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Devotional for June 28, 2026

HAVING A VISION

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Genesis 37:5-6

“Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him still the more. And he said to them, “Listen now and hear, I pray you, this dream that I have dreamed;”

Additional Verses

📖 Genesis 39 to Chapter 40; Proverbs 18:21; Mark 16: 15-20

Do you have a dream about God’s purpose for you? If you have, what are you doing about it? When Joseph had a dream about his future, he was only seventeen years old and he did not keep quiet about it. If he had kept it a secret, the dream was not going to come to pass at all. The Bible tells us in James 3:7 that every kind of a beast and bird or reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed by the tongue. Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it shall eat its fruit.” This shows us how the tongue can be used to give life or to destroy life. When God spoke, creation came into being. In other words, the world and all its beauty is a product of the spoken word of God. Joseph’s rise to the position of second in command to the Egyptian throne, was a product of the spoken dreams. When he told his brothers his first dream which pointed to his future, God gave him another dream to consolidate the first one which he even went on to tell all the members of his family including his father. His father Jacob who was full of divine wisdom interpreted the dream in Genesis 37:10. On the other hand, his brothers hated him for telling his dreams and went on to envy him and even hated him because Jacob loved him more. When Joseph was sold by his jealousy brothers because of his dreams, this was yet an opportunity that activated the fulfillment of what God had predestined him for just as Paul in Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Joseph had all the virtues of the fruit of the Spirit. This is why after he was in Potipher’s house, the LORD blessed everything in the Egyptian’s house for the sake of Joseph. When he was falsely accused by Potipher’s wife and sent to prison, this was yet another opportunity to expedite his dream of becoming a great man of God. In the prison, God perfected him further when he gave him the wisdom to interpret dreams. He did not keep this gift a secret, but when two men who were to finally introduce him to Pharaoh had dreams which worried them, through God’s grace, Joseph gave meaning to their dreams and they all came to pass as per his interpretation. Within a few years of interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh’s servants, Joseph was called out of prison to stand before Pharaoh to interpret the king’s dream. This was how God raised him to become the Prime minister of Egypt. If Joseph had remained quiet about his dreams, he would have remained just as the loved son of his father who was always hated by his brothers or he would have remained a slave in Potipher’s house or he could have rotted in prison. In the same way, if you do not use your tongue to declare your dream into reality, God will not do that for you. He has already done everything for you by giving you the dream. As long as you keep it a secret to yourself, it will just remain a secret that will never come to pass. Use your tongue from today against all odds and you are going to see how God Almighty is going to bring your dream into reality. What you would like to become will never be a reality until you use your tongue. Use your tongue to win souls from darkness into His marvelous light as this is your main purpose here on earth. Matthew 28:19-20 says, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever l have commanded you; and lo, l am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, I thank You for letting me know that I should have a vision and with that vision I should remain focused just like Joseph who did not lose his vision of his dreams even when he was faced with persecution. I ask that I always keep focused on You. Thank You Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.