He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Every child born into the world is a totally new creature. But Jesus Christ, being eternal God (John 1:1, 14), existed before Mary and Joseph or any of His earthly ancestors. For He is "God With Us"

Out of the greatest sin ever committed by humankind, God brought the greatest blessing that ever came to humankind.

Sometimes the Lord will let us hit rock bottom, and we will have no human solutions. You can’t get the solution from any person. You say I am in a difficult situation. I have tried everything. The only thing I can do now is trust God. That is good...

As Joseph reveals himself to his brother for the first time in twenty-two years, here in Genesis 45, we will discover five ways to know that the Lord is with us.

Man is born with his back toward God. When he truly repents, he turns right around and faces God. Repentance is a change of mind…. Repentance is the tear in the eye of faith.

Dwight L. Moody

Joseph’s life offers us a magnificent portrayal of the grace of God as He came to our rescue in the Person of His Son, Jesus. So many come to Him, like Joseph’s guilty brothers, feeling the distance and fearing the worst from God, only to have Him...

Because life often doesn’t work out right—which being interpreted, means, it doesn’t work out our way—we have developed basic and very natural tendencies to begin to doubt God.

True reconciliation requires sincere repentance and humble confession of sin, and often it takes time for a person to get to that place. I believe that Joseph dealt with his brothers in a patient, loving, and wise way, and that’s why his approach...

Somehow in the loneliness of his recent years, abandoned and forgotten in prison, he had learned to let the Lord have His way, in His time, for His purposes!