Fix Me
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· 11 viewsHow we look at life. Sometimes God wants us to be separated
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Intro:
I often wonder how do I get out of where I am and over to where God is. I often wonder who God wants me to be. (what kind of character will I have). I often wonder those things cause stuff just dont seem to be “right”. In my eyes, I want things to be they way I want them to be. I know that God does not want us to constantly struggle, He doesn’t want us to just be broken, He wants us to be blessed, he wants us to be happy. There are sometimes I just have to cry out, “Fix me Lord, so I can deal!” So I want to share this story that God gave me that helps me. You see, God tells me its about how I look at where I am.
Scripture:
Genesis 37:1-11
1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.
4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
How many times does God give you a word and other folks start trippin? (shade) But God has to prepare “us”
Gen 37:18-24
18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other.
20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”
21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said.
22 “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing—
24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
Title, Prayer:
Fix Me
Application:
Story of Joseph
We often look at this from a jealousy perspective. But, there is another lesson here. Sometimes God allows life to put us into a situation because God needs us to be separated so we can hear Him, so we can be strengthened, so He can work on us.
Joseph, son of Jacob– at the age of 17 being thrown down into a pit and at this point, all he was doing was being obedient.
Cistern- an underground reservoir for rainwater
God already had a plan, cause there was no water in the cistern. v24
Exegesis:
1. Sometimes the way up, is not always up!
a. Sometimes you might have to go down first.
b. There are times when we have to be put in a position where we seem to be separated from everything we know. Sometimes separated from all our possessions in order to be humbled and molded enough to be used by God. Sometimes we have to get knocked of our high horse.
c. Foundation of a house. The bigger the hole, the bigger the house.
2. Sometimes God has to let us go thru some things, to get us ready for some things
40:23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
a. We often get stuck at the “going thru” part and end up missing the “get ready” part
b. This is kinda like the ups and downs of life. I think we always have the ups and downs because we struggle with the “fix me” me part. We are too often concerned with the “fix them” part!
3. How we think about “stuff” is not how God thinks about “stuff”
a. We think that when bad stuff happens, that its just bad…God doesn’t see it that way. The word says that all things work to the good for those that love the Lord..
b. Too often, we want to show people who we are, you know, I got grit, I got game, moxie, gumption….But we forget that God wants us to show people who GOD is!
Benediction:
You see God laid out a plan for Joseph
Genesis 45:1-8
1 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
2 And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.
3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!
5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.
6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping.
7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.
Sometimes God has to work on us! We cant go by what the world has done to us…Its ALWAYS going to do something to us… We all got our situation. We look at the things...The world wants to keep us in the pit that down there. But the devil is a liar. Sometimes when we cry out. We need to cry out Fix me and not fix it