A Bible study built on Joseph's arc from a forgotten pit to Egypt's second-in-command argues that every hard season is preparation, not punishment — and that resisting it only delays what it's designed to produce in you.
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Big Idea
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Every hard season is preparation for a purpose you can't yet see — using Joseph's rise from a forgotten prison cell to Egypt's second-in-command, the argument is that resisting difficulty only delays what it's designed to produce in you.
Who This Is For
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READ IF YOU ARE…
You're inside a real setback right now — job loss, a financial collapse, a health scare, a relationship rupture — and want a framework for reading it as something other than punishment.
You respond to faith-based teaching built on extended scripture exposition (Genesis, James, Romans, 2 Corinthians) plus the teacher's own testimony, not secular self-help language.
You want a structured way to talk yourself out of resentment toward specific people who wronged you.
SKIP IF…
You're looking for tactical, step-by-step business or productivity advice — this is a mindset/values teaching, not a how-to.
You don't relate to explicitly Christian framing — prayer language, scripture readings, and God's sovereignty are the entire argument, not a garnish on it.
TL;DR
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The teaching argues difficulty is a gift, not a punishment, contrasting Jacob's bitter 'few and evil have been my days' with Joseph's forgiveness of the brothers who sold him into slavery. The mechanism is the Easy Hard Principle: doing the hard thing first produces ease later, while avoiding it relocates the hardship to the back end. Joseph's descent — pit, slavery, false accusation, prison, two forgotten years — gets reframed stage by stage as preparation, distilled into five effects: problems prepare you for purpose, protect you from purposelessness, provide practice for an unseen platform, promote you to preeminence, and position you to pardon whoever caused the harm. The conclusion: stop praying to be removed from a trial, start praying to get from it what it's there to produce.
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States the thesis up front: difficulty and problems are a gift, and three scripture passages about the same two people will make the case.
00:38 – 03:11
02 · Jacob's lament (Genesis 47)
Reads Jacob telling Pharaoh his 130 years were 'few and evil,' then unpacks the deception, hiding, and grief behind that verdict.
03:11 – 05:41
03 · Joseph forgives his brothers (Genesis 50)
The brothers beg forgiveness after Jacob's death, Joseph weeps, and answers 'fear not, for am I in the place of God?' — with a Nelson Mandela aside on withholding retribution.
05:41 – 08:20
04 · "You meant evil, God meant good"
Unpacks Genesis 50:20 through the windshield/rearview mirror metaphor: circumstances that feel terrible in the moment look like a deliberate plan in hindsight.
08:20 – 10:52
05 · Joseph's legacy and the destiny teaser
Notes Joseph died with no lament unlike his father, then pivots to how most people dodge difficulty while wanting the dream without the drama.
10:52 – 12:55
06 · Genesis 41: naming Manasseh and Ephraim
Joseph names his sons for forgetting his toil and being made fruitful in affliction — introduces 'every setback is a setup for a comeback.'
12:55 – 15:40
07 · The Easy Hard Principle
Lays out the core framework — easy-front/hard-back vs. hard-front/easy-back — with the 'eat the frog' and workout examples.
15:40 – 20:49
08 · Why difficulty is a gift
No champions without challengers (David/Goliath, Noah), 'human beings not human doings,' James 1's 'count it all joy,' and Joseph's staged downward trajectory into the butler-and-baker story.
20:49 – 22:58
09 · The butler remembers Joseph
The forgotten two years end when Pharaoh's dream jogs the butler's memory — closes with Kenny Grant's line on God preparing you for what's already prepared for you.
22:58 – 27:00
10 · Personal testimony: millionaire to broke to Tampa
The speaker's own collapse from a 2005 seven-figure year to broke and moving to Florida on borrowed money in 2013, framed as the same pattern as Joseph's.
27:00 – 30:38
11 · Practice, platform, and proving before promotion
Problems as practice for an unseen platform, the rule that problems prove you before they promote you, and the washing machine analogy for not skipping stages.
30:38 – 37:08
12 · Pardon, shoulds, and the thorn in the flesh
Problems position you to pardon; the 'shoulds' that wreck a life; Romans 12's 'overcome evil with good'; Paul's thorn in the flesh; closing benediction.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
Jacob summarized 130 years of a blessed life as 'few and evil,' proof that early hardship can eclipse a person's ability to recognize the good that followed it.
Joseph's brothers assumed he'd want revenge because that's what they would have wanted in his position — people project their own capacity for retaliation onto others.
What looks terrible looking forward through the windshield can look like a deliberate, good plan looking backward through the rearview mirror.
Joseph named his sons after forgetting his trials (Manasseh) and being made fruitful in his affliction (Ephraim) — he let hardship define the testimony instead of the wound.
The Easy Hard Principle: easy on the front end produces hard on the back end, and hard on the front end produces easy on the back end.
Some of the most diligent people put more effort into avoiding a difficulty than it would have taken to just do the difficult thing.
A hard thing has to work ON you before it can work FOR you — it changes who you are before it produces the result you wanted.
There are no champions without challengers: David needed Goliath, and the lion and the bear were training for the bigger fight, not separate dangers.
Being called 'human beings' rather than 'human doings' means the point of a difficulty is who it makes you, not what it makes you produce.
Joseph asked the butler to remember him and was forgotten for two years — the delay kept him in position until Pharaoh's dream created the exact moment his gift was needed.
The speaker went from a first million in 2005 to selling a million-dollar house at a loss and moving to Florida on borrowed money by 2013, his credit too damaged to rent an apartment without paying three months up front.
Problems always prove you before they promote you — the proving and the promotion are sequential, not optional.
If Joseph had been released from prison before the butler and baker arrived, no one would have discovered he could interpret dreams.
Life gets wrecked less by circumstances than by 'shoulds' — the belief that you, other people, or God should be doing something differently substitutes your judgment for trust.
Paul asked three times to have his thorn in the flesh removed and was told his weakness was where strength would be made perfect — the thorn stayed so the strength could show through him.
Takeaway
Every hard season is staged preparation, not proof something went wrong.
WHAT TO LEARN
Read through Joseph's climb from a forgotten pit to Egypt's second-in-command, the lesson is that difficulty is preparation for a purpose you can't yet see, and resisting it only delays what it's designed to produce in you.
02Jacob's lament (Genesis 47)
Jacob summarized 130 years of blessing as 'few and evil,' proving that early hardship can eclipse someone's ability to recognize the good that followed it.
The same string of events can be told from two totally different angles by two people who lived through it together, and the framing decides which version gets remembered as true.
03Joseph forgives his brothers (Genesis 50)
Joseph's brothers assumed he'd want revenge because that's what they would have wanted in his position — people project their own capacity for retaliation onto others.
'Fear not, for am I in the place of God?' reframes the impulse to punish people who wronged you as a claim to a judgment that was never yours to make.
04The windshield / rearview mirror metaphor
What looks terrible looking forward through the windshield can look like a deliberate, good plan looking backward through the rearview mirror.
The instruction is to trust what scripture says will show up in the rearview mirror rather than trusting only what your eyes report about the present, because sight alone breeds doubt.
05Joseph's legacy and the destiny teaser
Joseph lived twenty years fewer than his father yet left no lament, because he measured his life by what God was doing rather than by his own comfort.
Most people spend their lives dodging difficulty and hiding from hardship, never realizing that what's worth having sits on the other side of what they have no desire for.
06Genesis 41: naming Manasseh and Ephraim
Joseph named his sons after forgetting his trials and being made fruitful in his affliction — he let the hardship define the testimony instead of the wound.
Every setback is a setup for a comeback, but only when it's read with the right perspective — the same event can be interpreted as ruin or as raw material.
07The Easy Hard Principle
The Easy Hard Principle: easy on the front end produces hard on the back end, and hard on the front end produces easy on the back end — the difficulty just relocates.
Some of the most diligent people put more energy into avoiding a difficulty than it would have taken to just do the difficult thing.
A hard thing has to work ON you before it can work FOR you — it's designed to change who you are before it produces the result you wanted.
08Why difficulty is a gift: champions, patience, and Joseph's descent
There are no champions without challengers — David needed Goliath, and the lion and the bear were training for the bigger fight, not separate dangers.
Being called 'human beings' rather than 'human doings' means the point of a difficulty is who it makes you, not what it makes you produce.
'Let patience have her perfect work' reframes prayer during hardship: the ask isn't to be removed from the trouble, it's to let the trouble finish what it's already doing.
Joseph's descent through the pit, Potiphar's house, and prison is described as staged preparation, each stage qualifying him for the next one up.
09The butler remembers Joseph
Joseph asked the butler to remember him and got forgotten for two years — the delay kept him in position until Pharaoh's dream created the exact moment his gift was needed.
'God is getting you ready for what he already has ready for you' reframes waiting: the outcome already exists, the delay is your preparation catching up to it.
10Personal testimony: millionaire to broke to Tampa
The speaker went from a first million in 2005 to selling a million-dollar house at a loss and moving to Florida on borrowed money by 2013, his credit too damaged to rent without paying three months up front.
He frames the collapse as the price of admission to the specific opportunity waiting in Tampa, not an unrelated detour from it.
11Practice, platform, and proving before promotion
Problems provide practice for a platform you can't yet see, meaning the skill gets built in private before there's any audience or payoff for it.
Problems always prove you before they promote you — the proving and the promotion happen in that order, not by choice.
If Joseph had been released from prison before the butler and baker arrived, no one would have discovered he could interpret dreams.
12Pardon, shoulds, and the thorn in the flesh
Problems position you to pardon the people who put you there, because once you see their evil produced your good, holding a grudge stops making sense.
Life gets wrecked less by circumstances than by 'shoulds' — the belief that you, other people, or God should be doing something differently substitutes your own judgment for trust.
Paul asked three times to have his thorn in the flesh removed and was told his weakness was where strength would be made perfect — the thorn stayed so the strength could show through him.
The closing reframe: what you resist persists, but what you embrace becomes grace — fighting a difficulty prolongs it, accepting it is what converts it into something usable.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Manasseh
Joseph's firstborn son; the name is drawn from a phrase meaning 'God made me forget,' marking his trials as forgotten rather than avenged.
Ephraim
Joseph's second son; the name is drawn from a phrase meaning 'God made me fruitful,' crediting Joseph's suffering in Egypt for producing his later success.
Robben Island
The South African prison island where Nelson Mandela served most of his 27-year sentence as a political prisoner before later becoming president.
Potiphar
The Egyptian official who bought Joseph as a slave; his wife's false accusation against Joseph is what sent Joseph to prison in the biblical account.
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“Challenges don't feel like a gift, but if there are no challenges, there can be no champions.”
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“That's why we're called human beings, not human doings or human havings.”
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Today in this video, I'm gonna talk to you about one of my favorite topics, the gift of difficulty or problems, the gift nobody wants.
I wanna read a couple of passages of scripture to you. These these passages, I'm gonna read three different passages.
These three different passages are about a certain set of circumstances that happened to the same two people, and they had two totally different perspectives around the same circumstance.
K. Genesis chapter 47. Is that right?
Verses seven through nine. I think that's right. Genesis forty seven seven through nine.
I thought it was 41. I think it's 47. I put 47 in here.
It might be 41. So figure it out.
Okay. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before pharaoh.
And Jacob blessed pharaoh. And pharaoh said unto Jacob, how old art thou?
And Jacob said unto pharaoh, the days of the years of the life of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years.
Cool. Hundred and thirty. A hundred and thirty.
That sounds epic. And then he says, few and evil have been the days of the years of my have my of my life have been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
So few and evil have my days been because I haven't lived as long as my ancestors. That's what he's saying.
That's one perspective. Now why did he say few and evil have been his days?
Well, you know, he spent he spent fourteen years working for the wife that he wanted because the first time he got deceived by his father-in-law with the wife that he didn't want. And then he spent time hiding from his brother.
And then when he had children, his older sons threw his younger son in a pit, took his coat of many colors, towed up, put some animal blood on it, brought it back and said, is this your son's coat?
We know not. Right?
So so funny. And he thought Joseph was dead. But at the time that he's talking, he had already found out that his son whom he thought was dead was already alive.
And not only was he alive, he was the prime minister in Egypt who kept his whole family alive. And his perspective was, hundred and thirty years, few and evil have been the days of the life of my pilgrimage.
Wow. Talk about not counting your blessings.
Now after Jacob died, Israel died, his brothers, Joseph's brothers thought he was only being good to them because their dad was alive.
And now that he's dead, he's gonna surely get us back for all the evil we did unto him. So that's where we pick up in Genesis chapter 50 verses 15 through 22. And it says, and when Joseph's brethren saw that his their father was dead, they said Joseph will peradventure hate us.
You know why they said that? Because if they Joseph had done to them what they did to Joseph, they would have hated him. See, oftentimes when we assign motives to people, we assign the motives that we would have if we had that same circumstance.
He said, Joseph, per eventual will hate us and will certainly requite us the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph saying, thy father did command before he died saying, so shall ye say unto Joseph, forgive, I pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin for they did unto the evil.
And now we pray, forgive the trespass of thy serve of the servants of God, the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
You know why Joseph was crying? Because they still didn't get it. The only thing he wanted was a relationship.
He didn't want retribution, and his brother still don't get it. Okay.
Then it says, verse 18, and his brethren also went and fell down before his face and they said, behold, we be thy servants. And Joseph said unto them, fear not for am I in the place of God?
How about that as a perspective for your enemies? I I was just talking to oh, I was talking to Tiffany about Nelson Mandela.
When I went to South Africa, I went to the prison Robin on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for seventeen of his twenty seven years as a political prisoner.
His cell was so much smaller than this this stage. And it gets cold in the wintertime, and they had an opening for a window, but they had no glass in the window.
And they only got one little blanket, and he was in there for seventeen years. Seventeen years. And while he was in there, little side note, has nothing to with what I'm teaching today, but fascinating.
While he's in there, he wrote a book, and he smuggled the book out of the prison. And the book changed the political landscape of the entire country so that this man, when he got out of prison, had enough influence in the country to go from ex con to the president of the country.
That's not the most amazing part. Here's the most amazing part.
When he became the president, he didn't seek retribution on the people who did him evil.
Anyway, just thought I'd share that with you. By the way, what was the what was the side note? The side note was we cannot comprehend the level of influence and promotion that the content that we create can build for us even while we are in seemingly unfavorable circumstances.
Okay. So anyway, am I in the place of God?
For verse 20, but as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it. What?
Your evil against me. God meant it for good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive.
See, Joseph's looking at the whole picture. Joseph's looking at the fact that the reason you were evil is because God can use your evil to do his good.
And the evil that you did unto me, God used it to save many souls alive. Like literally millions of souls alive because the only place on earth that had food was Egypt. Why?
Because Joseph was there. And if his brothers hadn't thrown him in a pit and the Midianites wouldn't have sold him into slavery, he wouldn't and as if Potiphar's wife wouldn't have lied on him, he wouldn't have been in prison when Pharaoh had the dream.
All of those things look terrible. Your brothers throw you all your big brothers throw you in a pit. That's terrible.
No. That feels terrible. It looks terrible looking through the windshield, but in the rearview mirror, it looks like God's perfect plan.
Well, you get sold into slavery into a foreign country. That's terrible.
It's not terrible. It just feels terrible. And it looks terrible looking through the windshield, but if you look through the rearview mirror, God's perfect plan.
The sovereignty of God at work again. What if we learn how to trust what we will see in the rearview mirror based on what we've heard from the word of God instead of looking at everything with just our eyes where doubt is created?
What if we listen to the word and then reshape what we're looking at with our eyes based on what we've heard in our ears? We're not even to the introduction yet.
This is such a great story.
Verse 21. Now therefore, fear ye not. I will nourish you and your little ones.
Let's listen to the language. It didn't say and your children. He said and your little ones.
And he comforted them and spake kindly unto them. There was there was no, I've got a grudge. Why am I gonna have why would I have a grudge against you when I recognize, even if you didn't recognize, that God used your evil for my good?
I don't have time to hate you because you hate me, baby. I don't have time. I don't have time to hate you.
Okay. Here we go.
Verse 22. And Joseph dwelled in Egypt, he and his father's house, and Joseph lived in a hundred and ten years. Isn't that interesting?
Twenty years less than his father, but he had no parenthetical statement at the end.
Few and evil have been the days of the life of my By the way, everything that happened to Jacob secondhand with regard to Joseph happened to Joseph firsthand.
And Joseph had no lamentations about any of it.
Why? Because he was more concerned about the work of God than he was about the feel good of man. Most people spend a large part of their lives dodging difficulty, hiding from hardship, protecting themselves from problems, sidestepping struggles struggles, not realizing that most things that are worth having in life are on the other side of something we have no desire for.
You think Joseph desired to be thrown in a pit? You know what? I'm you know what?
Hey, by the way, here's what's gonna happen. Y'all gonna bow down to me, mama gonna bow down, daddy gonna bow down, yeah, to me. Now, y'all could just take me out here and throw me in this pit, we can get this party started.
Joseph had no idea that when he had his dream that that dream was gonna drag him through so much drama on the way to his destiny. And see, we want the dream and the destiny, but we wanna skip the drama.
Can I get a witness? I got one more passage I read.
This is is is in the bible y'all. Genesis 41 verses 50 through 52 tells us about Joseph's descendants, and this gives us the epitaph, like Joseph's perspective on Joseph's hardship.
This is Joseph's you know, Jacob's perspective on Jacob's hardship was few and evil have been days of the eleven years of 11 might appear. Okay.
Cool. Here's Joseph. And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of the famine came, which Asenath, the daughter of Potipharah, the priest of On, bear unto him.
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. For God, said he, hath made me to forget all my toil and all my father's house.
He said, I'm gonna name my firstborn son, God hath made me forget all of my toil and all of the trials and all of the turmoil tum turmoil turmoil that I experienced in my father's house.
All of the trouble. I'm just gonna forget it. God made me forget it.
And he named his second son. So good. And the name of the second was called Ephraim or Ephraim or Ephraim, however you wanna say it, for God have caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
So Jace Jacob's story about all of the stuff that he went through, thrown into pit, sold into slavery, lied on, going to prison, getting forgot about about the by the butler, all of that. God has made me forget the toil and the labor of my father's house, and he's made me fruitful in the land of my afflictions.
Wow. What if we could go through life having a Joseph perspective for every trouble that comes our way? Because the reality is every setback we've ever had, if we have the right perspective, every setback is a setup for a comeback.
There's a principle that blocks the pathway of success in any arena from the masses. Most people will never have success because there's a principle that is guarding the gate.
What is the principle? As I told most people are unwilling to pay. I call it the easy hard principle.
And here's how it works. Easy on the front end equals hard on the back end. And hard on the front end equals easy on the back end.
And most people, as soon as they see hard on the front end, they take a detour and they go find an easy path that ends up hard. So here's what I found out. Everybody experiences hard and everybody experiences evil.
I mean, People who succeed eat the frog on the front end.
What does that mean? They do the hard thing on the front end so they can experience the easy stuff and the good stuff on the back end.
Why? Because the road to eve is e the road to ease is paved with difficulty. The road to difficulty is paved with eve.
This means if you put a lot of energy into avoiding difficulty, you won't learn how to play a musical instrument because you think it's too hard. You don't study the Bible because I don't understand the these and the thous.
Well, thee means you and thou means you. So you start reading the Bible.
Okay.
We we we we don't do the hard things because they're hard. Well, do you understand that when we work on hard things, hard things work on us?
And God has ordained that this is how it works. You work on the hard thing, and the hard thing that you work on doesn't work for you at first.
Why? Because the hard thing was designed to work on you before it works for you. Because when the hard thing works on you, it turns you into the person for whom it can work.
But most of the people so many people resist that. Believe it or not, there are many people in the world who are the most diligent at being lazy.
They will put more effort into avoiding something difficult than they will into biting the bullet and just doing the difficult thing in the first place. It blows my mind.
Like, when you get the hard thing out of the way, it's a wrap. It's over. You know what I found out?
When you first start working out, it feels like the most insane decision you've ever made in your life. Like, this is stupid.
Who invented exercise? We should execute that person. This is crazy.
Right? You start exercising and you haven't worked out. You don't feel stronger first.
You feel weaker, and everything hurts. And you think, this is dumb. This is dumb.
Why did I decide to do it? But you keep on doing it. Keep on doing it.
You keep on doing it. You keep doing it. You on it.
You keep on doing it. Eventually, the thing that felt almost impossible gets to a place where you wonder how you thought it would ever how you ever thought it was hard.
So why do I call difficulty or problems a gift?
Because difficulty and problems don't feel like a gift, do they? Challenges don't feel like a gift, but if there are no challenges, there can be no champions. Who would David be without Goliath?
You know, it's funny how the lion got David ready for the bear, and the bear and the lion got David ready for Goliath. What if he would have ran from the lion and hid from the bear?
He sure wouldn't have been ready for Goliath. Who would David be if it were not for Goliath? Just another little kid in the neighborhood.
Who would Noah be had he not had the diligence to work on a boat in the middle of the desert for a hundred and twenty years?
See, what we don't realize, it's the difficulty and the problems that we face that make that make us ready.
God see, we're most concerned with having And because we understand that doing is the path to having, we think that, man, if I could just have.
God's not most concerned with us having or doing. God's most concerned with us being. In fact, that's why we're called human beings, not human doings or human havings.
Because God's most concerned with us being. Being what? More like him.
And it's the diff it's it's the fiery trial. It's the difficulty that we go through diligently and faithfully that makes us strong enough to stay there when we get there wherever there is.
And so I call difficulty and problems a gift because your problems can prepare you for your purpose.
In fact, your problems are the only thing that can prepare you for your purpose. The reason you don't realize that your problems are a gift is because you're not yet aware that you have a purpose that's bigger than you are now.
That's why you have to go through something that feels more difficult than you can bear now. Say, Myron, how do you know that though? How can you know that?
Because the Bible say, my brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diverse or different kinds of trials.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
What's patience? Patience is persistent, consistent endurance. The trying of your faith worketh patience.
Then it says this. This is so amazing. But let patience have her perfect work.
Let the difficulty that you are in finish the job that it was doing. You get in the difficulty. You're like, dear God, please get me out of this trouble.
Lord, like, I just put you in that trouble. Get you out. See, I didn't put you into trouble so you could get out of it.
I put you into trouble so you could get from it. Yeah. What I intend for you to get from it.
But let patience have her perfect work. Let it finish the job.
See, the pit got Joseph almost ready for the prime minister's seat for the prime minister's seat. Almost, but he wasn't quite ready.
So he had to go down and be a servant in Potiphar's house. And then he had to learn how to stand against a seductive I don't even know what to call her.
Unfaithful wife of Potiphar. Or we could just call her a slut.
But he had to stand against her.
Okay. Now he's more now he's more ready for the prime ministership. But she lied on him, and then he had to go to prison for a crime he didn't commit.
You know why? That prepared him. That prepared him even more.
And then the butler and the baker come. They have a dream.
Joe says, mister Baker, I got some bad news for you, bro.
Tomorrow, the king is gonna hang you and lift your head from your body. No. No.
He told the butler first. He told the butler. He said he said, the king is gonna restore you to your to your post.
The baby was like, okay. Tell me mine. Tell me mine.
Yep. You do not have the same fate, my brother.
So the the the god's gonna lift your head I mean, the the the pharaoh's gonna hang you and lift your head from you. So then, pharaoh hangs the butler I mean, baker, restores the butler, and guess what happens?
Joseph said, now when you get restored, don't forget about me. Go tell pharaoh, I'm an innocent man.
I'm here, and I didn't commit a crime. Butler said, after your interpretation of my dream, man, I could never forget you, Joe. So we like brothers.
The butler got out. He's like, Joe who? I don't know no Joe.
Right? And he forgot about him. Yeah.
He did. For two years.
And Pharaoh had a dream. And the dream that Pharaoh had that no one could interpret reminded the butler of Joseph.
What if the butler wouldn't have forgotten?
Joseph and he would have told Pharaoh. He would pharaoh would have let Joseph go.
Joseph would not have been where he needed to be when it came time for Pharaoh's dream to be interpreted.
He might have been on his way back home. He might have already been back home at his father's house hanging out, telling his dad on his brothers.
But God ordained that Joseph stay in the place of preparation until it was time for his purpose to be revealed.
I'm telling you difficulty difficulty problems are a gift because they can prepare you for your purpose.
It's so mind blowing. See, we don't discover the ceiling of our potential by staring at it.
We discover the ceiling of our potential by breaking through the difficulty we're staring at to get to the place that God was preparing us for all along. I love what my friend Kenny Grant said to me a long time ago. He said, Myron, god is getting you ready for what he already has ready for you.
He's preparing you for what he already has prepared for you. You think the difficulty that you're going through is punishment. The difficulty that you're going through is preparation.
Okay. So understand problems push you past the point you thought was your limit.
Problems position you precisely where your purpose requires you to be at the precise right time. So fascinating.
I I never thought about this until literally just right this moment, not even earlier when I was studying for this. I I I didn't think about this. So I became a millionaire the first time in 2005.
I became a broken heir in 2010. I became a, like, really super broken heir in between 2012 and 2014.
I, like, I literally I bought a million dollar house, sold it on short sale for 600 and something thousand dollars and moved from Pennsylvania to Florida on borrowed money. That's how broke I went from being have make a mill over $1,000,000 a year to broke from being one of the richest people in my circle to the brokeest.
Move to Tampa on borrowed money. Why? I just I I was tired of the cold weather.
I'm getting out of here. Where are going? I'm going to Tampa.
I'm moving to Tampa. Moved to Tampa. When I moved here, my credit was so bad.
This is back in 2013, January 2013. I moved here.
My credit was so bad. I couldn't buy a house. I could barely rent one.
I had to put first month's, last month's, and rent. I had to pay three months, and that money I was borrowed.
Like, I'm I was broke as a joke and ready to choke. Y'all y'all don't even understand who you tie who you dealing with. This is 2013.
But if I wouldn't have gone if I wouldn't have gone broke in Pennsylvania, I would have never moved to Tampa. We wouldn't be here right now.
Jesus. I I was I can remember sitting in our rent house on the patio in Land O' Lakes, crying on my wife's shoulder because I couldn't figure out how to get back on the entrepreneurial horse after circumstances had knocked me off.
I would not have chosen to go broke, move to Florida on borrowed money, live on borrowed money for two years.
I wouldn't have chosen that. That's okay though. God knew what he was doing.
Amen.
Anyway, it put me in the like, the only thing that could have brought me here when God brought me here for the purpose for which God brought me here was me losing what I had had so I could come into what God had for me.
Okay. So I'm a keep it moving. Problems provide you practice for the platform that you cannot currently see.
The problem is the place where you practice.
I'm talking about practice. Practice. Okay.
My basketball fans again get that. God does is not in the habit of revealing the whole assignment when he starts training you for it.
Can we just can we just trust that God is good? I mean, here's what Jesus said.
If you being evil give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly father give good things unto them to ask him?
You know what that means? Some some of the good gifts that we give our children don't feel good to our children. I wish I had some help in here.
Some of the good gifts we give our children don't feel good to our children. But guess what? They will eventually discover how good those gifts are.
I thought my mom and dad were crazy. When I was a teenager, I knew everything.
They were, like, insane, both of them.
They weren't insane. But that was my like, don't y'all get it? No.
But you won't get it if you won't do what I told you. Okay. Okay.
So understand problems prepare you for your purpose, but your problems can also protect you from purposelessness. Joseph's problems got extended because Joseph wanted to get out of prison before Joseph got out of prison.
Sometimes we're in too big a hurry to get out of what is turning us into the person that God can use. But let patience have her perfect work.
What if we started learn what if we learned to pray, Lord, open my eyes so I can see what you'd have for me to get from this trial instead of, Lord, get me out of this trial.
That's such an infantile prayer. Infantile mean like a baby. Such an infantile prayer.
Lord, how about this? Lord, help me to get from this circumstance exactly what you want me to get from the circumstance. Why?
Because problems can prevent you from perishing in passivity. You know what? I can understand Joseph's desire to get out of prison.
I can understand him wanting to see his father again. I can understand him wanting to get back to his family. I can understand him wanting maybe to get another coat of many colors.
But all of that stuff was meaningless compared to the purpose of saving the world from starvation.
He didn't know he was gonna save the world from starvation because God was gonna give him an interpretation. Have no idea. You have no idea.
I have no idea what God is preparing us for. So you might as well yield to it and enjoy the ride.
Okay. I'm gonna get down I'm gonna get down to my last point.
Your problems can promote you to preeminence, and sometimes they're the only things that can. Joseph's trajectory was downward until it wasn't.
Mhmm. Do you notice that? He went down into pit, down into the pit, then he went down into Egypt, he went down into Potiphar's house, then he went down into the prison.
Down, down, down.
And he went down until God had already for ordained for him to go up.
Here's what you don't you may think you wanna be delivered from the gift of the problem that you're in currently. You may think that you wanna be delivered from the difficulty. You no longer wanna grind and the grind that you're in doesn't feel like a gift.
You just wanna get past it. You wanna get through it. You wanna get over it.
You're you're you're exhausted from it already.
Why don't you just settle in and ask God to show you what he has for you? Mhmm.
And even if he doesn't show you, Lord, just teach me to trust you while I'm in the midst of this.
I don't wanna have to wait until I get out to trust you. Because problems will always prove you before they promote you.
We we are in such a hurry to get there because we think there's a there there, but the apostle Paul told us there is no there there.
How did he say that? He said, I count not myself to have apprehended, but I pressed toward the mark of the whole high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
What does that mean? The journey is the destination. The journey is the destination.
Like, to embrace all of that.
Problems produce a platform that ease could never provide.
Joseph had a life of ease. He what if Joseph would have gotten out of prison before the butler and the baker came?
Nobody would have known that he even had the ability to interpret dreams. Like, stop rushing the washing machine.
Say, what does that mean? It means when you put clothes in a washing machine, it has to go through all the cycles in order for the clothes to come out clean on the other side. You can't skip the rinse cycle or skip the spin cycle.
No. It's gotta go do all of them.
Problems position you don't ever forget this.
Problems position you to pardon the people who put you there.
See, we want our perception of righteous judgment because we think we know what's best.
May we recognize that we have no idea.
Jesus on the cross prayed for the people who put them there. Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
Stephen is accosted for preaching the truth.
His face lights up like an angel. The people are so convicted. Bible says they gnashed on him with their teeth and then they stoned him with stones until he died.
And before he died, his prayer was, father, laid not this sin to their charge.
But you think you have a right to hold a grudge. You know why?
Because you think you know how things are supposed to be. You know what you know what destroys a lot of people's lives? One little five letter word, s h o s h o u l d.
Six letters. Six letter word. Mhmm.
Should. You literally destroy your life with shoulds.
This person should do that. This person should do that. I should be further by now.
This should be that. That should be this. God should do this.
God should do that. This shouldn't be this way. This should be this way.
So now you're sovereign.
Stop messing up your life with shoulds and just trust that God knows best. And that not only does he know best, but he always does what's best.
He's not like us. He doesn't just do what's best sometimes.
You know what's really interesting about like, this is a theme that runs throughout the whole Bible. Here's what it says.
Be not in Romans chapter 12. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Wow. Wow. Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good.
There's a plan whose time has come.
I'm gonna tell you something. Problems are a gift. But I'm gonna tell you something else.
What you resist persists, but what you embrace becomes grace, and grace is a gift.
We would all do well to be more like Joseph and less like Jacob.
And when the gift of difficulty and the gift of problems present themselves, we would all do better if we just embrace it and trust God for all the rest.
Yeah. Problems are the gift nobody wants. Paul said, because of the excellence of the revelations that he had received, there was given to him a thorn in the flesh.
You know what that means? Paul recognized that the thorn in his flesh was a gift.
There was given to me a thorn in the flesh that I should be lest I should be exalted above measure. He said, and for that, I besought the Lord thrice.
I I begged God three times to take this thorn from me. And God said, my grace is sufficient for thee. My strength is made perfect in your weakness.
You know what the apostle Paul said after that? I will rather glory in my infirmity. The power of Christ might rest upon me.
See, we wanna be strong in our strength instead of being weak in our strength so God can be strong through us in his strength. I'm telling you, when you stop resisting problems and stop running from difficulty, you'll begin to experience things in life in in your life that you have not been able to experience heretofore.
So let's go through life and instead of saying or having the perspective of Jacob, few and even many years, the days of the life of my pilgrimage, only a hundred and thirty years.
Be more like Joseph. You meant it for evil. God meant it for good.
God hath made me forget all my toil and my father's house. He's made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. Let that be all of our testimony.
And let us start receiving with gratitude the gift that other people reject because it's difficult, it's hard, it's wrapped in struggle, but we receive it and we say thank you for the gift.
I hope this blesses you. I hope it gives you strength in your time of difficulty because the reality is when we learn when we learn to embrace the gift and we learn the lesson, then and only then can we receive the blessing.
Hope this helps you. Stay blessed by the best, and we'll look forward to seeing you in the next bible study. Bye for now.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Jacob summed up 130 years of blessing as 'few and evil.' Joseph — who survived a pit, slavery, a false accusation, prison, and being forgotten for two years — called that same kind of suffering the reason he could save a nation, and this teaching argues Joseph's read was the accurate one.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
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The Easy Hard Principle
Difficulty doesn't disappear when avoided, it relocates: doing the hard thing first produces an easy outcome later, and choosing the easy path first produces a hard outcome later.
Steal forany argument about discipline, deferred gratification, or why shortcuts backfire
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Five effects of problems
Prepare you for your purpose
Protect you from purposelessness
Provide practice for a platform you can't yet see
Promote you to preeminence
Position you to pardon the people who put you there
An alliterative five-point structure the teaching builds toward across the back half of the video, each naming a different function hardship serves.
Steal forany framework built on reframing adversity as functional rather than punitive
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“Stay blessed by the best, and we'll look forward to seeing you in the next bible study. Bye for now.”
Soft, relationship-based sign-off with no sales ask — invites the viewer back to the next installment rather than pitching a product.
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David Bayer breaks down the Golden Equation — desire plus nonresistance equals desired result — and the childhood decision hiding underneath every stuck goal.
A 1-million-subscriber creator skips the celebration video to sit down with her mentor and explain why the three years after her pivot were the hardest part.
A neuroconditioning specialist argues that most journaling only reflects on the past, and reframes writing as a daily rehearsal tool that trains the brain to notice a future it hasn't lived yet.
A dating-content creator who built his channel on approaching strangers in the street maps out the plan he'd actually run if he woke up single tomorrow — and it's built on purpose and patience, not the pickup habits that made him famous.
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