Where do you need to step up and take responsibility?  There is always a cost involved – a question we should ask ourselves – am I willing to spend the time and energy giving up what I want in order to step up to my responsibility? Judah, an older brother of Joseph, took the lead […]

What causes you depressive sorrow?  The sorrow of bereavement realizes that those who have died cannot come back.  Jacob had such a sorrow.  His favorite son, Joseph, had “died” many years before.  Jacob continued to mourn.  Life continued to go forward and now famine had come to Canaan.  Egypt also had a great famine but […]

Do you have a reverential awe of the living God?  This is rightly “fearing” Him. Joseph told his unsuspecting brothers that “I fear God.”  His brothers did not recognize him as their mistreated and maligned younger brother.  He did not reveal himself to these ten men–yet.  But he did reveal that he feared God. Joseph […]

Joseph, sold as a slave by his ten older brothers, became mighty in power under the Egyptian Pharaoh through various God-ordained circumstances. God gave Joseph the interpretation to Pharaoh’s two dreams.  Through those dreams, the Lord revealed He would send abundance for seven years followed by seven years of famine. Joseph’s family in Canaan was […]

The Lord God gave Joseph two amazing dreams while he was a teen-ager. He was not discreet about them, actually he bragged about those dreams to his ten older brothers. Dream 1 Sheaves of grain were standing in a field.  Joseph’s sheaf stood up and his ten brothers’ sheaves gathered round and bowed down to his […]

For the United States, today is Thanksgiving Day.  Much food is prepared, families gather; and not only is the turkey stuffed, so are those who are feasting. For all followers of Christ, every day should be one of giving thanks to the Lord God for His many blessings, mercies and the grace He gives us. […]

How are you motivated to doing your job, your responsibilities?  For some, you may be a “self starter.”  For others, circumstances or people are the “starter button” to begin and to continue to do a job.  Still others may rely on the Lord for the beginning and the duration of the responsibility. How are you […]

Years of Plenty… For seven years, Joseph was in charge of storing grain throughout Egypt.  God had warned Pharaoh about the coming seven years of famine through dreams. During the seven years of plenty, Joseph married and two sons were born.  They would later become two of the twelve tribes of Israel.  But that was […]

Are you in a position or circumstance from which you see no way out?  Joseph was in such circumstances, yet God never forgot him.  The Lord God does not forget His own.  He used Joseph’s situation for His glory and purposes.  God’s purpose for Joseph was worked out in his life. Remember: even though you may […]

The prisoner Joseph was sent for by the Pharaoh of Egypt.  Joseph’s history of interpreting dreams became known to the greatly disturbed Pharaoh.  He had two troubling dreams and wanted to know their meaning. Joseph told the Pharaoh that he could not give him the interpretation, but God would. Pharaoh’s dreams were told to a […]