2nd July 2021

Checking into God's Presence... "And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me Lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him". Genesis 45:4-15 Are you still in doubt about what the Lord can and can't do? Do you believe that deep in the unfathomable Mind of God, God can send anyone to preserve, nurture and position you to where your posterity is laden on earth? God can save your lives by the testimonies of the words of the mouth that links you up with the way of a great deliverance? From Joseph's ordeal; he was able to declare even before his brethren in Genesis 45:8 that "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of his entire house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt." What would you have done if you were in Joseph's shoes? In warning, let us remember that God is nearer to us than most of us think; if invited into our lives, He will ride in every storm that comes our way, and we can only see Him with discerning eyes. May God make this our gain in Jesus name. Amen Just Checking into His Presence...