4 Things You Must Not Allow Challenges To Do For You | Learning From The Life Of Joseph | #gopemhq
Channel: Princewill Afolabi Ministries [PAM]
Date: 2023-09-10

Topic: How Covenant People Excel During Difficult Season
Sub Topic: 4 Things You Must Not Allow Challenges To Do For You
Text: Gen 37:20-28

Challenges don’t end when one is alive.
1. Joseph did not allow his difficult condition to kill his courage. Nobody can kill your courage without your permission.

If he wanted to be down, he had reasons. Progressive moves will stop when one is discourages. A discouraged person is one who no longer sees light at the end of the tunnel. Please don’t ever allow the devil to take you to that point because if you allow discouragement, it will open 3 other doors. 

• You will lose your joy; you will become bitter, sad and moody.
• It will change your language; you will no longer be positive
If Joseph had lost hope, he would no longer work hard to the point that he became great in Pharaoh’s house.
• It makes you think of death

The devil will want to make you feel discouraged and start thinking of suicide.

A woman cannot be the breadwinner for too long. She was not built for it.
The same energy you channeled to being discouraged, you can channel it to be encouraged and prosper. People will hurt and despise you but you are responsible for how you react to people treat.

God does not rate success by material things.

Keep your hope alive. Your dreams gives you hope and don’t allow anything to make you forget your dreams.

What make us succeed are not natural things but our relationship with God. And while you are walking with God, He will keep showing you dreams. It is those dreams that give you hope.

2. Joseph did not agree to follow shortcuts (sinful cuts) it will cut you short from following God. Genesis 38:7-10
Shortcuts will cut you short from following God.

3. Joseph in his difficult times did not joke with his work to the point that he started getting reward. 

Genesis 39:1. Joseph did and God blessed! If you are not doing, there is nothing God can bless.