THERE'S PURPOSE IN YOUR PAIN "GENESIS 39:1-6"

INTRODUCTION

JOSEPHS STORY IS UNIQUE, HE COMES FROM A STAR STUDED BACKGROUND

HIS FATHER IS JACOB, GRANDFATHER ISAAC, AND GREAT GRANDFATHER ABRAHAM

AND HE AND HIS ELEVEN BROTHERS COMPRISE THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

HANDED DOWN ALL THE WAY FROM HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER ABRAHAM, JOSEPH BECOMES A PATRIARCH AND A BENEFICIARY OF A GREAT PROMISE

GOD PROMISES ABRAHAM AND HIS DESCENDANTS THE DEED TO THE PROMISED LAND AKA CANNAN “GENESIS 15”

ALL NATIONS WOULD BE BLESSED THROUGH THIS FAMILY LINE “GENESIS 22”

SO JOSEPH THROUGH HIS BLOODLINE BECOME A PATRIARCH AND AN INHERITOR OF A MAJOR PROMISE FROM GOD BUT....... THE TEXT NEVER SAID HE WOULDN’T HAVE PROBLEMS

AND THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO EXAMINE TODAY … SOME OF THE PROBLEMS THAT JOSEPH RUNS INTO IN LIFE

BECAUSE ALTHOUGH BY GODS DESIGN

JOSEPH IS A PATRIARCH OF THE FAMILY OF FAITH

JOSEPHS LIFE HAS PROMISE

CAN I SUGGEST THAT, HE’S NOT EXEMPT FROM PROBLEMS

AND IF YOU BE HONEST THIS MORNING ...NO ONE IN HERE IS....

AND THAT WE MIGHT BE ON THE SAME PAGE, LETS DEFINE PROBLEM BUT IN A UNIVERSAL WAY, .... THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE

BECAUSE IN SOME SENCE WHAT YOU SEE AS A PROBLEM SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT SEE AS A BLESSING

LET ME HELP YOU

WHILE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR JOB , THERE’S SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE WHO WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOUR JOB “ I AIN’T GOT NOBODY”

WHILE YOUR COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR HOUSE THERE’S SOMEBODY WHO DON’T HAVE A ROOF OVER THEIR HEAD

AND WHILE YOUR COMPLAINING ABOUT GIVING GOD THE GLORY THEIRS SOMEBODY IN HERE, THAT KNOWS IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE LORD ON MY SIDE…

IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME .......OUTDOORS...... WITH NO FOOD .......AND NO CLOTHES AND FOR THAT I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU

ARE THEIR ANY GRATEFUL PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE THIS MORNING

AND SO LETS DEFINE WHAT A PROBLEM IS AND GIVE IT A UNIVERSAL TAG BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE DIFER

FOR THE SAKE OF THIS CONVERSATION LETS JUST DEFINE A PROBLEM ACCORDING TO OUR TEXT AS SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T GO AS PLANNED

WOULD YOU AGREE THAT WHEN THINGS DON’T GO AS PLANNED.... THAT THAT’S A PROBLEM

CAN I SUGGEST THAT NOBODY GETS MARRIED AND PLANS........ TO GET DIVORCED

NOBODY HAS CHILDREN AND PLANS.... TO BURY THEM

NOBODY SITS AROUND PLANNING TO GET TERMINALLY ILL

AND CAN I SUGGEST THAT LIFE IS FULL OF TWIST, TURNS, CURV BALLS, CAVEATS AND PROBLEMS

I WISH I HAD SOMEBODY THIS MORNING

BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH

THINGS DON’T WORK OUT QUITE LIKE HE PLANNED

WHAT HE DIDN’T KNOW WAS THAT THERE IS NO ELEVATOR ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS , BUT THAT HE HAD TO TAKE THE STAIRS

JOSEPH IS THE 11TH SON OF RACHAEL AND JACOB

HIS NAME MEANS INCREASE HIS MOTHER NAMES HIM THAT FOR SELFISH REASONS

AND THE BIBLE HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUT OF 13 CHILDREN, JACOB LOVED JOSEPH THE MOST

THE BIBLE HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THAT JOSEPH HAS AN EXTRAORDINARY GIFT “HE’S A VISIONARY” AND HE CAN INTERPRET DREAMS

AND HIS LIFE TAKES A TURN WHEN HE DISCOVERS HIS GIFT

IN GENESIS 37 GOD SHOWS JACOB A VISION AND HE SHARES IT WITH HIS FAMILY, THE VISION INVOLVES HIS ENTIRE FAMILY AND THE WORLD AROUND HIM

THE PROBLEM IS THE WAY HE TOLD IT .... HE TOLD HIS FAMILY, THAT THEY WOULD BE HIS SUBJECTS

THE PROBLEM WASN’T WHAT HE SHARED THE PROBLEM WAS THAT IT WAS SEASONED WITH SELFISHNESS

THIS WASN’T NO STORY WHERE EVERYBODY CAME OUT ON TOP

IN JOSEPHS VISION, ..IN HIS INTERPRETATION

HE WAS THE STAR OF THE SHOW

AND HIS FAMILY INCLUDING HIS MOM AND POP, WERE HIS SUBJECTS

CAN I SUGGEST BE LEERY OF FOLK WHO WANT TO BE THE STAR OF THE SHOW

THEY ONLY HAPPY, .... THEY ONLY SUPPORTIVE WHEN ITS THEIR IDEAS

THE ONLY TIME THEY SEEM REMOTELY INTERESTED IS WHEN THEY SHARING THEIR OPINIONS

AND CAN I SUGGEST THAT THIS IS THE TYPE OF PERSON

YOU DON’T WANNA BE MARRIED TO

YOU DON’T WANNA BE FRIENDS WITH

YOU DON’T WANNA WORK FOR OR

DO BUSINESS WITH, OR MINISTRY WITH

CAUSE THEY WILL SUCK THE VERY LIFE OUT OF YOU

DRIVE YOU CRAZY.

BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS LOOKING FOR PERSONAL ANGRANDIZEMENT BEING THE STAR OF THE SHOW

AND THE PROBLEM WITH THIS IS THAT IT DOESN’T BUILD NOBODY UP BUT THEM ACTUALLY IT’S A FALSE SENSE OF EDIFICATION WHICH IN ACTUALITY TEARS DOWN

AND A HOUSE , A MARRIAGE , BUSINESS OR MINISTRY, DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CAN’T STAND

I WISH I HAD SOMEBODY

SO UP UNTIL THIS POINT JOSEPH DISCOVERS HIS GIFT AND BECOMES ENTHRALLED WITH HIMSELF

AND THE PROBLEM IS HE DOESN’T HAVE AN INCLUSIVE VISION BUT EXCLUSIVE EXCLUDING EVERYONE BUT HIMSELF

AND THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF JOSEPHS PROBLEMS

BECAUSE BY THE TIME WE GET TO OUR TEXT JOSEPHS PARENTS PONDER HIS WORDS

BUT HIS BROTHERS POSE A PROBLEM

THE TEXT SAYS IN CH. 37 THEY CONSPIRE AGAINST HIM

LEST I HOLD YOU THEY SOLD HIM AS A SLAVE

AND THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM BECAUSE REMEMBER WE AGREED THAT A PROBLEM IS WHEN THINGS DON’T GO ACCORDING AS PLANNED

IN JOSEPHS MIND

HE WAS GONNA SHARE HIS VISION EVERYONE WOULD LOVE IT AND THEN AS PLANNED HIS VISION WOULD GO INTO MOTION

BUT IT DIDN’T GO THAT WAY

REMEMBER GOD GAVE JOSEPH THE GIFT

AND GOD GAVE HIM THE VISION

HERS’S THE DEEP THING...

GOD HAD PLANS TO EXALT JOSEPH

BUT WHEN HE EXAMINED JOSEPH HE FOUND PRIDE AND THIS CAUSED HIS PROBLEMS

GOD SAYS....

JOSEPH IM GONNA USE YOU

IM GONNA DO GREAT THINGS IN YOUR LIFE

IM GONNA EXALT YOU FOR MY GLORY

BUT WHEN HE EXAMINES HIM....

CAN I ASK THE RELEVANT QUESTION ,… WHAT WILL GOD FIND IF HE EXAMINES US TODAY

WE WANT HIM TO DO GREAT THINGS

IN OUR LIVES

IN OUR MARRIAGE

IN OUR MINISTRY

BUT IF HE PULLS BACK THE COVERS

WHAT WILL HE FIND

PIT

REDEMPTION

GOD ALLOWS PITS IN OUR LIFE TO SAVE AND REDEEM US

POTIPHARS HOUSE

RECONSTRUCTION

Phillippians 1:6 (1 PETER 2:20)

Ezekiel 36:26 LEB

And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

PRISON

RENEWAL

DEPENDANCY NOT INDEPENDANT