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DEALING WITH DYSFUNCTION
Living a Life That Counts- Part 2
November 14, 2021
Genesis 37:1-11

JOSEPH’S FAMILY

 1.   HIS ________________________.

“When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols. And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was fleeing.” Genesis 31:19-20 (CSB)

“When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, ‘What have you done to me? Wasn’t it for Rachel that I worked for you? Why have you deceived me?”’  Genesis 29:25 (CSB)

 2.    HIS ________________________.

“When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. ‘Give me sons, or I will die!’ she said to Jacob.  Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, ‘Am I in the place of God? He has withheld offspring from you!”’ Genesis 30:1-2 (CSB)

“Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.” Genesis 30:22 (CSB)

Steps Forward

 a.    Focus on _________________________.

“He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.  For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.” II Corinthians 1:4-5 (CSB)

b.   Focus on _________________________.

“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people[a] should be kept alive, as they are today.”   Genesis 50:20 (CSB)