Written
by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
It
is strange how you keep looking for the golden moment and it appears difficult
to find. But somehow, out of blues and that is the beautiful thing about the
Holy Spirit; He always prepares that golden moment ahead of time and also
prepares you ahead of time for that golden moment and at the appropriate time,
God by His Holy Spirit, the ever wonderful Spirit shows you the golden moment;
ushers you into it and you emerge significant.
God
creates room and opportunities for His people by blessing them with skills,
talents, expertise which if well deployed move a person up in God’s divine
purposes and timing. Joseph was blessed with the gift of dreaming (seeing
possibilities through possibility thinking). As Joseph worked this gift
beginning with his Jerusalem, his family, God moved him to where the gift could
be deployed to bless a larger segment of humanity beyond Joseph’s immediate
Canaan. God created room for Joseph to become prime minister in Egypt. How? By
creating a situation that made it impossible for the wise men of Egypt to
interpret Pharaoh’s twin dreams dreamt in a single night. The inability of the
wise men of Egypt to interpret the dreams created room for Joseph to emerge out
of the woods, the backside of the desert, to be specific, prison in a foreign
land. Joseph, a young man unjustly sentenced indefinitely to prison in a land
where he had no rights was suddenly brought out of prison to stand before
Pharaoh to solve a problem which none of the wise men of Egypt could solve.
Joseph was able to interpret the dreams. He also proffered solutions to the
challenges posed by the interpretation of the dreams. Hitherto troubled Pharaoh
was relieved, members of his court were impressed and Joseph became prime
minister. Please read Psalm 105 verses 16 to 22, Genesis Chapter 41.
In
the case of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar dreamt and forgot his dream, yet he
wanted the wise men of Babylon to tell him the dream as well as the
interpretation to the dream. Unfortunately, none of the wise men of Babylon had
the desired answer. The King was infuriated and issued a decree to kill all the
wise men. Fortunately, this was Daniel’s platform, his God created room and
opportunity to excel above his peers. Daniel told the King the dream as well as
its interpretation. Daniel was not only promoted, his three friends who also
participated in the vigil where they asked for mercies were also promoted.
Esther’s
case is both interesting and instructive. An orphan being raised by a gate man definitely had no access to the throne more so when she was a captive in that
land. But God Who always makes impossibilities possibilities by always making a
way where there appears to be no way made Mordecai enter Esther in for the ‘Search
for a new queen in Persia’ contest. Surprisingly, Esther won but for a strictly
divine purpose, to save the Jews from annihilation.
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