Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
January 16, 2023: SOAP #4792: Genesis 39-41; Luke 16

SCRIPTURE:  Genesis (NIV) 41:39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no-one so discerning and wise as you. 40 You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.” 41 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”

OBSERVATION:  What a day for Joseph!  What a change!  In the morning he woke up in the prison; at night he went to bed in the palace!   In the morning he answered to the jailor; in the evening he answered only to Pharoah!   In the morning he was responsible to provide the food for the prisoners; that night he became responsible for feeding the nation for seven years of famine! 

Yet not everything changed.   Joseph was feeding prisoners in prison; he would soon be feeding the nation.  Joseph was living for God in the prison; he would be living for God in the palace.  Joseph lived under the favor of God in the prison; he would be living under the favor of God in the palace. 

APPLICATION: My circumstances do not affect the “favor of God.”  My circumstances should not affect my attitude.  Bad circumstances should not make me a complainer.  God is with me in bad times as He is in good times.  My circumstances should not affect my faith in God’s love for me. 

The only thing I could imagine greater than being transferred from an Egyptian prison to being second in command of all of Egypt would be to be transferred from a death bed on earth to the Throne Room of Heaven!!!!

PRAYER:   Lord, I lift my eyes from my troubles to see you lifted on the cross.  Your favor flows to me from the cross where you paid for my sins. You did for me what I could not do for myself.  I gratefully receive your forgiveness and set you as The Lord of my life.  Amen.

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