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Look Who's In The White House
Contributed by Sherman Gordon on Nov 9, 2008 (message contributor)
Summary: AMERICA HAS WITNESSED ONE OF ITS MOST HISTORICAL MOMENTS WITH THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA. OBAMA’S RISE IS NOT METORIC, BUT DIVINE.
LOOK WHO’S IN THE WHITE HOUSE
GENESIS 41:37-41
BETTY WRIGHT – NO PAIN, NO GAIN
PAIN – INTERWOVEN – FABRIC OF SUCCESS
STORY OF SUCCESS, PAGES HIGHLIGHTED IN PAIN
GENESIS 35:16-20 (JACOB & FAMILY – BETHEL TO BETHELHEM, WIFE RACHEL . . .
BEN-ONI (SON OF MY SORROW)
BENJAMIN (SON OF MY RIGHT HAND)
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA . . . (GRANDMOTHER)
WEDDING
CHURCH START
JOSEPH’S STORY
11TH SON
GENSESI 30:22-24 “THEN GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL, AND GOD LISTENED TO HER AND OPENED HER WOMB. AND SHE CONCEIVED AND BORE A SON, AND SAID GOD HAS TAKEN AWAY MY REPROACH. SO SHE CALLED HIS NAME JOSEPH AND SAID THE LORD SHALL ADD TO ME ANOTHER SON.”
JOSPEH
DREAMER
SEEMS LIKE – ME/TE/O/RIC RISE TO PROSPERITY/POPULARITY
. . . DELIVERED SOME “I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH” – PALACE
REALITY: GENESIS 17:3 (FAVOR ON HIS LIFE)
FAVOR/BLESSED – GIFTS
DIVINE FAVOR TO GO WITH HIS FAITH (17:5)
SHEEP HERDER – POSITION OF PROMINENCE
SEE DREAMER – PRAY DREAMER – WORLD HATE DREAMERS (GHANDI, JESUS, KING)
BROTHERS – PIT . . .
TRIBE OF MIDIANITES
LIFT HIM OUT OF PIT
SOLD – SLAVERY
QUESTION . . .
PURPOSE (LIFT YOU UP/ACTION – LEVEL)
LIFT – PIT/SOLD – SLAVERY
39:1 “POTIPAHR’S PALACE” – OFFICER OF PHAROAH
COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE/CHAOS/GOD’S PROVIDENCE
39:2 “LORD WAS WITH HIM”
SUCCESSFUL
39:3 “POTIPHAR SAW THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH . . .”
POTIPHAR SAW THAT THE LORD MADE ALL JOSEPH DID TO PROSPER
39:4 JOSEPH FOUND FAVOR . . .
SERVED HIM . . .
MADE HIM OVERSEER (EMOTIONAL LOW/ELEVATE)
39:5 THE LORD BLESSED THE EGYPTIAN’S HOUSE FOR JOSPEH’S SAKE . . .
REASON – BLESSED – TREATMENT – YOU . . .
39:5(B) THE BLESSING OF THE LORD WAS ON ALL THAT HE HAD IN THE HOUSE/FIELD
BLESSING ON HIS LIFE – LIE ABOUT HIS WALK IN LIFE . . . (POTIPHAR’S WIFE. . .)
PRISON
39:21 “BUT THE LORD WAS WITH JOSPEH”
SHOWED HIM MERCY
GAVE HIM FAVOR
CHARGE OF PRISON
WHY: GENESIS 39:23 “BECAUSE THE LORD WAS WITH HIM AND WHATEVER HE DID THE LORD PROSPERED HIM.”
CHAPTER 40
BUTLER/BAKER – JOSEPH’S CONTROL . . .
BUTLER’S DREAM (POSITIVE)
THREE BLOSSOMING BRANCHES . . .
BITTER/BETTER . . . (TWO YEARS . . .)
PHAROAH DREAM
7+
7-
GENESIS 41:38 “CAN WE FIND SUCH A ONE AS THIS, A MAN IN WHOM IS THE SPRIT OF GOD”
“THAT ONE”
MANASSEH: FOR GOD HAS MADE ME FORGET ALL MY TOIL/ALL MY FATHER’S HOUSE . . .
EPHRAIM: FOR GOD HAS CAUSED ME TO BE FRUITFUL IN THE LAND OF AFFLICTION . . .
GOD- BLESS YOU – MIDST OF AFFLICTION . . .