SATURDAY - 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
STOLEN OUT OF THE LAND OF THE HEBREWS - My Sign Series 003
Genesis 40:15, KJV
"For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon".
This is pitiable Joseph speaking here. He has been pressed and troubled on all sides. As at the time of confessing this, he is threatening to break. The archers have solely grieved him as Jacob later identifies. But thank God that his bow abides in strength (Gen. 49:23-24). Thank God he keeps receiving a ministration of encouragement, hope and life that there's an expected end to await and stay alive for. And it indeed came. We all knew it came. Hallelujah! God is faithful.
But here, Joseph makes a statement that will cause us to flashback a little. Joseph didn't want to travel abroad (go to Egypt). Like Africans whose ancestors were taken in big ships across the Atlantic to Haiti, Cuba, the Carribean, Jamaica, Brazil, America etc to work as forced labourers and slaves, God had to force Joseph out because He has intention of seeing to the fulfilment of his dreams which he'd seen, was joyful and boastful about. So, he was forcefully set on a journey of, "I don't want to go". He was left with no choice and that is clear in his speech. He said, "for I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews". Do you know what it means to steal? It means to actually kidnap. Man kidnapping has been since. Many Africans were kidnapped to be sold as slaves actually. But while in Egypt, he lost all connection with Jacob and home. He is in an entirely different land with no familiar face to call unto. He probably doesn't see any other Hebrew beside himself. Imagine that. He only hears some people of other tongues but he is by himself.
Jacob also wouldn't be comforted and when the garments of many colours was sent him, he wept sore (Gen.37:35). He wanted to be reunited with Joseph but he must have given up all hope. Occasionally, a ray of hope that he would one day see Joseph might reoccur to his mind but he might be too quick to discard it because he has enough prove on Joseph having died. May I tell you something? Many people there be who have been lied to that their children are dead. That is just a lie to keep you calm and shut you forever from further enquiry. But as my Lord lives, you shall receive him or her back alive. Irrespective of who is lost who you're expecting to see again, like signs they shall reappear but in flesh and blood in Jesus name.
But do you know that despite the gulf, the plans and workings of man that Joseph will never reconnect with family, he actually does. First, when Jacob sees proves that he is still alive - seeing the gifts and wagons he sent to bring him to Egypt, the Bible records that, "and Jacob was revived".
Genesis 45:27, KJV
"And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:"
Previously, he was dying and wearing off with nothing to live for or expect again. Life has borne hard on him but at that news came hope. Eventually, at his death bed, Jacob reveals how much God had exceeded his expectation.
Genesis 48:11, KJV
"And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed".
He was not thinking of seeing Joseph (his sign) again (because he had believed in a lie) that his child had died abroad, at war, at the sea or has gone with a woman and never to come back again. Those are the common things people believe in. So, such belief would collect prayer from their mouths and expectation from their hearts. Rather, it is quietness and occasional sorrow of heart when remembrance strikes them of this their lost sign. However, Jacob not only sees Joseph, he sees his children with him. He receives more than his expectation. May I tell you that you'll see your signs and then see your signs of signs. God will bountifully load you with new experiences that'll exceed and topple the former. The kind of find ongoing now is one that'll shock you to the very core. You wouldn't have believed in such type of recovery if told you but for the fact that you're the one experiencing it yourself. So, all of you who have lost people or forgotten about them (when you have been lied to that they are dead), get ready to receive them back. My Father is saying, they shall find their ways back home. He's saying, they are marked people who He is with and so they can't get lost successfully and eventually. They must return. They're properties that must be refunded. They're coming home. You can now prepare a feast, be full of expectation and see the miracle. Those coming back home this time include age long mad people who have been let go because their cases have defied healing. The hand of the Lord is upon them, they shall be miraculously healed, found and turned back home. No more confession that, "we see not our signs". God's voice is found and located on the waters. It's a visible, identifiable miraculous sign.
Psalms 29:3, KJV
"The voice of the LORD is upon the waters..."
Today, locating, discovering and marking of all your disappeared signs comes handy. You shall no longer wait unending.
PRAYER: Lord, thank you for the restoration and refunding of people and hope exceedingly and beyond expectation. We see our signs again and we're rejoiced.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 57:15-59:21; Philippians 1:1-26; Psalm 71:1-24; Proverbs 24:9-10
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