Joseph:

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     I have really enjoyed reading the Book that my wife gave me – and looking at all the references back to Joseph (You’ll Get through this – by Max Lucado)…    Let me share with you some great insights.
        Let me be clear.  You are a version of Joseph in your generation.  You represent a challenge to Satan’s plan.  You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs – wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill.  If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.        The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason:  to teach you to trust God to trump evil.  What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.

  1.  Let me be clear.  You are a version of Joseph in your generation.  You represent a challenge to Satan’s plan.  You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs – wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill.  If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.        The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason:  to teach you to trust God to trump evil.  What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.
  2. Joseph had lost everything, with one exception.  His Destiny.   JJ…
    1. This is when God does his best work – in our brokenness.
  3. Here is what is said about Joseph – my question:  Can this be said of us?
    1. The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man.  (v2)
    2. His master saw that the Lord was with him. (v3)
    3. The Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake.  (v5)
    4. The blessing of the Lord was on all the he had.  (v5)
  4. Joseph’s story points elsewhere (“Look Higher”).  He succeeded because God was present.  God was to Joseph what a blanket is to a baby – he was all over him.  
    1. Any Chance he’d be the same for you?????
  5. Joseph had a yearning for God’s presence:
    1. Ex: 33:15 –   “If you Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
    2. David also –  Ps. 51:11 – “Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me”

 

If you have not read the story of Joseph recently – please pick up your Bible and read it once more in a different sense of urgency.   Make sure God is walking with you as he did with Joseph…

 

Bobbyg