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SCRIPTURE UNION DAILY GUIDE 30TH JULY 2022 DEVOTIONAL

Topic: A Time of Testing

Opening Prayer: Oh Lord, fill me with the power of the Holy Ghost as I study your word.

Question(s) for Reflection
• What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?

The famine is so intense that Jacob had to send his sons to Egypt to get grains for the family. Unknown to them, they were going to fulfil Joseph’s dream for which they had sold him out to the Midianites some twenty years earlier (see Genesis 37:19‐20). What is the significance of v.6b? How do we react when people share their vision with us? Do we discourage them because we are jealous or do we encourage them?

Joseph’s brothers sold him out so that God’s plan would not be fulfilled in his life. But from today’s passage, we see the sovereignty of God to fulfil His plans and purpose no matter what the devil or men may do. Although he apparently handled them roughly and severely, underneath his action was a deep affection for his siblings and family (cf. 45:3‐11).

Notice the turn of events when Joseph insists that they were spies (v.17). They experienced for only three days that which Joseph endured for 13 years but notice the nagging guilt that immediately popped up (vs.21‐22). When we live with unconfessed sin, it continues to haunt us. Sometimes even when the sin has been confessed, the consequences remain with us for the rest of our life.

• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?

Closing Prayer
• Please help me, dear Lord, to partner with you as you do your will in the lives of others.

Prayer for the week
• Pray for Nigerian farmers, that God will encourage their hard work by giving them bumper harvests. Pray against pests or human destruction of what they have cultivated.

Offer a prayer of faith in line with
Psalms 37:23 ‐ 24; Isaiah 16‐18