He rests because he has been looking and looking but for some hidden reason he cannot find what he is looking for. And while he is resting, his original intention is not to sleep because it’s not time to sleep but rather to perspire. Its time to perspire but he cannot perspire because he has been perspiring since midnight and now its midday and he is tired and resting but the place where he has found rest is the same place which mysterious holds what has been looking for and he doesn’t realize it yet . He doesn’t intend to sleep but he none the less finds himself sleeping because God in all his divine power has compelled him to sleep by sending him into a perpetual slumber –a state of deep sleep without intent to sleep. Genesis 39:10-So it turned out that as she spoke to Joseph day after day he
never listened to her to lie alongside her to continue with her.11-But it happened that on this day as other days he went into the house to do his business, and there was none of the men of the house there in the house.12-Then she grabbed hold of him by his garment saying: ’But he lefts his garment in her hand and took to flight and went on outside.
It’s quite obvious right from the onset that it’s not Joseph’s intention to sleep with potipher’s wife but on the other hand, its potipher’s wife’s intention to sleep with Joseph. And Joseph being the kind of man that he is, he thinks that he can put the situation under his control and prevent the unacceptable from happening but the problem is of such that potipher’s wife’s intention cannot be put under control because she cannot even control herself from her intention to sleep with holy Joseph. So Joseph runs away from a situation that is seemingly beyond his control, however the mystery is that the reason why the situation is beyond both Joseph and potipher’s wife’s control is based on the divine revelation that it was a God-ushered situation designed to eventually take Joseph into custody/prison because it was in prison where he was to find a pair of Dreams and to two Dreams who would then arouse and stir his gift-of interpreting Dreams. It’s very important to appreciate and in all his stay in Egypt-Joseph had never come across anybody in need of his gift because Egypt was a nation of dreamers. They was no need for one to dream because no one was needy as result of the fact Egypt was the richest nation and hence the dream of the universe. It should not be ironic that the dreams that aroused and stirred Joseph’s gift were not even his own dreams because Joseph had been through enough struggles from a dry well to being a slave in a house with a woman plotting to rape him the very moment she laid eyes on him, and then finally in a prison that he had no business in but he had to be there because it was the place designed by God for him to come into direct contact with a pair of men who had a problem designed to stir his Gift. An occasion which would eventually open up boundless possibilities for him to b able to realize the dream of his life, a dream he had conceived several years ago while still in his father’s home. Have you ever found yourself in a place where you know you have no business being in that particular place but none the less you are compelled to be there because destiny is calling you for a meeting that shall open up the doors that shall led in your dream. A dream you conceived in the night but now it’s meeting you during day. Just like the way it was when you first came across it in the night. Adam knew for sure basing his knowledge on divine mystery that what I need shall not meet me where I’m resting but what he never knew was that he would not meet what he was look-
ing for during day before he would first dream about it. So in throwing Adam into a slumber –God Almighty’s intention is to show Adam what plain eyes have not seen because when the first man was looking for a suitable companion from the Midnight-midday-he was looking with his plain eyes. I’m talking to a specific generation right now whose members are in the quest for something that doesn’t share any kind of resemblance with what the past generations had in their grip but the problem on your hands, is so big and enormous because you are looking for whatever you are looking for with your plain eyes and now you are tired and exhausted, and frustrated. But if you can only hear the Zion sound of Victory , Glory and honor-as it whispers ”take some rest……take some rest….and I will show you what eyes have not seen nor ears heard nor hands touched and that which has never entered into any man’s heart. The day requires its on vision known as plain vision. Whatever you can behold during day with plain vision can also be held by somebody else with the same vision. Whilst the night requires not plain vision but night vision, and according to the divine mystery night vision only becomes functional when plain vision is turned off. When you go to sleep in order for you to be fundamentally a sleep your plain eyes have to close, and once they close another form of eyes open-up to behold the mysteries of God. Those eyes are called night vision, while the first man was in a divine perpetual slumber he beheld by way of his night vision God Almighty pick the rib side of his being and using it to form a woman who would eventually suit him as a companion, a helper, and a comforter and as much as a good listener ad a sound counselor. God declares, that whatever you are looking for, and you can’t find..if you can only rest in Him, He will first show you in a dream and then give it to you in the day. And once I give it to you, your environment, situation, and circumstance shall be shell-shocked but you won’t even be surprised because you saw it all in a dream. The first true evidence that the dream of your life is walking with you and besides you in broad day light is in your enemies snaking you based on the favor and blessings of God over your life. Once the woman –a depiction of God’s favor and blessing towards Adam was established in the Garden of Eden all the enemies of mankind began to snake him based on the woman. Before the woman is introduced in the Garden of Eden, the devil had no sound reason to snake man but once the concept of the woman is introduced then hell broke loose against Adam. Prepare for hell to break loose on you when your dream comes to pass by and by during day-time, when all men can behold plainly the great favor and blessing of God over your life. Its midnight past and Jacob is wrestling with a man whose identity
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