The Seven Years of Plenty
46Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.
47During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully. 48During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it. 49So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
50Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. 51Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh,saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.” 52And the second son he named Ephraim,e saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Manasseh means forgetfulness, the Lord made Joseph forget all the pain and trials of his previous life.
Ephraim means fruitfulness as the Lord made Joseph fruitful in Egypt.
“We can’t be doubly fruitful until we are also forgetting.” Guzik
How many of us who are under Grace continue to relive our past sins because the devil keeps whispering our sins in our ear?
Be doubly fruitful forgetting your sins, the Lord has!
Do you have pain and trials from your previous life? Lift them up to the Lord.
He may help you forget them or He may want you to use them to help others.
Just like a friend who the Lord is using as a beacon of light for His glory because everyone can tell the Spirit of Lord is with him. He uses his testimony for the glory of God. In his moving testimony he asked God why He waited so long to change him and God told him, I was waiting on you.
What are you waiting for?
Blessings, David
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