Part of the Master's Plan
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When you know it’s part of the Master’s plan, You forgive when people do you wrong.
When you know it’s part of the Master’s plan, You forgive when people do you wrong.
The fact of the matter is all of us can probably recall one moment in our life where we was mishandled. Maybe it was by family, so-called friends, or maybe even in the constrains of the church. Just like Joseph we’ve had folk jealous because of something we had no power over. According to Genesis 37:3-4 “Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.” They we’re angry with Joseph over something may included him, but had nothing to do with him. This led them to sell him into slavery, which led to him being promoted and demoted for doing the right thing when Potipher’s wife tried to sleep with him and he declined and got away from her. This led to him being put in prison, which is where he met a baker and cupbearer, whose dreams he interpreted. All this because his brothers were jealous. He could have had a very simple life with his father and brothers. He wasn’t there when his mother died, he wasn’t there with his brother was born. All this because of the brothers. So when the time came that Jacob, Joseph and his brothers father, died, they became worried because they said the only one that they supposed could talk to Joseph is dead. So they come to Joseph saying what please forgive our wrong, because we did you wrong. What I respect about these brothers is even after everything they did. They did not try to act like they did nothing wrong. They didn’t try to act like nothing happened. They didn’t try to sweep it under the rug. They sent the letter to Joseph and said, WE KNOW we’ve done wrong. Can I take a detour here and say to somebody, that if you know you have done something wrong, APOLOGIZE. It’s not making you look bad, it makes you look Godly. He forgave them because he knew. It was part of the Master’s plan. Ironically, It’s like Judas, Jesus knew that Judas would betray him. Yet he kept Judas near him. He allowed the devil to be in his circle. But there was a plan. Some of you wonder why God allow these moments to roll by in
When you know it’s part of the Master’s plan, you know it will end in your favor
When you know it’s part of the Master’s plan, you know it will end in your favor
I told you earlier of all that Joseph went through all that. He told his brothers when they asked his forgiveness, He asked a simple question, am I not in the place of God? Am I not where he intended me to be. Yes I had some bumps in the road, yes I had some ups and down, Yes there were times I thought about giving up, but am I not in the will of God. Somebody needs to hear this this morning, you struggling, you’re having hardships right now, and you trying to figure out what’s next in your life, but I want to tell you, you might be going through the storm right now, but hang on in there God is going to show out in you life real soon. I can imagine if you would have asked Joseph while he was a slave a Potipher’s house, if he believed that he would have became all that he did, he probably would’ve said no. But Look at what happened. He held on and God not only used him to save the people of Egypt, but he used him to save the very folk that did him wrong. Can I submit to you today that God what God has planned for you life isn’t just for you. God wants you to be a blessing to someone else. I don’t know why in the world we have “Disciples,” who don’t want to see someone else prosper. Some of us rather see each other fall than live, but Joseph realized hey you meant evil. You literally said you meant me bad, but God said I meant you good. No wonder why Paul said in