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And welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcast where I'm going to talk to you today on the aspect of addressing your issues and concerns. Want to talk to you and share a principle with you. Oh, when we think about this moment when in Genesis thirty nine, Joseph has taking us a slave into Potiphar's house and he's staying there, and the Potiphar sees the hand of God upon Joseph's life and puts him in charge of everybody and everything except
Potiphir's wife. But here's the thing. I want you to understand that. Now Joseph was well built and handsome, and after a while he is my Potifir's wife noticed Joseph and said, come to bed with me. But I'm reading from verse seven onwards. Okay, So when you look at verse eight, he says, he refused. He said, with me in charge, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house. Everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. No one is created in this house than
I am. My master is with her, nothing from me except you, because you're his wife. How can I do such a wicked thing sin against God? This is what Joseph is saying. Right, he's saying, you know, I'm not going to do this. He's bold. And he also says, I'm not just doing this. If I do all, I admit to the sin. I'm not just doing this against you know, your husband, I'm also doing it against God. So he knew that God was with him. He was
mindful of God. And just think that I wanted to pay attention to words stay and it says, and though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her, Okay, and then eventually one day when nobody was there in verse eleven on once you see that she caught him by his cloak and said, come to bed with me. But he left his cloak in her hand, and he ran out of the house, right, and he gets into trouble where she wrongly accuses Joseph and then he's put
in prison. Now, God used all of this for good, like to take him out of forty us house so that he doesn't remain a slave the rest of his life, so that he would go to the next level of his death the need. But there's a principle here. It says that she spoke to Joseph day after day, but he refused to go to bed with her. See, it didn't happen suddenly, right, It was something that she constantly constantly tried with Joseph, and one day, when nobody was around,
she just took the opportunity to you know, hit on him. Yes, the thing, right, I think Joseph should have addressed the issue, addressed the concern when she started this, started doing this like right from the beginning. Like it says that she kept doing this day after day, and eventually one day she just you know, realized no one was around and took it into took mattress into her own hands, right,
and ended up putting Joseph in trouble. And maybe today one thing that we can learn this, Yes, we need to be in no centif styles, but we should also be wise as so the Bible says, in other words, when you realize that something is off, when you realize that something doesn't seem right, when you realize that something could land you in deeper trouble, don't ignore it. Don't think like I just wish it would go away. Because it says that, you know, she kept on doing this
day after day. Maybe one day he could have just spoken privately to Potifer. Maybe he could have addressed his concern in front of Potifer. Maybe he would have landed him in more trouble where his Potify's wife could have given him a harder try and time, and maybe he could have moved to another place or something like that. But the truth is, maybe he shouldn't have just been quiet about it like and just left it. Maybe if he had addressed this to Potifer beforehand, Potifa would have
been aware so that when the actual incident happened. You know what, if I could have stood in a better chance of believing in Joseph than he did right now, you get what I'm saying. So ultimately allow God allowed this to happen so that Joseph would not stay there.
All of that is true, But on the principal point of view, I want you to get this that you know, the minute you realize something is off, you know, like sometimes I see in terms of certain people, you know, you realize that they don't have good intention, You realize that something seems to be not clicking with them, you know, having good vibes or something like that. You know, I don't allow myself to be put in the you know, in a place where they would continue to use me
like that. You get what I'm saying. I try to address it. Like if I see something is off, talk to the person concern or talk to somebody else who could help me deal with that in a better way, you know what I mean. So that's the challenge I want to leave with you. Don't put off your issues, address your issues in the right effective way that you will see the rand results coming in in a through real life emmen. God bless you.
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