The Power of Favor

Genesis Ch 40 And Ch 41
FAVOR

      Whats up family I'm back for the second time I would like to thank God for the amazing word last time I know it was a blessing to somebody, it surely blessed and encouraged me. I'd also like to thank each and every person who read the last post, retweeted, favorited, told others to read it, spread the word etc. The feedback i got from you guys was absolutely amazing! I understand there was a couple issues with posting comments last time but i think we solved those so feel free to leave comments if you'd like.
     Alright...lets get in this word Y'ALL READY!! A couple of weeks ago i was in church (City of Hope International Shout out to pastor terrell fletcher) and my pastor spoke a little about how we were born fighters and it really stuck with me. He talked about how we were fighters before we are even born. Approximately 250 MILLION sperm race to the egg. And YOU were the winner out of 250 MILLION...ISNT THAT AMAZING?? I know these days it would be tough for me to win a foot race with just 25 people let alone 250 million. So i couldnt agree more with him that we are truly FIGHTERS...even before "day 1". But what i'd also like to contend is that not only did God create inside of us a fighter...he also placed some favor over our lives as well. I'd like to contend that every one of the two hundred forty nine million nine hundred ninenty nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine OTHER sperm we raced against were also living creations of God inside our father that he had a plan for. He planned for all 250 million of us how far we would get in the race and which ONE of us would WIN. If you are reading this..YOU, my friend, are that winner. And NOTHING but the FAVOR of God got you here.So i said ALLLL THAT to say. God favored you before you even reached your mothers egg.(IF YOU DIDNT THANK GOD OUT LOUD after you read that you ought to read it again and try again.)
       Now lets talk about the favor displayed in Genesis with the story of Joseph. I said in the previous post he was favored by his father at the time of his birth,he was favored on his journey,he was favored in the masters house,he was even favored in prison by being the head of the prisoners...BUT  lets talk about the rest of the story.Genesis chapter 40 introduces the cupbearer and the baker.Real quick I'd like to make sure you know how important the roles of these men were.They were high officers. The cupbearer was in charge of pouring THE KINGS drinks.He's not to be looked at as merely a slave think about it with one drop of poison in the kings cup he could kill THE KING.So he was a highly trusted individual.In other words just anybody couldnt be the cupbearer. Same goes for the baker. Alright, Genesis Ch. 40V1 says "sometime later the cupbearer and the baker "offended their master,the king of egypt". As a result pharaoh, the king of egypt put them into prison..guess which prison yall...THE SAME PRISON AS JOSEPH..aint that crazy(my mama voice). The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph and he attended them. A little while after they were in custody each of the two men had a dream...on the same night.The men were "dejected" because no one was able to interpret their dream.Joseph acknowledges that God is the only one who can interpret dreams.It is my belief that this acknowledgement and faith in God was the key to using him as a vessel to interpret the mens dreams. Now i want you guys to read the story for yourselves but in short one of the men was killed in 3 days and one of the men was returned to his position in 3 days.Joseph told the cupbearer who returned to his position to tell the king of what i did and get me outta here.
     Lets Reflect...THE FAVOR OF GOD IS ALL OVER JOSEPHS life...These men were sent to prison to go get Joseph out. God allowed them to get in trouble with the king because he had a plan, a plan to give them both dreams, allow Joseph to interpret those dreams and give him authentication. In other words these mens purpose was to prove that Joseph was, in fact, "the real deal". BUT, the cupbearer "forgot" Joseph, he "forgot" to tell the king. I quoted the word forgot not because i dont believe he truly forgot but because i believed God allowed him to forget because Joseph wasnt on Josephs time he was on God time....How many of you feel like your passing the test your trying to do the right thing but you just cant get out of your prison. Be reminded that he may not come when you want him but hes ALWAYS on time.TWO years passed and now PHARAOH was the one with the dream.According to ch41v8 "in the morning his mind was troubled" so he sent for all the magicians...none of them could interpret the dream...but guess who could???It was the cupbearer who was then reminded of what Joseph did and told Pharaoh about Joseph.Joseph was immediately brought to the king. LOOK AT GOD...look at his plan...it had to be the cupbearer who was sent to prison..of course none of pharaohs family was gonna go..and the cupbearer is who pharaoh sees EVERY TIME he gets a drink..hes the king hes always drinking..Had it been the gardener or someone with not as important as a role they might not have even known pharaoh had a dream.Gods plan is a perfect plan.Gods plan is the BEST plan! In short, Joseph is brought to Pharaoh,the king of Egypt, and he interprets the dream.He basically tells the king...There will be seven years of great abundance throughout the land.but they will be followed by seven years of famine and the abundance will be forgotten so during the seven years of abundance youre going to need to put someone in charge of the land to make sure we can store these crops so that during the 7 years of famine we'll be straight. Pharaoh asked his officials "can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?"...next thing you know in verse 41 pharaoh was saying "I HEREBY PUT YOU IN CHARGE OF THE WHOLE LAND OF EGYPT. Talk about gods favor!!!
        It is my prayer that God makes me your cupbearer today...I pray he uses me and sends me into your spiritual prison, whatever it may be, i pray he uses me as a vessel to show you your true greatness...the greatness that he has placed inside of each and every one of us...more than anything i pray that in the end we all glorify god by doing his will exactly as he would have us to..TODAY I WANT YOU TO KNOW...I LOVE YOU SO MUCH...AND GOD LOVES YOU EVEN MORE...Thank You