This document discusses using adversity to fulfill one's destiny. It summarizes Joseph's story as an example of overcoming adversity. Joseph faced betrayal by his brothers, slavery, and imprisonment, yet through remaining faithful eventually rose to the second highest position in Egypt. The document outlines 6 stages to discover one's larger story and purpose: recruitment, character building, isolation, the cross, problem solving, and networking. It encourages embracing God's promise that all things work for good, no matter one's circumstances.

1. WELCOME!

2. Using Your Adversity to
Advance Your Destiny
Os Hillman

3. 6 stages to discover,
navigate and fulfill
your purpose

4. Larger
Larger
Larger
Story
??
Are you in a
crisis?
Do you have
dreams that are yet
to be fulfilled?
Do you feel stuck
in life?
Do you see this
season as a
hindrance, or a
preparation?
Are you fulfilling
the larger story of
your life?

5. ?
1. To help you discover the
larger story of your life
2. To use your adversities to
fulfill your larger story

7. There will always be a crisis of belief
stage requiring choices
Shipwrecked
faith
Compensate for
my pain
God

8. Joseph’s Story
Genesis 37

9. Joseph’s Story
• 17 years old
• Sheep herder
• Youngest favored son of Jacob
• Dreamer-prophetic
• Youngest of 10 brothers – dysfunction
• Dream –his brother’s sheave bow to his
• Sun & moon & 11 stars bow to his
• Thrown into pit
• Brothers faked death – lion – coat
• Slave for Potiphar
• Wife attracted to Joseph -Refused sex with her
• Accused of rape

10. Joseph’s Story
• Prison for crime did not do
• Prophetic & gift of administration
• Favor
• Pharaoh has a dream
• Joseph interprets – reputation as interpreter of dreams
• Elevated from pit – 2nd in command – age 30
• 7 years of plenty – 7 years of famine
• Solves Pharaoh’s problem
• Forgave his brothers
• “You meant for evil; God meant for good.”
81 Year Assignment!

11. Joseph Was a Type of Jesus
• Operated in the
supernatural in the
marketplace
• Sinless
• Salvation for mankind
• Suffered for and
forgave those he was
sent to save
• Operated in
supernatural – dreams,
words of wisdom
• Hardship was not due to
sin
• Saved a nation from
starvation
• Suffered for and forgave
those he was sent to
save
Jesus (The Lord Saves) Joseph (Increase;He will add)

12. Joseph Was A Type of Jesus
• Betrayed by his own
people – the Jews – sold
for 30 pieces of silver
• Physical & spiritual
provider
• Prophetic ministry –
foretold things to come
• Operated in the
marketplace
• Betrayed by his own
family – sold for 20
shekels of silver
• Physical & spiritual
provider
• Prophetic ministry –
foretold things to
come
• Operated in the
marketplace
Jesus (The Lord Saves) Joseph (Savior of the World)

13. Joseph was given privilege, power,
and prestige. It takes a special
person not to succumb to such
temptation.
1) Geographical Control
2) Financial Authority
3) Social Prestige
4) Royal Privileges
5) Political Power
6) Religious Position

14. Joseph’s story has
relevance for all of us

15. My Story

16. 1977 - Os w/ President Gerald Ford,
Vail, CO

17. 1982-1994

18. 1994
Crisis

19. Thrust into Crisis

20. Dream 1995

21. “You have a ‘Joseph Calling”, Os.”
1996

22. My Resurrection? 7 Yrs Later
www.tgifbookstore.com
• Restored finances
• Marketplace Ministry
• Writing ministry - 18 books

25. International Speaking Ministry
26 countries

26. Promise Keepers
17 years later

27. But how does all of this relate to you
and the times we’re living in today?

28. Sometimes our dreams seem
like they are in a holding
pattern.
Sometimes we need help to
understand what God is doing in
our life and how to take the next
step.

29. Sometimes we go through seasons of
adversity that seem to thwart the
purposes of God in our life.
Is that what is happening?
Or are these times meant to prepare us for
the ultimate assignment He has created us
for?

30. Realize Your Dream
For the creation waits in eager expectation
for the children of God to be revealed. -Romans 8:19
Visions often die before
they become a reality.

32. 6 Stages
6 Stages to Discovering Your Larger Story

34. Recruitment

35. Apostle Paul

36. Martin Luther

37. Joseph

38. Esther

39. David

40. Martin Luther King

42. Character Building

43. LOGO
4 Reasons for Adversity
1
2
3
Consequence of the Call
Joseph
Sin
Gehazi/Elisha– General - leprosy
Open doors – Jn 14:30
Sonship
Hebrews 12:5; 10,11
Adversity

44. For they indeed for a few
days (our fathers)
chastened us as
seemed best to them, but
He for our profit,
that we may be partakers of
His holiness. Now no
chastening seems to be
joyful for the present, but
painful; nevertheless,
afterward it yields the
peaceable fruit of
righteousness to those who
have been trained by it.
– Hebrews 12:10,11

45. LOGO
4 Reasons for Adversity
1
2
3
4
Consequence of the Call
Joseph
Sin
Gehazi – leprosy
Open doors – Jn 14:30
Sonship
Hebrews 12:5, 10,11
Spiritual Warfare
John 10:10; 1 Cor 16:9
Adversity

46. The depth and width of the
adversity corresponds
to the level of call and the ministry
He plans through your life.
i.e. Moses, Paul, Joseph

47. God said He would never leave us or forsake us, however,
He never said it might not feel like He did.
Black Hole

48. God doesn't close one door without opening
another, but it can be hell in the hallway.
This is your “Bethel”

50. Isolation
Messes into messages
into messengers

51. “You shall hide them in the secret place of Your
presence.” - Ps 31:20
“Reveal secret things in hidden places.”
Isa 45:3
• John Bunyan, Pilgrims Progress
• Apostle John, wrote the book of Revelation
“He delivers the poor in their affliction,
And opens their ears in oppression.” - Job 36:15

53. The Cross

54. 3 Nails
For Jesus, it was
Judas.
For David, it was
Absalom.
For Joseph, it was
his brothers.
Crucifixion usually
requires a third party.

56. Problem Solving

57. Josephs are often "problem solvers” through
invention and entrepreneurship.
Problem Solvers

58. Why was Jesus
Influential?
He solved
Problems!!

59. • He solved Peter’s fishing problem
• He solved Peter’s tax problem
• He fed 5,000 people when there was no
food
• He solved the blind man’s seeing problem
• He solved the prostitute’s problem & kept
her from being stoned

60. ...the people who know their God shall be
strong, and carry out great exploits.
- Daniel 11:32

61. George Washington
Carver
• 300 marketable products – peanut
• 100 sweet potato
• Transformed southern economy
A Joseph in his time

63. Networking

64. God believes in teams
Father
Son
Holy
Spirit
Each
member
has a role
to play

65. Networks - Change happens by a small number
of change agents banding together

66. England’s
William Wilberforce
“Clapham Group”

67. “The key actor in history
is not individual
genius but rather the network
and the new institutions
that are created out of these
networks. And the more
'dense' the network
- that is, the more active and
interactive the network-the more
influential it could be.”

68. "I do not pray for these alone, but
also for those who will believe in Me
through their word; that they all
may be one, as You, Father, are in
Me, and I in You; that they also may
be one in Us, that the world may
believe that You sent Me.”
John 17:20-22

69. And the Lord said, “Indeed the
people are one and they all have
one language, and this is what they
begin to do; now nothing that they
propose to do will be withheld from
them.” – Genesis 11:6
Unity is a byproduct of the Holy
Spirit working in people – it can’t be
manufactured.

71. So, what do you
do with this
message?
1. Realize that God has a process that is deliberate
and sometimes slower than we like.
2. You must press into the Lord with all your heart.
3. You must allow Him to develop the character He
requires for you to be the leader He wants.
ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD.
ROMANS 8:28
EMBRACE HIS PROMISE NO MATTER WHAT
CIRCUMSTANCES MIGHT APPEAR TO SAY DIFFERENTLY

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