The Prison Test, From Dream To Destiny

The way to your divine appointment 

Every Christian experiences a trial or tribulation. It can last for years depending on what God is preparing you for. These types of trials are situations where we do the right thing but end up in a long, drawn out battle.

It seems like inspite of doing right, you get punished instead. It's a test of your character. Your faith is tested and in the end God rewards you. When you get through the prison test, you have a strength and power that no one can shake.

Christians are going to experience tribulation, the difference is who stands on the foundation during the trial that comes out a winner. Matthew 7:25-27 shows us how one house falls and the other stands. They both experience the same storm, but one had a firm foundation.

You will have to suit up and put God's armor on. The ones who get through it never give up. If you allow these situations to work through your life, it will do its purpose to create perseverance and character.

No one can stop you from reaching your destiny and we are going to see that in the story of Joseph. It's about building character and being able to go from dream to destiny. Everybody has a God given destiny, but you have to go through your tests to get there. Genesis 39:19-20.

When you do right and suffer the wrong result, you just hold on because you are about to build some character into your life. Potipher's wife had used Joseph's coat to fabricate a lie about him. I'm sure by this time in Joseph's young life he never wanted another coat.

Has anyone ever lied on you? How are you going to respond to that lie about you? Romans 5:3-5. If you never have tribulation you never have perseverance. James 1:2-3.

You see, trials produce patience. Patience is not just waiting, but waiting with contentment. Perseverance is fighting the battle while waiting with contentment. Because you see, perseverance in a long trial can take years to see a breakthrough.

Joseph waited 13 years, Abraham's test of faith took 25 years after God promised him a son. Moses waited 40 years. Paul waited 13 years while David waited 16 years to be King after he was anointed, and went through a tribulation and trial that put his life on the line.

You have to enter warfare with joy and maintain a good attitude, and this is the most difficult thing to do. Attitude is everything in working through a hard trial. With the wrong attitude you can easily give up and miss your destiny.

The worst thing anybody can do is to promote you before God has you ready.Because God is still going to make you go through your test. I see a lot of preachers coming out of seminary and they haven't gone through any real hard tests, and they need to be prepared to be a Pastor because they are going to encounter some real difficult situations in a church. They will have to know how to be obedient to God even when they don't want to.

So, tests help us to become more obedient. Obedience is learned through suffering.Long, difficult trials produce character. All the junk comes out of you and it's like putting fire to metal. God has got to get the tarnish off of you before you can walk in your destiny. Hebrews 5:8.

Most of the time, your test is a lonely journey. Everyone forgot about Joseph, the Butler forgot him too. You may ask, why did God make Joseph wait 2 years after the Butler was released? Why didn't God give the Pharoah the dream then instead of two years later? Well, if you look at the story more closely you will see how Joseph tried to manipulate his freedom by telling the Butler to remember me when you go before the Pharoah.

Inspite of that failing, Joseph never lost hope. Hope in God, not in your circumstances or in others for they will fail you. God never fails us. What we want to change or how we want to change may not be the way God wants to do it. You see, God is working all things out for you for your good. That hope in us is what produces appointments by God for us. Romans 5:5.

If you will allow your trial to work character and character hope then you are going to arrive at your destiny. You are going to be ready for a divine appointment. Prov. 13:12

The way we know that Joseph had hope is because he never had self pity. Genesis 40:6-7. Joseph had noticed sadness in others in the prison. He gave to others in the midst of his own sorrow and tribulation. He gives hope to others by interpreting their dreams.

When you get to a nowhere place in your own circumstances and start helping and giving to someone else, you are getting close to persevering with contentment.

Joseph didn't drown in self pity over what his brothers did to him, nor over what Potipher's wife did to him. Joseph was numbered with the transgressors just as Jesus was. Joseph has encounters with two men, one saved and the other not. He says, remember me when you get to the palace. The saved man on the cross tells Jesus the same thing. Remember me when you get to your Kingdom.

So the next time you have a test or go through tribulation, count it all joy because you are on the road to destiny and if you can have hope and trust in God to get you through you are going to meet with your divine purpose. I count it all joy when I am faced with trials for I know that through them God is pulling me closer to what I was born for.


This article is based on the teaching of Robert Morris in From Dreams to Destiny.  This article only lists one of the 10 tests you will go through before reaching your destiny.  To see more on this subject go to believerschristianbookstore.blogspot.com


To puchase this teaching go to: www.believerschristianbookstore.org