faith based tenacity…

if you want to receive GOD-given dreams, wisdom, humility and tenacity are going to be a part of your life. 

i’m sure there were people in pharaoh’s court when joseph was raised to the top leader in all of egypt who said, “look at this!  this young guy!  an overnight success!  i’ve worked all my life in pharaoh’s court and never got anything like that.”  an overnight success!

genesis 37.2 is the account of joseph.  joseph as a young man of 17.  now skip to genesis 41 and let’s see how old he is in genesis 41.46.  thirty.  thirteen years between the dream and the fulfillment of the dream.  is that an overnight success?  it’s a pretty long night!

some of you are in the middle of a pretty long night.  GOD gave joseph the dream and during every bit of that long night, GOD was faithfully working to accomplish that dream. 

joseph was a failure who knew how to succeed in a success.  he knew that because of GOD’s grace he would never truly fail.  joseph was the kind of guy who always seemed to land on his faith!  wherever you put him.  whether you put him in a slave’s household or you put him in prison or you put him here in pharaoh’s household, he always lands on his faith.  he had that kind of tenacity.  faith based tenacity.

just a thought from the front porch…