Hi friends, Max Lakato here. You know, in God's hands, intended evil becomes eventual good.

I don't know the pain that you're walking through right now, but I do know this.

With God's help, you will get through this. It won't be painless.

Won't be quick, but God will use this mess for good.

My book, Never Give Up, is a call to trust in the unwavering goodness of God,

even when life itself doesn't seem good.

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Hello friend. This is Max Lakato. Thanks for tuning in. It's an honor to be with you. As we study God's word together, may our time uplift and encourage you. If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today. Well, the name of Satan is not mentioned in the story of Joseph, but his fingerprints are everywhere.

The devil had a simple strategy, and that is, try to destroy Joseph, and in doing so,

destroy the deliverance of the Hebrew people. If he could destroy the one

who was going to protect the children of Israel during the famine, then he would consequently

destroy all of the children of Israel. They would die in the famine, and his thought would be

then that he would destroy the bloodline or the lineage of the Messiah. His plan was simple. It would

have failed. It would have failed.

It would not have succeeded, but this was his plan.

Satan is equally determined to disrupt God's plan for your life, not just so that he can bring difficulty and challenge into your world

because he thinks mistakenly so that he can somehow disrupt God's plan to preserve a people for himself for the next kingdom.

He will fail.

But he does remind us not to chalk up our tough times, just a bad economy or bad health or bad karma or bad timing.

He says, otherwise, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, walks about like a roaring

lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him. Now, we live in a secular society that mocks such

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