How I Am Living the Life of Joseph in His Technicolour Dreamcoat

You don't even have to be a Christian to know the story of Joseph. I don't even know where to find the story in the Bible, but I want to share a little about how my life compares a little to Joseph and perhaps in the midst of it I can give you hope to believe in your dreams.

Let me start with a scripture verse and a page on what delighting in the Lord is about as a foundation of what I am going to say.

Psalm 37:4 4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

The Lord took 27 years to get me from my first prophecy over my life to a point where I can believe that it is going to come true. Twenty of those years I was out of the church as I was addicted to prostitutes, but in the last three years I have been back to church and God has been testing me and testing my heart. Now He knows that I delight in him.

The first prophecy over my life

At twelve years of age, a group of men left our church in a plane from the local airport to travel the outback towns in NSW, Australia and preach Jesus Christ in some evangelistic meetings for a couple of weeks. I asked if I could go and my parents and the minister said that I couldn't go. The minister put his arm around my shoulder and said to me, "Matthew you are not going to go today, but in the future your church will be down at the airport and be waving you off to go and preach about Jesus."

My prophetic coat was put on.

When I was about nine years of age we had a fancy dress contest at school and my mother dressed me up as Joseph in his technicolour dreamcoat. I won the contest and was so proud. I never forgot winning that contest. It seemed to have some significance as my mother had made the coat for me by sowing together strips of all different colours of fabrics.

My prophetic future was told in another dress up contest.

The second time I won the fancy dress contest at school I went as Lazarus. My mother wrapped me from head to toe with bandages, and I won that fancy dress contest as well. My mother is a Christian and was using my dress up clothes as a witness to the other kids and my teacher, I imagine. Now the Lord has told me quite clearly that I am going to die and come back to life after three days, but I will speak more on that in the future.

I ask God for a winning testimony.

One day at church, when I was 14 years of age, a man came and shared how he had been a drunk, done drugs and slept with prostitutes. Then he shared how he became a Christian and spent some minutes describing his Christian life and the changes that resulted from his Christian walk. He spent about ten minutes sharing what Jesus is really like. I had been blessed as a child because I had always heard Jesus speak to me. Yet even with my ability to hear the voice of Jesus, this guy knew so much more about Jesus than I did. That night I went home and prayed that I might have a testimony like his and be able to share it like he did. I prayed that I would some day know Jesus like that man knew Him. I am happy to have that testimony now. I have met Jesus in heaven five times and sometimes we converse for hours. He has revealed to me a few secrets that the world does not know, such as things about Him and his life on earth as well as the things which are on His heart right now.

The second prophecy over my life.

Ten weeks after my wife left me, I went to a weekend camp for Christian men. I stayed for some good times and some great preaching. The man who spoke was a senior paster of a Christian outreach center with about 400 members. One day he prayed for all of us. He came up to me and said, "Thus saith the Lord: You are in a very dark tunnel right now and it's so dark you can't see any light at all and indeed you find it very hard to believe that there will ever be light. But one day God is going to heal your pain and train you, and then He is going to raise you up and you will preach the gospel and just as Billy Graham is known among the nations, so shall you name be."

I never got to thank him and talk to him about such a massive prophecy, but he did not know me at all and he had so accurately spoken about how I was in that dark tunnel. I grabbed onto the part of the prophecy whick spoke of me one day seeing light and being healed. I put the "Billy Graham" part on the backburner.

I was at that time a very broken man, and I always remembered that promise. When I heard the Billy Graham part, I have to admit, my heart got really happy and excited. That would be my greatest desire, to speak to thousands of people at a time. I am not presently fully healed, but I am very excited as in the last 17 weeks I have shared Christian flavoured messages via this Ezine site with just over 20,000 people. I am preaching the gospel on the Internet.

My third prophetic word

Three years ago I met a man who seemed to know the whole Bible. I see him twice a year when he comes to my country. He was the first person in the world that I had ever seen put the gospel to work. Ten months of the year He preaches all over Asia and there is not a single person that gives him a regular amount of money per month. He lives by faith and teaches a very hard gospel. He teaches that if you are sinning in a cyclical sin of sleeping with prostitutes (as I was doing) and you were a Christian, then you would go to hell no matter how anointed you were. One person asked him if he sinned at all, and I wasn't there but I heard that his response was, "Little ones and not very often."

Though he would not tell anyone his office, I believe he was the first apostle I had ever met. One day after I cried as I prayed, such was my emotion, he prayed over me and prophesied that I would preach up and down the East Coast of Australia.

Later that week, he had preached a powerful two hour sermon on forgiveness and he delivered a non- Christian of four demons and led him to the Lord. Afterward, he leaned over to me and whispered, "This is what you are going to do!"

Never in my life had I seen a man that could preach a two hour sermon and have my utmost attention for the whole time. Never in my life had I seen someone have demons cast out of him, and I sat stunned thinking that I was going to be able to do both of those things.

I was happy this Christmas as I had the rapt attention of five strangers for close to three hours. I spoke about the Lord and asked them to think of questions, and then I went on to answer their questions. I was also happy that thirty of those minutes, Jesus spoke through me straight to them and they could tell it wasn't me speaking. So, at times, I have the anointing on me.

My forth prophetic word

One day at my home church, a strange man came. He began to open the church up each day and pray for people as they wandered inside. I met him in the church and got to speaking with him. He had been living by faith for twenty years and, though the church did not pay him, he stayed for three months and did a few teachings on Saturdays. Once again, I found myself spellbound by a man when he preached. He had no issue with telling me that He was an Apostle.

One day as I prayed with him, I was thinking of the first apostle I had met and I prayed a prayer like, " Father send us mighty men of God, men of holiness and men of passion and men that teach that sinning isn't right and preach with power and have the people change. Send us men to go into churches and teach the people how to be holy and live an outward focused life that would have them witnessing every day with their lives and their words and teach a non-compromised gospel of a life all for God and nothing for the lusts of the world. Gospel, Lord, raise up men that will light churches up in revival in peoples hearts."

He took me for a walk away from the other two young men that were with us and he said to me, "Do you know those men that you were talking about to start revival in men's hearts?" "Yes," I replied.

"Those men are you."

"What do you mean," I asked.

"You are one of those men. You are going to do that in the future."

His prophesy was confirming the first apostle's prophecy that I would preach with power, but he was saying that it wouldn't be just a sermon I would preach but I would leave the people who took the sermon on board to be forever changed.

My sixth prophetic word.

My local Baptist church, where my parents live, lost a pastor and had to get lay people to preach and to fill up the roster. So at one service they asked if people would come forward to put their names down to preach. I rushed up to the front of the church during a song, before the end of the service, and was put first to put my name on the list. I was given a chance to preach two weeks later. I typed the sermon and the assistant pastor checked it. When I preached, the sermon went really well, even though my legs shook as I preached.

After the service, a prophetic man approached me and said, "You are going to preach that sermon all over this country and it's going to have a big impact."

A year later, the same man told me that my vision would come soon. He was quoting Habakkuk.

My Technicolor dreamcoat put on in heaven.

In the "Modern Prodigal Son Goes to Heaven" article on this site, I go into more details of this vision. For now, I just want to share a part of it. I entered heaven and met Jesus. He put a robe on me and took a crown from His own head and placed it onto mine. Then he gave me a signet ring and He put it on my finger.

Later in the vision, my prayer counsellor asked me to look down and tell him the colour of the robe. Joseph had approached me in heaven and said hello and he was not going away. I looked down and the robe was not white, it was a dreamcoat like his and it made me cry.

My robe of righteousness that I wear here on earth is not white but multicoloured and this means three things:

1 Life is going to be tough and dark for me, like a prison.

2 I have to hold onto the prophecies and the vision I have been given.

3 I can't plan my future of how to become the Billy Graham. I have to let God do it through His supernatural way.

My seventh prophecy,

A man from England came to my country, and the whole of London know him because he preaches on a megaphone at very major sporting event as the people go in the main gate. He also preaches at one of the busiest stations six hours a day. He does not have a job but lives by faith. This street evangelist took a shine to me and motivated me to preach on the streets. On our last day together, He told me that Jesus had told him earler that morning that if I put in six hours a day, like he does, that very soon I would be the biggest evangelist in Australia.

That day the Lord told me to give him my technicolour dreamcoat. I told my friend that I had been instructed to give it to him. I was almost crying as I wanted to keep it and it broke my heart to give mine away only to get an ordinary white one back. But the Lord Jesus was insistent, so in my love for my mentor I gave my beloved robe to him. When I settled, I felt for my new plain robe. I looked down, and to my amazement, I still had a coloured robe. Surprised, I looked at him thinking that the trade didn't work, but he had a technicolour dreamcoat on too! Praise God, I had given him some sort of mantle.

This man blessed my heart that day as he asked if I would prophesy over him. I told him he was too big and too anointed for me to prophesy over yet he insisted, telling me that Jesus had told him that I had to do his prophecy that morning. Jesus spoke to him for about five minutes through me and he was in tears as the Lord Jesus said in his future he would go from being a street preacher to filling stadiums.

So where am I up to?

I am working on getting my name onto the preaching roster at my new church. I am also getting a team together to do preaching on the streets. I am writing five or so articles a week that about 1000 people read.

Will I become the Billy Graham?

Yes, I will. I believe in the prophetic and I believe in the prophetic gifts of all of the people that prophesied over me. In fact, all of the prophecies have been about the same thing. The difference is that each prophecy has been giving me more detail and showing me that I am not going to be an overnight sensation. I will first be an accomplished, powerful revivalist preacher in my own country and then throughout the world.

And it's bigger then that!

God has confirmed in many ways that I indeed will die and come back to life after three days. This is prophesied in the Bible in Revelation Chapter 11 about the two witnesses, the last days prophets Elijah and his helper. I am one of the two witnesses, and I imagine the world will see my power within five years through a major plague being prophesied out of my mouth. Until then, I am going to preach the gospel. In the next five years or so, my name will slowly get bigger and bigger and I am pleased to say a lady called Darlene Flores is the second witness. She also writes on this Ezine site. So do you delight in the Lord?

Can you see yourself ever getting your heart's desire? You have to ask yourself if your heart's desire mammon or a lust of this world or is it a Godly thing? You can reach your dreams and get there. I am currently 39 years of age and my first prophesy was when I was 12 years of age. That is 27 years ago and I have not been down to that airport yet. But today I know it's going to happen. I have preached three times and received standing ovations, and I am well on my way to my dream. I don't expect people will think I can be as big as Billy Graham or even one of the two last days prophets, but you can bookmark my homepage on this ezine and read what I write once in a while. You might want to at least write down my name. Who knows? The prophecy could be true, and you'll have known me for years.

I have to ask you this though?

Could you dream as big as me?

Love in Christ,

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