Genesis 39:2a<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe\u00a0Lord was with Joseph\u201d. 4 times in this chapter of Genesis, we read \u201cthe Lord was with Joseph\u201d. Joseph\u2019s life was not an easy one. Before the beginning of Genesis 39, chapter 37 tells us that his brothers hated him, stripped him of his coat of many colors his dad gave him, and threw him in a pit. When they saw a caravan of people going to Egypt, they sold him to them and went about their business as if nothing had happened. In 39:1, we see \u201cAnd Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there\u201d. In verse 3, \u201chis master saw that the Lord was with him\u201d. The next time we see those words \u201cthe Lord was with Joseph\u201d is in verse 21 & 23 after his master wife lied and said that Joseph tried to rape her. Joseph was sentenced to prison, but again we see that \u201cthe Lord was with him\u201d. It\u2019s interesting to note that God did not remove Joseph\u2019s circumstances, but He was with him. Joseph didn\u2019t see the work God was doing until it was accomplished 13 years later, and many were saved because of it (Gen 50:20, my paraphrase). Is there some trial or circumstances you are in that you did not create? Do those around you notice that the Lord is with you while you are going through them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Genesis 39:2a \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe\u00a0Lord was with Joseph\u201d. 4 times in this chapter of Genesis, we read \u201cthe Lord was with Joseph\u201d. Joseph\u2019s life was not an easy one. Before the beginning of Genesis 39, chapter 37 tells us that his brothers hated him, stripped him of his coat of many colors his dad gave him, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}