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).