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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: come through for me, I thank you for expanding my

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Speaker 1: it comes to my destiny. I declare that open seats

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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 1: prison to a palace. In Jesus' name. Amen, stay tuned

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Speaker 1: to immerse yourself in the greatest stories ever told from

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Speaker 1: pray dot COM's podcast Heroes in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Heroes in the Bible. I'm Ed Young,

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Speaker 2: your host for the cervs of podcasts on the life

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Speaker 2: of Joseph, and I look forward to spending this time

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Speaker 2: together as we unpack some of the timely principles we

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Speaker 2: moment in history, Joseph. In the last episode, Joseph was

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Speaker 2: for me, you know I'm innocent. Joseph spent two more

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Speaker 2: will discover that for Noah and his family, there must

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Speaker 2: We'll see that God will use Joseph as his instrument,

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Speaker 3: Prelude to Chapter six.

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Speaker 4: Coberto, he yelled.

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Speaker 4: What does my lord and.

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Speaker 3: Pharaoh require, Neferty said, with a poetic and pretentious voice.

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Speaker 3: I require the wisdom of the gods. Pharaoh replied, they

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Speaker 3: what gifts or messages of warning they send. Pharaoh explained

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Speaker 4: To the priest.

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Speaker 3: He spoke of the undead cows and the blighted heads

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Speaker 5: Oh, he was able to do more than that, good king.

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Speaker 3: For five years he was confined to the palace dungeons.

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Speaker 3: Joseph felt like a new man. He had emerged from

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Speaker 4: With a renewed sense of peace. God had raised him

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Speaker 3: It was time to enter into the courts of Pharaoh.

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Speaker 3: He paced around him, gripping his scepter tightly. You are

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Speaker 3: Joseph replied, with his head bowed low. I hear lofty

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Speaker 3: Joseph flinched at the noise. His voice was booming and

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Speaker 3: Everyone in the throne room stood in silence, awaiting Joseph's reply.

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Speaker 3: Without looking up, Joseph shook his head and replied, no,

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Speaker 4: Have I been lied to? All your heads will be

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Speaker 5: He yelled, No, no, my good Pharaoh, Please do not

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Speaker 3: Joseph had learned much about himself since he was first

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Speaker 3: He would not conflate his talent with God's favor any longer.

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Speaker 3: He knew that the true palace did not lie within

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Speaker 3: You ask me if I am able to interpret dreams,

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Speaker 3: Pharaoh stood over Joseph with a perplexed expression. He nodded,

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Speaker 3: very well, Hebrew, I shall tell you of my dreams. However,

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Speaker 3: He recollected his dreams about the seven heads of grain

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Speaker 3: He went into great length, sparing no detail. Joseph simply

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Speaker 3: Joseph stayed completely silent, listening intently to the voice of God.

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Speaker 3: Joseph closed his eyes and did his best to drown

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Speaker 3: Mind for answers. You alone know the inner workings of

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Speaker 3: Joseph smirked. He could feel a tug on his soul

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Speaker 3: like a gentle breeze. God guided Joseph into truth and

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Speaker 3: revealed to him the meaning of these dreams. Joseph opened

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Speaker 3: his eyes and looked directly in the eyes of Pharaoh.

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Speaker 3: The dreams are the same. Pharaoh tilted his head in curiosity.

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Speaker 3: Go on, he gestured, God has revealed to you what

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Speaker 3: he is about to do. The seven healthy cows and

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Speaker 3: the seven healthy ears of grain are images of prosperity

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Speaker 3: to come. For seven years, there will be plenty in

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Speaker 3: the land. Egypt will experience an unprecedented time of flourishing.

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Speaker 3: The land will give birth to new life, and your

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Speaker 3: people will be fed.

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Speaker 4: They will be well fed.

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Speaker 3: Joseph paced the room and looked into the fire emanating

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Speaker 3: from the torches on the walls. He turned to Pharaoh

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Speaker 3: with a despondent expression. However, the prosperity will come to

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Speaker 3: an end. The seven sickly cows and the seven scorched

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Speaker 3: heads of grain represent seven years of devastation. After seven

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Speaker 3: years of plenty, seven years of famine will strike the

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Speaker 3: land like a wildfire. This is the warning God has

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Speaker 3: given to you. With this knowledge comes a great deal

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Speaker 3: of responsibility. It will come to pass, and if Egypt

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Speaker 3: is not ready, the entire world may perish. Pharaoh sat

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Speaker 3: back on his throne with dismay. He was speechless. What

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Speaker 3: must I do, Pharaoh asked. Joseph looked back at Potiphar,

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Speaker 3: not sure whether it would be wise to give Pharaoh advice.

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Speaker 3: Potiphar gestured for him to answer. Joseph bowed again and said,

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Speaker 3: God has been gracious to you, Pharaoh, However, every moment

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Speaker 3: is precious. You should appoint a governor wise and discerning

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Speaker 3: enough to care for your resources. Oh, and appoint commissioners

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Speaker 3: under him to oversee the land. Joseph then looked over

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Speaker 3: to a bowl of grapes and took a few in

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Speaker 3: his hand. He held up five grapes and said, every

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Speaker 3: year of harvest, take one fifth of the goods and

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Speaker 3: store it away. Took one grape from the five in

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Speaker 3: his hand and set it aside. He looked to Pharaoh

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Speaker 3: and said, over the next seven years, you can store

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Speaker 3: up the grain and other goods safely. Then when the

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Speaker 3: famine hits, you can use what is stored up to

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Speaker 3: feed your citizens. The same commissioners you appoint can be

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Speaker 3: in charge of distributing the resources according to need. Pharaoh

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Speaker 3: was completely quiet. He turned his eyes to the officials.

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Speaker 4: In the room.

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Speaker 3: Where would we find such a wise man to govern?

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Speaker 4: He asked. The room chuckled.

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Speaker 3: Pharaoh smiled and stood to his feet. This governor, you suggest,

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Speaker 3: I point, must be a man of vision. He must

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Speaker 3: know the plans of this God and be willing to

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Speaker 3: listen to him. For guidance. Pharaoh took his scepter and

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Speaker 3: stretched it out towards Joseph. Joseph flinched for a moment

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Speaker 3: and closed his eyes. Then he felt the scepter rest

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Speaker 3: lightly on his shoulder. Since God has made all this

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Speaker 3: known to you, there is no one else I would

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Speaker 3: desire for the position. You shall be in charge of

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Speaker 3: my palace, and all my people are to submit to

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Speaker 3: your orders. Only with respect to the throne, will I

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Speaker 3: be greater than you.

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Speaker 4: I hereby declare that.

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Speaker 3: You are to rule my kingdom with complete authority. All

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Speaker 3: shall bow down to you. Even the Sun and moon

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Speaker 3: shall know your name and tremble. Joseph gazed up by Pharaoh,

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Speaker 3: speechless and dumbfounded, he bowed his head. Joseph wants a slave,

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Speaker 3: then a prisoner, was now a king.

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Speaker 2: Joseph's circumstances are about to take what is certainly a

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Speaker 2: quantum leap. Job begins to realize the purpose God has

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Speaker 2: for him as Pharaoh appoints him to be the governor

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Speaker 2: of all of Egypt, second in command to Pharaoh himself.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we could find another character in all

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Speaker 2: of scripture who experienced so many sudden and radical reversals

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Speaker 2: of fortune. He was the favorite son of his father Jacob.

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Speaker 2: Hated by his brothers, he is beaten by them and

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Speaker 2: thrown into a pit. He is sold as a slave

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Speaker 2: to a caravan of merchants heading for Egypt, and as

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Speaker 2: a slave in Potiphar's house. He rises to the position

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Speaker 2: of leadership and influence, only to be beaten down repeatedly,

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Speaker 2: propositioned by Potipher's wife. When he refuses to accept her

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Speaker 2: sexual advances, she accuses him of rape and he's thrown

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Speaker 2: into prison. In prison, Joe once again gains favor and

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Speaker 2: is elevated to position of influence. He remains in prison

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Speaker 2: until Pharaoh's cupbear remembers his promise and suggests that Joe

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Speaker 2: can interpret Pharaoh's disturbing dreams. Finally, at preparing Joseph through

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Speaker 2: these many experiences, Joe now was ready for God's purpose.

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Speaker 2: In God's perfect timing, Joseph's life is on a trajectory

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Speaker 2: to save God's people as the fulfillment of Joseph's useful dreams.

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Speaker 2: All in the future. Now they have come magnificently to pass. Now,

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Speaker 2: what are some of the lessons Joe has learned from

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Speaker 2: these changing and most difficult circumstances, and are these lessons

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Speaker 2: God wants us to learn as well. First and foremost,

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Speaker 2: Joseph has learned to trust God and cling to him.

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Speaker 2: He has learned to give God the glory for enabling

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Speaker 2: him to understand and interpret dreams, impowering him to resist

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Speaker 2: the temptations of life, and equipping him to thrive in

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Speaker 2: the challenges of life as a slave and as a prisoner.

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Speaker 2: Second thing, Joseph has learned to be faithful in little things.

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Speaker 2: He will soon be entrusted to be faithful in big,

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Speaker 2: big things as well. Notice that when he was summoned

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Speaker 2: to the palace of Pharaoh, he took time to shave

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Speaker 2: and bathe and change his clues. He understood that he

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Speaker 2: needed to meet people where they were if he were

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Speaker 2: going to have a positive impact on their lives. He

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Speaker 2: learned to be patient. As a teenager, Joe demonstrated some

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Speaker 2: impatience and pride as he rushed to tell his brothers

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Speaker 2: of his dreams. He has learned now to wait on

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Speaker 2: God and to trust his supernatural timing, knowing that his

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Speaker 2: dreams were given to him by God and that God

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Speaker 2: would fulfill every single one of Joe's visions. Finally, finally,

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Speaker 2: act of preparing Joseph through these many, many experiences, God's

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Speaker 2: purpose and all this begins to become clear and God's

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Speaker 2: perfect timing. Joseph's life is on a trajectory to save

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Speaker 2: God's people, as the fulfillment of Joe's youthful dreams is

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Speaker 2: right there before him. There is one other moment in

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Speaker 2: this episode I'd want us to miss. Did you notice

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Speaker 2: the qualities Pharaoh Saul in Joseph? He saw that Joseph

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Speaker 2: was both discerning and wise. He realized that joseph life

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Speaker 2: had been touched by God and that God was with

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Speaker 2: Joseph and his spirit was upon him. Listen. Walking with God,

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Speaker 2: walking through Christ is contagious. Live it, walk it, and

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Speaker 2: even the most pagan around you will say there's something

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Speaker 2: different about her. There's something different about him. That's what

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Speaker 2: favor of Saw and Joe. We will also see how

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Speaker 2: God has put in motion the circumstances that will bring

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Speaker 2: Joseph brothers to Egypt as his dreams begin to become reality.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy this podcast, please write a review and

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Speaker 2: let me know how Joseph's story has impacted your life.

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