God of the Suddenly,
You hold time in Your hands.
You keep silent when we beg You to speak
until the moment has fully ripened,
and suddenly You move.
Two full years passed.
And then Pharaoh dreamed.
The cupbearer remembered.
The door swung open.
Joseph was summoned
from the pit to the throne room in a single day.
Lord, I believe You can still do that.
You raised him,
but he did not exalt himself.
He stood before kings and said,
“It is not in me.”
What humility.
What clarity.
What faith.
Give me that kind of heart
ready to rise,
yet rooted in surrender.
Prepared for the moment,
yet pointing all the glory to You.
Joseph heard Pharaoh’s dreams.
He listened.
He interpreted.
But he didn’t stop at explanation
he offered a solution.
Lord, give me wisdom like that.
Not just to understand the problem,
but to offer heaven shaped answers
to earth bound need.
And Pharaoh saw it
“Can we find a man like this,
in whom is the Spirit of God?”
God, let that be said of me.
Not that I am great,
but that You are with me.
That wisdom rests on my lips
because I’ve been with You in the silence.
That character runs deeper
because I’ve been refined in the fire.
You gave Joseph a new name,
a new robe,
a ring,
a chariot
but he never lost who he was in You.
Even exalted,
he remembered affliction.
He named his sons with meaning
Manasseh “God has made me forget my hardship.”
Ephraim “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Lord, help me name my blessings rightly.
Not as proof of my strength,
but as evidence of Your mercy.
Let me remember that fruitfulness came
not in spite of affliction,
but through it.
You are the God
who lifts from the lowest places
to fulfill the highest purposes.
The God who does not waste prison time,
but turns it into preparation.
So I will wait for Your suddenly.
I will be faithful in the now
and ready when You call.
Because the pit does not define me
Your presence does.
And You are with me,
always.
In the name of Jesus,
the Greater Joseph,
who was lifted from death to reign,
and now feeds the nations
Amen.