Scripture: Genesis 41:1-16,25-57

+ Our Sufferings do not negate God’s promises.

Genesis 12:3

Genesis 41:51–52

+ What is coming is better than our current circumstances.

Romans 8:18

Revelation 21:3–4

+ Be a faithful steward

Colossians 3:17

Matthew 25:23

+ Care for people

+ Speak the truth boldly

Genesis 12:3

Genesis 41:56–57

Scripture: Genesis 39:20-40:23  

+ Suffering for God is an invitation into intimacy with God. 

1 Peter 4:12–17 NIV

God’s presence can sustain you in any suffering, and suffering can bring you into a greater experience of his presence.   

“Dedicated to man who prayed to know Christ more richly even if it meant his cancer returned. The next year he experienced the deepest intimacy with Christ he had ever known - and then he died of cancer.” Finding God by Larry  

+ Every Painful Station is meant for purposeful preparation.  

Colossians 3:23 NIV 

Proverbs 22:29 NIV 

+ Our Sufferings are often the strategic means to bring about God’s good ends.  

2 Corinthians 1:3–6 NIV 

+ God never forgets his people and never gives up on his purposes.  

Isaiah 49:13–16 NIV 

Romans 8:38–39 NIV

John 10:28–30 NIV 

Scripture: Genesis 39:1-23

+ The Lord was WITH Joseph

Genesis 12:1-3

+ 3 Tactics of Temptation

-       Persistent

-       Persuasive

-       Private

+ The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

Matthew 1:1-2

Matthew 1:18-23

Hebrews 13:5

Scripture: Genesis 37

+ Jacob’s Partiality

+ Joseph’s Prophecy

+ The Brother’s Plot

Genesis 42:21 NIV

Proverbs 28:13 NIV

Psalm 32:1–5 NIV

+ Joseph’s Plight

+ God’s Providence

Ephesians 1:11 NIV

Genesis 50:20 NIV

Psalm 105:16–19 NIV

Romans 8:28 NIV

Acts 2:22–24 NIV

Scripture: Genesis 35:1-15

+ The Beginning

Genesis 28:20–22 (NIV)

+ The Breaking and Blessing

Genesis 32:24–28 (NIV)

2 Corinthians 1:8–10 (NIV) 

+ The Burying and Building

1 John 5:21 (NIV) 

2 Corinthians 1:20 (NIV)

Scripture: Genesis 33

+ When we yield the throne to God, He transforms our fear

+ When we yield the throne to God, He transforms our relationships

+ When we yield the throne to God, He transforms our priorities

Scripture: Genesis 32

Is there more to life than this?

"Why do I have three Super Bowl rings, and still think there's something greater out there for me? ... I mean this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I mean I've done it. I'm 27. And what else is there for me?" - Tom Brady

Genesis 32:4

Genesis 32:11-12

Genesis 32:24-25

Genesis 32:28

Genesis 32:30

Genesis 32:11 

Genesis 32:20

+ Jacob fears being in the hands of his brother, but he finds himself in the hands of God.

+ Jacob fears seeing his brother’s face, but he finds himself face to face with God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 

2 Corinthians 8:9 

+ Jacob fears being rejected by Esau but finds himself accepted by God.

Romans 8:1

Scripture: Genesis 29-31; Lamentations 3:19-24

+ Covenant: God to Abraham 

Nation 

Land 

Blessing(s) 

+ God will use the blessings that He provides to shape us into His character. 

Genesis 29:25 

Jacob says, “WHY HAVE YOU DECEIVED ME?” 

+ Big Idea: Your sin will find you out. You reap what you sow. 

+ God doesn’t require your help. God requires your surrender, trust, and obedience. 

2 Corinthians 1:18-22 (NIV) 

Scripture: Genesis 28

 "From about half-past ten in the evening until about half-past twelve, FIRE. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and scholars. Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace. God of Jesus Christ." – Blaise Pascal, November 23, 1654. 

+ An Encounter with God is always by the Grace of God

I am the LORD God and I will be your God…  

I will include you in my deepest purposes…  

I will always be with you, and I will never give up on you…  

Philippians 1:6 NIV

+ An Encounter with God creates the Fear of God

Jeremiah 10:7 NIV 

Psalm 112:1 NIV 

Jeremiah 5:22 NIV

+ An Encounter with God leads to Transformation by God 

John 1:49–51 NIV 

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1–4

+ From a Child-Centered Home to a Christ-Centered Home 

+ From Outsourcing to Owning.  

“All this that we here suffer is through you: you should have taught us the things of God, and did not; you should have restrained us from sin and corrected us, and you did not; you were the means of our original corruption and guiltiness, and yet you never showed any competent care that we might be delivered from it...Woe unto us that we had such carnal and careless parents, and woe unto you that had no more compassion and pity to prevent the everlasting misery of your own children” – Richard Mather, cited in Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were by Leland Ryken. 

+ From Controlling to Cultivating  

Proverbs 13:24 NIV

Proverbs 19:18 NIV

Philippians 2:13 NIV
+ From Moving Them Out to Sending Them Out. 

Psalm 127:3–5 NIV