Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. Good morning and

deed we're rounding out would day four of our give your work meaning devotional. In the Bible

app there's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us.

And as always I'm going to read the scripture then Tories can pick it with the Divo. Let's do it.

The scripture is Genesis chapter 50 verse 20 it's one of my favorites it says this

you intended to harm me but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could

save the lives of many people. The devotional is titled God uses our work for his purposes

and it says this after many years of trials Joseph's dreams came to fruition not only did Pharaoh

entrust the operations of all of Egypt to Joseph his brothers came to him seeking food when the

famine hit and they bowed it down to their brother although they didn't know it was him right away.

God intended all along to use the seven years of abundance and seven years of famine to lead his

people to Egypt where they would take refuge. God used the circumstances to prepare Joseph to bring

his plan about. When Jacob died Joseph's brothers were fearful that he would finally take his

revenge but Joseph remained focused on God's purposes and responded you intended to harm me

but God intended it for good the saving of many lives Joseph only got to see a small portion of

how he fit into God's bigger plan that we can see today. One day Joseph will see just how many lives

he contributed to saving James one two and three tells us consider it pure joy my brothers and

sisters when you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith

produces perseverance when we are faithful through difficulties we open the door for God to do

amazing things through us. It's important to trust that God can and will use our work to build

character, strengthen us and ultimately produce results we could never have achieved otherwise.

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