Welcome to the InDutch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, February 3rd.

No one likes hardship, but God uses difficulty and pain to build strong faith.

Today's podcast teaches you to develop assurance while walking with God through the dark times.

All of us are going to go through dark times in our life.

We will always understand why sometimes they're going to be short-lived.

Sometimes they're going to be prolonged and we do not understand why God doesn't stop it even now.

But even though that happens, there's a way for us to respond.

And God is given to us in His Word, the principles about which you're not to operate in every single circumstance of life, no matter what it is.

And that's what I want to talk about in this message entitled Walking with God through the dark times.

And so I want to choose the life of Joseph, for example, and you may turn to the 37th chapter of Genesis,

because it's interesting that though he was not the most important one of Jacob's sons,

that 37 through 50th chapters of the book of Genesis is all about the life of Joseph.

And he's a perfect example for us to look at and examine and see how God helped him walk through a long period of darkness.

So let me give you little idea who he is.

Joseph is the youngest son of Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, God's genealogical line.

And so his brothers hate him and the Bible says several times how much they hate him because he is the protected one.

And so when he goes out and brings back his father's report, it was a bad report.

So they see him as a tattletail.

Then he had these dreams, one of these dreams was these sheaves, each one representing his brother,

and they were all bowing down to his sheave, which was in the center.

That made him that much more angry.

Then he talked about this dream of them, son of the moon bowing down to his sheave.

...