pit, half dead and carted to a foreign place
to serve as a slave.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
You don't forget any of that. And the Bible says
that he said he forgotten.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So is he lying? No, No, it's not a lie.
It's a lens because when he says.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That what God gave me, how many have something.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
God gave you, God gave you, God gave he.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Says, when I consider what God gave me, and then
I think about what was taken from me, the years
that were stolen from me, the peace that was stolen
from me. I believe Joseph probably struggled with intense self
hatred temptation, because when you are treated this way by
your brothers, it makes you doubt yourself. Many people who
(09:59):
come through abuse, they take the anger that they cannot
bear to project outward, or do not have the power
to project outward and turn it inward, and then it
eats you alive, and it chows through all of the
fruit of your future because you are stuck in something
that someone else did.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
But Joseph said, Joseph said, when.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I see what God gave me, this baby that I'm
holding in a place I never chose to go to,
in a situation that I never thought I would have
to settle into, in a season of my life that
I never saw come him. It isn't that he stopped
remembering what he went through.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
He just refocused what he was looking at.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And the word of the Lord is Refocus, Refocus, Refocus.
I know your body is holding a lot of trauma,
but refocus. I know you have abandonment issues because everybody
who you let in somehow let you down. But refocus.
There's a manassa in your arms. Refocus. I know that
(11:13):
some things you were seated out of were unfair, and
I know that if you could go back and have
it happened.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Differently, you would. You didn't choose it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And the things that you never chose don't mean you
can't grow through them.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Gotten news what you've been through, gott only knows what
to say. About you. Gott only news I was killing you.
But there's a kind of loath that got.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Only the same value, because there's a
Speaker 4 (12:03):
You can't cover over everything, a secret, so
iHeartRadio now combines your favorite radio stations plus your on
demand music collection. All in one app. iHeartRadio automatically creates
your my playlist, where you save all your favorite tracks
from the radio. When you hear a song on the radio,
tap add to playlist and choose a playlist. With iHeartRadio
(00:23):
All Access, create an unlimited number of playlists. Search for
an artist or song and save directly to the playlist
you choose. Collect and listen to your favorite music anywhere, anytime.
Create a playlist for every mood or occasion. Radio plus
(00:57):
unlimited music all in one app.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Spending every morning in quiet time, never know what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We're growing Henri's by now by tars As.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You got good choices.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Now, if you are Joseph sitting in a prison for
a space of two years, feeling as if the prime
of your life is rotting away, and you are rotting away,
and your physical strength is rotting away, only to find
out that maybe the reason that God kept you in
that situation for that length of time, maybe the reason
(01:52):
the Cupbearer forgot you so you stayed in there, was
because if you had been released from that prison one day,
sooner you would have missed the window of opportunity for
you to demonstrate the gift that God gave you.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So tell your neighbor you're not rotten, You're right.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I see people in my heart who are feeling right now,
like it should have happened a long time ago, Like
I'm behind all my friends, Like it's not going to
happen for me because I'm supposed to be married by
the age of twenty four. But God said, I know
what right looks like.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
God said, I.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Know the difference between when you're still getting ready and
when you think you're ready.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
God says, I.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Know how to leave the thing in the obscure place
until the opportunity has reached its optimal positioning high five
three people say.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm right, I'm right now.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
This will work against discouragement, because the enemy will tell
you that too much time has passed, Too many years
have gone, how many other people have gone ahead of you,
Too many experiences have eluded you. Too many things that
you should have learned you didn't learn. I feel like
preaching to tell somebody that's just the right time if
(03:11):
you humble yourself under his mighty hand.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I'm rusty, but I'm ripe mixing my metaphors. Let's get
back to the text.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The Bible says that Joseph had two children before the famine.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Now it's good that he had.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Them before the famine, because sometimes God will send you
a blessing before a trial to remind you of who
he is, so that you don't let the trial discourage
you to the point that.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You want to quit.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The Bible says that two sons were born of Asanath,
the daughter of Potiphara, the priest of an In case
you're wondering who that.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Is, she was really important.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
These people were royalty, but they were not Hebrews.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
They were Egyptians.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Imagine Joseph's surprise when he realized God is going to
give me a family, but He's.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Going to do it through foreigners.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know how we get in our mind how God
is going to do things in our life. You know
how you were picking out what college of kids were
going to go to. When they were three months old.
You bought them a little duke fassy and they had
to be a tar heel. But you know, this serves
to illustreet the principle that I really stood up to
(04:40):
preach to you today, and.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
It's this It's going to happen here.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Long were the days that Joseph would think, Maybe one
day I'll get to go back home to Canan. Maybe
one day I'll get to reconcile with my brothers who
betrayed me. Maybe one day they'll tell me that they're
sorry and that they were wrong. Maybe one day I
will again get to take in the familiar sights and
(05:14):
sounds the place where I came from. And imagine Joseph's
surprise when, instead of God taking him back to his homeland,
he gave him the gift of a family in the
place of his hardship. Usually when we preach about Egypt,
(05:40):
we talk about coming out of Egypt. In fact, the
Bible says, give me the scripture from Leviticus that I
sent earlier, or Deuteronomy rather, where the Lord tells his
people after he brings them out of Egypt, be careful
that you do not forget the Lord who brought you
what out of.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
God's warning his people after he brings them out of
that place that grew to be so dreadful for them,
bricks without straw and forced labor under the heavy whips
of their masters, who knew not of Joseph.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He said, be.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Careful, don't forget when I bring you out. And yet
we're reading a passage today that suggests that even in Egypt.
Everybody say, even in Egypt, there are some things that
God can do even though you didn't choose to go there.
(06:43):
I am preaching to somebody today who is in a
place in your life where you did not choose to
go there, dealing with the situation that you did not
choose to create for yourself. Joseph did not go to
Egypt as a traveler.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He went to eat as a slave.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And yet the Bible says in verse fifty two, watch
this God has made me fruitful in the land of
my sufferings. So now here comes the question, how can
God make you fruitful in something that you want to.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Be free from.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We all have things, and you can shake me off
if you want to, and you can pretend like this
is for the person sitting.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
On your row, if you want.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
We all have things that we need to be freed from,
want to be freed from.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
We all have places that we never plan to go.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Some of us have mental conditions that were passed on
to us genetically. They are not even the result necessarily
of behavior. Some of the demons that you're fighting are
from your daddy. And the demons don't leave just because
you said the name of Jesus. They still have to
be fought against for.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
The rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And you imagine a day when I'll be free of this,
when I no longer desire this, when I no longer feel.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
This way, when depression will.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No longer show up like a dark cloud over my life,
when anxiety will no longer overwhelm my soul. One day,
I'm gonna be free from this. But I came to breach.
You can be fruitful in it. Why you're waiting to be.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Free from it, That is gonna happen the moment you'll
decide to name it manassa.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Manassa means forget yet, No, let's study this, say down,
we gotta study it.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
We gotta study it. Sounds good, but let's study it,
he said.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Joseph named his first one and verse fifty one Manasa.
Everybody said manassa and said it is because God has
made me forget all my trouble and all my father's
household why if you forgot it, why are we still
talking about it.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You don't forget something like this.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You don't forget having your your coat of many colors
stripped from you, dipped in animal blood, presented to your
father as a proof or a token of your death
when you are still very much alive.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You don't forget being pushed in.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
A pit, half dead and carted to a foreign place
to serve as a slave.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
You don't forget any of that. And the Bible says
that he said he forgotten.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So is he lying? No, No, it's not a lie.
It's a lens because when he says.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That what God gave me, how many have something.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
God gave you, God gave you, God gave he.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Says, when I consider what God gave me, and then
I think about what was taken from me, the years
that were stolen from me, the peace that was stolen
from me. I believe Joseph probably struggled with intense self
hatred temptation, because when you are treated this way by
your brothers, it makes you doubt yourself. Many people who
(09:59):
come through abuse, they take the anger that they cannot
bear to project outward, or do not have the power
to project outward and turn it inward, and then it
eats you alive, and it chows through all of the
fruit of your future because you are stuck in something
that someone else did.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
But Joseph said, Joseph said, when.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I see what God gave me, this baby that I'm
holding in a place I never chose to go to,
in a situation that I never thought I would have
to settle into, in a season of my life that
I never saw come him. It isn't that he stopped
remembering what he went through.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
He just refocused what he was looking at.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And the word of the Lord is Refocus, Refocus, Refocus.
I know your body is holding a lot of trauma,
but refocus. I know you have abandonment issues because everybody
who you let in somehow let you down. But refocus.
There's a manassa in your arms. Refocus. I know that
(11:13):
some things you were seated out of were unfair, and
I know that if you could go back and have
it happened.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Differently, you would. You didn't choose it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And the things that you never chose don't mean you
can't grow through them.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Gotten news what you've been through, gott only knows what
to say. About you. Gott only news I was killing you.
But there's a kind of loath that got.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Only the same value, because there's a
Speaker 4 (12:03):
You can't cover over everything, a secret, so
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