#Nofilter - Joseph
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
Will people hurt us?
What do we do when people hurt us?
• Do to others what they did to you
• Do to others what worse than they did to you
• Do to others before they do it to you
JOSEPH GENESIS 37, 39-45
THE BROTHERS REACTION:
NOW JOSEPH IS IN THE BACK OF A CART HEADING TOWARD EGYPT TO BE SOLD:
NOW YOU’RE FALSLY PUT IN JAIL:
THE KING HAS A NEED:
THE FAMINE HAS COME:
IF YOUR JOSEPH, NOW WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
DON’T OVER SPRITUALIZE BIBLE PEOPLE:
THIS IS THE “Oh Crap Moment” RIGHT NOW
But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
Genesis 50:19-21
• If we allow bitterness to define us, it will define everything that we touch
• If we allow what happen to us, and let that defines us, it will fall on everyone else around us
Forgiveness has a close cousin… Forget
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Celebrate Recovery 8 Recovery Principles
Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others.
Prayer for Serenity
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.