seven ways God will test you before
he'll use you I want to talk to you
about process I want to talk to about
those seasons in life where you're
wondering what God is doing you know
you're called you know he's placed gifts
upon your life you know he's given you a
purpose and you're trying to discover
that purpose or maybe you're even to
some degree already walking in that
purpose but there are seasons that will
cause you to have doubts and questions
there are seasons that will weigh
heavily on you I want to talk to you
about that because it's important that
you understand what you're facing and I
believe that as you listen to the word
of God right now that seasons of Life
are going to begin to make sense
there'll be things that are happening in
your life where you're going to finally
see and say I finally see what God is
doing but the enemy is going to work to
distract you the enemy is going to do
what he can to pull your attention away
from the word of God so I need you to
make a commitment right now to fight the
flesh say no to the Flesh and yes to the
spirit you'll find that as you're
hearing the word often that the enemy
will do what he can to pull you away to
something else something that seems more
enticing more entertaining the flesh
craves entertainment and distraction but
the spirit craves the scripture the
spirit craves the deeper things of God
so as you hear this message just be
aware of the fact that you're flesh May
fight what it's hearing because it's
being corrected because it's being
weakened because it's being subjected
under the power of the spirit as I said
I want to talk to you about process
process is simply the proper use of a
series of moments or behaving correctly
as God sends these moments to you job CH
chapter 23:10 says this but he knows
where I am going and when he tests me I
will come out as pure gold when the Lord
tests you he purifies you as you are
facing trials as you are facing those
difficult circumstances that maybe cause
you to question to doubt and even that
cause you to desire to quit remember
this that God does not waste the process
God does not waste the moment God does
not waste trials as gold is purified in
fire so God's children are purified in
trials Jeremiah 2012 says oh lord of
Heaven's armies you test those who are
righteous and you examine the deepest
thoughts and secrets let me see your
Vengeance against them for I have
committed my cause to you now watch this
this one especially I want to focus on
Psalm
10519 Psalm
10519 until the time came to fulfill his
dreams the Lord tested Joseph's
character I going to read that again
listen to this until the time came to
fulfill his dreams the Lord tested
Joseph's character we're going to be
looking at the life of Joseph and I'm
going to show you seven ways that God
tested Joseph before he could step into
the promise before he could step into
the Fulfillment of those dreams that God
had given to him now remember there is a
difference between your dreams and
divine dreams your dreams have to do
with your will divine dreams have to do
with God's will so when I'm talking to
you about the call of God I'm not saying
that you're going to eventually receive
everything that you desire No in fact
when you follow Jesus there is a lot of
self-denial and if you can't remember
the last time that you had to say no to
self then you need to double check and
make sure that you're actually following
Jesus because to follow Jesus is to deny
self now one more clarification here I
am not saying that an individual has to
go through all seven of these tests in
order to be used by God nor am I saying
that these tests have to be taken in a
certain order so don't look at these as
a chronology look at these as just
biblical principles that you can apply
to your life now God can use anybody
that he wants I mean think about how
Saul turned to Paul pretty much
instantaneously he didn't necessarily
have to go through a process before God
called him into Ministry so God can do
what he wishes but generally speaking
God processes the the individual before
he will begin to use them in certain
degrees and the more processed they
become the more he will choose to use
them so
everyone is being used by God to some
degree you're watching this you're a
born- again believer you're spirit
filled there's no way that he's not
using your life in some way now you may
say I don't see how God's using my life
I don't see where my purposes I don't
see the effect that I'm having but rest
assured if you're a Spirit-filled
believer it's impossible to not make an
impact just by your existence and being
who you are in Christ there is an impact
that's being made but as you begin to
pass certain tests God begins to promote
you for the sake of his will and
Promises comment this in the comment
section now I want to pass the tests
tell the Lord in the comment section now
that you want to pass your test Lord
test me and help me to pass these tests
leave a comment whether you're watching
live or on the replay now let's go to
Genesis
37 and let's begin to look now at the
life of Joseph Genesis CH 37 I'm going
to begin reading verse number
one so Jacob settled again in the land
of Canaan where his father had lived as
a foreigner this is the account of Jacob
and his family when Joseph was 17 years
old he often tended his father's flocks
he worked for his half Brothers and the
sons of his father's wives but Joseph
reported to his father some of the bad
things his brothers were doing verse
three watch this jacob loved Joseph more
than any of his other children because
Joseph had been born to him in his old
age so one day Jacob had a special gift
made for Joseph a beautiful robe watch
this verse four but his brothers hated
Joseph because their father loved him
more than the rest of them they couldn't
say a kind word to him now for the sake
of the analogy I have to clarify I'm not
saying that God loves some of his
children more than he loves others no
God loves his children equally but he
trusts Us in proportion to our obedience
he favors Us in proportion to our
obedience so favor is simply how God
responds to a life of obedience and
humility live righteous ly before him
unto his glory verse 5 one night Joseph
had a dream and when he told his
brothers about it they hated him more
than ever listen to this dream he said
we were out in the field tying up
bundles of grain suddenly my bundle
stood up and your bundles all gathered
around and bowed low low before mine now
imagine this he's already disliked by
his brothers he's hated the scripture
makes it clear why because he has favor
because there was a special gift made
for him and that special gift
represented the special favor that he
carried and now adding his dream to this
equation he's beginning to make things
worse for himself by sharing this dream
now I don't think it's necessarily wrong
that he shared the dream but uh that can
be debated that's not the point of my
message here right now verse eight his
brothers responded so you think you will
be our King do you isn't it interesting
that when you begin to share what God
has placed in your heart when you begin
to recognize who God has called you to
be that suddenly people begin to accuse
you of arrogance and pride and sometimes
it is the case that people are filled
with arrogance and pride but it's not
always the case sometimes sharing the
dream is done so out of excitement or
enthusiasm because what because of what
God is doing and you expect people to
celebrate with you instead they hate you
do you actually think that you will
reign over us and they hated him all the
more because of his dreams and the way
he talked about them so he's probably
gloating at least that's what I suspect
verse 9 soon Joseph had another dream
and again he told his brothers about it
listen I've had another dream he said
the sun moon and 11 Stars bowed low
before me this time he told the dream to
his father as well as to his brothers
but his father scolded him what kind of
dream is that he asked will your mother
and I and your brothers actually come
and bow to the ground before you but
while his brothers were jealous of
Joseph his father wondered what the
dreams meant soon after this Joseph's
brothers went to pasture their father's
flock at sheam or flocks at sheam excuse
me now this is the price of
favor when God begins to promote and
favor you keep in mind that he never
does so for the sake of you when God
gifts you it's not about your gifting
when God anoints you it's not about your
anointing when God places you in
Ministry it's not about your ministry
it's not about your story it's it's not
about you becoming important or using
the gospel to make yourself important no
when God elevates a man or a woman he
does so to elevate his purpose his
message and the expansion of his kingdom
and in so doing when God raises an
individual often they attract
jealousy and people who you thought
would celebrate with you begin to carry
hatred against you in their hearts and
they begin to perceive you in ways that
cause them to feel better about
themselves you try explaining yourself
to others it's not going to work do you
know why because they want to dislike
and hate you do you know why they want
to dislike and hate you because it's the
only way that they can justify what it
is they feel about themselves it's the
only way that they can make up for the
insecurity in their own lives in their
own Hearts confidence looks like
arrogance to the insecure let me say
that again confidence looks like
arrogance to the insecure secure when
someone is confident in who they are in
Christ someone who is insecure is going
to perceive that as pride and arrogance
and often what we perceive as pride in
others please hear me now what we
perceive as pride in others is actually
insecurity within
ourselves and so this is what Joseph is
facing God gives him a dream look you're
going to be someone important you're
going to be someone to whom others bow
now it wasn't about that obviously these
dreams were not ultimately if you study
the story and you look at the overall
purpose of the dreams and the
Fulfillment of those dreams you'll find
that ultimately this was not about
Joseph becoming somebody important but
rather it was about the Redemption or
the saving of an entire nation God's
people because it was through Joseph
that that nation was saved but here's
the thing here's the
thing when you begin to walk in God's
favor it will automatically attract
jealousy there there's no way around it
it's it's it's going to happen and
instead of attacking others instead of
um becoming bitter and offended you have
to just recognize that that's just what
comes with it now job 7:18 says for you
examine us every morning and test us
every moment now look at what happens in
verse 12-4 soon after this Joseph's
brothers went to pasture their father's
flocks at sheam when they had been gone
for some time Jacob said to Joseph your
brothers are pasturing the Sheep at
sheam how's that for a tongue twister
get ready and I will send them to you or
send you to them excuse me I'm ready to
go Joseph replied go and see how your
brothers and the flocks are getting
along Jacob said then come back and
bring me a report so Jacob sent him on
his way and Joseph traveled to sheam
from their home in The Valleys of hibron
now
this is test number one test number one
mind you this is after Joseph's been
favored this is after Joseph has
received the dream this is after Joseph
knows that his life has been set aside
for a specific Divine Purpose number one
is the test of
service God will not use anyone who does
not have a servant's
heart Jesus said that if you want to
become great in the Kingdom you must
seek to serve the first shall be last
the last shall be first you want to find
your life you have to lose it in him you
you want to receive of God you have to
give yourself over to him so service is
the first test notice here that he's
being sent on an assignment after he
knows his Divine assignment he's still
willing to obey his father he's still
willing to serve his brothers and this
was a a form of service to his brothers
in this capacity he was helping he was
he was he was acting on behalf of their
father for the sake of their benefit so
he's serving he's obeying he's submitted
even though he knows there's this great
call in his life even though he knows
that one day there is going to be great
importance to to who he is he's still
willing to
serve and many people skipped this
point they want to have the pulpit they
want to have the platform without the
process look I thank God for social
media I thank God that many people can
use social media to share what God is
doing in their lives and even to share
the word but here is one of the
drawbacks of social media and it's also
one of the positives positive anyone can
have a platform on social media then
negative anyone can have a platform on
social media and many Believers
today are bypassing the process because
they have they have the platform in the
palm of their
hand and now they don't allow the Lord
to process them they they they don't
serve anywhere they're not they're not
giving their lives over to a vision to
accountability to spiritual headship
which is a biblical concept notice I
didn't say a spiritual control God gives
us spiritual headship not to govern our
lives but to help guide us but the
scripture makes it clear that one who is
to serve in Ministry must be well
respected known among the Believers must
be someone who's proven themselves they
must be known there's a process before
the
platform now when I began in Ministry I
didn't start by preaching when I began
preaching as an evangelist is when I
began preaching but but I look back at
the first Ministry that the Lord allowed
me to serve in and I was what you would
call the song flipper now Steve we went
to the same church we've been friends
how old were we when we met I was uh
four five years old you I think were
seven I was like six or seven he was
like four or five years old so picture
that and and we went to the same church
now Steve do you remember the overhead
projector at the Madison Building I do I
do the uh the with a little bulb I don't
know if some of you might not know what
that is but if they don't know they can
Google that like you can go on online
you don't have to do that right now but
Google overhead projector and that's
what I operated so for those of you
don't know it was basically a box with a
bulb in it and it would shine a light
upwards and over that box would be this
magnifier that would project the image
overhead and onto a screen so an
overhead projector and my job was the
song flipper so I had these transparent
pieces of paper that that I would flip
onto that projector and those would be
the words for the Worship lyrics that
the people would sing and I still
remember to this day when I was asked to
do that I was I was just standing around
eating some breakfast at church with my
friends and my youth pastor walks up to
me he says I need some help and one of
my friends went to the left one of my
friends went to the right they they
scattered and I was left standing there
and Pastor looked right at me he says I
need you to run the overhead projector
and I was so nervous I thought I was
going to mess everything up I thought
that I was going to mess up the service
and and everyone would be looking at me
and laughing at me and I said I don't
know if I can do this but I stepped into
that role because there was a need there
was something that needed to be done and
I knew it was for the sake of the
kingdom and I'll tell you this I put
everything I had into being that song
flipper I made sure that all of the
songs were categorized in alphabetical
order I made sure that my cart that
carried the overhead projector was
perfectly clean no dust was collected on
that
I made sure that I went to the worship
practices to make sure that I understood
when the team would be switching over to
What lyrics I memorized their hand signs
so that I knew if they were going to go
to the bridge or the chorus or sing the
verse again and I watched it very
carefully in fact I even put tissue
boxes down on that little cart that I
would move around so that anybody who
was crying near that space that the
altar would have access to a tissue box
and I took that job seriously all the
wires perfectly wrapped I would clean
that up I made sure everything was
always put away and I took great joy in
operating the overhead projector my
friend I was not called into the
ministry the day I stepped into the
pulpit that was the day when I first
began to flip songs that was the day I
stepped into my
calling that was the time that I went
and found myself set on a path to
fulfill what God would do in my life and
I served in sound Ministry
I served in the song clipping Ministry I
served in the audio visual all of that
that's what I did for
years and it was actually in those
moments that I would encounter God
during worship it was in those Seasons
that I learned what it was to have
integrity to do things with Excellence
to embrace change that is good to do
everything that I could do with all my
heart for the sake of the glory of God
in everything that you do do as unto the
glory of God you may wonder if you're
wasting time you may Wonder well what
about that person or that individual or
or look how many subscribers they have
or look at how many viewers they get I'm
I'm falling behind I got to hurry up and
get in this I got to hurry up and get in
there because someone my age is doing
better than I am or someone in my season
is doing better than I am and that's
where comparison will kill you because
it makes you try to rush your race when
God called you to serve
God called you to be processed in the
serving the character is developed so
that's test number one the test of
service test number two go to verse 18
now Genesis
37 go to verse 18 when Joseph's brothers
saw him coming they recognized him in
the distance as he approached they made
plans to kill him here comes the dreamer
they said so they're mocking him now
come on let's kill him and throw him
into one of these sisters we can tell
our father a wild animal has eaten him
then we'll see what becomes of his
dreams these guys are vicious verse 21
but when Reuben heard of their scheme he
came to Joseph's rescue let's not kill
him he said why should we shed any blood
let's just throw him into this empty
sistern here in the
wilderness then he'll die without our
laying a hand on him Reuben was secretly
planning to rescue Joseph and return him
to his father so when Joseph arrived D
his brothers ripped off the beautiful
robe he was wearing now they strip him
of something that symbolizes favor now
they could strip him of this robe but
they could not strip him of the favor of
God on his life let me just say this
really
clearly you cannot cancel who God has
called if God has called you there's
nothing anyone can do about it if God
has called you they can slander you they
can gossip they can team up against you
they can try to get as many people as
they can to work against you and to hate
you like they hate you but there's
nothing that anyone can do if God has
called you and this is what you have to
remember when you're facing difficult
seasons is that they may be able to
strip that symbol of favor which they
took this Rob but they could not remove
the actual favor now then they grabbed
him verse 24 says and threw him into the
sistern now that sistern was empty there
was no water in it this is sad because
they throw him into this and this is
obviously a a storage point for water it
was a deep hole basically is what they
threw him into there's more to it than
that but for the sake of brevity it was
basically a pit that they threw him into
and Joseph is sitting in there now he's
lying in there maybe they throw him in
there because they're sick of the favor
on his life they throw him in there
because they're jealous of what's
happening for him they throw him in
there because they hate him because of
their own
insecurity
now this is test number two please hear
me
now this is test number two this is the
test of
hiddenness
often God will hide you to protect you
well you
imagine that him hiding you is slowing
you
down you see you're in danger when you
begin to look at someone else and you
say well maybe you maybe you look at a
general in the faith who inspired you or
your pastor Your Leader your parents and
you say things like well well when they
were my age they were doing
this when they were my age they had
already reached this point when they
were my age they had already written
this many books or had this many
crusades or had a program or whatever
you
compare but you have to realize that
when God hides you it's for a purpose
often that hiding is to protect you
because if you develop too soon or if
exposure comes before the intended
moment or at a at an intensity that's
not supposed to
happen but now you're actually slowing
yourself down nothing will slow you down
quite like a shortcut
because you think you're saving time you
think you're catching up you think
you're making up for lost time when all
the while you're just adding to your
heartache because that exposure that
comes before its
time will actually slow down the call
you may say nothing can slow down the
call of God in my life sure in terms of
God's ultimate Destiny for you but if
you're talking about the human timeline
and time from the human perspective yes
our disobedient obedience our rushing
our fighting our resistance that can
that can extend the timeline at least on
our end now God can make up for the time
but you're still going to have to go
through what you have to go
through and I thank God sometimes many
times all the time actually I thank God
all the time that I didn't have the
exposure I have today back then now I
wanted it back then Lord I want to reach
the masses for you my motives were in
the right place I want to preach to as
many people I want to reach more I want
to see more souls saved but God kept me
hidden you know that I wrote a Blog
every week for quite a while I don't
remember now how long I wrote a Blog for
and I literally had zero readers like
zero people would read it but I would
write the blog anyway when I first
started live streaming live streaming
wasn't even a thing we had to rent
special software in order to be able to
live stream we had this whole elaborate
setup to be able to get the broadcast on
and nobody would watch I remember our
Peak viewership like where we would go
wow look at how many people watched this
was like 30 people and that's when we
knew man now now we really have a crowd
there's 30 people watching and I thank
God for those
Seasons here's
why it's in the season of
hiddenness please hear this
now it's in the season of hiddenness
that your motives are purified because
in this season in the season of
hiddenness you're either doing it
because you love God or you're not doing
it at all you see if you're in a season
of hiddenness and you're doing it for
praise and accolades there'll be no
longevity you'll quit because you're not
getting what you want out of it if
you're in it for the compliments of man
if you're in it for financial gain if
you're in it for status then the season
of hiddenness will weed out those who
have impure motives why because in this
season either you're doing it because
you love God and his people or you're
not doing it at all and many want to
rush this they want to get right to the
place where they have a platform they
want to get right to the place of
notoriety they want to get all the way
to the end result that they see in their
minds that they know that God has showed
them but if that comes too soon I'll
tell you right now it will crush you I
know for a fact that if I had the
criticism that I have now coming against
me 10 years ago it would have driven me
insane
the emotional and mental and physical
pressure that comes from being in
Ministry sometimes I'll tell you if
you're not processed it can destroy you
like like lifting weights you have to
start with the smaller weights now I
know we don't want to hear this because
it seems sometimes even a little
condescending but this is the reality
you don't just go into the gym and go
for the heavyweight you have to work
your way up to that and if you go for
the heavyweight up front and you don't
know form and you don't know how to
position yourself and you don't know
your limitations you're going to wind up
hurting yourself in a way that delays
the progress and often we delay our
progress because we're trying to rush
out of the season of
hiddenness the only people that knew
Joseph was there oh hear this please the
only people that knew Joseph was there
were the people who were trying to keep
him
hidden the only people who knew that he
was in that cistern were the ones that
put him
there you you may think that your
enemies are winning you may even think
that the that the devil is winning
because there's no what you would call
breakthrough but you don't know what God
is doing in that season it is in that
hiddenness that your character is
processed it is in that hiddenness that
your motives are purified and now you
begin to do it because you love God or
you don't do it at all and this is why
it's so important that we see the
hiddenness that we see these Seasons
think about David when he was tending
sheep he was hidden now what if Saul
knew that there was a potential
replacement for him somewhere out there
before the time he probably would have
tried to prevent that he would have
tried to sabotage that and God keeps you
hidden because the people who are
jealous of you would try to sabotage
what God is doing in your life and
that's sometimes what slows us down
too now I'm giving you deep things of
the spirit here these these issues are
not often talked about and so many
people are left going on these Journeys
not knowing what's going on they think
God is working against them when he's
actually working for them now Joseph
didn't know that this was actually the
first step to fulfilling his dream the
dream that God gave him was being
fulfilled and the plan was already in
motion it didn't look like it because he
was hidden it didn't feel like it
because he was hidden but this first
step this hiding of Joseph that was the
first step to set that plan in motion
now for your protection God please hear
this for your protection God will only
expose you in proportion to the purity
of your
motives for your own
protection God will only expose you in
proportion to the purity of your motives
now here's how deceitful we can be I
want I want to spend just a little more
time on this one here's how deceitful we
can be I remember when I was praying to
be used by God like in in in the early
years of my walk with Christ I say early
years but I'm still young but that
doesn't mean I don't have earlier years
so I I was in my earlier years of
walking with the Lord and I remember
knowing this like in my mind I knew God
won't promote me unless my my motives
are pure unless I'm doing this for the
right reasons so here's what I would do
and here's how here's how self
self-deceptive we can be here's how
tricky the flesh can be I would pray
things like Lord I don't care if you
ever promote me I don't care if you ever
use me in a a great way I just whatever
you want to do and I would say that
knowing in the back of my mind if I pray
that maybe he'll promote me and that's
how tricky this can be because because
when you crucify something when when you
place something on the cross you got to
leave it there and many of us try to
come off that cross we we're squirming
the flesh should be sub should be
subjected but we're squirming it's still
alive and and and and it comes into this
place where we just we're just fighting
the process
and we don't like that place I I I'm
telling you it's not a pleasant place to
be because you feel like you're wasting
so much time but you're
not there is no time wasted with
God if in those
Seasons you yield to his every
instruction there's no season think
about what God told Isaiah the prophet
in Isaiah chapter 6 he said go and tell
the
people to to listen but they're not
going to hear you see but don't perceive
in other words I'm sending you to be
ineffective that's what basically God
told Isaiah I'm going to just send you
you're going to talk but no one's going
to listen you're going to speak but no
one's going to understand and he was
okay with that what is it about
anyway is it about exposure is it about
popularity
well you'll find
out because it's in this
season that God purifies you and by the
way by the
way you'll see often people seem to
Skyrocket out of the blue and please
understand what I'm saying I'm not
saying
that anyone who appears to have quick
growth is not qualified that's sometimes
that's what God does but you know we
don't always see what's going on behind
the
scenes like people tell me all the time
man I'm so blessed by your ministry I
just found you two years ago and in
their minds we just kind of popped into
existence two years ago when we've been
here for over you know over 20 years
doing the Lord's work I'm not upset
about that because I know how that works
and and so sometimes it appears that
someone has overnight promotion when in
fact they've been laying a foundation in
hiddenness for years and years and years
but here's the reality
sometimes God will just allow someone to
be promoted because their heart's not
even right in the first place anyway he
didn't call them he didn't put position
them there they're doing it for the fame
for the fortune they're preaching from
impure motives he doesn't allow them to
be processed because frankly that's part
of the punishment so it's actually in
the blessing that we find hiddenness I'm
going to move on to test number two now
if this is blessing you let me know in
the comment section let me know how
you're doing in this season or if this
is making sense in terms of the
hiddenness so test number one is service
test number two is hiddenness test
number three we'll see it right here
verse
25 then just as they were sitting down
to eat they looked up and saw a caravan
of camels in the distance coming toward
them it was a group of ishmaelite
traitors taking a load of gum balm and
aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt
Judah said to his brothers what will we
gain by killing our brother we'd have to
cover up the crime instead of hurting
him let's sell him to those ishmaelite
traitors after all he is our brother our
own flesh and blood and his brothers
agreed so when the ishmaelites who were
the who were midianite Traders came by
Joseph's brothers pulled him out of the
sistern and sold him to them for 20
pieces of silver and the traitors took
him to Egypt I'll read verse 29 just so
you can kind of see for good measure
here sometime later Reuben returned to
get Joseph out of the sistern when he
discovered that Joseph was missing he
tore his clothes in grief so Reuben
again was all along planning to rescue
him out of there and you know we always
have people who will be there for us but
sometimes even they cannot prevent some
of the struggles that are coming our way
this is test number three
discouragement discouragement you
know you've heard it said that the way
oil is retrieved from the olive is when
the olive is
crushed and there is a great crushing
that comes but consider also the fact
that to get the Olive in the first place
it must be shaken from the
tree first there's the shaking
everything that's familiar
shaken everything you thought you could
trust
shaken everything you relied on
everything you knew everything that
brought you comfort and what you
perceived as stability
shaken and you're removed from these
places of
familiarity so that God can show you
that he was the one you should rely upon
all along God will shake the things that
you trust more than him
God will remove you from familiar
situations if that familiarity becomes
your source of peace because you need to
learn to have your peace come from him
your trust based on him so first you're
shaken from familiar I'm talking to
someone right now I know I am first
you're shaken from The Familiar
confusion I don't know who to trust I
don't know who is real I don't know what
is real I don't know where to go I don't
know what to do now I feel like
everything in my life that that was
familiar that was stable that was
consistent it's all gone now and I feel
like my whole world is changed that's
the
shaking and then the
crushing the heaviness the
discouragement the trials the heartache
the Betrayal that's a part of it now
keep in mind that the crushing doesn't
produce the oil the crushing only
reveals
it in
Trials whatever is truly in you comes
out
when you're being
pressed by the trials and tribulations
of Life what is in you comes out it's
revealed trials don't create anointings
trials reveal
anointings trials don't give you
character per se though there could be
an argument made there and in some
instances yes it could we could talk
about that later but trials more than
anything reveal
that
character so when we are crushed what is
within us is
revealed now this is the test of
discouragement this is test number
three test of
discouragement my
friend this is when people betray
you this is when the ones that you
thought were with you leave I've I've
gone through these seasons and believe
me they're not
fun Seasons where the people you thought
would back you
don't where the people you thought who
were with you turn against you and
sometimes you don't even know
why like there are there are a handful
of pastors I could name who last I
checked we were on great terms there was
no issues and I'm not talking about
anybody you know I'm talking about like
from years ago like when I was 12 13 14
years old people I thought we were on
great terms
with suddenly I find out they they they
do not they they don't they they they
can't stand me I'm going well what
happened I don't
know people you thought would would
remain with
you don't and that's really the pain
point isn't isn't it because because you
you you you could accept betrayal from
people in
general but betrayal Hurts the Most when
it was the one you least
expected betrayal Hurts the Most when
you when it comes from the one who you
thought was The Confidant who you
thought okay if others betray me I'll
always have this
one and that comes I've had those
seasons in life and sure God will bring
friends around you people around you who
will will not betray you that
happens but people begin to slander you
you know what the worst part of slander
is it's not even the people who slander
you
slander lies gossip that's that's one
thing What Hurts the Most is the people
who believe the slander just because
somebody said
it like I can't tell you how many times
I've watched as preachers and teachers
and ministers are bashed and and all it
takes is a simple claim well that
person's false and you look at the
comment section they are oh my goodness
I never knew well thank you I'm I'm
going to stop following them thinking
you just believed
that you heard it they said it and you
just said well I'm going to believe it
why or don't you realize that ego and
pride and personality and
perception all plays a role in these
conflicts and perhaps you've dealt with
this family comes against you friends
come against you fellow ministers come
against you you know who it was that was
the harshest to me the meanest to me
when I was just beginning in
Ministry it wasn't the
atheist it wasn't the
unbeliever the people who came the
hardest against me were seasoned pastors
who were jealous by what God was doing
in my
life to this day the people who come
hardest against me are jealous Ministers
of the
Gospel now you can't dwell on that too
long you can't let that become you know
what your preaching is about your
teaching is about you don't just just
leave it leave it to the Lord but but
you will face
it you look you you get saved you lose
some ungodly friends it's a fact you get
saved you're going to lose some some
unbelievers as friends but you start
walking in the call of God you're going
to lose some lukewarm friends too I need
to say that again that's going to set
somebody free I know it you you you get
saved you're going to lose some
unbelievers as friends when you start
walking in the call of God you're going
to lose lukewarm friends to Who Do You
Think You
Are why do you think you're
special and it's exposing the compromise
in them because they're not willing to
go after everything that God's given to
them they'll criticize you so that they
feel better about themselves kind of
like when somebody's eating healthy they
have proper diet and they sit down at a
restaurant
and they order chicken and veggies when
everyone else is ordering burgers and
pizza and what does everybody at that
table do what are you do come on order
something and they try to get them to
eat here here here let's get him some
nachos let's order some some wings come
on you come on don't stop it stop it you
got to eat so why because they don't
they they feel they feel convicted about
what they're doing and their healthy
eating is a direct contrast to their
unhealthy eating so they try to get them
to do that it'll poke fun at them and
this is what people do
spiritually so not just betrayal by the
way heartache disappointment things that
you've built with the Lord get knocked
over here's the reality when people
attack
you there will be people who believe
those
attacks you're just going to have to
deal with
that when when people slander you there
will be people who believe the slander
and you're just going to have to deal
with that that's that's a part of it
there's there's no controlling that you
can explain yourself a thousand
different times and for every time you
explain yourself there'll be 10 more
reasons that you give them to attack
you they'll attack the explanation for
the explanation and I'm not just talking
about fellow ministers I'm talking about
family I'm talking about
friends I'm talking about betrayal and
discomfort and disconnection and
isolation I'm talking about a financial
struggle I'm talking about not seeing
fruit for a long period of time and
here's the thing is persistence doesn't
even begin until you feel like giving
up oh yeah we say Lord anything you want
me to do anywhere you want me to go
whatever you want me to become you you
you tell me Lord I'll do it and then
then the discouragement comes and we
don't realize how hard it was actually
going to
be difficulty there there's there's
there's emotion
weight there's mental cloudiness like
like thoughts bombarding oh and the
enemy the devil will
speak the devil demons will
talk they love to talk it's about all
they can do to a Christian talk talk
talk talk talk and they get into your
head and then people curse you
supposedly even though they're words
have no power over you they they they
speak things and the moment you begin to
believe in in the power of that curse
now that's that's a mental block now and
you're just everything you see is
perceived through what you think is a
curse and you're just
discouragement heaviness loss of
motivation it will
come but it's a test it's a test and
it's hear me now it's only a
season it's only a season my
friend I want to say that again because
it's it's for someone listening right
now
it's only a
season he who begun a work in you is
faithful to complete
it he will complete the
work he will accomplish his
purpose he will use your
life you're going to go through
discouragement you're going to feel like
quitting there were seasons of life
where I didn't even feel like walking on
the
platform I didn't even want to do it I
said maybe how many times did I say it
Steve just where you know in in those
difficult Seasons you remember some of
those and I would say why can't I just
go work at like like at a Walgreens and
be a manager and just have a nine to5
and just be a be a be a Christian who
just witnesses to my friends and family
no my friend we have work to do we have
work to
do there's a call to fulfill
and the discouragement you sense now my
friend hear
me it's it's
it's it's doing something in you that
can't be replaced you can't replace it I
used to say to the Lord
Lord I want every bit of the anointing
that you have for my
life this was one of my prayers when I
was like 12 years old I said I want
every bit of the anointing that you have
for my life I want every last
drop pour it out on me Lord every last
drop and then I said this to him I said
Lord in the seasons when I feel like
quitting in the seasons when that mental
and emotional anguish is more than I
feel like I can bear in those Seasons
Lord remind me of what I
prayed remind me that I prayed for every
last drop
and then Seasons
come and the Lord says to
me you wanted every last drop you talk
about
crushing people see the Miracles people
sense the presence on your life oh but
there's crushing there's a price to pay
you see salvation is free but the call
of God to ministry will cost you
everything salvation is free but the
call of God into ministry will cost you
everything
everything the glory that rests on
you I'm going to give you secrets of the
Kingdom right now the glory that rests
on you comes in proportion to your
Brokenness the glory that rests on you
comes in proportion to your
Brokenness then we look at test number
number four so and I'm going to go
through these a little bit more quickly
than I went through the first few test
number one is the test of service test
number two is the test of hiddenness
test number three is the test of
discouragement test number
four let's go to Genesis chapter 39
we're going to skip the chapter 38 which
is Judah and Tamar there's a whole
explanation as to why that's inserted
right there but that's for another time
Genesis 39 9
1-3 when Joseph was taken to Egypt by
the Israelite Traders he was purchased
by Piper an Egyptian officer Piper was
captain of the guard for Pharaoh the
king of Egypt the Lord was with Joseph
so he succeeded in everything he did as
he served in the home of his Egyptian
Master Piper noticed this and realized
that the Lord was with Joseph giving him
success in everything he did so now
Joseph becomes the servant of
pitifer suddenly now there's some
momentum here he begins to to to see
blessings there's there's there's the
dream that seems to be fulfilled here
this is the this is the test here of
faithfulness even though he's a servant
even though he's under the the the the
rule of another man now even though he's
not where he necessarily wants to be
he's still faithful he's serving so even
in the midst of all that there is to do
even in the midst of all of the T TK
that need to be done even in the midst
of hiddenness even in the midst of
discouragement there's
faithfulness he's consistent about his
attitude and his Spirit he's consistent
in what he's doing for the Lord even
though he wasn't where he wanted to be
he was consistent in his walk with
Christ or his walk with the Lord um
prophetically future tense was walk with
Christ um he gave his best
here hear this
please
faithfulness isn't just activity over
time it's Excellence over time
faithfulness is not about how long you
do something it's about how long you do
something with the right
attitude you see because many believers
they just spin their wheels and and this
right
here this could be why and and I'm not
trying to be presumptuous here but I
need you to at least consider this as a
possibility maybe this is why you
haven't seen
fruit because even though you're going
through the motions your attitude's not
right even though you're going through
the motions your motives aren't in the
correct place even though you're going
through the motions you're not really
putting the best work in you're not
really giving your all to where you are
and you're you're doing it consistently
you may see say things like I've been
doing this for 5 years I've been doing
this for 10 years I've been doing this
for 20 years why am I not seeing
traction why am I not sing growth and
you're frustrated with where you are but
you haven't gone from frustration to
fruitfulness because you haven't learned
the key of faithfulness and again
faithfulness is not just doing something
again and again and again that's
consistency and consistency is good but
faithfulness is more than just
consistency faithfulness is consistency
in the right
Spirit faithfulness is consistency in
the right spirit
God requires
this Galatians 6:9 so let us not get
tired of doing what is good at just the
right time we will reap a harvest of
blessing if we don't give up if and
that's a promise that's a promise and
you may be wondering how is this ever
going to happen I don't see it actually
working I don't see it actually coming
to be I used I asked my dad one time
because I was so discouraged in
specifically in the area of my finances
now it's not all about money but money
plays a big part uh especially when
you're trying to do things on a mass
scale and I remember I didn't have money
to pay my cell phone bill I didn't have
money to pay my rent I hardly had money
to eat
food and I went to my dad and I said
Dad I know God's called me the ministry
is at a place where it's demanding
pretty much all of my time either I have
to cut back on
this or and get you know a part-time job
somewhere as I used to do side work in
different and different odd jobs and by
the way actually let me go off on this T
this is going to be a tangent but I need
to say this and this is going to be for
somebody listening some of you might be
wondering how to transition to full-time
Ministry there may be someone watching
um transition to fulltime as it's
demanded don't do that thing where you
say well God's called me not to work
that's not scriptural the Bible's very
clear you don't work you don't eat you
work you get a job you work that job and
the ministry begins to demand more you
gradually go from full-time to part-time
to freelance and then over into
full-time Ministry but there's a gradual
process now there may be a point at
which you have to take a leap of faith
and say okay I just got to go all in
otherwise this thing isn't going to grow
of course that's a different story and
you have to obey the leading of the Holy
Spirit but this idea that I'm not going
to work I'm just going to sit around and
wait till God blesses it no that's not
biblical and in fact you can use the
resources that you get from that
practical job to actually help the
ministry grow faster but that's besides
the point so I was at this point the
ministry had already come to the place
where it demanded my fulltime there was
no way it would function without my
full-time
attention and I'll be honest this is
what I asked my dad I said
Dad at what point do I call it
quits like at what point does it go from
being having faith to being
delusional like at what point do I
actually have to say okay you know what
I got to get real and I got to just I
got to change things up here and I've
been
there I know that feeling that feeling
of frustration like you're pushing up
against a brick wall that just isn't
budging like this wall won't move I I
can't push past a certain point I'll
tell you what a wonderful man of God
told
me
gradually then
suddenly you just keep working you just
stay faithful
you stay faithful and that means be
consistent but be consistent with the
right attitude not grumpy complaining
I've been doing this for 10 years
Where's God no you haven't learned your
lesson if that's how you're looking at
it but consistency with the right
attitude and you watch God will do it
God will do it so number one test of
service two hiddenness three
discouragement four
faithfulness test number five
Blessings Now let me paraphrase Genesis
39: 5-20 and you can go look this up on
your own time because I want to make
sure I'm I'm addressing this in a timely
fashion many of the those who tune in
set aside about an hour for the teaching
so I want to make sure I'm being
respectful of that time so that everyone
can
receive the test of
blessings you know everything was going
well for Joseph in the house of potier
until Piper's
wife gained a lustful eye for Joseph she
had her eye on him and she wanted him
she would make advances she would try to
convince Joseph to sleep with her and
she would basically say you know we
won't tell Piper we won't tell my
husband it'll be our secret and Joseph
kept his Integrity he said no I'm not
going to fall I'm going to stay faithful
I'm going to be consistent I'm going to
do the right thing So eventually she
gets upset and she tries to advance on
Joseph he flees from her and she strips
his robe and she goes to to Piper she
says look he tried to rape me and here's
the proof and they threw him into prison
now I think here's what I think and this
is speculation I think Piper believed
Joseph because otherwise he would have
had him
killed your slave tries to to to do that
to your wife you would have had him
killed I would so so I believe Piper
believed Joseph and so he sends him to
prison instead to appease his wife I
guess for perception Keep Up Appearances
to make sure it looks like he actually
did something about it he sends Joseph
to
prison and this is test number five the
test of
blessings I'm going to challenge you
here right
now this is the test of blessings you
know in the house of potier if I were
Joseph I would have looked
around and I would have said this is it
this is the Fulfillment of the dream
I have status I have wealth I have
influence I have an abundance people
answer to me remember Piper had placed
them in charge people are answering to
me people are in some sense bowing to me
so this certainly must be the
Fulfillment of the dream and this really
is the tricky part of blessings because
God will bless you just to see how you
act when he blesses you this is what
many people don't know about the Lord
and so as He blesses you it begins to
reveal what your motives were because as
He blesses you if you begin to relax on
your character if you begin to relax on
you know faithfulness you begin to relax
on all the other tests it shows why you
did it all along now many people in
Joseph's scenario would have said this
is it this is the Fulfillment of the
dream I've made it and it's in the
blessings servant of the Lord this is a
very important
warning it's in the seasons of blessings
and abundance that sin is knocking at
the
door because it's in the seasons of
blessings and abundance that you gain
Idle Hands there's there's less to do in
these Seasons it's a season of rest it's
a season of eating the fruit of your
labor it's a season of of now there's
some stability and so opportunities
begin to present themselves you give
someone status and wealth and influence
and so forth and opportunities will
present themselves to them it's in the
season of blessings that we are tested
again and here
Joseph doesn't give in he chooses to
keep his
Integrity even in that season of
abundance he chooses to not settle for
blessings alone God will give you
something sometimes just to see how you
react when he takes it away I need to
say that again for someone sometimes God
will give you something just to see how
you react when he takes it away I
remember when God first gave me a nice
set of camera equipment that we used to
actually do television broadcast and
then he told me to sew it and give it
all away I did not like that one bit I
was trying to rebuke that the Lord said
sew your camera equipment I said I
rebuke it that can't be you Lord that
that must be the enemy and I was
fighting that because I had become so
Reliant upon that I didn't realize God
had so much more for me than just two or
three cameras that we could film with I
didn't realize that God had a team for
me a studio for me worldwide Ministry
millions of people hearing the gospel
through the ministry all of these
wonderful things that come for the sake
of his glory and His glory alone and not
my glory but I didn't realize that was
on the other side of the obedience all I
knew is God told me give up my camera
equipment that's like telling a pastor
give up your church building at least
for an evangelist who does media and so
I said okay Lord I trust you and I swed
it and then the Lord began to bring even
more growth but God will test you with
blessing because it's in blessing that
you start to relax it's in blessing now
that your integrity maybe takes some
compromise because now your guard is
down number five the test of Blessings
Now Joseph does what is right and gets
sent to prison for
it let me ask you a
question what do you
do when doing the right thing seems to
put you in the wrong place
you see sometimes God will say so you s
and you're like well I didn't get a
miracle and he's like that's okay I
wasn't telling you to sew for a miracle
I was telling you to sew because I want
you to
sew or you'll go and you'll give your
life to a certain Ministry or you'll
give your life to a certain task that
the Lord has given to you maybe God
calls you to Pastor a church you go
Pastor the church you're saying Lord it
didn't grow you're saying that's okay
I'm just calling you to see what you do
in that
season and so sometimes
doing the right thing will seem to put
you in the wrong place speak out against
evil teach
correctly do as the Lord leads you and
it doesn't put you in the right there
have been Seasons where the Lord told me
to do something I did it and I was like
rubbing my hands in in anticipation
saying okay Lord where's the blessing
for it and he says I I'm just telling
you to do it just because I said I go oh
okay there there's a good check on my
motives but sometimes when you obey God
it messes up your
plans sometimes when you obey God it
seems to make the situation worse
doesn't
it I'm talking to someone I know I am
sometimes when you obey God it seems to
make the situation worse let me know in
the comment section if that's ever been
you where you do
something and you said the Lord told me
to do it you do it and everything seems
to fall apart that's the test of
blessings were you were you willing to
give up the comfort were you willing to
give up the certainty were you willing
to give up what you thought was the
Fulfillment of the promise in order to
obey God now watch this then you go into
the next test and again these are not
necessarily in chronological order but
it is important that we recognize that
these sometimes
happen in Genesis chapter 40 the entire
chapter we read and then in 41
verse1 we read about how Joseph is now
in
prison and and he's approached by a cup
Bearer and a baker who both used to
serve pharaoh of course and both of them
had
dreams he interprets their dreams for
them the baker was to be killed and the
cup bearer was to be restored after
three days to his position so the cup
Bearer and the baker they fell out of
favor with Pharaoh now they're both in
the prison with Joseph but here's the
point I want to
make when Jo when Joseph interpreted the
dream of the cupar ER let's actually
read let's go to 40 I'm going to read
one verse here Genesis I believe it's
4014 Genesis
40:14 yes it is watch this actually
we'll read verse 13 and 14 of Genesis 40
within 3 days Pharaoh will lift you up
and restore you to your position as
Chief cup Bearer so now here Joseph is
interpreting the cup bearer's dream
watch this now watch this and please
remember me now Joseph is like hey help
me out here when you get restored
remember me
and do me a favor when things go well
for you mention me to Pharaoh so he
might let me out of this place now in
Genesis
41:1 we later discover that two years
went by before the cup Bearer finally
remembered oh my goodness I forgot about
Joseph now watch
this Joseph was imprisoned
before the cup bearer was
imprisoned so he was serving a much
longer sentence than the cup bearer
was yet God used Joseph to help the cup
Bearer and interpret that dream to know
that he was going to be restored to his
position I'm going somewhere with this
so make sure you're you're you're
watching
this so the cup Bearer comes
in if I were Joseph I would have said to
the Lord Lord I've been in prison longer
why did you restore the cup Bearer
before you restored
me Lord I've been waiting here I've been
obedient to you I've been serving you
I've been
faithful how is it that the cup Bearer
gets here and then all of a sudden is
promoted before me I think some of you
might know where I'm going with this
this is number six and it's the test of
jealousy this is this is especially and
I know I know I'm going to upset some
people but but let me just say this
especially in the age of social media
I'll tell you this there are many who
are operating at a competition and
jealousy I've watched it
happen a few years ago I watched one
Ministry just
destroyed by others who were you know
claiming to do it in the name of God and
the Holy Spirit told me no that's
jealous
now the person who they came against did
say some foolish things and do some
foolish
things but you know they repented of it
they clarified it and so forth but I
watched this happen this was years ago
and don't try to guess who it is this
happens all the time in the church World
okay so don't even bother I'm not going
to give names and it's been a long
enough time since then since I think
anyone would even remember this and I
watch these people destroying this other
Ministry
and they're claiming oh you
know I'm grieved about it but I have to
do it oh I don't want to but I I need to
say this and I'm watching this and and
the Holy Spirit told me two things a
yeah that person was in the wrong for
what they said and did but two things
can be true at one
time but these others took the
opportunity because of the jealousy that
was in their
hearts I'm going deep here and again I
know some might not like this but this
is this is the reality of the church
sometimes you've probably seen it at
your local
church backbiting and competition and
and and fighting for for for status and
and the Holy Spirit told me yet two
things can be true yeah that person was
wrong but but but the
attacks also came from a place of
jealousy why because that person was
gaining what they all
wanted and I I watched this and I prayed
for everybody
involved let me ask you a
question well let me say something and
then I'll then I'll ask you a
question it's easy to
celebrate others when they're blessed
with something that has nothing to do
with you it's easy to celebrate others
when they're blessed with something that
doesn't really affect you is not really
a part of your world really wouldn't
interest you per se here's my question
now
how do you
respond when someone else is blessed
with what you've been praying
for how do you
respond when someone else is blessed
with what you have been praying
for do you get
angry do you get upset do you secretly
hope they'll
fail do you secretly hope in your heart
that it'll all fall apart for them you
know why that's
insecurity if you think God can't bless
you and someone else at the same time
you're mistaken you need to acknowledge
that jealousy repent of that jealousy
and realize that your security comes
from your identity in Christ and nothing
else because if you find your security
in anything else but Christ it it leaves
room for jealousy and you can't
celebrate
others and so and so we recognize that
that God does not have to take away from
someone else to bless me and that by
blessing someone else he doesn't have to
take away from me God can bless multiple
people at one time but how do you
respond when somebody else gets what
you've been praying for and let's add to
that how do you respond when somebody
else is blessed with what you've been
praying for and they haven't been
praying for it as long as you
have you've been praying years and years
and years and years and years and years
and then someone else just they got it I
remember this story a pastor told me he
was believing for the gift of Prophecy
he was praying God please I want the
gift the prophecy I want the GI the
prophecy I want the GI the prophecy and
he just asking the holy spirit for this
gift and he'd been asking I think for
like months like six to nine months or
something like that and it became a
point of frustration in his life like he
was almost getting bitter with God for
it and in walks this individual who was
a hippie who gets saved he's at the
altar
and that person who just got saved
stands up at the
altar and starts praying aloud in
tongues and just as this new convert is
opening his mouth to prophesy this
pastor friend of mine goes God you
better not and instantly he realized oh
my gosh what's wrong with me and I
thought it was a little comedic but you
know ultimately that's something we need
to deal with he's watching this going
Lord what are you doing why that's
jealousy
watch for it in your own life because
because because that jealousy will
affect the way you
Minister that jealousy will affect the
way you operate you'll operate out of
anger and frustration and it will
squander your growth it's it's it's it's
a bondage it's it's it's a cage that
jealousy you you you there's no joy in
your life you can't be grateful for what
God is doing in your life because you're
so focused on everyone else and that
that really stifles it's competition
it's ego you got to crucify that ego
crucify
it I've been in green rooms with
preachers and pastors and ministers and
television personalities and you know
often times there's a lot of ego there
and and I have to watch my heart because
ego in others will agitate the ego in
you that happens that stirs it up so
whenever I feel the stirrings of
jealousy in my heart often
I'll pray for those individuals I'll
bless them this doesn't mean everyone
I've blessed I'm jealous of but you got
to crucify the
flesh finally test number
seven came when Joseph finally had his
moment before Pharaoh now Pharaoh has
this dream and he's given now the
opportunity to interpret that dream for
Pharaoh now if you misinterpret a
dream or you give Pharaoh bad advice
he'll he'll probably have you killed I
mean think about the baker fell out a
favor I'm thinking like what could the
baker have done to be to be thrown into
prison well he doesn't have very much
interaction with Pharaoh other than he
probably baked something that Pharaoh
didn't like and that was enough for
pharaoh to go out of favor I'm I'm I'm
banishing you and I'm gonna have you
execute I'm like okay that's pretty
harsh and now Joseph standing before
pharaoh and Pharaoh wants him to
interpret a
dream that takes faith
and that's the final test it's the step
of
Faith one service two hiddenness three
discouragement four faithfulness five
blessings six jealousy seven
Faith you ever get frustrated with where
you're going or how there's no progress
one of the quickest ways to get unstuck
is to just take a step of Faith do what
God said to do and we'll leave it there
for now father I pray that you would
help your people to pass their
tests Holy Spirit remind
them of when they face these trials and
tests in their lives remind
them that it's only a
test mold their
character shape them into the image of
Christ I pray that they might be more
like Jesus moment by moment
Holy Spirit we thank you for the
privilege of
serving and we ask that you would give
us strength and
discernment help us to pass our tests in
the mighty name of Jesus we pray want
you to say it because you believe it say
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