Strategy
Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 7 viewsNotes
Transcript
Strategy
Strategy
Something Has to Change… Dealt with the Harvest and the Laborers.
We are called to manage in God’s kingdom
Labor in God’s kingdom
We are also called to be intercessors in His kingdom.
We know that the something is “us” and my prayer is that God will give us the strategy for effective change…
Strategy: A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
#1 Joseph was 17 years old…
Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
Hated on by his brothers…
Not affirmed by his father…
Misunderstood…
For something he had No Control Over…
21 dreams are recorded in the Bible and 6 of them are connected to Joseph
His two dreams were a prophetic forecast by God for his life.
“My sheaf arose and stood upright and behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
“Behold, the sun the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Look at their response:
(Brothers) “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us? So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.”
(Father) “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?”
What do you see?
What has God put in you that people around can’t understand?
What has he shown you in your youth, that can alter your right now and tomorrow?
He was a dreamer but not the creator of the dream…
Dreams recorded in Scripture serve a wider purpose established by God.
God had a much bigger plan for Joseph ---- Bigger than his family’s opinion of him.
They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.
Overcome “They” - They said…
Joseph was going to have an impact on more than his family. Joseph was going to have impact on the world.
Jospeh is thrown into the pit by his brothers…
Sold into slavery to the Ishmaelites and then in Egypt to Potiphar an officer of Pharoah, the captain of the guard.
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
Then thrown into prison for refusing to sleep with Potiphar’s wife.
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it. The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed.
Life may not seem to be where you think it should....
But, as long as God is with me, I Will Succeed…
Remember God has equipped you to fulfill the dream/Calling the Laborer work!
But God knows how to give you training through life’s experiences…
Management didn’t start at the Palace but it started at 17, when he pastoring the flock with his brothers.
He gained experience at Potiphar’s house…
Prison helped him sharpen his tools.
It’s the things that are out of your control that God uses to show that he is in Control!!!
Not only did God give him wisdom and managerial skills but Joseph also had the ability, given to him from God, to interpret dreams.
Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker was thrown into prison.
They both had a dream the same night… No one could interpret the dream
But Joseph knew God was the true source. “Do not interpretations belong to God?
The cupbearer was restored…
The chief baker was hung....
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Strategy…
My plan is not God’s plan....
Pharoah has a dream…
So in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
God will create an opportunity that no one can fulfill the need but YOU!!!
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
Stay Humble!!!!! “It is not in me”
Where you are in life right now just take a moment and remind yourself “It is not in me”
Joseph reveals the dream...
It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do. There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe. And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.
Strategy…
Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years. And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.”
This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.
Jospeh represents us… From Ministry to the Market Place
Organizationally / Administratively
Wisdom
We have abilities that are going transform the market place..
School district
The County
They City
Health Care
Fast food
Construction
Entrepreneurs
Non-profit sector
Social Worker
Housing Authority
Stay-at-home parent
Retiree
Not only can I meet your needs in the market but I have a ministry that can bring transformation to your life!
God gives us the strategy to prepare for the famine...
You did’t give me this job to be complacent…
Give me the strategy to create revenue
Give me the strategy to lead during a pandemic
Give me the strategy to help prevent a layoff...
Give me the strategy to make an adjustment...
Give me the strategy to meet the needs of the community...
Give me the strategy to address homelessness...
Give me the strategy to reach our youth...
God keep me humble…
God remind us that you prepared us for this moment!!!
And I will give glory back to you.
And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.
God had to remind Jospeh… This is fixed by God… Good is shortly going to bring it about!
God prepared Him for the moment and gave him the strategy because the world needed him...
Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Something has to change and God is going to give us the strategy to make the change…
People are in a famine (Harassed and Helpless).