You Have God’s Presence and Favor Regardless of Your Circumstances - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (March-14-2024)

Joseph Prince (March-14-2024) Daily Devotional: You Have God’s Presence and Favor Regardless of Your Circumstances. 

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. - Psalm 139:7–10

Hebrews 13:5 says that God’s presence in your life is a guaranteed constant. But I want you to know that you cannot evaluate God’s presence and His unmerited favor in your life based on your circumstances. To help you understand what this means, let’s look at the life of Joseph.

Joseph refused the advances made by Potiphar’s wife, and as the common saying goes, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”! She maliciously accused Joseph of attempting to rape her, brandishing as “evidence” the garments that Joseph had left in her hands when he fled from her. When Potiphar heard his wife telling her version of the story, his anger was aroused and he seized Joseph, stripped him from the place of authority he had given him and threw him into prison.

Just put yourself in Joseph’s shoes. What is happening here? It sounds all too familiar, doesn’t it? With the painful memory of his brothers casting him into the pit still fresh in his mind, here he is once again, cast into a dungeon even though he was innocent.

Any average person would be bitter and angry with God! Most people would ask, “Where is God? Why had God brought him this far, only to abandon and forsake him? How could this happen? Where is the justice against this false accusation?”

But Joseph was literally no “average Joe”! He knew that the Lord would never leave him nor forsake him. Joseph considered not his circumstances but kept his focus on the presence of the Lord. Regardless of whether he was a common slave, an overseer in Potiphar’s house, or now a prisoner facing the prospect of life imprisonment for a crime he did not even commit, Joseph did not evaluate God’s unmerited favor in his life based on his circumstances.

Instead of getting bitter, he kept his hope in the Lord. Instead of throwing in the towel and giving up on God and on life, he kept his confidence, knowing that all his success was wrapped up in the presence of the Lord.

And boy, did the Lord deliver him! I want you to read this for yourself to see what the Lord did for Joseph:

But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison; whatever they did there, it was his doing. The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph’s authority, because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made it prosper. —Genesis 39:21–23
 

What does this tell you? If you refuse to bow to your circumstances and continue to be conscious of the Lord’s presence, wherever you are placed, whatever your environment, you will rise to prominence. You will have favor with your bosses and they will promote you to man-in-charge. And whatever you do will prosper!

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You Have God’s Presence and Favor Regardless of Your Circumstances - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (March-14-2024)
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  • Comment Link Jane Tuesday, 14 March 2023 07:42 posted by Jane

    Thank you anointed Man of God for the message on how the presence of God is with me regardless of my circumstances. Your messages are always timely and relevant to my situation. God bless you and your ministry🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • Comment Link Maureen swanepoel Monday, 14 March 2022 13:50 posted by Maureen swanepoel

    Thank you pastor prince for this message of grace righteousness and faith hallelujah clory to our lord Jesus name amen and amen 🙏

  • Comment Link Valerie Monday, 14 March 2022 08:16 posted by Valerie

    Thankyou Pastor Joseph for this encouraging message on God's favour and righteousness. I believe I am healed of all the bone degeneration, pain and inflammation in my spine for what Jesus did for me. All praise and glory to my Father.

  • Comment Link Dorthy Monday, 15 March 2021 01:47 posted by Dorthy

    Amen 🙏🙏🙏

Joseph Prince

Joseph Prince (born 15 May 1963, Singapore) is the senior pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore, one of Asia's biggest churches. He was one of the church's founders in 1983.

Joseph Prince, the son of a Sikh priest of Indian origin and a Chinese mother, spent his primary school years in Perak, Malaysia.

Prince changed his birth name to Joseph Prince during his previous occupation as an IT consultant.

Prince has been ...

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