Sermons and Prophecy

Dealing With Delay Summary:  Joseph teaches us how to deal with delay when we find ourselves in one of the "waiting rooms" of life. Series:  When Life is the Pits Scripture:  Genesis 40:23-41:40 John 5:1-8 Date : 24 July, 2014. Introduction: What we are talking about today is the “waiting rooms” of life. Have you ever noticed that some rooms seem to speak for themselves. Walking into a new freshly decorated nursery prepared by proud parents and immediately the room speaks of joy, excitement and anticipation. Enter into a cozy den on a cold winters evening (these days a bit cold in Bangalore). A large fire in the fireplace casting shadows from the cracking fire, cast a invitation to come in, sit down and enjoy its atmosphere. Or walk into a dining room just before the thanksgiving meal, smell the food and hear the sound of friendly voices, the room reverberates with welcome.  But other rooms are not nearly so inviting. Some rooms...

Dealing With Disappointment Summary:  One minute Joseph is a seventeen- year-old boy with all of his life ahead of him and in the next a slave who’s only prospect is a life of drudgery. A look at how he hands disappointment. Series:  When Life is the Pits Scripture:  Genesis 39:20-40:23   Date: 17 July, 2016 Scripture Reading Take your Bibles and rise to your feet, turn with me now and   Read  Genesis 39:20-23  – 40:1-8, 14, 21-23 20  And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. 21  But the  Lord  was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22  And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 23  The keeper of the prison looked not ...