Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley from Monday, May 25th.

Keep your focus on God.

This is the key truth from Joseph's life.

Follow his story in an Egyptian jail and discover how to stay faithful and keep your eyes on God during times of trial.

One of the most precious lessons I've learned, I learned as a result of simply reading

the biblical characters, how they live their lives, their failures, and all the rest.

And some of those are like Joseph and David, Daniel, and a few others.

But I found something in the life of Joseph that absolutely strengthened me,

and has been a part of that strength all these years. And if you ask him, do you believe in the one true

God? Yes. Well, what's your evidence? Your brothers hated you. They threw in a pit to die.

You got sold in the caravan you did your best in part of us household and now you're in jail on what basis do you believe this god because he

kept his focus upon god not upon his circumstances one of the things that gets us in trouble causes us to

wobble in our faith, causes oftentimes for us to have more difficulty than we would have had

if we had kept our focus on God. Remember, he didn't have a Bible. He had the truth of God in that dream, and the promise of God plus what he had was the

testimony of his father, how God had spoken to him.

And listen, he had to keep being reminded of the fact, if God spoke to his father in that

dream and his father believed that, then why should he doubted

if God would speak to him, whatever that dream may be? And so here he is now in jail. And then

something else happens, because we come to the next phase of his life, still difficulty, pain, suffering, disappointment

in lots of ways. And so Pharaoh's cup bearer who serves him and his baker who bakes for him,

they got thrown in jail. Then one night, both of them, the baker and the cupbearer, have a dream. And so the scripture says that he could tell

that something had happened because they were so down. He could tell something that was happening.

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