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The Insanity of God

8/31/2020

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Isaiah 6:8 NAS
"Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
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The Insanity of God is the personal and lifelong journey of an ordinary couple from rural Kentucky who thought they were going on just your ordinary missionary pilgrimage, but discovered it would be anything but. After spending over six hard years doing relief work in Somalia, and experiencing life where it looked like God had turned away completely and He was clueless about the tragedies of life, the couple had a crisis of faith and left Africa asking God, "Does the gospel work anywhere when it is really a hard place?  It sure didn't work in Somalia.

Nik recalls that, “God had always been so real to me, to Ruth, and to our boys. But was He enough, for the utter weariness of soul I experienced at that time, in that place, under those circumstances?” It is a question that many have asked and one that, if answered, can lead us to a whole new world of faith. 

How does faith survive, let alone flourish in a place like the Middle East? How can Good truly overcome such evil? How do you maintain hope when all is darkness around you? How can we say “greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world” when it may not be visibly true in that place at that time? How does anyone live an abundant, victorious Christian life in our world’s toughest places? Can Christianity even work outside of Western, dressed-up, ordered nations? If so, how? 
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The Insanity of God tells a story—a remarkable and unique story to be sure, yet at heart a very human story—of the Ripkens’ own spiritual and emotional odyssey. The gripping, narrative account of a personal pilgrimage into some of the toughest places on earth, combined with sobering and insightful stories of the remarkable people of faith Nik and Ruth encountered on their journeys, will serve as a powerful course of revelation, growth, and challenge for anyone who wants to know whether God truly is enough.

To watch the video below if it does not show up view in your Browser or go to this link: https://youtu.be/H5jTQuKr-d4
ACTION STEP: This is a life changer. As a Christian in America we view the church as many churches when in fact we are one church. There is not a persecuted church and a free church, there is simply the church. People die everyday for the sake of the Gospel. Those that are not free fight for those of us that are. Make your life count. Ask God the hard questions. Ask yourself if your body is the Temple of the living God. Ask yourself, "Am I sold out?" If not why? When? 

We had our entire church watch this last night. No one moved at the end of the movie. We all just sat in silence. There were many tears shed. I could not help but wonder--will it make a difference? Will you make a difference? I am still asking myself will I and to what extent?

Get the book everywhere. Get the movie at:  https://www.christiancinema.com/digital/
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Battling depression

8/28/2020

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​Psalm 30:11 NIV
 "You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,"
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For us as Christians, we need to renew our minds to think positively and not to be thinking about the worst outcomes, and believe in what the word tells us, to think about good things and that good things are going to happen to us, that all good things comes from our Father in heaven (James 1:7). Hope from the word of God, provides a confident expectation of good things, and to always be thankful (Phil 4:6).
Our hearts can be down cast. A spirit of depression can bring a “heaviness” over us, and try to rob our hope. It brings a heavy, oppressive feeling. It tries to steal our faith. Depression tries to come over us like a dark, heavy cloud. When this cloud is hanging over us, it may come over us at once, like a plague.  It can causes us to isolate, it tries to steal our love, wants to make us feel alone, and it tries to steal our relationship with God. However, in all things related to depression, it is putting on the garment of praise that can brings us out of depression.
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Click here to view the link and listen to a prayer if it does not show up in your Browser: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2asXK4dExU&t=109s  Take control of your emotions by renewing your mind to the Word of God. With the weekend ahead of you find a good church and get there--in person. Not live-streaming but in the flesh! Drench yourself in praise and worship and the word. It will refresh you and set you up for a better week.
ACTION STEP: Matthew 11:28-30 NIV "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Come to Jesus. Return to Jesus. Whatever your situation is He can turn it around. Will you let him? That's the question.
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Hiding in your hammock.

8/27/2020

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1 Thessalonians 5:14-18
“We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people. Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
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I know it’s hard to serve and love well. I certainly don’t do this perfectly (just ask my husband and children). I want to just stay home, read a book in my hammock and let the world pass me by. This is NOT what God’s Word tells us to do. His word tells us to SERVE and LOVE one another. Don’t go hiding in your hammock! During this pandemic many are disengaging and now more than ever it is the time to engage with others and with our church and families.
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Jesus is the example we need to follow. He was the PERFECT one and so we turn our eyes to Him and His Word for direction. Matthew 16, shows us, he felt compassion on the people, Matthew 23, He longs to gather His people like chicks under His wings, and the plethora of healing that He did shows His heart of service. This is what we think of first when we think of how Jesus served.

BUT sweet friend, those acts were just the tip of the iceberg. He served the greatest by His coming. He left His throne and heaven to come as a poor babe. He came to live, serve and ultimately DIE for you and me. He was the suffering servant Savior, in Isaiah 53, who came to serve us the most through His death and resurrection so that we might be reconciled to Him. (Please read that chapter in Isaiah and meditate on it. Can you or I even attain that kind of service to one another? The answer is no, if you are wondering, but we can practice that kind of service and love)

Love one another and “Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ” Galatians 6:2. Love is not just words. It is 1 Cor 13 kind of stuff. I honestly struggle to read 1 Cor 13 because I see myself in that mirror of God’s word and find myself LACKING! Love is not easy, but it is the greatest. As I wrote this, I was convicted of my poorly executed love to Christ and to others. It is really difficult to self-evaluate but does cause me to be conformed to Christ even more and for that I am thankful.
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You may be struggling with other Christian’s right now. You might be feeling like giving up on religion and church, I understand your hurt, BUT don’t give up. Christ came for the ungodly, and that is all of us. We have grace for a reason! It is the kind of grace that pardons and cleanses us from sin because we are NOT able to love Christ without Him helping us love Him. We are all sheep that go astray, are you not thankful for the Shepherd who keeps you safe in His care and comes after you when you struggle or stray?
ACTION STEP: Can you say, "I live only Lord to see your face, to shine on me?" In my struggles, my losses, my sacrifices I press in all the more to the one who gave His life for me. I am doing my part to reach out and touch those that are blinded by this world and all it has to offer that is so temporal, so that I can perhaps open their eyes to what is eternal. I can't do it all alone-but I can do my part. You can do your part. Who needs a phone call today? Who needs prayer today? Who has God laid on your heart? Allow the Holy Spirit to flow through you. Reach out and be the hands and feet of God. Make today count! Then lay down on your hammock and enjoy the afterglow.
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The joy of self-sacrifice.

8/26/2020

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John 15:15
"I have called you friends."
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During our staff meeting yesterday our devotion was written by Oswald Chambers. We discussed around the table that we will never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we surrender in every detail of our lives. Yet self-surrender is the most difficult thing for us to do. We make it conditional by saying, "I'll surrender if...!" Or we approach it by saying, "I guess I have to serve God or go to hell, or at best obey the word of God." We will never find the joy of self-sacrifice in either of these ways.

We can’t love others well if we don’t love our Savior well first. Loving Christ, above all else, is a daily decision and it takes a commitment to Him, His Word and a desire to obey Him. I can’t help but go to 1st John to exhort myself in this. I studied 1 John years ago and it made profound impact on me. It is a great book to help you learn to love Jesus and understand His love for you!
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Love Christ well by repenting of your sins to Him. This is something we neglect to do. Why? Because we are prideful and think we are “good”. No one is good BUT the Lord God.  1 John 9-10 ” If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” Repentance is a beautiful gift the Father allows us to do before Him through Christ.  Getting along well with others means you take care of your sins with God before you go after another Christian.
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Psalm 40:8
"I delight to do Your will, O my God..."
ACTION STEP: God engineers circumstances to see what we will do. Will we be the children of our Father in Heaven, or will we go back again to the meaner, common sense attitude? Will you, will I stake all and stand true to God? Will we be faithful unto death, and receive a crown of life? The choice is ours. 

The longer I live the more I desire to live a life of sacrifice, because I see the wages it pays, I see the glory of God in my ways, and in the days that I can do no more; He steps in with His grace and flows through me. I have the great privilege of living long enough to see that dying to self is the greatest joy of my life. I sacrificed my body to be fruitful and multiply, and I was rewarded with three beautiful daughters and three incredibly delightful grandchildren. If I had my life to live again, I would sacrifice more. I would encourage others to sacrifice more, try harder, work longer, stand stronger, be bolder until the death; doing all to serve my Lord. He deserves it all. Don't be a biting sheep but a lamb who lays down his life for others.
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Taking an inventory of the threads of your coat of many colors.

8/25/2020

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Genesis 50:20,
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives”.
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Joseph acquired the skills needed for this massive operation of feeding a nation during a famine while spending 13 years in Potiphar’s house and in prison; as he faced the afflictions of being rejected, falsely accused and being forgotten.
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God can do the same for you and for me and He truly makes us fruitful through our afflictions! His desire is to make us He has called us to be.
We are children of Abraham. Without Abraham there is no Joseph and no Israel, and no us. Abraham is where Israel began. Holding onto your dream is a life-saving act. Your dreams make you different. Your dreams are you’re alabaster box of worship to God.

Your past brings you experience.
Your present brings you action.
Your future brings you hope.

Joseph had to start dreaming to be set apart –Start dreaming!
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ACTION STEP: Begin to take inventory of the treads that would make up your multicolored coat. Ask yourself, "If God my Father would make me a coat, what would He see in me that would make Him choose those colors?" Here is a link to listen to as you sit at the feet of Jesus and begin to dream.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIclnfnoVo) Dreams become reality if you refuse to let them go. Your thoughts become a reflection of who you are. Read Proverbs 23:7. 

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Iron Faith When It All Goes Wrong-Trust God.

8/24/2020

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 (Rom. 8:28) 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.  
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Keep the conviction that God reigns over all the details of your life, from the greatest to the smallest. It is amazing that the most common means people use these days to solve the mystery of suffering never even occurred to Joseph or Job or Paul. These who suffered so for their testimony never once expressed any sense that God is limited in what He has control over. But that seems to be the first instinct in our day when tragedy strikes or injustice is done. “God couldn't have willed that sickness, or that explosion, or that wreck.” We create exemption clauses that we think protects God when hard things happen.
 
All through Joseph’s experiences, there is no indication that he followed this line of thinking. Instead, by example and by word, he held to the conviction that God reigns.  If link for video below does not show up view in your Browser or click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrNamnkxzkA
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Job put it like this in Job 12:13-16: "To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His. What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. If He holds back the waters, there is drought; if He lets them loose, they devastate the land. To Him belong strength and victory; both deceived and deceiver are His.
 
Rest here. Stay here. Joseph did. David did. Isaiah did. Daniel did. This is the place of comfort, endurance, and hope. This is the place Jesus has purchased for us while we are on this earth.
ACTION STEP:  Pray daily, "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven..." (Matthew 6:10) Let your disillusionment with people turn you to the goodness and faithfulness of the Lord. Throughout Joseph’s short but eventful life, he had learned this truth well: People will let you down, but God will never fail you. Isaiah 2:22 says, Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils; of what account is he? Which is Isaiah’s way of saying, “Why bank your hopes on a creature who can only live by taking one breath at a time? If he misses the next few breathes, he dies! Trust in God, who is the eternal breath from whom all our little breathes come.”
 
People are going to fail you, disappoint you, leave you hanging out to dry. Let that drive you to God. Jeremiah 17:5-8 shows us the difference between the person who puts his hope in what people can do and the person whose confidence is in what God can do. Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
 
"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."
 
Learn to wait upon the Lord. Isaiah knew well this truth, and gave us these great words: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall soar on wings as eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall run and not be faint (Isaiah 40:31). Joseph understood that God’s ways are not our ways. His timing is always perfect.
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Used of God, but Forgotten. Fruitful through affliction.

8/21/2020

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Genesis 40:23
“the chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him”.
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In Chapter 40 of Genesis, the king’s chief cupbearer and chief baker were thrown into the same prison as Joseph for what could have been a possible assassination attempt on the king (40:1-3). They thus came under Joseph’s influence (vs 4). Sometime later, they both had dreams and when they were troubled over the dreams, Joseph interpreted them accurately (vs 4-19). The end result was that the chief cupbearer was restored back to his position, while the chief baker was executed, exactly as Joseph predicted (vs 20-22). In verses 14-15, we find Joseph pleading with the chief cupbearer to speak to the king on his behalf, once he is released, stating his innocence to the accusation brought against him.
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Sadly, verse 23 tells us, “the chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him”. In fact, his forgetfulness lasted 2 long years! However, Joseph was learning to be fruitful through the affliction of being forgotten.
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What about you? Have your efforts and your hard work or a promise made, been forgotten, maybe by your boss or some members in your family? Maybe a close friend. Maybe your labor in the ministry seems to have been forgotten by others. Do you feel that maybe the Lord has forgotten you? Be patient and keep trusting the Lord and He will lift you up at the right time. He will never forget you!
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Thankfully, when Pharaoh had a couple of bad dreams two years later and none of his wise men could interpret the dreams (41:1-8), the chief cupbearer’s memory came alive again (41:9-13). This resulted in him recommending Joseph’s ability to interpret dreams to the king, and the rest is history. While most people search for the ‘right contacts’ at Conferences, Seminars and other events, it is significant, as a man of God said, that Joseph found his contact inside a prison!! God may do the same for you in unexpected ways and places! After interpreting the king’s dreams accurately, Joseph was released from prison and promoted to the second highest position in Egypt, at the age of 30 (41:46). He was also assigned the huge task of saving the nation of Egypt and the surrounding world from the famine that was about to break out (41:37-40). Joseph handled the task to perfection (41:56-57). In the process, he was used by God to bring restoration to his family and to also save the nation of Israel.

Joseph’s status had changed once again from being ‘favorite son’ to ‘favorite slave’, to favorite Executive’, to ‘favorite prisoner’, to now being ‘favorite Diplomat’! If the link below does not show up click here to listen: 
ACTION STEP: ​Don't give up on your dream. Hold onto the promises of God. No weapon formed against you will prosper. F. B. Meyer wrote, “You who have been misunderstood, who have sown seeds of holiness and love to reap nothing but disappointment, loss, suffering, and hate—you know something of what Joseph felt in that wretched dungeon hole.”
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Character Assassination

8/20/2020

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Ps. 105:18
 "His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron."
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The cutting wounds of false accusations come to all of us at some time or another. Character assassination is one of the most difficult challenges a human can face. It’s also amazing how such false accusations can travel with lightning speed, as Marvin Gaye sang, ‘heard it through the grapevine’. How we handle it will determine how fruitful we will be through it. You don’t find Joseph grumbling or complaining. Instead, he trusted in the Lord and the Bible says that the Lord was with Joseph and made him fruitful in the midst of his affliction (Gen.39:20-21). He will be with us too.
Joseph now found favor with the prison warden, who in turn made him the chief Administrator for all management operations and labor control in the prison! (Gen. 39:21-23)
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Joseph’s status had changed once again. He had gone from being ‘favorite son’ to ‘favorite slave’, to ‘favorite executive’, and was now the ‘favorite prisoner”!
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He became fruitful through the affliction of false accusation-He was Honorable but slandered.
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Fast forward now to another point in his life, eleven years (means last lap) later, when he was honorable, yet still was slandered. He is a young adult slave of 28 years, working in the home of a high official in the Egyptian courts named Potiphar. Somewhere along the line, Joseph had decided that if life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. So, as Gen. 39 reports, he honored the Lord and worked hard at what was assigned to him. He served Potiphar with integrity and industry, and when opportunity came, he would talk to Potiphar about Jehovah God.

The Lord was with Joseph and blessed everything he oversaw. Potiphar noticed this and promoted him to the highest position in his household. And we feel the rightness of this for Joseph. I mean, isn’t that how it’s supposed to turn out—If you faithfully serve the Lord, He will bless you, shield you, open doors for you?
 
Even when his godly character was severely tested, he shined. Potiphar’s wife made it her goal to make Joseph her latest conquest. The Bible tells us that lust so gripped this woman that she threw caution to the wind, directly propositioning him to come to bed with her. Given her brazen forwardness, one might well imagine that as the days went by, she grew more daring in her seductions.
 
Finally, when none of these tactics had worked, she arranged for the house to be vacated except for herself and the man she had designs on. The unsuspecting Joseph walked right into her trap. She rushed at him wearing what we can only guess and grabbed him, presumably to drag him to her bed if she could.
 
With every rationalization known to man for having sex with this woman pounding his mind and body, Joseph chose to obey the Lord. He jerked free of her grip so quickly that he left his outer tunic in her hands as he ran out of the house to get away from temptation.
 
No one can escape admiring a man so set on glorifying God in his body that he refused the one thing he had no real hope of ever legitimately experiencing in his lifetime. But notice what happens to him in Gen. 39:13-20: As soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house, she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."
 
In Genesis 39 Verse 16-17 says that she laid up his garment by her until his master came home, and she told him the same story. Look at v. 19: As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.  And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
ACTION STEP: Maybe you've been falsely accused? Maybe you're in a relationship prison or worse yet alone in the dungeon of someone else's making? We still serve a good, good Father--it's who He is and we are loved by Him. Hold onto your dream Joseph (Josephine), it will come to pass. God is making the person He can use. Times of famine and starvation are coming and resources our going to be coming from our good, good Father. Her needs a conduit of glory to flow through. Our Father needs someone who has been processed. Praise Him in your prison. Someone else is going to be a dreamer soon and they are going to need what you have!
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Rejection brings redirection.

8/19/2020

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Welcome back to RPMDaily. Yesterday, we ended where Joseph had gone from favorite son to favorite slave. Today, we see Joseph go from favorite slave to favorite CEO.

Rejection is always painful, especially when the blow comes from someone we have loved or someone we have helped.

Maybe you are going through rejection right now in your marriage, in a relationship, in your workplace and the pain has become unbearable. No matter how bad the rejection, God can still make you fruitful like he did for Joseph.
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Let’s also not forget that the skills Joseph developed in Potiphar’s house were more or less what he needed later, to rescue Egypt and the surrounding nations. Similarly, God can teach us valuable lessons and enhance our skills in the midst of rejection and other afflictions. God is in the business of training for reigning. 
 
Joseph walked with the Lord, so much so that God revealed to him a part of the future He had planned for him. Gen. 37 also tells us that Joseph’s father honored him by granting him the family birthrights though he was not the firstborn son, which made him the manager of the household under his father and exempted from daily work.
 
All the doors seemed wide open to him, until that one day when his brothers acted in hatred. Joseph had done the right things. He had been obedient to God and his father, but it cost him his home and his inheritance. Obedient, but Hated, Joseph Became Fruitful through rejection.
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Why did Joseph continue to prosper no matter where he was or what he was forced to do? Because God was with him and he held onto his dream. He believed the dream was from God. Joseph may not of known how, but he knew God was going to accomplish what he showed him.

Things went so well for Joseph in that prison, that as a slave, Potiphar put Joseph in charge of his entire household and of everything he owned (Gen.39:4). God in turn blessed Potiphar’s household in abundance, because of Joseph (Gen. 39:5-6). Similarly, even in our afflictions, God can still make us a blessing to others! Joseph’s status had now changed even further. He had moved from being "favorite son" to "favorite slave" and was now Potiphar’s "favorite Executive" (CEO of Potiphar Prison Enterprises).
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ACTION STEP:  Take whatever experiences you have had with rejection to the cross. See. Look up at Jesus. See your rejection upon Him. See it nailed to the cross. Remember God loves you. Remember Jesus died for you. Remind yourself that God has a plan for your life. God is bigger than any pit, prison or palace you may find yourself in. Just keep pressing on and working hard, doing your best; for the best is yet to come! You are God's favorite.
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Afflictions and Injustice

8/18/2020

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 Corinthians 10:11
“Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”
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Three Points of Injustice-Afflictions in Joseph’s Life that I want to share with you. 

1.  Joseph Became Fruitful Through Rejection he was Obedient, but Hated.

2. Joseph Became Fruitful Through False Accusation, he was Honorable, but Slandered.

3. Joseph Became Fruitful Through Being Forgotten, he was used of God, but Forgotten. 

Joseph became fruitful because God was with him. This was before Jesus was crucified and died. This happened before Jesus arose from the dead, and became seated at the right hand of our Father. If Joseph can become fruitful, so can you.

After many unexpected twists and turns, and thirteen years of toil and affliction, God blessed Joseph in an unimaginable way! As a result, he became the second most powerful man in Egypt (Genesis 41:41-44), and thereafter, God blessed Joseph with two sons (Genesis 41:50).

He named his second son Ephraim, which had the meaning of being ‘fruitful through affliction’ (Genesis 41:52). The word ‘affliction” is translated ‘suffering’ in the NIV.
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As we go through the story this week I pray you realize that through all of your afflictions, God is with you. God will see you through to the realization of your dream. If He gave it to you--He will bring it to pass.

Genesis chapter 37 covers this part of this story, as Joseph’s brothers take revenge on him because of their envy (Genesis 37:4-5) and reject him through betrayal (Genesis 37:12-31). It all began because of the favored status Jacob placed on Joseph (Genesis 37: 3, 4), over all the other sons. This favor included making Joseph a very special ‘coat of many colors’ and using him to spy on his brothers (37:2).

Joseph’s status now was that of being the ‘favorite son’.

To make matters worse, Joseph foolishly began to boast about his futuristic dreams, where one day he would rule over his entire family (Genesis 37:5-7,9). The envy and hatred that was simmering in the hearts of his brothers had now reached boiling point with trouble about to burst! (Genesis 37: 8, 11)

As we read further in Genesis 37, the brothers got their opportunity for revenge and initially planned to kill Joseph (Genesis 37:18-20). But, thanks to the intervention of Reuben (Gen. 37:21-22) and Judah (Gen. 37:26-27), they put him in a cistern and decided to sell him off as a slave. Verse 25 says that they actually started to have a meal while he was in the cistern!! Eventually they sold him off to a band of (Midianite- the name means strife and place of judgement, and to govern. Ishmaelite's means a wonderer or outcast but also “God shall hear.”) merchants who in turn sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard (Gen. 37:36).

Because of his brothers’ rejection and betrayal, Joseph had lost all his rights, and was now a slave. One can only imagine the pain and loneliness this young man went through. It is certain that he would have been treated harshly, maybe viciously, by the slave-traders. God however was with Joseph and gave him favor with Potiphar (Gen. 39:4), who began to see the unique faith, wisdom and skills this young Hebrew slave possessed (39:2-3).

Joseph’s status had changed from being ‘favorite son’ to being ‘favorite slave’.

If the music video doesn't show up here below click this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7lCH_WFj4
ACTION STEP: ​As you go through your day, no matter what afflictions and injustice you encounter, remember to hold on to your dream. If you won't let go neither will God. He is for you. He is the reason for all we do and all we go through. His strength is made perfect in our weakness. See you again tomorrow...
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