How to Overcome a Power Struggle | Torah | Genesis 41:37-46

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

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Whether you have a lot of power or no power at all, the way you use your responsibilities matters. In Genesis 41:37-57, Joseph uses his position to bring glory to God. How will you use your power? Tanya discusses how to have a God-centered view of power. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Genesis 41:37-57 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life
0:09.0	and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth.
0:12.0	Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible, Genesis.
0:15.0	For better or worse, power is part of all our lives.
0:19.0	Whether it's trying to gain it, having it, and knowing how to use it for good, bending to it, or handing it over, we are all
0:27.2	in some kind of relationship with power, whether it's going well or not.
0:31.8	You're probably in the top, bottom, or even the middle of the power game in all kinds
0:36.4	of places in your life. Today we're going to look at a guy that went from the very, very
0:41.4	bottom to the very, very top.
0:44.8	For some of us, it would be a dream come true, to be taken out of our place and suddenly
0:49.2	lifted up and given all kinds of resources and credit and responsibility.
0:54.0	But for Joseph, it really was from a dream.
0:58.0	It sounds kind of weird, so let's dig in.
1:00.0	You're already familiar with this story
1:02.0	and you know that dreams have played an important role in Joseph's life.
1:05.0	It was a dream, or at least it was him telling his brothers about a dream that got him thrown into a pit in the first place.
1:12.0	When Joseph told his brothers in Genesis 37 that he
1:15.4	dreamt he was a sheaf of wheat standing upright in the field at harvest and they were
1:20.4	sheaves of wheat circling around and bowing down to him.
1:23.9	They plotted to get rid of him and threw him into a pit and sold him into slavery.
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