WELCOME TO TIMES WITH THE KING!

This is where I pour out my heart to the Lord.
I want to share this place of peace and love with you.
Let's soak in His presence and grow together.
The Spirit and the Bride say "Come!




Saturday, June 11, 2011

JOSEPH COMPANY



   JOSEPH'S COAT OF MANY COLORS



JOSEPH COMPANY
GENESIS 39-41

 EVER HEAR THE EXPRESSION "HE LOST HIS SHIRT"?  WELL THAT WAS ALMOST THE CASE WITH JOSEPH, EXCEPT HE LOST HIS COAT. HE WAS THE SON JACOB AND HIS FAVORED WIFE, RACHAEL.  JACOB LOVED JOSEPH MORE THAN ALL HIS OTHER SONS AND GAVE HIM A COAT OF MANY COLORS.  BECAUSE OF THIS FAVORITISM, IT MADE HIS BROTHERS JEALOUS.  THEN JOSEPH HAD TWO DREAMS INDICATING THAT HIS BROTHERS WOULD BOW DOWN TO HIM AND IT MADE HIS BROTHERS WANT TO KILL HIM. 

ONE DAY WHILE THEY WERE AWAY FROM HOME THE BAD BROTHERS THREW JOSEPH INTO AN EMPTY WELL AFTER TEARING OFF HIS COAT HIS FATHER HAD GIVEN HIM THEN BROUGHT HIS COAT HOME TO THEIR FATHER TELLING HIM A BEAST HAD KILLED JOSEPH.  THEIR FATHER WAS HEARTBROKEN.  BUT, JOSEPH HAD NOT BEEN KILLED BUT HIS BROTHERS SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY TO SOME MERCHANTS PASSING BY... WHO THEN TOOK HIM TO EGYPT AND WAS SOLD TO A MAN NAMED POTIPHAR. 




JOSEPH FOUND HIMSELF TO BE A SLAVE IN EGYPT, BUT HE EARNED THE TRUST OF POTIPHER A MAN OF WEALTH AND HE WORKED HARD AND WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF POTIPHARS WHOLE HOUSEHOLD.  BUT POTIPHARS WIFE WAS NOT A GOOD WOMAN, AND ONE DAY SHE ACCUSED JOSEPH OF BETRAYING HER HUSBAND.  ALTHOUGH HER WORDS WERE FALSE, JOSEPH WAS THROWN IN PRISON.  BUT EVEN IN PRISON, JOSEPH OBEYED GOD, AND I AM SURE THIS TIME IN A DARK PRISON GAVE JOSEPH TIME TO THINK ABOUT HOW HE COULD HAVE HANDLED HIS BROTHERS IN A MORE HUMBLE WAY.  IN PRISON EVEN INTERPETED SOME DREAMS AND ONLY ASKED THAT HE BE REMEMBERED.  I AM SURE AGAIN HE WONDERED WHEN GOD WOULD EVER RELEASE HIM FROM HIS CAPTIVITY.  AFTER A WHILE HE WAS RELEASED TO HELP PHARAOH, THE LEADER OF ALL EGYPT.



"JOSEPH, I'VE HEARD YOU ARE ABLE TO EXPLAIN DREAMS," SAID PHARAOH. 
'ONLY WITH GOD'S HELP", REPLIED JOSEPH,
IN THE DREAM PHAROAHPHAROAH WAS TO CHOOSE A WISE MAN WHO WOULD STORE FOOD IN THE YEARS OF PLENTY TO BE USED DURING FAMINE.  AND PHAROAH APPOINTED JOSEPH GOVERNOR OF THE LAND OF EGYPT.  A VERY HIGH POSITION.

FAST FORWARD DECADES. JOSEPH IS RUNNING EGYPT, WHICH BECAUSE OF HIS "INSIDER INFORMATION WITH GOD, IS THE ONLY LAND THAT HAS FOOD DURING THE FAMINE,.  THROUGH A SERIES OF EVENTS JOSEPH IS ABLE TO HELP HIS BROTHERS AND FAMILY AND REUNITED WITH HIS FATHER WHO IS SO HAPPY TO SEE HIM ALIVE BEFORE HIS DEATH.  JOSEPH COMES TO A PLACE OF FORGIVENESS TOWARDS HIS BROTHERS AFTER TRYING TO GET EVEN WITH THEM AND IS ABLE TO BE A HERO FOR THE LORD.

HERE IS THE WORD I RECEIVED A TIME AGO,
BUT I BELIEVE IT IS EVEN MORE PERTINENT FOR TODAY...

I RESIST THE PROUD, BUT GIVE GRACE TO THE HUMBLE…  PRIDE COMES BEFORE THE FALL…. BELOVED, DON’T OPEN THE DOOR FOR THE ENEMY TO COME IN AS JOSEPH DID WALKING IN PRIDE, IMMATURE ATTITUDE AND BOASTFUL MANNERISMS.… BOASTING IN YOUR HEART OF THE COAT OF MANY COLORS  BESTOWED UPON YOU …FOCUSING ON  ( THE GIFTINGS AND ABILITIES AND PROMISES) PLACED AS A MANTLE UPON YOUR LIFE WILL ONLY SET YOU UP FOR A PIT  EXPERIENCE. 

"MY DESIRE IS  FOR YOU TO LEARN AND GROW IN MY WAYS", SAITH THE LORD.   JOSEPH COULD HAVE AVOIDED MANY A PITFALL HAD HE SERVED HIS BROTHERS INSTEAD OF SAYING TO HIS BROTHERS… “I’M CALLED, AND I’M SPECIAL …. FATHER REALLY HAS HIS HAND ON ME”.  SEE MY COAT OF MANY COLORS..  YOU MY BROTHERS WILL ONE DAY BOW DOWN TO ME.

FOR, THE LORD IS  RAISING YOU UP HIS JOSEPH'S IN INTEGRITY TO MAKE WISE CHOICES, REFLECTING  GODLY CHARACTER. OUR HEAVENLY FATHER DESIRES FOR US TO TRUST HIM AT ALL TIMES, KNOWINING THAT OUR  DESIRE AND DELIGHT IS TOWARDS GOD FIRST AND FOREMOST IN YOUR LIFE.   YOUR FAITHFULNESS WILL BE REWARDED WITH BLESSINGS GREATER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE…

YOUR PROMOTION WILL COME FROM A SPIRIT OF DILIGENCE, AND HAVING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE, BY TAKING SMALL TASKS AND PUTTING YOUR HEART INTO THEM, AND BEING CONTENT TO SERVE IN SUBMISSION, DOING YOUR BEST, WITH ALL DILIGANCE, AND DESIRING A SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE IN ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS….   JOSEPH WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED THE FAVOR IF HE WERE SLOTHFUL, APATHETIC OR LAZY… NO, HE WORKED DILIGENTLY NO MATTER WHERE GOD PLACED HIM, BECAUSE HE WORKED TO PLEASE THE LORD.  AS YOU VIEW EVEN THE MEANIAL TASKS AS IMPORTANT,  WHEN YOU VIEW NOTHING “AS BENEATH YOU” …. GOD WILL RAISE YOU UP.

FATHER GOD SAYS: "BE NOT IN A RUSH, BUT BE MORE EAGER TO BE FAITHFUL THROUGH THE TESTINGS OF TIME…..MY DESIRE FOR YOU IS A  DETERMINING IN YOUR HEART NOT TO SUCCUMB TO THE PULL OF THE WORLD.  I WILL THEN REVERSE THE OVERWHELMING ODDS AGAINST YOU….FOR YOU MUST BE PROVEN TRUSTWORTHY TO WALK THE WAY OF HOLINESS IN THE MIDST OF STRUGGLES, BEFORE I CAN USE YOU IN THE WAYS I HAVE PLANNED." 


SEARCH YOUR HEART FOR PRIORITIES.    WHAT IS YOUR PRIORITY?  WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS?…ARE YOUR PLANS AND INTENTS HONORABLE AND PURE IN ALL AREAS.. (IE…FINANCES, MORALS, MINISTRY, WORK)  WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST DESIRE…THE LORD YEARNS FOR YOU TO NOT LOSE YOUR FIRST LOVE AND THAT YOUR DESIRE BE FOR HIM BEFORE ALL THINGS.. …. WHETHER YOUR PRISON IS CIRCUMSTANCES OR PRISONS OF YOUR OWN MAKING.. THERE IS STILL HEALING AND DELIVERANCE .. CRY OUT TO GOD AND HE WILL LIFT YOU OUT OF THE MIRY CLAY.


REMEMBER, IT TOOK 20 YEARS TO PREPARE JOSEPH FOR REIGNING… KNOW THAT MY WAYS ARE NOT YOUR WAYS AND MY TIMING IS NOT YOUR TIMING. IT WILL BE TEMPTING TO GROW WEARY, LEAN ON MY IN THE DARKNESS AND THE MIDST OF YOUR PRISON EXPERIENCE.  YOUR TRAINING INVOLVES LEARNING THE IMPORTANCE OF SERVING.  YOU WILL BE BROUGHT SUDDENLY FROM PRISON TO PALACE…AS YOU SERVE ME HUMBLY AND MEEKLY, AND I WILL RENEW YOUR STRENGTH…DON’T BE LOOKING FOR POSITION, BUT POSITION YOURSELF AS A SERVANT SO I MAY LIFT YOU UP.  REMEMBER, PROMOTION COMES FROM ME!!
 

AS YOUR HEART RELEASES THE AREAS OF PRIDE,  WHERE YOU CONTINUE TO PROVE YOURSELF AND PROVE YOUR (SPIRITUALITY) AND CALLING..I WILL GIVE UNTO YOU TRUE DISCERNMENT OF THOSE WHO ARE IN THE KING’S SERVICE (MY SERVICE), AND THOSE WHO CONSPIRE AGAINST ME…  WHEN THERE ARE DISPUTES, YOU WILL COME TO ME AND RECEIVE DIVINE WISDOM … YOUR WORDS WILL BE FILLED WITH UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE.  SUPERNATURAL  GIFTS WILL FLOW.


WHILE OTHERS WILL TRY TO REVEAL SPIRITUAL MYSTERIES TO BRING ATTENTION AND GLORY TO THEMSELVES TO GAIN POSITION, I WILL GIVE UNTO YOU TRUE INTERPRETATION. YOU WILL NO LONGER MINISTER OUT OF YOUR OWN FLESH, AND YOU WILL NOT BE DECEIVED BY YOUR OWN FLESHLY DESIRES OR PURPOSES.  YOU WILL ONLY SPEAK WHAT I SAY AND ONLY DO WHAT I SHOW YOU… YOU WILL BE CONSUMED IN MY LOVE AND YOUR WORDS AND ACTIONS WILL BE DONE IN LOVE AND WILL CARRY GREAT POWER.

YOU WILL BEGIN TO MOVE IN NEW REALMS OF INSIGHT AND REVELATION OF MY WORD… SIGNS WONDERS AND GIFTS OF MY SPIRIT.. … FOR YOUR FOCUS WILL  BE FOR KINGDOM PURPOSES…. BUT FIRST, TURN ASIDE FROM FLESHLY AREAS,  AND BE SATISFIED WITH “MY PORTION” WHICH OFTEN SEEMS MEAGER AND UNSATIFSYING TO YOUR PALATE.  “MY PORTION”, HOWEVER, BRINGS LIFE IN ABUNDANCE, STRENGTH AND WISDOM.  ….  FOR I AM CALLING MY JOSEPH’S TO FLEE FROM THAT WHICH THE WORLD DANGLES IN FRONT OF THEM AS A TRAP.  AS YOU FLEE ALL THAT THE ENEMY WOULD SET UP AS TEMPTATION AND ENTRAPMENT.. TRADE THE COAT OF MANY COLORS THAT MAN HAS FASHIONED FOR THE CLOAK OF TRUE SONSHIP THAT I HAVE CREATED FOR YOU.
 

“I AM CALLING MY JOSEPH COMPANY TO BE STEADFAST IN FLEEING YOUTHFUL LUSTS, TURNING ASIDE FROM ALL FORMS OF INTICEMENT, WHEN UNDER PRESSURE, AND BEING RESOLVED IN SPRIRIT  TO PLEASE THE KING BEFORE PLEASING THEMSELVES…. “IT WOULD BE A GREAT SIN AGAINST GOD” (Gen. 39:9) AND REALIZING SEXUAL SIN IS AN ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD… REALIZING MANY TIMES AVOIDING TEMPTATION IS NOT ENOUGH.  RUNNING FROM IT, AND REFUSING THE ADVANCES OF SEDUCTION, ARE SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY OF ESCAPING THE ENEMIES PLANS.  FOR THERE WILL BE NO MIXTURE IN MY JOSEPH COMPANY.  THEY WILL BE SOLD OUT FOR ME.


YOU FEEL AS THOUGH YOU HAVE BEEN PASSED BY AND OVERLOOKED, AND FORGOTTEN IN A PRISON OF DISPAIR, EMPTINESS, AND NOTHINGNESS,  THERE HAVE BEEN THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN UNGRATEFUL FOR YOUR EFFORTS.  DON’T BE SURPRISED AT THIS.  AS YOUR FOCUS TURNS TO ME (THE KING AND THE KING ALONE)… I WILL TURN YOUR CAPTIVITY AROUND. 

WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN TRIED THROUGH THE FIRES OF AFFLICTION… YOUR SITUATIONS WILL BE TURNED AROUND…  RELEASE ALL BITTERNESS, RESENTMENT, UNFORGIVENESS AND ANGER TO ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU FAVOR DURING PRISON TIMES, AND YOU WILL RISE QUICKLY TO THE TOP FROM PRISON WALLS TO PALACE.  YOU WILL REALIZE MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT EVEN IN TIMES WHEN YOU ARE AT YOUR LOWEST AND FEEL YOU HAVE HOPED AGAINST HOPE. 

AS YOU ARE TRIED IN THESE AREAS… IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITIES WILL COME WITHOUT WARNING, WHEN YOU WOULD SEEMINGLY BELIEVE YOU HAVE HAD NO TIME TO PREPARE, BUT, YOU WILL BE READY BECAUSE YOU WILL BE IN RIGHT RELATIONSHIP AND RIGHT ORDER.  YOU WILL TEACH THE BODY OF CHRIST ABOUT

“MY SURVIVAL PLAN IN FAMINE”  YOU WILL PARTAKE OF A FEAST IN THE MIDST OF FAMINE..


THE PREPARING FOR FAMINE IS DRAWING NEAR TO ME, SO I MAY PLANT SEEDS THAT WILL BRING FORTH A HARVEST OF PLENTY IN DAYS OF LACK.  LABORING TO ENTER INTO MY REST WILL PRODUCE THE ANOINTING UPON YOUR LIFE.  BEING ASLEEP AND LETHARGIC AT THIS TIME IS NOT AN OPTION. I WILL STRENGTHEN YOU, IF YOU WILL BUT COME TO ME.  THE PLANNING IS DONE IN PRAYER AND TIME ALONE PREPARING THE STOREHOUSE OF YOUR HEART FOR TIMES OF LACK. SPENDING TIME WITH ME IS WHERE YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR SUSTENANCE AND I WILL FILL YOUR STOREHOUSE WITH PLENTY.. FILL YOUR LAMPS WITH MY SPIRITUAL FOOD TO HAVE AS A TREASURE AND TO HAVE IN ABUNDANCE TO SHARE. THE MORE YOU SEEK ME, THE MORE I WILL FILL YOU.. YOUR LAMPS WILL BE FILLED AND LIT AND NOT LEFT WANTING.   YOU MAY BE STARVING IN A PRISON RIGHT NOW, BUT REMEMBER IT IS ONLY PREPARATION FOR THE GREATER.  JUST REMEMBER IT TAKES TIME FOR CROPS TO PRODUCE.  THE SEED IS PLANTED IN A DARK PLACE AND SEEMS TO BE ALL BUT DEAD, BUT A MIRACLE TAKES PLACE AND BEFORE LONG YOU WILL SEE IT BEING FREED FROM THE DARK GROUND AND IT WILL IMMERGE AND BRING FORTH FRUIT.!

I DESIRE FOR MY BELOVED TO BE AWAKE AND NOT ASLEEP IN THESE COMING DAYS. IT IS NOT A TIME FOR SLUMBER. .. FAMINE IS COMING AND IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO SEEK ME FOR DISCERNMENT AND WAYS FOR OPEN OPPORTUNITIES TO SPEAK MY WORD .. TO SHARE THE TRUTH .. TO FEED MY LAMBS, MY SHEEP.  YOU WILL FIND THE STARVING AND HUNGRY ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS.  INQUIRE OF ME AS TO HOW TO REACH OUT TO THEM.   

I DESIRE TO HEAL THE ANGUISH OF YOUR YOUTHFUL FAILURES AND FOLLIES AND TO MAKE YOU A FRUITFUL LAND… YOU WILL REMAIN SILENT IN TIMES WHEN YOU COULD SAY “I TOLD YOU SO”. YOU WILL NO LONGER TRY TO JUSTIFY YOURSELF.  YOU WILL NO LONGER REHEARSE OVER AND OVER THE ACCOUNTS OF PAST AREAS OF REJECTION AND WOUNDINGS.. AND ALLOW THE ENEMY TO CAUSE YOU TO BELIEVE YOU ARE SIMPLY THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER .  YOU WILL SEE, RECOGNIZE, ADMIT YOUR PART AND REPENT WITH NO DEFENSE OR EXCUSES  ….AND I WILL TURN THE TABLES ON THE ENEMY FOR YOU.


JUST AS JOSEPH WAS SENT AHEAD TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR HIS FAMILY AND OTHERS, SO SEND I YOU.. WHAT THE ENEMY MEANT FOR EVIL IN YOUR  LIFE WILL BE TURNED FOR GOOD IF YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO BREAK THE AREAS OF PRIDE AND RESISTANCE IN YOUR LIFE.  THE ISOLATION AND LONLINESS YOU HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING HAS BEEN A TRYING TIME TO UPROOT ANY AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN IDOLS IN YOUR LIFE, ANY AREAS THAT YOU HAVE PLACE BEFORE ME… I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.  BUT, IF YOU WILL YIELD TO ME, I WILL PLACE YOU IN AUTHORITY. 


THE JOSEPH COMPANY I AM NOW RAISING UP …MY LAST DAY REMNANT, ARE A PEOPLE WHO WILL REVEAL TO MY PEOPLE WAYS OF BREAKING OUT  OF “SPIRITUAL FAMINE”.  FOR IT CAN BE COLD AND DESOLATE WITH STARVATION IN PRISON.


MY JOSEPHS HAVE GONE THROUGH THE TESTINGS, THE PRISONS, AND FIRES, AND HAVE REMAINED FAITHFUL TO ME, EVEN IN TIMES WHEN THEY FELT THEY FAILED AND HAD BEEN ABANDONED AND FORGOTTEN BY ME.  BUT, I DESIRE TO TAKE YOU FROM PRISON TO PRAISE!!


RECEIVE MY FAVOR, AND MY COAT OF MANY COLORS WHICH WILL BE EVIDENT TO MANY.  A GARMENT  NOT MADE BY HANDS, BUT MADE WITH THE MANY COLORS AND FACETS OF MY LOVE  DEMONSTRATED IN KINDNESS AND GRACE DURING YOUR PRISON TIME ….MY JOSEPH COMPANY IS A SET APART PEOPLE.  DON’T BE SURPRISED THAT THERE WILL BE THOSE WHO WILL ENVY AND TRY TO DESTROY THAT WHICH I HAVE PLACED UPON YOUR LIFE.


I WILL GIVE UNTO YOU THE KEY TO MY STOREHOUSE IN THE NATURAL AND IN THE SPIRITUAL TO FEED MY PEOPLE  IN FAMINE.


FOR, I HAVE CALLED YOU TO KEEP YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER… YOUR SPIRITUAL AND NATURAL HOUSE… AN ADMINISTRATOR WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN DOMINION OVER MUCH…  I WILL USE YOU TO TRANSLATE MY PLAN FOR MY PEOPLE INTO PRACTICAL ACTIONS. FEEDING THEM WITH MY WORD, TEACHING KINGDOM PRINCIPLES.  FOOD FOR THE COMING FAMINE. 


WHAT MATTERS MOST IS NOT THE EVENTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES IN YOUR LIFE, BUT WHAT YOUR RESPONSE TO THEM IS.  FOR I CAN TURN ANY SITUATION FOR GOOD IF YOU WILL BUT TRUST IN ME , ALLOW ME TO DO THE WORK IN YOU,  AND WAIT JOYFULLY FOR THE WORK TO BE COMPLETED.  YOUR FAITHFULNESS TO ME WILL CAUSE A HEALING OF THE ANGUISH OF YOUR PAST HURTS AND A FRUITFULNESS IN THE LAND I HAVE PREPARED FOR YOU.!!  YOU WILL DEMONSTRATE FORGIVENESS AND THE SHOWERING OF MY GOODNESS THROUGH OBEDIENCE.
 

Pastor Donna Trexler Geertz
Joseph.mwd/ 1/8/97

JESUS... THE COAT OF
MANY COLORS
 FOR ALL NATIONS  My late husband and myself had this print and we had it on the wall in our office ...  I love it and I bought Bart a many colored sweater that he wore all the time .. and we called it his coat of many colors sweater!  I then gave it to my second late husband and his name really was Joseph!!  He loved it too .. There was a man in our congregation who had always loved the print above with Jesus in His coat of many colors with all the nations flags ... I knew the print was to go to this faithful servant in our church ...
Father ... please place the anointing of your coat of many colors upon those who don't know who they are .. those who do not know they are favored ... bless them and please let them know that you can bring them from prison to palace if they will but trust and serve you.  Amen

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