Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, January 13th.

How do you keep moving forward when bad things happen?

Let's explore the answer to that question by looking at the life of Joseph.

When we talk about faith's fixed focus, a fixed focus is the directing of our retention

and our faith toward a specific object and holding it there. And for the believer, our fixed focus

is God, none other than God. Now, I mentioned to you before that the five men in the Old

Testament that most influenced my life were Abraham and then Joseph and Moses and David and Daniel.

And as a kid growing up and reading and searching and asking God to speak to my own heart,

how these truths affected my life. Well, we've talked about Abraham, the call of faith. And today, Joseph,

faith's fixed focus. Now, my friend, listen carefully. Here's a man whose faith was so fixed upon the Heavenly Father

that it sustained him through a family that hated him,

sustained him through a period of slavery,

sustained him through a period of intense temptation,

and sustained him through an unjust accusation that resulted in throwing him in prison.

He didn't deserve it, but he had no recourse, no trial, no lawyer, none of that, into a dungeon in prison.

Now, think about this for a moment. Joseph would have had lots of human

reasons for saying, well, this is where being moral and trusting God has gotten me. Rejection from

my family. Sold in the slave block for 20 pieces of silver, falsely accused by Apollipa's wife,

and now I'm in a dungeon in prison, probably for the

rest of my life, which probably would not have been long, living in a dungeon. And that's what

his faith and his obedience got him. Oh, that's not what he said. Because you see, Joseph fixed

his faith on Jehovah God. It sustained him through his brother's attempted

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