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GOD’S POWER IN PRISON
SATURDAY, MARCH 1
Genesis 40:1-8
Psalm 25:12-22
God is omnipresent.
GOD’S POWER IN PRISON
Do you think it was “happy coincidence” that brought Joseph and the two servants of Pharaoh together? Or were their dreams chance happenings? What about the timing of the dreams, just three days before the most auspicious national event, the king’s birthday?
Following Joseph’s story, let us have a clear and overall understanding of the plan of God in raising up the nation-to-be, by using the man of His choice to bring about His eternal purpose. God was promoting Joseph to the palace, but by way of the prison! By His all-seeing eye and special providence, He caused the two servants of the King to be cast into prison with Joseph. Three days before the king’s birthday, God sent them each a dream, which clouded their faces with sadness the next morning. What perfect timing! If the two servants had arrived much earlier, Joseph would have been in no position to speak to them and befriend them. Now things were different. Joseph was no ordinary prisoner, for “the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison…” (Gen 39:22). It was therefore Joseph’s business to look after the welfare of the two from Pharaoh’s palace.
So, on that fateful morning, the two servants confided in Joseph, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it” (Gen 40:8). Fortune tellers and soothsayers of Egypt were not available in prison! But God the author of the dreams and the director of human events was with Joseph. “Tell me your dreams!”
Strange dreams were revealed to Joseph by the butler and the baker. Joseph listened and gave his reply without hesitation. There was none of the heathen methods of crystal ball gazing, palm reading, communicating with spirit mediums, going into a trance, or any such thing. None can say that Joseph had made a good guess or was lucky. His interpretation was precise, sure and correct in every detail. This was done twice, a double confirmation that the Spirit of God was with him.
THOUGHT: Interpretation of dreams belongs to God.
PRAYER: My situation is not beyond Thee, Father. I daily trust in Thee for help and strength.