I Got You

Joseph spent time in prison. He was one who could read other’s dreams for them.

Pharaoh had a dream. They told him how Joseph could read dreams. So Pharaoh sent for Joseph.

Genesis 41.15 -16, 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

16 “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”

Joseph knew he couldn’t read Pharaoh’s dream without God. He turned it over to God and all went well.

Genesis 41.39-40, 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. 40 You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.”

Joseph did well. He became a great leader in Egypt and even saved his father and brothers from the famine that came upon everyone after seven years of good times. Joseph fulfilled God’s will and saved the fathers of Israel.

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Wow. Wouldn’t it be cool to be as loved by God as much as Joseph was?

Well I got one thing to say to you all today, you are loved and cared for just as much as Joseph. God is there all the time for each and every one of us. Doesn’t mean we won’t have tough times but God will see us through.

I know about God being with us because God has been with me in the last few weeks in ways that cannot be denied. About a year ago I began to not feel well. I thought I was just getting old. My legs hurt. My arms hurt all the time. I started to feel weak and not too ambitious at all.

But six weeks ago I became so ill I just couldn’t eat. I would throw up and than not eat again that day. Yet I didn’t lose any weight. It was weird. Finally I went to see Dr. Green. He didn’t really have any idea what was wrong with me. WE tried testosterone but it didn’t work. After a couple more trips to Green I decided to go to the emergency room at St Jo. They worked me over and took a bunch of CTS. They didn’t really find anything. But there was something funny in my head they weren’t sure of. They laughed it off as nothing to worry about.

Next I needed to get a scope of my upper digestive tract. The nearest one I could find was at first sometime in April. Too long for how I was feeling. Then I called my old friend Hammed Coury and he said come on in Tuesday and he would get it done.

God was with me. Didn’t find anything wrong but it was a step in the right direction.

Next I needed to see a Neurologist and an endocrinologist. WE couldn’t find one before way off but my sister in law Beth worked for one and they got us in to see them. They said I needed an MRI. Beth helped us get it arranged and we went to get it done on Friday March 23. God was with me and they saw the lesion on my brain. I got the MRI at Harrison Memorial and felt so bad that Kathy took me to their ER after the test. Then they agreed I needed to go to Lexington.

We had to find a doctor that would accept me. But God was with me and my friend Tom Wise knew someone who could get me in. I praised God.