1. Mercy’s Mark

3. GENESIS 39:2 THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH, SO HE BECAME A SUCCESSFUL MAN. AND HE WAS IN THE HOUSE OF HIS MASTER, THE EGYPTIAN.

5. GENESIS 37:18-20 18 WHEN THEY SAW HIM FROM A DISTANCE AND BEFORE HE CAME CLOSE TO THEM, THEY PLOTTED AGAINST HIM TO PUT HIM TO DEATH. 19 THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, “HERE COMES THIS DREAMER! 20 NOW THEN, COME AND LET US KILL HIM AND THROW HIM INTO ONE OF THE PITS; AND WE WILL SAY, ‘A WILD BEAST DEVOURED HIM.’ THEN LET US SEE WHAT WILL BECOME OF HIS DREAMS!”

6. THE DIFFICULTIES IN LIFE ARE INTENDED TO MAKE US BETTER, NOT BITTER

7. GENESIS 39:4 4 SO JOSEPH FOUND FAVOR IN HIS SIGHT AND BECAME HIS PERSONAL SERVANT; AND HE MADE HIM OVERSEER OVER HIS HOUSE, AND ALL THAT HE OWNED HE PUT IN HIS CHARGE.

8. GENESIS 39:21-23 21 BUT THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH AND EXTENDED KINDNESS TO HIM, AND GAVE HIM FAVOR IN THE SIGHT OF THE CHIEF JAILER. 22 THE CHIEF JAILER COMMITTED TO JOSEPH’S CHARGE ALL THE PRISONERS WHO WERE IN THE JAIL; SO THAT WHATEVER WAS DONE THERE, HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. 23 THE CHIEF JAILER DID NOT SUPERVISE ANYTHING UNDER JOSEPH’S CHARGE BECAUSE THE LORD WAS WITH HIM; AND WHATEVER HE DID, THE LORD MADE TO PROSPER.

9. WHEN WE ARE DOWN TO NOTHING GOD IS UP TO SOMETHING!

10. JOSEPH’S COATS FROM 1. THE PATRIARCH (JACOB) 2. POTIPHAR 3. PHARAOH

11. WHAT COAT IS GOD TRYING TO GET OFF YOU?

12. EPHESIANS 4:22-24 22 THAT, IN REFERENCE TO YOUR FORMER MANNER OF LIFE, YOU LAY ASIDE THE OLD SELF, WHICH IS BEING CORRUPTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LUSTS OF DECEIT, 23 AND THAT YOU BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND, 24 AND PUT ON THE NEW SELF, WHICH IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD HAS BEEN CREATED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS OF THE TRUTH.

13. PSALMS 24:3-4 WHO MAY ASCEND THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD? WHO MAY STAND IN HIS HOLY PLACE? 4 THE ONE WHO HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART, WHO DOES NOT TRUST IN AN IDOL OR SWEAR BY A FALSE GOD.

14. Mercy’s Mark