The Blessing of the LORD | Genesis 39 Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hey God, Rachel, it's it's a joy for me to be with you on this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcast. But I'm going to talk to you today on how you have the blessing of the Lord. I want to talk to from the life of Joseph today and there's something that I just want to pay attention to. Here's the thing, right, there's so many aspects we can learn from the life of Joseph, but here's the thing. I'm talking to you from Genesis twenty nine, where things were so unfair for him. You know, he was wrongly sold as a slave by his brothers who hated him.

1:20 Speaker 2: And now he's taken into a foreign land called Egypt and party for an Egyptian who was one of the pharaoh's officials takes him. But here's the thing. Even though everything seemed negative, negative, negative, But here's the thing. When you look at verse two, this is what it says. The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. When his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, Joseph found favor in his size and became his attendant.

1:52 Speaker 2: Here's the thing, right, it was so unfair, and many times we say, you know, if this issue is resolved, if this thing turned around for me, then I will experience God's favor, I will experience God's blessing on my life. I will walk in his you know, goodness and his mercy and all of these things we say. But here's the thing. It's so beautiful to see how the Bible says that even though he was in this unfair situation, even though he was in this thing that was beyond his control, even in the midst of the traum oil, even in the midst of this thing that was so bad.

2:26 Speaker 2: It is not something that you might wish upon even your worst enemy, to be betrayed by your own brothers or siblings and family. But here's the thing. It says that in the midst of that the Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered. I don't know who needs to hear this word that you know, just the fact that God was with him enabled him to prosper. Today, I want you to understand that you may be in the wilderness, you may be in a hard place in life, you may be in something that's so unfair and it's beyond your control.

2:56 Speaker 2: But the fact that God is with you, because he said I will never leave you know for sake you he said, I am a manual of the God with you. You need to understand today that when you accepted the finished work of Jesus on the Cross of Calvary, the Holy Spirit of God is dwelling in you and with you, and he goes with you no matter where you go. This is what the Bible is promising, that when the Lord is with you, you will prosper because the Lord is with you. Right, It's not because of who Joseph was. It was because the Lord was with Joseph.

3:30 Speaker 2: It was not because Joseph was talented, but it was because the Lord was with Joseph. It was not because Joseph had what it takes or he had something special. It was because the Lord was with Joseph. And it is not just because of where he was. Here's the thing I wanted to understand. Right, Sometimes we think if I'm in the right place, the right blessing will come. Sometimes you may be in a not so good place. But it's not about the place that you're in. It's about who you're connected with. Because you're connected with the King of Kings and the Lord of Loves who never runstry, and Almighty God, who is on your side, you will prosper in every area of your life.

4:10 Speaker 2: The Bible goes on to say that when his Master saw that the Lord was with him, this he the Master is seeing the Lord in Joseph because of the success, because of the prosperity. You know, this is the reason I don't want you to be against prosperity, because that is one of the ways a non believer, a non Christian is going to look at your life and say, you know what, this person is not just talking about some you know, like inner thing or something like that. This is visibly seen that this person is of some difference, like you know, something different about this person.

4:48 Speaker 2: Right. I'm not saying go after prosperity, but what I'm saying is sometimes God can even use that to make other people go, Wow, how did this happen for this person? You know what I mean? Sometimes people don't believe when you just say, oh, I have in a peace, I have joy. I mean, that's all great, but sometimes people really want to see some prosperity on the outside for them to actually believe, you know, that you actually belong to the Lord. And here is this thing. The prosperity enabled this Egyptian master to see that the Lord was with him, and he found favor in the heights of this master and became his attendant.

5:30 Speaker 2: And the Bible goes on to say Portifa put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted everything in his care because he knew that the Lord blessed everything in his house because of Joseph, And the Bible goes on to say, the blessing of the Lord was on everything Potifer had bought in the house and in the field. Everything connected to Potiphar was also getting blessed because of Joseph. Think about it, People who are not believers are going to come to know the Lord through your life because they will see the blessing in their life when they are connected with you today.

6:09 Speaker 2: I want you to understand this that instead of running away from blessing and prosperity and all of these things, you know, all of that needs to take with taken and the right perspective and the right you know, a thing, you know you can't hate on it at the same time, you can't only run to it alone, right, but in its own level, when you have the blessing of the Lord, when you have that prosperity, and you know, when people see that in and through your life, you will be a greatest channel of His blessing in and through your life.

6:40 Speaker 2: So that's what I want to challenge you from this life of Joseph that if God showed his blessing you know, and made a difference everywhere he went, God will do the same in your life as well. And men, God bless.

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