Joseph: God Prepares His Man

1. Joseph: God Prepares His Man Genesis 39-41 Shelba & Rich

2. How do we know our breaking is from God?

3. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness

4. Persecuted in Righteousness Genesis 39:11-15 One day, he went to the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servant was inside. She caught him by his cloak, and said “Come to bed with me” , but he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand, and had ran out of the house, she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “This Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came in here to sleep with me but I screamed. When he heard me scream for help, he ran…”

5. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • There is a price to pay

6. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • There is a price to pay Matthew 5:10 Blessed are those that are persecuted for righteousness, for theirs in the kingdom of Heaven.

7. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • There is a price to pay 1 Peter 2:20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and enduring it? But if you suffer for good and endure it, this is commendable before God.

8. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • There is a price to pay • If you suffer for good, it is worthy to God

9. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • There is a price to pay • If you suffer for good, it is worthy to God Psalm 105:16-18 He called down famine on the land, and destroyed all their supplied for food; And he sent a man before them- Joseph sold as a slave. They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck with iron.

10. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence • He will join you

11. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence • He will join you Genesis 39:21-22 The LORD was with him, He showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.

12. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence • He will join you • God will affirm He is with you

13. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry

14. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry • He’s going to hand you people to serve

15. How do we know our breaking is from God? Genesis 40:1-8 Sometime later, Pharaoh’s chief cup bearer and chief baker offended their master. Pharaoh was angry with these two officials and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined. The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them. While they were in custody for some time, each of the two men, the cup bearer and the baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

16. How do we know our breaking is from God? Genesis 40:1-8 (cont’d) When Joseph saw them the next morning, he saw that they both looked dejected. “Why do you look worried today?” he asked them. “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

17. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry • He’s going to hand you people to serve • Put aside selfish intent

18. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry • He’s going to hand you people to serve • Put aside selfish intent • Minister to others

19. How do we know our breaking is from God? Genesis 40:9-13 So the chief cup bearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, and on the vine were 3 branches. As soon as it budded, in blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and into his hand.”

20. How do we know our breaking is from God? Genesis 40:9-13 (cont’d) “This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The 3 branches are 3 days. Within 3 days, Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cup bearer.”

21. How do we know our breaking is from God? Genesis 40:16-19 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: on my head were 3 baskets of bread. In the top basket were all types of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

22. How do we know our breaking is from God? Genesis 40:16-19 (cont’d) “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The 3 baskets are 3 days. Within 3 days, Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body with a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”

23. How do we know our breaking is from God? 2 Corinthians 1:4 We comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry • He’s going to hand you people to serve • Put aside selfish intent • Minister to others

24. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry 4. The Path To Victory

25. How do we know our breaking is from God? • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry 4. The Path To Victory • God Disappoints You

26. When God Disappoints you Genesis 40:14-15 “But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon”.

27. When God Disappoints you Genesis 40: 20-22 Now the 3rd day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a fest for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials: He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand- but he impaled the chief baker, JUST AS JOSEPH HAD SAID TO THEM IN HIS INTERPRETATION.

28. When God Disappoints you V23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him Genesis 40: 20-22 Now the 3rd day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a fest for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials: He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand- but he impaled the chief baker, JUST AS JOSEPH HAD SAID TO THEM IN HIS INTERPRETATION.

29. When God Disappoints you Anybody here stuck? Genesis 40: 20-22 Now the 3rd day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a fest for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials: He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand- but he impaled the chief baker, JUST AS JOSEPH HAD SAID TO THEM IN HIS INTERPRETATION.

30. The Big Promotion

31. The Big Promotion

32. The Big Promotion

33. The Big Promotion 2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves.

34. Paul’s Promotion

35. Paul’s Promotion 2 Corinthians 1:8b-10 …We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead.

36. When God Skips You • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry 4. The Path To Victory • God Disappoints You • God Skips You

37. When God Skips You Genesis 41:1a When two full years had passed…. • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry 4. The Path To Victory • God Disappoints You • God Skips You

38. When God Skips you Genesis 41:1a When two full years had passed…. • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry 4. The Path To Victory • God Disappoints You • God Skips You Genesis 40:8 Do not interpretations belong to God alone?

39. Pharaoh Has a dream Genesis 41:1-8 When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood on the riverbank. The ugly cows ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

40. Pharaoh Has a dream Genesis 41:1-8 (cont’d) He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven healthy heads of grain were growing on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads sprouted-- thin and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream. In the morning, his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them.

41. When God Surprises You • Persecuted In Righteousness • He Will Show You His Presence 3. He Will Give You Ministry 4. The Path To Victory • God Disappoints You • God Skips You • God Surprises You

42. The Cup bearer remembers Joseph Genesis 41:9-13

43. The Cup bearer remembers Joseph Genesis 41:9-13

44. Joseph to meet pharaoh Genesis 41:14 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.

45. Joseph to meet pharaoh Genesis 41:14 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh. Have you given up on waiting for the Almighty to deliver you?

46. Joseph’s big moment Genesis 41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

47. Joseph’s big moment Genesis 41:16a “I cannot do it” Joseph replied to Pharaoh… So Pharaoh throws Joseph back in prison and forgets his dream.

48. That’s all folks Questions? Comments? Concerns?

49. Joseph’s big moment Genesis 41:16a “I cannot do it” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “BUT GOD WILL GIVE PHARAOH THE ANSWER HE DESIRES.”

50. Joseph INTERPRETS Pharaoh’s dream Genesis 41:25,29 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do… Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.