WEDNESDAY, September 24th, 2008

Well Aloha Everyone!

Today is Wednesday and another day, another opportunity to bring your friends to church tonight!! It will be a great evening! I am so excited and thrilled about how many teens we had last week, and I look forward to DOUBLING that number tonight!! (That would be right around 82 Teenagers!! LETS DO IT!!! (all that means is everyone should bring one visitor)

Actually I think I am going to plan a Wednesday Night coming up pretty soon where we call it BRING ONE PERSON NIGHT... If you have any ideas then let me know...

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
Rachel: I am so thankful that you are joining us from college! I wish all of our college students would get on here and stay on!! :) You are an encouragement!
Mallory: Thanks for the little plug for leetomlin.com, it is nothing AMAZING like you made it sound... it's just a way to let mey family know what is going on in my families life :)
Jessica B: Yes it is such a drastic drop from yesterday... sad sad sad... but I am glad that you were on here!!!

Genesis 41

37 So the advice was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.
38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
40 You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
42 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand; and he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
43 And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he set him over all the land of Egypt.
44 Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-Paaneah. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 Now in the seven plentiful years the ground brought forth abundantly.
48 So he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.
49 Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.
50 And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.
51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”
52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
53 Then the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Egypt ended,
54 and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 So when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, do.”
56 The famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.
57 So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all lands.

The Prisoners Dreams have come true and in one day he went from Prisoner to Ruler. As we sit in the prison-like situations of our life, one has to wonder how long until God rewards our faithfulness as He rewarded His servant Joseph. Joseph lived for many years in this horrible situation of slavery, deception, a prison. The day before this one, was just another day of the many years that he had sat there in that cell...

How long have you been facing that certain prison? A Week? 8 Weeks? One year?? Well, Joseph was faithful in Trusting his God through and through... And God rewarded him BIG TIME!

I think it is so wonderful that Joseph gave the glory to God as we saw yesterday and then God pours GLORY ALL OVER JOSEPH. I just a short time, Joseph becomes someone who rides in chariots, marries the priests daughter, wears and ring and a gold chain, and has people bowing down at his feet everywhere he goes.

Do you think all that time of TRUSTING GOD UNCONDITIONALLY PAID OFF?? I do!

We too should trust God! Whether your prison is your home, your school, maybe where you work. Whatever your situation is: it would be hard to believe that it could be be more difficult than Josephs! Yes Joseph remained faithful and God blessed him for it!

God wants to bless you for remaining faithful as well... But that is just it! YOU MUST REMAIN FAITHFUL!!!