2nd Year Term 3 2 Week 2

0:00 Welcome, welcome everybody. Thank you for joining tonight. If you can please switch on your cameras, I'll appreciate it as we get into our week number two with regards to bait of Satan. I'm so excited to be with you guys. Bless you, men and women of God. Good to see you guys again. Congratulations on your ordination. I haven't had a chance to say that to you, but bless you guys. The rest of you, please switch on your cameras. I want to jump straight into tonight, but before we do that, let's pray together. Father, we want to thank you for your beautiful tangible presence. Lord, even on this cold evening, we know that there is a fire burning deep down in our souls. Lord, that's the fire of the Holy Spirit. I pray that you would come and teach in and through us, that you would come and equip us, Lord, that you would remove what needs to be removed and that you would accelerate what needs to be accelerated. I pray that over every

0:46 single student tonight in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and all of God's people say, "Amen and amen." [clears throat] Hallelujah. So good to be with you tonight. Please excuse my voice. have been struggling with it a little bit. I want to just for the sake of catching up on last week just read you one piece of a scripture. It was the part that we spoke about unforgiveness which was in 2 Timothy 3. It speaks about the end time church. It speaks about the end time believer. It speaks about the end time move of what people will go through. But the middle part of that verse says having a form of godliness but denying its power. That's what the end time will look like. People want to be in a church but they want to deny the power. Then it goes on and it actually says this very very powerful key. It says they will not endure sound doctrine. In other words,

1:32 they are going to reject the word of God. They want to teach something. And this is what the Bible says, but according to their own desires because they have itching ears. So, so they want to hear what they want to hear. Why is it important to lay [clears throat and cough] to lay that foundation, excuse me, is because I want to go into week number two and we are going to get into the good stuff. Like I said to you last week, when it gets rough, enjoy the ride because God tends to take you through unforgiveness through the bait of Satan. And tonight, we're going to get into betrayal. Betrayal. So, we see that Paul could see prophetically that these deceived men and women would have a zeal for knowledge, but remain unchanged since uh they never apply it. So, they hear it, but they don't apply it to their lives. He described them as always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of

2:17 the truth. So it doesn't it doesn't matter how up to date you are with revelation from seminars or Bible school or how many uh uh different books you've read or even how long you've prayed or studied. If you are offended and you are in unforgiveness and refuse to repent of that sin, you have not come to the knowledge of the truth. It's as simple as that. It's a decision that you got to make to come out of that mindset. Come out of that place and repent of it and get out of it. Be [clears throat] delivered of it and let it be removed. So you're deceived and you confuse others with your hypocritical lifestyle. There's no other way to put it. [clears throat] So we've got to get past that. So you'll become a spring spewing out bitter water that will bring deception, not truth. And we can't be like that when you are speaking to

3:03 people. You can't be like a spring that's spewing out bitter water. You got to be revival. You got to be refreshing. Yes, there's a time for deliverance. Yes, there's a time for everything else. But you got to lift people up. That's the purpose. Amen. >> [clears throat] >> So, if we look at week number two, I want to I want to read you a story tonight. And we're going to look at the life of Joseph. And so many times we we read the Bible, but we don't understand the power of the word of God. It's an incredible story, an incredible powerful story about Joseph. But before we get to that, let's get into betrayal. Matthew 24:10 says, "And then many will be offended." Now, watch this. Many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Look at that. See the progression. Offended people build walls of

3:48 protection. We become focused on self-preservation. This makes us capable of betray. So when you get into that state where you are offended, many many many times you get into the place where you will also be betrayed. The two go hand in hand. It's important that you see the connection between the two. So when when we betray, we seek our own protection or benefit at the expense of someone else in a ouch. usually someone with with whom we are in a relationship. That's where the pain comes. That's where the hurt comes. So to betray someone is the ultimate abandonment of a covenant. We betray the betrayal occurs uh in the relationship and it cannot be restored unless genuine repentance follows. So as we get into this tonight, I want you to just take brief notes, bullet points of what we're discussing tonight for the sake of it

4:35 because I've got quite a lot of ground to cover tonight. So betrayal then leads to hatred uh with serious consequences. Look at the progression. Look how it's moving forward. It wants to steal from you. It wants to destroy you. So the Bible states clearly that anyone who hates his brother is a murderer. And that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. That's how serious it is. So Christians, if we call them Christians, are protecting their rights, making sure that they are not mistreated or taken advantage of by other Christians. So they're actually misleading themselves. So have we forgotten the exhortation of the new covenant? [clears throat] As we look at the scripture tonight, 1 Corinthians 6:7 says, "Why do you not rather accept the wrong? Why do you not rather let

5:20 yourselves be cheated?" That's a powerful scripture right there. Have we forgotten the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:44 that says, "But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you." Now, this is completely opposite of your BC person. How many of you remember your BC days? You didn't settle things like this. You would take out a baseball bat or you'll get going with a fist or platant and you sort things out. Hallelujah. But the Bible is very clear. It says, "Love your enemies." Just think about this here. How many enemies wanted to come against you? Go to the next one. It says, "Bless those who curse you." What do we do when we get upset and somebody curses you?

6:05 You put your sign language out of the window. [laughter] Hallelujah. We go to the next one. Do good to those who hate you. Do good to them. And pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. Now, I've got a weak spot. I I have to really keep myself calm because I hate spitefulness. I hate it. I hate it. I believe it's the devil himself. So, I've got to really be calm and be patient uh when it becomes uh or gets to a place of being spiteful. So, have we forgotten the command of God? Philippians 2 and:3 says, "Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit." Watch that. But in loneliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself. So, in other words, you're not lowering yourself. You're not putting yourself in a hole.

6:52 You're getting in and pressing up. That's the picture that we see out of this. That's the most important thing. So, why don't we live by these laws of love? Why are we so quick to betray rather than lay down our lives for one another even at the risk of being cheated? That's a very powerful question right there. Many people cannot even think about that. Nevertheless, do it. So, the reason is that our love has grown cold, which results in our still seeking to protect ourselves. If we love other people, Jesus said these things are going to happen to you. So when Jesus was wronged, he did not wrong in return, but committed his soul to God who would judge righteously. That's a very powerful place to be. We read the scripture in 1 Peter 2 verse 21

7:37 and 20 to 23 says for to this we you were called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that you should follow his steps who commit no sin nor as deceit found in his mouth who when he was reviled did not revile in return when he suffered he did not threaten but committed himself to him who judges right righteously. So let's look at the enabler tonight. the enabler. When we look at this tonight, we must come to the place where we trust God, not the flesh. We must get to that place. That's where God is taking us right now. He's taking you beyond yourself. How many of you would agree with me? You'll hear me say this over and over. We are our own biggest problems. Your flesh shoot is the one that's standing in the way.

8:23 You've got to deal with it daily. It's too cold. It's too hot. Huh? [laughter] We must we must come to the place where we must put God first. By now you see how serious the sin of offense is. And if it is not dealt with, offense will eventually lead to death. That's how severe it is. But when you resist the temptation to be offended, God brings a great victory. That's the place of victory. You know that we spoke about it last week. Offense is going to come whether we like it or not. But the way that you respond to it is very, very important. And we ought to pray a prayer that needs to go like this and say, "Lord, I pray, Lord God, that you enlighten my eyes of my understanding that we will be able to see our true condition and repent, not allowing pride to blind us or to keep us trapped."

9:10 That's a humble prayer to pray. So then many people go into a phase where things happen to them and they say this, "How could this happen to me? How could this happen to me?" How many of you know what I'm talking about? You know, you go through this thing and you say, "How is it possible? How can this happen to me? And as we get into the life of Joseph, I want to look at Joseph's character. I want to look at Joseph's life tonight. Genesis 50 from verse 19 to verse 20 says, "Joseph said to them, but as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good." This is Joseph's own words. Now, let's look at the life that he led before he got to that statement. Because Joseph's life starts in chapter 37. It goes all the way through to chapter 48 and even up into 50. And that was his respond. You came against me.

9:55 You tried everything to break me. But God has used it for the good. So last week we grouped offended people in two different categories. There were two different categories. The first one is those who have been genuinely mistreated. That was the first one I said. Write it down. That's important. And then the second one is those who think they have been mistreated but actually were not. [clears throat] So I want to discuss tonight with you the ones who have genuinely been mistreated. Genuinely. genuinely there's no there's no question about it. It has happened with them. They are not thinking about it. They physically went through it. So I want to start by asking you a question. Do you have the right to be offended? If something happens in your life, do you have the right to be offended? Let's take a look at Jo the life of Joseph and

10:41 and please go and read it from chapter 37 to 48. It's incredibly powerful. Do you know there's there's so many teachings that you can take out of it. So many sermons out of that. this way, that way, the anointing, mantels, breakthrough, deliverance. There's so many things in that. But we start off with Joseph's life. Joseph was Jacob's 11th son. He was his 11th son. He was despised by his older brothers because his father favored him. We see that the Bible says he had a coat of many colors. That's why he was favored. Joseph had two dreams where he saw his brothers bow down to him. I'm just giving you bullet keys. You can just take them down as I give them to you tonight. He shared the dream with his brothers and they hated him even more. Watch that. I mean you in a family environment guys. I had a dream and you share the dream and they hate

11:27 you. So you got to be careful with who you share your dreams in life. Your next bullet keys. His brothers threw him in a pit to die. Took his coat and stained it with animal blood to convince their father that he had died. So they tried to cover it up. They stripped him of that first mantle. They sold him to the IshRaelites for 20 shekels of silver. Keep in mind these was these were his brothers. I mean these are not strangers or kidnappers. These are his own flesh and blood. His family. Your next bullet is Joseph's brothers kept him from ever receiving his father's name and inheritance completely stripping him of his identity. He was born a slave, died as a slave. Family will also become a slave. That was their mentality towards him. Now look, let's look at the perfect

12:12 hindsight. All through this we see God's hand moving in a very very powerful way. So for us who know the end of the story it is very inspiring but for Joseph it looked like uh he would never see his father's dreams uh or his father or his or his dreams being fulfilled. I want you to see this for a moment. You read the story and you say wow it's awesome about Joseph. But Joseph was rejected. Joseph was betrayed. Joseph was sold. Joseph was kicked out. Joseph was now in a community where nobody wanted anything to do with him because they didn't understand him. Your next bullet point to write down is Joseph was sold to a man named Porifar, an officer of the Pharaoh and captain of the guard. I mean, he's in a different place now. He doesn't even speak their language. He served this man for 10 years. Now he's a

13:00 slave working in a place to be a ser a slave for 10 years. He had no hope that his father would come to rescue him. I mean, there wasn't a there wasn't a a poster that they put on the lamp pole to say, "I'm looking for Joseph." Nobody knew where he was because everybody thought he was dead. Joseph found favor with Pifar and was set over the entire household. Look at that. He's elevated into a good position because he found favor. Now, watch what happens. Porifer's wife accused him of adultery and Joseph was thrown into Porifer into prison, the pit with no light. What happened there? That was the second instance where his second mantle was stripped from him. The first one was the coat of many color. That mantle had to be stripped to make room for the next one. It doesn't mean that his destiny

13:46 was stripped. It just means that the mantle was removed. Now he's being stripped from the second mantle. Because you read the scripture, it says he left the mantle behind. He ran outside. So he left that mantle behind. He was left to rot as they survived on bread of water and affliction which is according to 1 kings 22 and verse 27. Then we also see according to Psalm 105 and verse 18 Joseph's feet were hurt in fetterss and he was laid in irons. In other words, he had shackles around him. He was tied down. He couldn't run around. He was really really really a prisoner. He was put in a dungeon to die. If he had been an Egyptian, uh, he might have had some chance of release, but as a foreign slave, accused of rape, he had

14:33 little or no hope because that's what he was accused of. Imagine his thoughts at this point in time. Imagine his thoughts at that moment. If I get out of here, I'm going to kill my brother. Just think about it. Put yourself in that situation. You've been rejected. You've been accused. Everything is going wrong in your life. Everything is going not the way it's supposed to go. And yet we don't see one scripture in the Bible that says and Joseph retaliated or Joseph said I'm going to do this or Joseph said wait until I get out I'll show them. Never ever did he say anything like that? Now next question that's coming up is God in control. When you are at that place many people ask the question Lord are you there? Do you hear me? Do you see what's happening? Is God in control? I imag I imagine it

15:18 never crossed Joseph's mind until it was all over that he that this was God's perfect or process to prepare him to rule. I mean, when you're going through that, you're not going to say, "Okay, uh, I understand the Lord. I I understand God. Just put me in prison. That's just the next step. Put me in steel shackles. That's the next step. Reject me, beat me up, that's the next step." I mean, nobody's going to think about that. You're going to feel left out. You're going to feel like everything is coming crashing down. How would you then uh use he how would you step into that place when you are in that position? How would he use his future authority over those brothers who betrayed him? I mean look at what's happening. It's one thing on top of the other one. When you are really really really in the flesh when you get out you

16:03 you're going to say I'm going to show them that it's payback time now. Look at what they done to me. Joseph was learning obedience by what he suffered. In fact, he was learning the process to govern through the challenges. Oh my goodness, that's power right there. His brothers were skillfully wielded instruments in the hand of God. Would Joseph hold fast to his promise, seeking God for his purpose? That's the question that we need to ask. Often in these training periods, we focus on the impossibility of our own circumstances instead of the greatness of God. I mean, let's face it. You go through a battle, you have to really, really train your mind to put all of your focus on Jesus. It's really a battle that you've got to go through. As a result, we are

16:48 discouraged and need to blame someone. So, we look for the one we feel is responsible for our despair. That's our human nature. So, when we face the fact that God could have prevented our whole mess and didn't, we often blame him. Oh my goodness. Lord, it's your fault. Here it is. Is called. That's what happens to people. So to Joseph, his brothers were the reason he was in the prison in the first place. There's no denial. It was a physical actual thing that happened to him. How often do we hear our brothers and our sisters fall into the same trap of assigning the blame and there are many examples of that. It's usually the ones that are closest to you that hurt you the most. Unfortunately. Unfortunately.

17:34 I want to emphasize the following point. Absolutely no man, no woman, no child, no devil can ever get you out of the will of God. Never, ever, ever, ever. No one but God holds your destiny. So, Joseph's brothers tried hard to destroy the vision God gave them. They did everything. I mean, you look at the story. Every possible thing that they wanted to do, they tried it. Genesis 37:20 says uh they they said out of their own mouths, "Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit. We shall see what will become of his dreams." Watch what they were doing. They were trying to stop the dream. The dream was God's plan. Many times people come against your dreams. Many time people don't

18:21 understand your dreams. You will hear me say this over and over and over. Write down your dreams. Pray about your dreams because the dream is just a direction that you need to go in. The prayer, the relationship with the Holy Spirit is the revelation of the dream. Dreams are prophetic. Write them down. Have an understanding what is going on with the dream. So they were out to destroy him, but they wanted to steal the dream. They wanted to stop the dream. It wasn't an accident. It was deliberate. It was deliberate. Talk about spiteful. So they wanted no they wanted no chance of his ever succeeding. That's how many people are when it comes to ministry. Did you know that? That's how many many people are when it comes to business. They they they they hope

19:08 you fail. They get jealous. They see people coming to the house. They see deliverance manifesting. They see healing taking place. They see you singing a song and they become jealous. And then this kind of a process takes place where they try and steal the dream. And actually what they are doing is they're coming against the God in you. They reject the Christ in you. Instead of just walking their own road, there's more than enough room for everybody. Amen. So I want to ask you this question. If you get a breakthrough right now on this moment, let's say 20 minutes past 8 tonight, you receive the breakthrough. Your phone says, you have the power. You are in command right now. What will your reaction be towards your enemies? Are you going to jump in your car and say no?

19:53 What's your reaction? What will you do with that power? You can do anything. You have all power. You can go out right now. Think about that. Your first reaction is going to say, "I'm going to now." Now they're going to get it. I'm on my way. Get open the gate. I'm coming. How will you treat them? How will you treat them? So, let's put it back to the life of Joseph. If Joseph had actually had this attitude, God would would have left him in the dungeon. Why do I say that? Because watch this next thing that I'm about to tell you. That's because if he had gotten out of prison with that kind of a motive, he would have killed the heads of 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel. Look at the significance. If he killed

20:39 his brothers, they were the heads of 10 tribes of Israel. This would include Judah, from whose lineage Christ would descend. Oh my goodness. That's a powerful statement right there. [snorts] Listen, if you're going through hell right now, I want to give you some hope tonight. I'm going to give you the scripture. Luke 12 and verse 48. But he who did not know yet committed things deserving of stripes shall be beaten with few. Listen to this. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required. And to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. If you're going through things right now, you are going to be entrusted with mega big things. Just keep on persevering. I'm preaching to myself. I'm telling you right now, the size of your giant is the

21:24 size of your breakthrough. Big things await those that persevere through great trials. Oh my goodness. Hallelujah. So, Joseph stayed free from offense. Look at his attitude. He stayed free from offense. You don't read in the Bible it says, "And Joseph threw a tantrum and he shaked the prison doors and he shouted and said, "Help me. I want to come out." None of that took place. He stayed free from offense. And the plan of God was established in his life and in the lives of his brothers. Now, let's go one step further. Could it get any worse? Could it get any worse? Prison was a time of of sifting for Joseph, but it was also a time for an opportunity for him. Now he's in prison. Everybody's locked him up. They forgot

22:10 about him. And there are two prisoners with Joseph and both had viv vivid disturbing dreams. You know the story. You can go and read it. Joseph interprets both of their dreams with amazing accuracy. Perfect perfect accuracy. One man was to be restored while the other man would be executed. We know the butler and the baker. That's the story. So Joseph asked the one about to be restored to remember him when he regained Pharaoh's favor. The man returned to Pharaoh's service. But two years pass with no words from him. I mean, you just help the guy to get out. Have you ever been in front of somebody and they say, "Uh, pray for me. I'm about to lose my car." And you're about to lose your car and you pray for them and they get to keep their car and you lose your car. Have you ever prayed for

22:56 somebody else that needs to get some food and you need food in your house and you pray for them and their preach is full and they testify and you have nothing but a slice of bread? This is what happened to Joseph. He prayed for somebody because Joseph wanted to get out of prison. And he prayed for somebody and he said, "Remember me when you are out of prison. Just remember me. That's all I'm asking you." And the guy goes out and he leaves him there for two years. He said, "Hey, I'm having a happy life. I'm out. Let's forget about Joseph." The very key, the very person that helped him. Oh my goodness. Yet it was another let down for Joseph, another opportunity to become even more offended. So God always has a big plan and this is what I want to bring it together with tonight. Uh the time came when Pharaoh had a very alarming dream. Look at the significance

23:43 of this. So this man that was released had a dream and all of a sudden he forgets about Joseph and God says it's okay. I'll give the Pharaoh a dream and I'll connect this man that knows about somebody that's in jail and he will say to the Pharaoh, "Oh, I know a guy and this guy that I know, he knows how to speak about a dream because here I am. I'm free because of him. yet I've forgotten about him. Oh my goodness. It was then that we realize and we see that he said that I know this man that's in jail and he spoke about this and he told the pharaoh and he said when he when he when he gave the the layout of the dream I was restored. And God had a way of using what he gave you when it needs the most. This is what I want to say to you. God has a way of using what he gave you when it's needed the most. when you

24:29 think nothing else is working, the God in you is working through you. Oh my goodness. So he shared how Joseph had interpreted uh his and his companions dream in prison. Joseph was brought before the pharaoh and he told him what the dream meant. Now watch this. A famine was coming. Then he had the revelation. He said, "And wisely instructed him on how to prepare for the crisis." Joseph in that moment overcame every obstacle and stepped into his destiny. Pharaoh immediately promoted Joseph to the second in command over all of Egypt. Now you must realize I mean this guy everything that the life threw at him he was punished. He was imprisoned. He was rejected. He was betrayed. He was forgotten. He was accused. He was um stripped of the first mantle. Stripped of the second mantle. He was uh accused of rape. He was put

25:16 back in the prison again. Then this guy that he helped said, "I'm going to forget about him." I mean surely by this time this man must be so frustrated that he says wait until I get out. Now we get to the best part. Later when this famine came to uh all the known nations, Joseph's brothers had to come to Egypt. Watch this. They had to come to Egypt. The place where Joseph was. If Joseph had anything in his heart against his brothers, that would have been the time to carry it out. That would have been the moment to say, "No, now they're going to get it." He could have thrown them into prison for life or torture them and even kill them and not be blamed because he was second in command in Egypt. He had all the power but was not ruled by his power. Oh my goodness. Write that

26:03 down. Joseph was he had all the power but he was not ruled by the power. Why? Because his character had been prepared. His character had to be prepared. and it had been prepared. One thing that we notice out of this is the prison prepared Joseph for a palace. So many times we look at our prison and we don't realize that God is preparing us for a palace and we keep complaining about the prison, but the pressure of the prison gives you the ability to conquer and to reign in the palace. That's some good stuff right there. His brothers were of no concern to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh ended uh Joseph ended up giving them grain for no charge. Look at

26:48 his heart towards them. Grain for no charge. Then they were given the best of the land of Egypt for their families and they ate the fat of the land. To sum it up, the best of all that land of Egypt was given to them. Why? Because Joseph ended up blessing those who had cursed him and doing good to those who hated him. Look at that. God blesses you today. Can you go out and buy that person that came against you and say, "Listen, let me go and buy you a new car. Let me go and help you to get a house." God knew what Joseph's brothers would do before they did it. As a matter of fact, the Lord knew they would do it before he gave Joseph the dream or even before any of those boys were born. To go one step further, look at what Joseph said to his

27:35 brothers when they were reunited. Watch how he responds because his character was right. And this is what I want to put into your spirit tonight. This kind of a response. Doesn't matter what life throws at you. Doesn't matter what comes against you. Genesis 45 verse 5 to8. But now do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here. Watch what he's saying. He says, I understand you sold me. Now he goes further. For God sent me before you to preserve life. He said you sold me. You rejected me. But God sent me before you. Oh my goodness. For these two years of the famine has been in the land and there is still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. And God sent me before you to preserve

28:20 posterity for you in the earth. Oh my goodness. And to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me but God. Look at his reaction. Your own brother sells you out. He says, "Let's kill him." Think about that. Your own brother, your own sister says, "Let's kill you. Let's get rid of you." You're standing in the way. I don't like you. And then when you are when you go through that process, you turn around, you say, "God sent me ahead of you because I actually love you so much that I can make a way for you." And when we look at this picture, we realize that this is the price that Jesus paid. He went ahead of us to the cross of Calvary. Come on, somebody. He paid the price. He shed the blood. Why? so that he can give us access to the father so

29:05 that we can be reunited with the father. That's the picture that we get out of Joseph and out of the life of Joseph. Look at what the psalmist says in Psalm 105 16-1 17. He says, "Moreover, he God called for a famine in the land. He destroyed all the provision of of bread. He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave." So the famine was God's plan. The famine was God's plan. We look at the whole story, the mantle, the dream. He was sold, then forgotten, then called, then used, then accused, then destinyfilled, then sent back to prison. And while this all was taking place, God orchestrated a famine so that the family can be united at the end. When I looked at this famine, I realized that this is what the end time is all about. The

29:51 disruption of the world, the famine of the world is running outside. But God's going to unite the church. Come on, somebody. There's going to be power in the church. God is going to bring every church from all nations, all races back together again so that the power of God can flow unrestricted. That's why there's such an onslaught against the church right now to say that the church must announce themselves. What now are they going to preach? That's the that's the sign. There's going to be no famine. There's going to be revival. Come on. Because when the family was brought together, the man's heart that was focused on Jesus said, "Come here. I love you. Come back family. We are ready for revival." Oh my goodness. This is some good stuff. Hallelujah. So who sent Joseph? His brothers or God? When we look at the scripture, it's clear that it was God who sent him. Joseph said plainly to his

30:39 brothers, "It was not you who sent me, but it was God." You are in a mission right now. You are in a rescue mission. Students, you are being trained up right now to shake the planet, to shake the earth. God is calling you. Doesn't matter what you're facing right now. Let it happen because the greater plan of God is going to prevail. You're going to shake everything that's going to be shaken. Come on. There's going to be a movement through your life unlike anything you've ever experienced. If God can prepare a Joseph for something like this, then God can prepare you for what he's about to do in and through the nations of the world. Hallelujah. So, hear what the spirit of God is saying tonight. There is only one person that can get you out of the will of God. As previously stated, no mortal man or devil can. It's only you. It is only

31:25 you. Oh my goodness. It's only you. An example of this is the Israelites complaining versus Joseph. Uh uh Joshua and Caleb. Joshua and Caleb said, "We are well able to go in. Let's take the land." What did the other 10 spies say? No, no, no, no, no. There's giants. They look like grasshoppers. Come on. Hallelujah. Joshua and Caleb said, "We are well aable." God never ever ever ever ever in the Bible said, "Go and look at the giants. I want to emphasize this tonight. God never said look at the giants. He said go and possess the land. God did not say look at 2026. He said go and possess the land. He said go and take over. Go and do what you need to do. Come on. Hallelujah. So their offense resulted in

32:12 that generation never seeing the land that God had promised that they would possess just because they complained and they murmured in the desert. Many people have been serving the Lord fervently and have come into difficult life situations because of being mistreated by either wicked men or carnal Christians. And the truth is that they have been treated unjustly. We know that. But to become offended would only fulfill the enemy's purpose uh of God getting them out of the enemy of getting them out of God's will. If the enemy can get you offended, he's got you. He's got you. If you can stay free from offense, you can stay in God's will. That's a powerful powerful key to remember right there. Stay away from offense. People are going to offend you. Pastors are going to offend you. Leaders are going to offend you. People

32:58 in shops are going to offend you. The drivers are going to offend you. Stay away from offense. I always say, take out the old fence, put in a new fence. If the new fence doesn't work, maybe you need electric fans to shock you out of the way. Come on. So that you can move forward. Hallelujah. So take your pick. It is much more beneficial to stay free from offense. 1 Corinthians 10:13, no temptation, and this is one scripture that really, really, really, I believe is for now, for such a time as this. No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man, but God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able. Watch that now. Watch what he says. but with the temptation will also make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it.

33:45 Another translation says God will never test you above your fireplace. In other words, you got to be in the fire to find the way of escape. Not past it, not around it, not avoid it, in it. The Bible is very clear. Let me read it to you again. Who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it. Notice it says the way of escape, not a way. It's the way. He is the way, the truth, and the life. Come on. That's the way that you are going to get out of it. So God has already seen every adverse circumstance that we will ever encounter in life, no matter how great or small. And he has the way planned for escaping it. He's got it figured out. We just have to do it in him. Everything in him. If you read that scripture again

34:32 and again and you compare it to the book of John where Jesus said, "I'm the way, the truth, and the life," you will always in Jesus find the way out of things. Always, always, always. James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." A submitted life is not an offended life. A submitted life is not an offended life. We resist the devil by not becoming offended. So, the dream or the vision will probably happen different from how you think it will, but his word and his promise will not fail. I want to say this to you tonight. I guarantee you 100% it will not work the way you think it's going to work. Because God says, "My ways are not your ways. Therefore, by scripture, for that word to come to

35:17 pass, it's not going to be done the way that we think." Hallelujah. We often risk aborting them by our disobedience. So, let's look at another kind of betrayal. Not many have suffered the treatment Joseph received from his brothers. Not many people. I mean, if he had the reasons or or if we asked the question, does Joseph have uh any reason or any ground to stand on to come against his family? We would immediately say yes. It would have been uh a painful position for him to take in that position to say I'm going to take out my hurt on my family. That's what we see in Joseph's life. He was the complete opposite. He said, "I'm not going to do that. I'm a man of God. You're a man and a woman of God. You react the way that God treats you [snorts] and you treat others that way.

36:03 But these were his brothers, his own flesh and blood. I mean, it's not a stranger. If you if you if you walk in a supermarket and somebody bumps into you and they really rude to you, like what had happened to me the other day. I was trying to pay and I said to the lady, "Please, would you mind if I just pay?" And she said to me, "Oh, there's people." And she threw her stuff in the in the shop. And I stood there for a moment. I'm my jaw is hanging open. I said, "I just want to pay." She said, "I don't care." Now, I could have s stood there and said, "Well, I also don't care." And I just said, "Well, bless you." You know, relax. I just want to pay. Everybody in the store is looking. I just tapped my card, took my stuff, and I left. You know, these little moments like that wants to get under your skin, but betrayal wants to come through the people that you have

36:49 invested the most into. And I've learned this from apostle many, many times. I've watched him over the years. I've watched him. Many people have have wronged him. Many people have hurt him. And I've watched how we've just gone through that being dead to self and focused on Christ. I've seen it over and over and it's really inspired me. You know, people that's going to betray you. People are going to offend you. People that are going to hurt you. These things are going to happen. But we must understand that we've got to be so in Christ. He's the way, the truth, and the life. When you understand that, you will find a way out of offense. You will find a way out of betrayal. And you will move forward not allowing these things to affect you. just like Jesus. So these was these these guys these brothers were his flesh and blood. They were the ones um who were supposed to encourage, support, defend and care for him. Could

37:35 there be a worse scenario for mistreating a person like what Joseph endured in life like what Joseph endured in life. I don't think there's any other situation that can quite compare to the life of Joseph for what he's faced. And closing tonight, I'm a little bit early tonight, but that's okay. I want to share this with you. Had he not been stripped away from his first mantle, there would have not been room for his second mantle. Had his second mantle not been stripped away, he would not receive the ultimate mantle. I want to say that to you, the ultimate mantle was the place that he stepped into after God restored him, after he went through everything. And the Bible is very clear that God tested Joseph. God took him through this. So many times we blame people. God, why are you why are you allowing this? Maybe God wants to have a

38:21 relationship with you. Maybe God wants to show you that you're called for greatness. Maybe God wants to teach you that you are supposed to rule and reign. I don't know if God's going to make you second in command in in South Africa. I don't know. You got to be trained for that. [laughter] I don't know. But you know, God's got a perfect way of doing things. And when chaos breaks out and we look at the world and things reject us and we are in prisons and we are in situations that are not comfortable, we must understand that God is not looking for a comfortable person. and he's looking for a yielded vessel. And when we become the yielded vessel, we become a powerful vessel for the sake of Jesus Christ, for his glory, not for us, for him. That's what I want to put into your spirit. Maybe you're facing things tonight. Maybe you're going through things. Persevere in that. Keep praying, keep

39:06 fasting, keep pressing in, keep giving, keep doing your part because you never know if God is going to make you second in command. You never know if God's going to raise you up to do great and mighty things in the kingdom. You never know what God wants to do in and through your life. to keep your joy up, keep your faith up, keep your persistence up. Consistent persistence is so important in Jesus mighty name. That's so powerful. Joseph Joseph never never complained. Never complained. I don't know about you, if I was in prison, if I was in Joseph's state, I would have complained. I would have been jumping up and down. I would have gone crazy. I would have said, "Wait until I get out of here." But, you know, we go through that phase. And the most important one is the quiet one. the last two years of Joseph's life when Joseph was forgotten. Many people ask

39:52 the question, why am I forgotten? When everything goes silence, you know, when you when you you have a um what's the word I'm looking for? You know, you have a dive boat. You know these big diving boats, submarines, that's the word I'm looking for. They go in stealth mode. It's quiet. There's nothing that's moving. Many people go into that kind of a place, that kind of an atmosphere just before their biggest breakthrough hits their life. Listen to me. All the voices become silent. God is silent. Your friend is silent. Your pastor is silent. Everybody around you is silent. That's the stealth mode. Why? Because a submarine moves into position, ready to be launched. Never forget that picture. That's what happened with Joseph. He went into stealth mode. He went into a quiet mode. And he moved into position.

40:38 And when he was brought up to the surface, he was placed into position in Jesus mighty name. Oh my goodness, that's some good stuff for you right there. I pray that God will take you like a submarine and position you and when you are surfacing and when you come out that you will bring destruction to the camp of the enemy and that God will use you mightily for his kingdom in Jesus mighty glorious name. And all of God's people say amen. Did you enjoy this tonight? I want to challenge you tonight to go and read the life of Joseph chapter 37 to all the way to the end. You know, you can go to Genesis uh chapter number 50. It's so so awesome to go and read that. Make it part of your life. Also check the type in the shadow of the Old Testament connected to Jesus. And you'll find amazing amazing connections between the story of Joseph

41:24 and the life of Jesus. How it shows that Joseph came to save the nation just like the king comes to save the nation. Hallelujah. Let's pray together. Father, I want to thank you for every student tonight. I want to thank you that you have given us the life of Joseph as a reference. Lord, when life throws us into pits, into prisons, into things. Lord, I pray that you would strengthen us. I pray that you would give us wisdom knowledge insight and understanding, to tackle every mountain, to take in our rightful position, Lord, to conquer and not to be fearful, not to complain, not to imprison ourselves with the words that comes out of our mouths, Lord. that we will speak positively, that we will we will allow your training to equip us with power to take us forward like never before. That you will raise us up as kingdom in kingdom enforcers, Lord, that you will place us in charge of your kingdom. You have

42:11 given us to dominion, Lord, but many times our character needs to be prepared for that. And I pray that you shift every student, every person on here tonight, Lord, that you will work and flow through their lives with a mighty power. I release an anointing upon them tonight, Lord. an anointing to persevere, an anointing to see in the midst of everything that they go through. That they will have x-ray vision and they will see your greater hand, your work flow in and through their lives. That they will not murmur, not complain, not speculate, but they will step into everything that you have for them in Jesus mighty glorious name. And all of God's people say amen and amen. Hallelujah. Thank you so much for spending time with me tonight. I am looking forward to spending some more time with you next week. Remember, don't take the offense in this subject. Many will offend you. It's just part of the

42:57 session. It's just part of what takes place. But don't let the offense take you. Next week, we're going to get into the life of Jesus and it's going to be powerful. My apologies that we are finishing a little bit earlier. I try to speak a little bit slower next week so that we can finish the lesson. Amen. I don't want to get you to fall asleep, but we love you. Have a beautiful blessed week. God bless you. Hey guys, I trust that you are all doing well and I'm going to open up the session just in prayer. Father God, we thank you this evening, Lord, that we can just

43:42 come before you, Father. I thank you, Lord, that you would do just great and mighty things in every single student's life. Father, I thank you, Lord, that you would just use them, Father, like they've never been used before. Father, I thank you that, Lord, they would just understand the calling of God upon their lives, Father, and that they would be used in the master's hand. Father, I thank you, Lord, that even as we discuss divine healing, Father, that each and every single one of the students will walk away with not just information, Father, but revelation and understanding, Father, that they would let the Lord do great and mighty things through them, Father. I thank you, Lord, that you would just do it, Father, out of this group. I thank you that healers

44:30 and divine healers would rise up out of this group. people that are so filled with faith that they would lay hands and see people be healed in the mighty name of Jesus. And everybody said, "Amen." And amen. Sorry that there was quite a bit of a gap. Um and I was busy with um revival studies. You all remember that subject of last year. And of course, we have new content this year. It wasn't received quite the way you guys received it. I'm just saying you there was something special about that first year class, right? You were just I mean the people sat there like I don't know maybe they were scared they were going to spit their bubble gum out. I'm not sure. But you you were you will go down in the

45:17 history as my revival studies group. I'm saying I don't know if there will be another group that will quite top your group but um yeah we we in session number two. Okay. Maybe they will get there. They have three hours. How does the apostle say? They're taking their time to get lacer, but we will bring them up to speed. But um I'm I'm really excited this evening and I want to say that this is a a subject that challenges me because jump on the river. Yes, absolutely. John Michael. Um this is a subject that challenges me every single time. You know, when we watch God's generals, I press into those mantles and I tap into that. And this for me is a subject that

46:04 is just as intense. It's a subject that is not taught. It's court. Either you catch the revelation and you run after this and you determine in your own heart that you are going to pray irrelevant of the outcome or you sit on the side and you go, "This isn't for me." It's kind of like human mutics. It either is or it isn't. And nobody can force you to do it. The only way that you can do it is by doing it and continually doing it and building on it. This is the only way a healing ministry is actually birthed. Healing ministry for me is much like prophecy. The more God can trust you, the more he'll give to you. But when it comes to the healing ministry, this has been something that

46:50 has been on my heart for many, many years. and watching Katherine Corman's meetings and her really get emotional about sick people and um being a part of Apostle Jeep Becker's ministry for so long. I was his first photographer in the ministry and that meant that I saw the healings firsthand and I think I shared the testimony of the the one service where um the lady came in and she was two weeks post op. She had steel pins and plates put in her legs. Did I tell you that story? I did. Didn't I? Okay. If I didn't, just to refresh your memory, I was new in revival church and um Apostle called one of the the this

47:37 lady was just visiting. It was one of the leader moms and she had fallen off like a deck area and she broke both her legs from her knees down. She had multiple pins and um metal put into her legs to to fix them. And she was about two weeks, probably about 10 days post op. She had moon boots on and she had a walker and apostle called her to the front and he prayed for her and she started walking without the walker and hallelujah, it's a miracle. Praise the Lord. Uh, and then he asked her to take the moon boots off and I'm going or e or no no no no, not a good idea, you know? I mean, those wounds are scars healed. Nothing's really been set. And she had

48:22 pain and apostles like take off the moon boots. And I'm going mm- my flesh is like I'm first aer. I'm the one who always wants to see people not, you know, with an owie if there is a paper cut. I already have stitches for you. I've got the band-aid. I will sort it out, you know. And um Apostle is asking this lady and and my medical understanding is kicking back on this. And I remember the Holy Spirit rebuking me hard like Tanya, you need to have faith for this miracle as well. It's not just about apostle praying. You need to also have the same faith. And immediately I was like, okay. And needless to say, she she she left church not using the walker and out of

49:08 her moon boots. She went to the doctor the next day for a checkup without her walker and without her moon boots. He flipped. He did somersoles, but he did say that her recovery was in record time that he had never seen this before. So, the miracle was definitely there and it was definitely noted. But I will never forget the Holy Spirit shaking on me going, "Tanya, you need to pray now as well. It's your faith as well." And ever since then, I put my faith out just as hard as ever. And I remember one of the services that we were in um there was a gentleman, it was in Cluttersville in Cape Town, gangfested area, and the guy was in a wheelchair, and he didn't immediately get out of the wheelchair. And you know what I did? I befriended all the kids because every single day we

49:54 were doing outreaches in the community and I would give them sweets if they gave out flyers for me. So all the kids in the community knew me. I mean I'm talking about 10 flyers 10,000 flyers out within an hour and a half. But they knew if the purple bag appeared there was sweets in this bag. And I would just bless him with sweets. It was so funny because I taken the last I had that month and bought sweets for my kids cuz you know they with us the whole time traveling. And it was it wasn't even expensive sweets. I mean, I went to a sweet factory and I got a whole bunch of cheap sweets for my kids. And I was giving all these sweets out. And I mean, we've got to drive back home from Cape Town back home and my kids have got no sweets because in these crusade meetings and during the week, I gave out all these sweets. And on the last night,

50:39 somebody comes with like what the I'm not going to be able to pronounce them, but those really expensive gummies and like a whole bag of sweets. I'm going, "Wow, Lord, your sense of humor is absolutely amazing because I'm thinking I'm a terrible mom. I've given out all my kids sweets and here the Lord just goes next level with them." But I was giving all of these kids sweets and the naughtiest cuz you see, I always identify the naughtiest kid. And I will usually enable them and reward them for good behavior and sort of make a good example out of them because if I can get the naughtiest kind of to listen then I've got the whole group. And this one kid was like really I mean he would often break out into fights while we were there and shove kids around and but

51:26 I took him under my wing and his parents didn't come to the hall that evening. They leave their kids to roam the streets in the dark there. But he was there. He he was he was 13 years old and I took him under my wing and when I did the photography I took him all the way to the front with me and Apostle was praying for the healing and he was with me right behind me the whole time and the person didn't get out of the wheelchair. This young young gentleman didn't get out of the wheelchair immediately but he stayed there in the front and eventually he lifted himself out of the wheelchair onto the first step onto the second step and this little kid like was watching watching watching and then he got up and he started walking. And the miracle was that this guy got out of the wheelchair.

52:12 But the bigger miracle was watching this troublemaker young kid witness a miracle like that for the first time. That for me was something that showed to this young child Jesus in a way I never could. Needless to say, the guy in the wheelchair actually became one of the church's catchers. Kind of funny. He came in a wheelchair, but he left and became one of Revival Church's catchers. But that was for me the biggest miracle. And so the question, who does God heal? We know that he heals. We've got to understand why he heals. We've got to understand who he heals. And his healing is really available to anybody that believes without discrimination.

52:57 It isn't that. Yeah, it's easier if you're a believer. It's easier if you have faith. But it's not if you have served the Lord for 10 years, then you can. If you served the Lord for 30 years, then you can. Now, the hard part is when God doesn't heal or doesn't heal on our time scale or doesn't heal when we pray. And I I want to show you well I'll for the next two weeks I'm going to show you clips. I actually think I'm going to show you I had one planned but I'm going to show you the other one. Hang on. I just want to quickly open it that I don't show the wrong one. Um but I want to show you even how apostle has to had to contend to see people get their healing. Sometimes it hasn't come as easy as Peter get up and walk.

53:44 Sometimes he's had to work the miracle. Sometimes he's had to take authority over the person's mental thinking because you can very easily be bound in the situation and stay in that situation because you've chosen that situation. But I I haven't seen apostle always lay hands and instantaneously the person jumps up and there I've seen that but I haven't seen it always. And so what I want to build your faith on this evening is God does heal. And that is a fact. He hasn't run out of healings. We dealt with that last week. But the question is who? Who does God heal? And I often sit and wonder why everybody

54:29 doesn't receive their healing. And that's why at the end, the very last week, I'm going to give you, I think it's 27 reasons why people don't receive their healing. And there's a lot of reasons. And it's not for us to try and figure out, oh, okay, you scored 2 out of 27 or you scored 20 out of 27. It's for us to realize that as much as what we pray is as much as what that person has to receive their healing and has to go through that journey. And that journey is not dictated by us. Healing whether instant and it's a miracle or healing which is progressive which is that's not for us to determine. For us, it's to lay hands. So, there are many people that I've laid hands on and I've had the faith. I don't have the gift of of healing naturally. So, for

55:16 me, it's work. Like, you know, I you got to wind up that donkey inside of me. Same as with prophecy. It doesn't come easy to me, but it doesn't mean that I don't do it. It doesn't mean that I won't lay my hands. I remember my very very first I I had prayed for people. Um, I actually got an encounter with the Lord. My domestic worker that was raising me. Um, when I was born, my hip had moved and they reckoned I'd have to go for surgery or not be able to walk. And she would pray over me every single day. And at about 3 months, it according to the doctors somehow moved into place. We know now it was because of her prayers. She was a faithfilled Christian. And behind my parents's back

56:02 before she went home every single day, she would take hands with me and we would sit and pray on the carpet. We would sit and pray that she taught me to pray. And she would come back and tell me how this person had healed, how that person, but I'd never physically seen it. And then I remember in and there might have been a healing. I actually haven't really I never noted it down or anything like that. But I remember in in the church before, Revival Church that Pastor Jake and I were serving as youth well leaders. We weren't really pastors there, but we had finished with Bible school. Um there came a girl out and we knew her name was Louise. She had diabetes and she came out for prayer for diabetes. But when I put my hand on her

56:47 back, I could feel a lump. And she didn't tell me about the lump but exactly where I placed my hand. And as I was praying, I was I was praying and and I she had come out for diabetes and that was I praying for. But as she went back to her seat, she she felt on her top and she couldn't feel the lump anymore. And she went ballistic like the lump is gone. How did you know there was a lump? I'm like, I didn't know there was a lump. I could feel there was a lump, but the lump was gone. Now I don't know when God heals and how God heals and what his conditions are of healing. All I know is I have to be obedient. My responsibility is simply to be obedient. So God has healed every single type of person. If we look at Jesus, he healed

57:33 the Roman century centurion servants. You know this was a a gentile military officer. It wasn't even a Jew. He wasn't even entitled. He wasn't supposed to receive healing. He wasn't part of the synagogue. But Jesus healed him in any case. A gentile, one that didn't believe, one that had no connection. And that sometimes for me is is also a hard thing. Like, okay, Lord, you can heal a Muslim, you can heal um a Satanist. Like, heal the Christian as well. Like, they're serving you. Like, heal them. But Jesus healed him. And that really just showed what was about to come. and the grace that the the kingdom of God had. He healed the woman with the issue of blood. Again, a

58:20 radical thing that she did because she was supposed to be stoned. But think about it for one moment. It was a woman. Woman was still frowned upon at this time. They weren't allowed in synagogues even. And here comes this woman and Jesus simply heals her because she touched his garment. He didn't even say anything or do anything. Just by what he was wearing brought healing to her. Then the healing of the 10 lepers. You know, the lepers were ostracized. They were kicked out of the community. They were only allowed to return if they were lucky enough to have been cleansed. But Jesus heals 10 of them. 10 are healed, but only one returns to say thank you.

59:06 That means that another nine of them were walking around. that didn't give a testimony. So, not everybody that Jesus laid hands upon came back and said thank you. Came back and gave a testimony. You might have prayed for somebody 10 years ago and they are for 10 years cancerree, but you don't know it cuz they never came back to tell you the healing of the the woman that was bent over for 18 years. Again, this was a healing on the Sabbath. This was like this was one thing you didn't do. They took on Jesus often because of what he did on the Sabbath. Jesus' answer was quite simple. Should I leave her for another day? Would you leave her for another day? Is it okay that she is it more okay that she

59:53 suffers for another day than what it is to break the Sabbath? Which is more okay? Which is more morally and socially acceptable? the fact that I should see her suffer for another day or break the Sabbath and pray for her. But she was healed on a Sabbath. She challenged legalism like totally. And when Jesus sees her in Luke 13, he goes, "Women, you're loosed from your infirmity. You're loosed from your bondage. You're you're loosed from it." So everywhere where we see young and old healings in the Bible, it it really was the whosoever. Whosoever presented themselves. Now I'm sure there were many people in the crowds when Jesus moved that didn't get their healing. So by the

1:00:38 way, we don't read much about it. But we also don't read that all 100% of every single person that ever attended a healing session by Jesus were healed. We don't know that. So we are not to lose heart when we pray for somebody and they don't receive their healing. We have that testimony in Revival Church with Minion. Minion was diagnosed 10 years ago with brain cancer. Her mother

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