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Series: Integrity of Joseph
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 41:1-16
While we sleep and our body is resting our mind can become a stage on which a story or sequence of events take place. These episodes are commonly called dreams. They can be either illusions or hallucinations or real experiences. Dreams can last for a few seconds or as long as 30 minutes. The average person has three to five dreams each night which are immediately forgotten.
What dreams mean is difficult to determine and have puzzled mankind throughout history. In ancient Egypt dreams were believed to be a reflection of reality or to contain messages from the gods about what we going to happen in the future.
God uses dreams to reveal his will or the future. After Jesus was born in a dream God revealed to Joseph that he was to take the baby to Egypt because Herod wanted to kill him and then after Herod died God revealed in a dream he was to return to Israel.
TROUBLING DREAM :1-8
Time :1
Two whole years - which would have been at least 730 days. For Joseph it must have seemed life for him in prison was final. If the cupbearer could not get Pharaoh to do something for him then he would just rot there in jail until he died.
Application
Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently (Heb. waited, waited) for the Lord. John Calvin - ''By the repetition of the same expression, he shows that he had been a long time in anxious suspense.''
Sometimes all we can do is wait for the Lord to act on our behalf. Waiting shows our faith in the sovereignty of God to act for us. We may wait for a week or month or even for years.
God's timing is not our timing. He is not bound to time like us. We want something to happen now so our circumstances change, but God acts according to his time so his will is accomplished.
The Lord intervened by giving Pharaoh a pair of dreams.
Bruce Waltke - ''This is not so much a story about Joseph as about God's faithfulness to his promises through pro ...
Series: Integrity of Joseph
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 41:1-16
While we sleep and our body is resting our mind can become a stage on which a story or sequence of events take place. These episodes are commonly called dreams. They can be either illusions or hallucinations or real experiences. Dreams can last for a few seconds or as long as 30 minutes. The average person has three to five dreams each night which are immediately forgotten.
What dreams mean is difficult to determine and have puzzled mankind throughout history. In ancient Egypt dreams were believed to be a reflection of reality or to contain messages from the gods about what we going to happen in the future.
God uses dreams to reveal his will or the future. After Jesus was born in a dream God revealed to Joseph that he was to take the baby to Egypt because Herod wanted to kill him and then after Herod died God revealed in a dream he was to return to Israel.
TROUBLING DREAM :1-8
Time :1
Two whole years - which would have been at least 730 days. For Joseph it must have seemed life for him in prison was final. If the cupbearer could not get Pharaoh to do something for him then he would just rot there in jail until he died.
Application
Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently (Heb. waited, waited) for the Lord. John Calvin - ''By the repetition of the same expression, he shows that he had been a long time in anxious suspense.''
Sometimes all we can do is wait for the Lord to act on our behalf. Waiting shows our faith in the sovereignty of God to act for us. We may wait for a week or month or even for years.
God's timing is not our timing. He is not bound to time like us. We want something to happen now so our circumstances change, but God acts according to his time so his will is accomplished.
The Lord intervened by giving Pharaoh a pair of dreams.
Bruce Waltke - ''This is not so much a story about Joseph as about God's faithfulness to his promises through pro ...
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