Submitting to God’s Plan
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- Jesus is our answer
- The Bible is our foundation
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- Worship is our lifestyle
- People are our pursuit
Genesis 37:2
This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Genesis 37:3-4
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:5
Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
Genesis 37:8
His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
Genesis 37:9
Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Genesis 37:10
When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
Genesis 37:18
But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
Genesis 37:19
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other.
God’s plan for me is great.
1 Corinthians 2:9
However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him…
If it isn’t great, God isn’t done.
God’s plan for me includes pain
John 16:33
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
God has two solutions for pain: solve it or spin it.
Genesis 50:20
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
God’s plan for me takes time
If your dream isn’t in its mature state, it’s probably because you aren’t either.
Philippians 1:6
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
God’s plan for me isn’t about me.
Genesis 50:20
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Are you submitted to God’s plan?
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