Keeping Your Faith During the Process
EXCERPT: God gave Joseph a dream before He revealed its details. If you are in the middle of a process you did not sign up for, this is your reminder, the promise is still intact.
There is something God will give you before He gives you anything else. Before the platform, before the business, before the open door, He gives you a promise. And that promise will be tested before it is fulfilled.
Joseph knew this better than anyone.
In Genesis 37, God gave Joseph a dream. Not a plan, not a timeline, not a step-by-step strategy, a dream. A picture of what was coming. His brothers would bow. His purpose would prevail. The dream was clear, even if the path was not.
What happened next was anything but a straight line.
His brothers stripped him of his coat and threw him in a pit. He was sold into slavery. He was falsely accused and thrown in prison. Year after year, the circumstances screamed that the dream was dead. But the promise was never in the circumstances. It was in God.
And God’s promises do not expire.
The Process Is Not Punishment
One of the enemy’s greatest lies is that the difficulty you are walking through means God has forgotten you or changed His mind. But Joseph’s story destroys that lie completely. The pit was not the end. The prison was not the end. Every place that looked like a dead end was actually preparation.
God was not punishing Joseph in that prison; He was positioning him. He was building the character that the assignment required. Because the dream God gives you is always bigger than who you currently are. The process is how He closes that gap.
If you are in a season that does not make sense, I want to ask you something: what did God tell you? Go back to the promise. Not to your circumstances, not to what people said, not to how long it has been. Go back to what God said.
Because what God said is still true.
Faith Is Not the Absence of Difficulty
We sometimes confuse faith with ease. We think that if we really believed, the road would be smoother. But Joseph had faith and still sat in a prison cell. Faith did not remove the storm; it sustained him through it.
Faith is not pretending the pit is not real. It is knowing that the pit is not final.
There will be moments in your process where the promise feels distant. Where the dream feels like it belonged to a different version of you, the one who had not been through what you have been through. In those moments, faith is simply choosing to believe that what God said is truer than what you see.
That is not naive nor denial. It is the foundation of everything God wants to build in you and through you.
What Sustained Joseph
The Bible highlights something remarkable throughout Joseph’s story: in every difficult situation he faced, whether it was slavery, false accusations, or prison, the Lord was with him. It does not suggest that everything was going well or that he understood the circumstances. It simply emphasizes that God was by his side.
And because God was with him, everything Joseph touched was blessed. Even in the wrong place, the favor of God was on his life. That is what the promise does: it keeps the favor active even when the circumstances are unfavorable.
You may be in the wrong place right now, the wrong season, the wrong situation, the wrong city, the wrong job. But if God is with you, His favor is still active. The promise is still working, even when you cannot see it moving.
The Dream Did Not Change, The Dreamer Did
When Joseph finally stood before Pharaoh and interpreted the dream that would elevate him from prisoner to second in command, he was not the same boy who had the dream in his father’s house. He was wiser. He was proven. He had been through enough to be trusted with what God had promised.
The dream was always the destination. The process was the preparation.
Whatever God has promised you — the business, the book, the ministry, the platform, the family, the open door, remains unchanged. His word does not return void. What He spoke over your life is still in effect. But you may need to go through some things before you are ready to carry out what He promised.
Do not despise the process. It is producing something in you that the promise requires.
Hold On to What God Said
If you are in a waiting season, a wilderness season, a season that does not look anything like the promise, I want to speak directly to you. God has not forgotten you. The dream He gave you was not a mistake. The promise is not on pause just because the process is hard.
Joseph went from the pit to the palace. Not because things suddenly got easy, but because God is faithful to complete what He starts.
Hold on to what God said. Keep serving where you are. Keep your integrity intact. Keep your faith active. Because the same God who gave Joseph the dream walked with him through every storm until the dream became reality.
And He will do the same for you.
Dr. Christina Asare is the founder of Voice and Vision Media, an ordained pastor, cybersecurity executive, and author of the Cybersecurity Professional’s Playbook series. She writes at the intersection of faith, leadership, and purpose-driven business.