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Someone is going through something now that you cannot explain, and by every standard, you cannot explain. Every time you pray, it looks like what happens is, "God, where are we going now?" Men will laugh at you, but tomorrow the sun, the moon, and 11 stars must bow. You don't look like it now.
Sometimes they will call you and say, "You, you are a useless child. I've always known that this you're seeking God." You've been a graduate for 5 years, acting like a fool, behaving stupid, and you go back to God with that report, and God is silent. I want you to know that when God is silent, learn to hear the voice of silence. When God is silent, He's saying something. Are we together now? That's my inspiration. We walk by faith.
Not everything in your life can be explained. And if you allow carnal men to help you interpret your life, they would take you out of Egypt to go and meet your father, which will look like a testimony, but then you would have aborted the throne. If someone wanted to help Joseph, will he help him to meet Pharaoh? No. If someone wanted to help Joseph, he would try to smuggle him out back to Jacob. And Jacob will say, "Thank you. You've given me my son." But Israel will die. Jacob will die. The covenant will never work. Beware of those who love you too much to allow you get to the place of destiny.
There are people who love you too much. They look at what you are going through, and it looks like they, they, they love you too much. They will suggest and say, "Is it worth it? We can go back." And someone is almost there, and the devil will try to use you. You know, Satan can use positive attributes about people to still destroy you. Satan can use a man's compassion to be a weapon against you. Look at what happened to Peter. "No, Jesus, I, I, I love you." I mean, it was the compassion of Peter that was being used by Satan. And Jesus said, "No, if you don't, if you are not a man of the spirit, you say, Jesus, you are harsh. What kind of person are you? Get thee behind me, Satan." That's not compassion. He's taking the vulnerability of Peter and using it to manipulate Jesus away from the cross.
Listen. Pass through whatever you have to pass through, knowing that although it may not make sense, it is still called favor. Favor is not always positive and worthy of laughter and celebration. At first, there are pathways, my brothers and my sisters, that are so rare. God is passing you. You are walking your way to your Sabbath. By the time you get to that dimension, you will sit in a seat that no power can take back. The pain is a track record.
There are men today, the only thing prospering them is their stories, not their new revelation. They go all around the world continually inspiring people with a story they've been saying for many years. And you'll be wondering, "Are you not tired of this story?" The question is, who else has that kind of story? Beware when God announces favor on you, because it always doesn't look like it. The moment He told Mary, "You are highly favored," it was trouble that followed her from that time. The scandal of managing an issue with a suspect that will have to be a rabbi. You can't say a ghost made me pregnant. It doesn't make sense. It's more polite to say, "I don't know what happened." Imagine explaining to intelligent people that a ghost made me pregnant, and I am pregnant, but I, I, I confess, I'm still a virgin. The people are already angry that you are pregnant out of wedlock. You manage the situation by silence, not explaining that honestly, God is my witness, I'm still a virgin. Yet God calls that favor. Ah, God calls trouble, catastrophe in your life, favor. Your the man who, a responsible man, a carpenter about to get married to you, you are losing your marriage. God still calls it favor. He said, "You are highly favored." Not just favor. Could it be that what you are going through is favor? That God is saying it is a privilege because there is monetary value in that pain you are going through? You will get to a point where only whoever has gone through that pain can stand where you stand. There are rankings in the spirit. There is a pain factor like a ladder. There are times you will stand somewhere, the condition to stand there is pain. Who has gone through that level of persecution? And you check around and find out no one within your vicinity, and God says, "You stay there." That is an exalted position that God brought you. He calls it favor.
There are times you will share a story that people who wish they had your background so that they can receive the honor. But they are too innocent to receive that kind of honor. They can't lie that their school fees were paid by themselves. Everything just worked well for them. So your pain today, you say, "Lord, what are you doing?" And God says, "It is my way of favoring you. I'm giving you a testimony that is so rare." Is God speaking to someone? I just want to inspire you, and then we'll share the grace and then come back in the evening. It's true. You must learn to interpret the happenings in your life from the lens of the spirit. Remember the conference. These are matters of the spirit.
So as a man of God, you get up with a lot of zeal to start a church and you find out that they drive you away and say, "No, Mr. Man, you are not starting that church." And he said, "Lord, I thought you anointed me." And He says, "That's favor. You keep watching because it is because of that one testimony that many people will invite you. Not even because of your anointing. When they hear the pain you have got you, your pain qualifies you to speak to kings." Not everything that looks negative is demonic. We have to be men of the spirit to discern.
Joseph is in the pit, and God calls it progress. How do you explain being in a, a dry well as progress? And the brothers sell him, the Ishmaelites, sons of Pition, take a child of promise, off to Egypt. Any other person would not take him to Egypt. Egypt was his place of destiny. And he got there. Joseph did not know that that pain was the preservation of a nation. Even the Messiah was in the loins of that pain.
Joseph gets to Egypt, and then it looked like things were going on well, and all of a sudden, here comes this woman coming to create trouble for him. He was trusting that one day, maybe during Pharaoh's birthday, they will release some prisoners, and here is a woman who comes to scandalize him and say, "This young man tried to rape me," and Pharaoh gets angry and says, "Okay, I've given you some privileges." Ah, Jesus, you will be surprised. That is because they drove you from that house rent that you were on your way going, and you collided with the person. And if you were smiling, that person will not stop to listen to you. It was because you were frowning. He said, "What happened?" You say, "They drove me." Said, "Do you have a job?" He said, "No." He said, "Meet me tomorrow." So that frown was favor. If you were smiling, you just say, "Bless you. See you in church."
Was it not because of a, a disturbing dream that interpretation started? If the dreams gave them joy, Joseph had nothing to do. They were always in the prison there. But Joseph looked at their countenance and he said, "Something is wrong with you. Your, your pain is calling for my ministry." And he said, "Tell me." They said, "We had a dream, a, a nasty dream." And he begins to laugh, and destiny is colliding. Yet Joseph just knows a man. Look, I'm sure Joseph will tell him, "Let me interpret and tell you my own predicament here. I saw the sun, the moon, 11 stars bowing." And you would think it will happen by Jacob, I mean, carrying, uh, Joseph one day and said, "Everybody here is a destiny child." No, the path to favor and the path to greatness is seldom done in a way.
Listen, and God conceals it like this so that Satan himself will not know. I will teach you in the night. This strategy is what is called the hidden wisdom of God that not even the princes would know. God conceals you. The same strategy was used for Moses. Because when they began to kill people, they put Moses in a basket, and he was in Egypt. If he was known, Satan will make sure. How can you be in the center of witchcraft and yet not known? The mystery called the hidden wisdom of God. The Bible said it was kept for our glory. That's how we find glory. So when that dimension of hidden wisdom comes, even you can't explain what is happening in your life. That's why we walk by faith. If everything about your life can be explained, it is a sign that God is not with you. There will be many gaps.
Let me tell you the truth. It's true. A time must come when they say, "What exactly is happening to you?" And you say, "Honestly, if I know all, I'm lying. All I know is I love God. All I know is the dreams and the visions I see. All I know is that I go to bed and I see myself laying hands on people. All I know is that I, I see myself heading a conglomerate so big, I'm ashamed to say it." Watch this. The hidden wisdom of God is doing something in your life. You may not know it. I'm inspiring you. It may not look like it, but something is happening to you. You are highly favored, and a scandal comes to you, and that scandal begins to push you to do certain things. One day, the sun, moon, 11 stars will bow to you.
And here is the young man in a cave, a dungeon, the Bible says. Then he sees the winepresser and the buckler and interprets his dream. And then it happens that way. And he said, "Do you know that whether Joseph interpreted, Joseph did not prophesy. So whether he interpreted the dream or not, it would have happened anyway. But it would have happened, and Joseph will not be remembered. The privilege of interpretation was what connected him to what was going to happen." And the man forgot him. And after 2 years, God said, "It's now time for that prophecy to come to pass."