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Glimpses of Glory

Dale C. Bronner

Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral • Oct 5, 2026 • 51 min

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Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, and prayer.

Summary

In "Glimpses of Glory," Bishop Dale C. Bronner explores how the life of Joseph serves as a profound prophetic reflection of Jesus Christ. Through Joseph's journey from betrayal and prison to elevation, we learn that God frequently removes past shame and subtraction before multiplying His blessings. By enduring suffering with resilience, keeping right affections in our heart, and faithfully exercising our gifts, our lives can demonstrate the forgiving, transforming character of Christ to the world.

Themes

Suffering and RestorationProphetic Parallels of ChristFaith and EnduranceSpiritual Increase through LossOperating in Spiritual Gifts

Key Points

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The life of Joseph serves as an Old Testament prophetic picture reflecting the life, suffering, and exaltation of Jesus Christ.
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God often removes reproach, shame, and past brokenness from our lives before adding spiritual growth and greater blessings.
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Suffering is temporary, non-discriminatory, and serves an inescapable educational purpose to expose character, eliminate distractions, and teach patience.
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Spiritual endurance requires resilience like a faithful soldier, trusting that God will restore, support, strengthen, and establish us after a season of trial.
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Inheriting God's promises requires combining persistent faith with endurance so spiritual dullness does not take over.
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True increase and fruitfulness occur when we surrender what we hold onto, trusting God's mathematical process of turning loss and subtraction into multiplication.
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Right affections in your heart consistently lead to right directions in your life and protect your perspective.
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Your God-given gifts are meant to be exercised even during seasons of restriction or waiting, serving as the key to answering others' needs and stepping into God's purpose.

Sermon Moments

“God often removes something from your life before He adds something better in its place.”

“Suffering is a circumstance for which there is no escape... You can't rush suffering, because patience has something that it is teaching us.”

“Sometimes God delivers you from the fire. There are other times that He makes you fireproof.”

“Right affections in your heart lead to right directions in your life.”

“The highest form of increase is not what God adds to your life, but what God is able to add to the lives of others through you.”

“I call that the Jesus dip... You go down before you come up. If you trust God, He has a way of being able to turn it around for good.”

“You're filling yourself with stuff that leaves you empty... Blessed are those that do hunger and thirst after righteousness.”

“In one day, what he had suffered for two years... God flipped it on a dime. He pivoted it because a dream in a king's heart had a cry for something that Joseph was gifted to answer.”

This Week

When facing temporary suffering or hardship, remind yourself that God promises to restore, strengthen, and establish you on a firm foundation.

Choose to keep your heart's affections aligned with God's Word through prayer and scripture reading so your life steps remain in the right direction.

Refrain from prematurely rescuing others from God's refining process when hardship is meant to teach them crucial spiritual lessons.

Consistently exercise and steward your God-given spiritual gifts even in seasons of isolation, waiting, or limitation.

Instead of praying only for personal blessings, pray daily: "Lord, make me a blessing to others."

Extend forgiveness and mercy to those who have hurt or betrayed you, choosing reconciliation over revenge.

Guard your spiritual appetite by limiting empty digital consumption and social media scrolling, hungering instead for Christ, the Living Bread.

Remember This

The hardship and apparent losses in our lives are God's process of refining us, turning subtraction into multiplication, and revealing glimpses of Christ's glory through us.

A Challenge for You

The glimpses of glory are the ways that our lives reflect the life and the character of Jesus Christ. So instead of your flipping out and acting a fool, it is to say, "Lord, may You temper me with the Holy Spirit that the character of Jesus Christ might be lived out in my life and I bring glory to Your name."

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