Good God Sunday Morning “CROSSING THRESHOLDS- A Joseph’s Anointing”

The Maturing and the Power of the words “In Spite Of”

Threshold-Doorstep, doorway, entrance; brink, verge, beginning; any place or point of entering or beginning: the threshold of a new career.

Why is it so hard to cross over our thresholds, into our futures, and our destinies? Sometimes resisting the opening of going forward even when we hold no desire for the past, and our present state has become as foul as a cesspool of stagnant water. A pool of water that was once part of a flowing stream but that has been diverted by man or unnatural circumstances. Becoming unconsciously believers of the World and not the Word, and having more faith in what we have been told ‘what we are not’ (verbally or by situational hardships) than believers of what God has said we can be; what we can do and what we can have. I have considered perhaps it is the fear of the unknown, a fear of thresholds, of new beginnings; a systematically conditioned fear to prevent us from God’s plan to live free, full of love and joy, and prosper.

The Bible says that in Christ we have been redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13, 14).

Jeremiah 29:11-14 NIV says “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declare the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

Today I declare and decree “In Spite Of” the things that come to devour me, “I am crossing thresholds. I am stepping across, walking through, and crossing over. I have had not much because I have asked not much. I realized I, “the dreamer of impossible dreams” had become a “dreamer afraid to dream the impossible, a dreamer afraid to believe in the dream”. But today I declare and decree I am crossing thresholds. I will walk with the spirit of Joseph; endure with the spirit of Joseph, and be victorious by the plans of the Lord with the spirit of Joseph”.

From Pits, Portiphar’s Houses and Prisons There will be Thresholds
Sometimes we may be sold off to slavery by our brothers and we are so thankful we were not murdered; we become stagnant, complacently thinking “well at least I am alive”. Yes this can be viewed as a threshold, but this was also the beginning of a new beginning for Joseph. A launching threshold of many more thresholds to come. (Genesis 37)

Sometimes threshold crossings are blessings for a season. Those blessings are to learn and serve but never meant to live in.

We can find ourselves in situations, still not suitable but because we are no longer slaves, crossing over a threshold from slave to servant, we allow fear to creep in under the guise of ‘this is my destiny’. This is when the enemy tricks us into becoming stagnant and complacent. But if we truly love the Lord God and are obedient and prayerful He will send messengers and teachers and we will hear and listen, receive and believe, and then we will learn and we will DO IT. Through this act of obedience we will not compromise and be lured, tricked or blackmailed by the Portiphar’s wives of this world. We may even be lied on and threaten with spiritual prisons, “but in spite of” we will stand in integrity and hope in God, His Word and in the dream. (Genesis 39:1-20)

Our “In Spite Of s” builds character and is evidence of who we are.
There will be times we will find ourselves in prisons. If we DO NOT become stagnant, complacent and fearful; and DO remain prayerful, obedient, hopeful, loving, and patient, we will find favor in our prisons. The God who is always there, Jehovah Shammah, will open up yet another door to lead us to His divine destiny for our lives, but we MUST be willing to sacrifice for the sanctification. Like Joseph (Pharaoh released him from prison and put him in charge over "all the land of Egypt" as Vizier) we shall live free, full of love and joy, and prosper. (Genesis 41:38, 39)

Right here I must interject this dreamer’s dream...
“I was no longer in the jail cell (but not free indeed) because I was standing on the outside of the cell but STILL imprisoned by my own right hand inside and behind the bars of the jail cell. This predicament was because my hand was balled up in a fist, holding on to monies (the prosperity judged by the world system). As I stood there caught in a dilemma, an impasse devised by others and yes I confess, also of my own making, I saw Jesus. He was standing beckoning (to cross the threshold) at the end of the hallway, at the door to “true freedom”. I only had to unclench my fist, release the monies and walk to Him; Evidence of true faith in Him and Him alone”. As I cried and cried and prayed and tried to arrange in my own thinking and maneuvers I remembered every pit, every Portiphar’s house and every prison before when my God Jehovah Shammah, my Lord Jehovah Jireh had prevailed. In an act of faith and trust I was finally able to unclench my fist, free my hand of the prison bars and give my hand to Jesus to lead and guide me. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. (John 8:36 KJV)

I praise God I am at yet another threshold and I am crossing over. As “WE ALL” continue on this sometimes ‘tedious journey’ let us not abandon our dreams and each other AND our prayers for each other.

 
I declare and decree “WE ARE” crossing thresholds. God will make a WAY-Out of No WAY- HE ALWAYS HAS, HE ALWAYS WILL!

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