I wonder if Joseph got tired of waiting for God to deliver him? It had been a long, hard road and he’d been faithful, but nothing was happening. God hadn’t delivered him. In his humanity, he tried to exercise a little control and turned to the cupbearer for help. If God had forgotten him then surely the cupbearer wouldn’t. It’s easy to understand. When something drags on for a long time we just want it to be over, so we try to fix it ourselves. It didn’t work for Joseph and it didn’t work for me. In my spirit I heard God say, You can run around and try to put out every little fire, or you can
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