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Intro:
I often wonder how do I get out of where I am and over to where God is.
I often wonder who God wants me to be.
(what kind of character will I have).
I often wonder those things cause stuff just dont seem to be “right”.
In my eyes, I want things to be they way I want them to be.
I know that God does not want us to constantly struggle, He doesn’t want us to just be broken, He wants us to be blessed, he wants us to be happy.
There are sometimes I just have to cry out, “Fix me Lord, so I can deal!”
So I want to share this story that God gave me that helps me.
You see, God tells me its about how I look at where I am.
Scripture:
Genesis 37:1-11
How many times does God give you a word and other folks start trippin?
(shade) But God has to prepare “us”
Gen 37:18-24
Title, Prayer:
Fix Me
Application:
Story of Joseph
We often look at this from a jealousy perspective.
But, there is another lesson here.
Sometimes God allows life to put us into a situation because God needs us to be separated so we can hear Him, so we can be strengthened, so He can work on us.
Joseph, son of Jacob– at the age of 17 being thrown down into a pit and at this point, all he was doing was being obedient.
Cistern- an underground reservoir for rainwater
God already had a plan, cause there was no water in the cistern.
v24
Exegesis:
1. Sometimes the way up, is not always up!
a. Sometimes you might have to go down first.
b.
There are times when we have to be put in a position where we seem to be separated from everything we know.
Sometimes separated from all our possessions in order to be humbled and molded enough to be used by God.
Sometimes we have to get knocked of our high horse.
c.
Foundation of a house.
The bigger the hole, the bigger the house.
2. Sometimes God has to let us go thru some things, to get us ready for some things
40:23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
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We often get stuck at the “going thru” part and end up missing the “get ready” part
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This is kinda like the ups and downs of life.
I think we always have the ups and downs because we struggle with the “fix me” me part.
We are too often concerned with the “fix them” part!
3. How we think about “stuff” is not how God thinks about “stuff”
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We think that when bad stuff happens, that its just bad…God doesn’t see it that way.
The word says that all things work to the good for those that love the Lord..
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Too often, we want to show people who we are, you know, I got grit, I got game, moxie, gumption….But we forget that God wants us to show people who GOD is!
Benediction:
You see God laid out a plan for Joseph
Genesis 45:1-8
Sometimes God has to work on us!
We cant go by what the world has done to us…Its ALWAYS going to do something to us… We all got our situation.
We look at the things...The world wants to keep us in the pit that down there.
But the devil is a liar.
Sometimes when we cry out.
We need to cry out Fix me and not fix it
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