JOSEPH: Final Prep For The Platform
Genesis 41:14 (ESV) Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
2026 WORD - You are transitioning into a Josephetic platforming during this next season. The previous seasons have included calling, obedience, a shoulder to the plow with a reliance on effort and savvy to fulfill that call. This required extra effort and produced small gains. You have navigated a series of deserts both internal and external, some self imposed. You have navigated in seclusion while in plain sight, but it’s in this time you have been prepared for the season ahead. You could have easily walked away from the specific future I have for you, one of impact, abundance and generosity, but instead, you leaned in and embraced the grind. In fact, you became a people who found joy in the grind, creating an aromatic outpouring, like the crushing of grapes, a superior blend of fragrant wine chosen for presentation to a specific audience, who are also being chosen on purpose, for a purpose… in this region. This platforming is not just within the church. This platforming will ripple through the church into various spheres of influence. You have been hidden but I am beginning the strategic process of platforming you. Where you once produced by means of addition, you will begin to produce by means of multiplication. The season behind you has been the crucible of preparation for the next season. In your platforming, as Joseph, you are to lean heavily into glorifying my Name as the source of your platforming and story. My platform for you becomes your platform for me to initiate similar stories and platforms in them, for them and through them. Believe me for the above and beyond all that you could ask or imagine. You will be the instrument of salvation, redemption and transformation of many.
It was 13 years from the time Joseph had his dream and was sold into slavery by his brothers to the moment he was released from prison. He was 17 at the start, and 30 in this chapter.
He could:
Have could become an adulterer
He could have remained a prisoner for life
He could have become bitter
He could have become revengeful
He could have become a victim
He could have given up on a God-given dream
Genesis 41:14 (ESV) Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
FINAL PREP: SHAVE The hard parts of your story and their impact on you.
Long beard
Deprived
Limitations
Hardship
Circumstances that could have cut away have instead shaped you into the better version of yourself. The story instead must be told because it cannot be seen in you.
You can’t enter the king’s presence without being shaved.
You can’t step onto your platform without being shaved.
Your story should be something you have to tell because they can’t see it in you.
You can’t be a victim
You can’t villainize people, situations… or God
Isaiah 54:17 (ESV) no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD.”
Genesis 50:20 (ESV) As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Luke 23:34 (ESV) And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
The story you tell becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Get it right!
Tell the story of God’s promise, His perfecting and His faithfulness
FINAL PREP: PUT ON CLEAN CLOTHES,What You Wear - Identity (great identity, high calling)
Clothes, unkept & dirty
Prison clothes
Circumstances that could have defined who you are instead helped bring about God’s best in you. You refuse to remain in prison, live in prison clothes or banish others to prison because HE HAS FULFILLED HIS PROMISE IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU.
You can’t enter the king’s presence with your dirty clothes
You can’t step onto your platform with the clothes dirtied with your past.
Genesis 42:8–9 (ESV) And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them.
People should not recognize you, nor what you’ve been through.
Genesis 45:4–5 (ESV) So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Psalm 23:5 (ESV) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.