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Speaker 2: And welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the
Speaker 2: Soul with John gift of podcast where I'm going to
Speaker 2: talk to you today on the aspect of addressing your
Speaker 2: issues and concerns. Want to talk to you and share
Speaker 2: a principle with you. Oh, when we think about this
Speaker 2: moment when in Genesis thirty nine, Joseph has taking us
Speaker 2: a slave into Potiphar's house and he's staying there, and
Speaker 2: the Potiphar sees the hand of God upon Joseph's life
Speaker 2: and puts him in charge of everybody and everything except
Speaker 2: Potiphir's wife. But here's the thing. I want you to
Speaker 2: understand that. Now Joseph was well built and handsome, and
Speaker 2: after a while he is my Potifir's wife noticed Joseph
Speaker 2: and said, come to bed with me. But I'm reading
Speaker 2: from verse seven onwards. Okay, So when you look at
Speaker 2: verse eight, he says, he refused. He said, with me
Speaker 2: in charge, my master does not concern himself with anything
Speaker 2: in the house. Everything he owns he has entrusted to
Speaker 2: my care. No one is created in this house than
Speaker 2: I am. My master is with her, nothing from me
Speaker 2: except you, because you're his wife. How can I do
Speaker 2: such a wicked thing sin against God? This is what
Speaker 2: Joseph is saying. Right, he's saying, you know, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to do this. He's bold. And he also says,
Speaker 2: I'm not just doing this. If I do all, I
Speaker 2: admit to the sin. I'm not just doing this against
Speaker 2: you know, your husband, I'm also doing it against God.
Speaker 2: So he knew that God was with him. He was
Speaker 2: mindful of God. And just think that I wanted to
Speaker 2: pay attention to words stay and it says, and though
Speaker 2: she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to
Speaker 2: go to bed with her or even be with her, Okay,
Speaker 2: and then eventually one day when nobody was there in
Speaker 2: verse eleven on once you see that she caught him
Speaker 2: by his cloak and said, come to bed with me.
Speaker 2: But he left his cloak in her hand, and he
Speaker 2: ran out of the house, right, and he gets into
Speaker 2: trouble where she wrongly accuses Joseph and then he's put
Speaker 2: in prison. Now, God used all of this for good,
Speaker 2: like to take him out of forty us house so
Speaker 2: that he doesn't remain a slave the rest of his life,
Speaker 2: so that he would go to the next level of
Speaker 2: his death the need. But there's a principle here. It
Speaker 2: says that she spoke to Joseph day after day, but
Speaker 2: he refused to go to bed with her. See, it
Speaker 2: didn't happen suddenly, right, It was something that she constantly
Speaker 2: constantly tried with Joseph, and one day, when nobody was around,
Speaker 2: she just took the opportunity to you know, hit on him. Yes,
Speaker 2: the thing, right, I think Joseph should have addressed the issue,
Speaker 2: addressed the concern when she started this, started doing this
Speaker 2: like right from the beginning. Like it says that she
Speaker 2: kept doing this day after day, and eventually one day
Speaker 2: she just you know, realized no one was around and
Speaker 2: took it into took mattress into her own hands, right,
Speaker 2: and ended up putting Joseph in trouble. And maybe today
Speaker 2: one thing that we can learn this, Yes, we need
Speaker 2: to be in no centif styles, but we should also
Speaker 2: be wise as so the Bible says, in other words,
Speaker 2: when you realize that something is off, when you realize
Speaker 2: that something doesn't seem right, when you realize that something
Speaker 2: could land you in deeper trouble, don't ignore it. Don't
Speaker 2: think like I just wish it would go away. Because
Speaker 2: it says that, you know, she kept on doing this
Speaker 2: day after day. Maybe one day he could have just
Speaker 2: spoken privately to Potifer. Maybe he could have addressed his
Speaker 2: concern in front of Potifer. Maybe he would have landed
Speaker 2: him in more trouble where his Potify's wife could have
Speaker 2: given him a harder try and time, and maybe he
Speaker 2: could have moved to another place or something like that.
Speaker 2: But the truth is, maybe he shouldn't have just been
Speaker 2: quiet about it like and just left it. Maybe if
Speaker 2: he had addressed this to Potifer beforehand, Potifa would have
Speaker 2: been aware so that when the actual incident happened. You
Speaker 2: know what, if I could have stood in a better
Speaker 2: chance of believing in Joseph than he did right now,
Speaker 2: you get what I'm saying. So ultimately allow God allowed
Speaker 2: this to happen so that Joseph would not stay there.
Speaker 2: All of that is true, But on the principal point
Speaker 2: of view, I want you to get this that you know,
Speaker 2: the minute you realize something is off, you know, like
Speaker 2: sometimes I see in terms of certain people, you know,
Speaker 2: you realize that they don't have good intention, You realize
Speaker 2: that something seems to be not clicking with them, you know,
Speaker 2: having good vibes or something like that. You know, I
Speaker 2: don't allow myself to be put in the you know,
Speaker 2: in a place where they would continue to use me
Speaker 2: like that. You get what I'm saying. I try to
Speaker 2: address it. Like if I see something is off, talk
Speaker 2: to the person concern or talk to somebody else who
Speaker 2: could help me deal with that in a better way,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So that's the challenge I
Speaker 2: want to leave with you. Don't put off your issues,
Speaker 2: address your issues in the right effective way that you
Speaker 2: will see the rand results coming in in a through
Speaker 2: real life emmen. God bless you.
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