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Speaker 1: like Joseph, you are putting me in front of powerful

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Speaker 1: be used as a vessel of solutions. I confess that

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Speaker 1: my life will be a walking billboard for your goodness

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Speaker 1: and faithfulness. As I reflect on the many times you've

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Speaker 1: in every victory. So I thank you in advance for promotion,

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Speaker 1: Thank you that in a moment you take me from

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Speaker 2: From Prison to Palace. Before this story well about Joseph's

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Speaker 2: being brought out of prison to help Pharaoh and Joseph's

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Speaker 3: heard that Joseph interpreted dreams for two fellow prisoners, and

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Speaker 3: As he is imprisoned, he continued to pray to God

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Speaker 2: Two whole years had passed, and Joseph continued to faithfully

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Speaker 2: Then Pharaoh took his signet ring and put it on

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Speaker 3: Day after day, Joseph praised that he would be delivered

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Speaker 3: Then suddenly the winds have changed blow. As Pharaoh lies

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Speaker 3: here's the meaning of the dream. Egypt will experience seven

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Speaker 3: this is heavy and hurtful news, and Pharaoh is unsure

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Speaker 3: He is so thorough in his plan given to him

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Speaker 3: So now Joseph has moved from the prison to the palace.

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Speaker 3: In an instant, Joseph finds the freedom for which he

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Speaker 3: Joseph has now moved, by God's grace and power, from

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Speaker 3: He does them suddenly often, and we are in a

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Speaker 3: He is a man who in all of Egypt, the

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Speaker 3: He's now thirty years of age, and he realizes that

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Speaker 3: God has delivered him and fulfilled the dreams of his heart. Still,

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Speaker 3: Joseph does not forget that the real power lies with God,

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Speaker 3: great stories of the Bible. So the question is, now

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Speaker 3: will he bring about not only the rescue of Egypt

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Speaker 3: And what to do about those brothers who, more than

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Speaker 3: a decade ago conspired to hurt him, to harm him,

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Speaker 3: and even to kill him. We're going to find out

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Speaker 3: what happens with those brothers in the next episode. Dear God,

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Speaker 3: like Joseph, we pray that we will wait patiently for

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Speaker 3: you in our circumstances, knowing that sometimes you're not trying

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Speaker 3: to change our circumstances, but you're changing us. Thank you

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Speaker 3: for in your own time and your own way, fulfilling

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Speaker 3: your purpose and plan for our lives. Knowing that suddenly,

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Speaker 3: in your timing, in your perfect plan, your story and

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Speaker 3: our lives will be fulfilled. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast.

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