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A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE
PART VII
"I, Joseph, have been on a very tiring journey.. It was not a journey of my own choosing... I have been travelling from the fields near Dothan to Egypt.... I never planned to go to Egypt... I planned to go back home to my father Jacob's tent after my visit to the fields in Dothan...I went to these fields to visit my brothers... They were grazing our flocks there.... But when I got there my brothers threw me into an empty cistern... They planned to kill me.... But they then changed their minds.... Instead, they decided to sell me to a group of merchants who were on their way to Egypt... I know they do not like me.... But I never thought they would do such a thing... But they did... I could not do anything to prevent them from selling me.... I did try though... I begged them to let me go home to our father Jacob.... He is already old.... And I knew he would be so worried if I did not return to him... But they would not listen.... So I ended up being taken by a group of merchants all the way to Egypt.... When we eventually arrived in Egypt I was taken to slave market.... I had never been to such a place... There I was sold to a man named Potiphar... When I was the favourite sone of my father everything was done for me... But now I am a slave so I have to work very hard each day... My master is very kind to me though."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Joseph became a slave to a man named Potiphar after his arrival in Egypt...
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE
PART VII
When Joseph arrives in Egypt he is taken into the home of a man named Potiphar as you can read in Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.
Your training may not take you to another country. Your training may well take place where you were born. Wherever your training takes place, you can be certain that it will be at the place God intends it to be. You are not there by accident. You are there by God's design. He planned for you to be there at this time to prepare you for whatever He has for you to do as you can read in Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Joseph's first training ground is in the house of a man named Potiphar. He will have learned many things there even though he may have wondered whether his dreams will ever come true.
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