God Can Use Any Person As An
Instrument To Promote Another.
In the case of the promotion of Joseph in
Egypt, God used Pharaoh; how did it happen? God gave Pharaoh a dream which only
Joseph can interpret.
Before it occurred to the butler to remember Joseph and
recommend Joseph to Pharaoh, Pharaoh had called all his wise men and magicians
to interpret that dream which was a worrisome dream too him; but none of them
do so.
And
suddenly, God cause the butler who was once a prisoner in the same prison yard
with Joseph, to recommend and mention Joseph to Pharaoh. And God used Pharaoh
when Joseph came, interpreted the dream and recommended solutions revealed by
the dream and asked Pharaoh to select a man to do that. Of course, God caused
Pharaoh to say “As long and as much as you are the one God had given the
interpretation of dream; and as long you’re the one that has preferred the
wisdom for the solution, nobody else is more qualified than to occupy the
position of the commission for food that you are recommending”. And now, he
declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh and I declare that as from today that nobody
will do as much as lift up a hand without your consent and permission. I make
you the next person the throne; only in the throne shall I be higher than you”
and he put a signet of authority in the hands of Joseph and that was it.
So God can
use even your sworn enemy to promote you; whether he knows what he’s doing or
not. That is why it is a waste of time to spend all your energy praying for
your enemies to die. Am not saying it is wrong to pray for enemies to die; no,
that’s not what I’m saying. I’m not one say if you pray for someone who is looking
to pay with their own life, then you have committed an offense. But what I’m
saying is that their presence does not stop God from lifting you up.
David in Psalm 23 said “He prepares a table
before me, in the presence of my enemies”; and so God will promote in the
presence of enemy and also use your enemies as instrument of promotion for you.
When the wife of Portipha frames Joseph and caused him to be put into prison;
she thought she was dealing with Joseph for refusing to sleep with her but
people of God, we will get to point in teaching on the characteristics of
Divine Promotion where Portipha’s wife who was an adulterer was converted into
an instrument for the promotion of Joseph. She framed Joseph up; Joseph was put
into prison and in prison Joseph the two servants of Pharaoh. He interpreted
their dreams; one died, one went back to work. When it was difficult to
interpret Pharaoh Dream, he remembered Joseph. So supposing Joseph had not
gotten into prison and how else would he have gone to prison without that
framing up from Portipha’s wife.
Therefore,
God can use anybody, He can use any situation or circumstance as an instrument
for bringing your promotion. Therefore, don’t think that everything that you
don’t understand in your life is negative. It is not everything that you don’t
understand about your life that is negative; some of them are part of the set
up (destiny set-up) by God to bring you to a place of ordination as he has
ordained. Therefore I prophecy to you today that in that prison, you are not
going to die but God is going to take you out of that person and He going to
send you to the seat or the throne of a Prime Minister, in the name of Jesus. I
prophecy to you, that the obstacle is not going to kill you (that problem right
now is not going to kill you); God is going to convert it into a stepping stone
for your promotion which He has ordained according to His own grace of
election, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Copied from the Book titled Divine Promotion by Pastor Mike
Onyeka (coming up soon).
