ENVISION The WAGON: IT’S WHEN YOU ENVISION THE WAGON – YOU WILL BE REVIVED AS JACOB!
“And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, 26 and told him, saying, JOSEPH IS YET ALIVE, and HE IS GOVERNOR over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s HEART FAINTED, FOR HE BELIEVED THEM NOT. 27 And they TOLD him all the WORDS of Joseph, which he had said unto them: AND WHEN HE SAW THE WAGONS which Joseph had sent to carry him, the SPIRIT of Jacob their father REVIVED: 28 and Israel said, It is ENOUGH; Joseph my son is yet ALIVE: I WILL GO AND SEE HIM BEFORE I DIE” Genesis 45:25-28.
There’s no one who despises any HEALTHY OPPORTUNITY to RISE above the NORM. I am yet to find one. Let me know where I am wrong, I’ll humbly submit to corrections if you’ve known or found one. Not even the DEVILS will refused such opportunities to BELIEVE as the scripture indicates that he does even BELIEVE too as written:
“Thou BELIEVEST that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also BELIEVE, and tremble” James 2:19.
When Jacob was told and pressured of the need to travel down to Egypt and see Joseph his once acclaimed dead son by his other children, he doubted their news. For, the being that Joseph was yet ALIVE after years of being told he’s dead, that beat his imagination and comprehension; and since he couldn’t have IMAGINE and ENVISION it real, he couldn’t BELIEVED them; especially when there’s already a supposedly shown living fact proof to him by his other children, that he was dead. This thus indicate, that sometimes in life, a mere shown fact proof you think you have seen and made to know, may be a mere FACT only, and does not necessarily present the TRUTH in whatsoever to believe on and to rely upon – immediately and permanently. And if it was this days, they could have been a funeral certificate given to ascertain Joseph absence, in the family records as one being dead. This can explain what most dear parents and family members who lost a child or loved ones and couldn’t have their body to lay to rest in grace are going through – silently in most cases. For such scenarios, it hurts and hunts them daily – especially for such absence over the years as I have come to meet few in such circumstances – in the cause of my Ministerial assignments in life and grace.
However, and when Jacob SAW the WAGON with the GOODNESS, ABUNDANCE and GOODIES accompanying the statement and request of Joseph through his other cowardice children on the errands, Jacob’s WEAKENED spirit-being, was REVIVED – that is to say – CAME ALIVE from the UNBELIEVING state of being to a BELIEVING state of being.
If you can give room to ENVISION God’s plan, Purpose, Pursuit for your life, with the needed WAGON and ASSOCIATES to keep your faith and total being ALIVE, won’t you come along to take the opportunity’s? And, can you even see that the needed grace of God’s BLESSEDNESS wherein you stand in faith on Christ Jesus stead is always set to be activated with ease on your behalf? This I know and understands very well, hence, I am emboldened to share with you likewise. In fact, your act of PRAYER life and FAITH life, will change for good and the best if you can ENVISION – and I can say that to you emphatically and unreservedly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
The WAGONS and GOODIES that Jacob SAW REVIVED [QUICKENED] him, to keep him alive and to make him take the next step or leap of faith to see his supposedly lost son Joseph and to live for MORE years instead of hoping for death where there’s an opportunity to live. There’s a far better place to be in life and grace in Christ Jesus stead – it’s far better to be with Jacob reviving WAGONS and GOODIES position, than to stay still in poverty and lack, shouting “I RECEIVE”, I RECEIVE”, “I RECEIVE” . . . for nothing, due to a no act to see or envision the need to become well and whole again – as SCRIPTURALLY given in God’s willed inheritance for you and all believing one’s, in Him, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
In this context, I don’t mean having a day DREAMING imaginations, but by ENVISIONING by the WORD. Joseph had a VISION of a gracious and graceful life years before it happens. And the Father Jacob who recalled of his son dream (envisioned) years before and by what he later SAW – the WAGONS – is enough to give him a clearer insights and foresights – by what his son Joseph sent along; the sent WAGON helps him ENVISION the reality of a possible Joseph as told him by the children; and the affirmation to the ENVISIONED dream that Joseph shared to him and family years ago.
I PRAY that your insights and foresights of a possible today and tomorrow might be ENVISIONED in your cause of doing life and living godly by God in Christ Jesus stead, Amen.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“Moreover THE WORD of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, WHAT SEEST (ENVISION) THOU? And I said, I SEE (ENVISION) a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well SEEN (ENVISION): for I will hasten MY WORD to PERFORM it” Jeremiah 1:11-12 (Emphasis Mine).
“And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, 26 and told him, saying, JOSEPH IS YET ALIVE, and HE IS GOVERNOR over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s HEART FAINTED, FOR HE BELIEVED THEM NOT. 27 And they TOLD him all the WORDS of Joseph, which he had said unto them: AND WHEN HE SAW THE WAGONS which Joseph had sent to carry him, the SPIRIT of Jacob their father REVIVED: 28 and Israel said, It is ENOUGH; Joseph my son is yet ALIVE: I WILL GO AND SEE HIM BEFORE I DIE” Genesis 45:25-28.
“. . . 5 And Joseph DREAMED (ENVISIONED) a DREAM (VISION), and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this DREAM which I have DREAMED: 7 for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying . . .” Genesis 37:1-36.
“. . . 16 Moreover he CALLED for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. 17 He SENT a man before them, even JOSEPH, who was SOLD for a servant: 18 whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 19 UNTIL THE TIME THAT HIS WORD CAME: THE WORD OF THE LORD TRIED HIM. 20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. 21 He MADE him LORD of his house, and RULER of all his substance: 22 to BIND his princes at his pleasure; and TEACH his senators wisdom. 23 Israel also CAME into Egypt; and Jacob SOJOURNED in the land of Ham. 24 And he INCREASED his people greatly; and MADE them STRONGER than their enemies. 25 He TURNED their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants . . .” Psalms 105:1-45.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
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