DREAM ON Part 5: The Brothers – Forgiveness

Dream ———— Destiny

How do we travel from the dream to the destiny?

The way you hold the dreams God gives you determines if and when they come to pass.

God is faithful to the promised outcome, not the easy journey.

To overcome temptation:
Realize and Run.

God is much more interested in developing our character than our comfort.

Genesis 41:39-40 
39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. 40 You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.”

Genesis 41:41 
41 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”

UNFORGIVENESS

Genesis 42:6 
6 Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 42:7 
7 As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where do you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied, “to buy food.”

Genesis 42:8 
8 Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

Genesis 42:24 
24 He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.

Genesis 43:26 
26 When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.

Genesis 43:30 
30 Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.

Genesis 45:1 
1 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Genesis 45:2 
2 And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

Genesis 45:4 
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!

Genesis 45:5 
5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.

Genesis 45:8 
8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.

How was Joseph able to forgive the unforgivable?

How was Joseph able to forgive the unforgivable?
JOSEPH WEPT.

We never allow ourselves to process and grieve what we have lost.

Make a list and grieve what you have lost.

FORGIVENESS IS NOT
dependent on an apology.
saying it was is ok.
the same as trust.
a feeling; it’s a decision.
forgetting

Forgiveness is linked in scripture as a financial term.

Matthew 6:12 
12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Forgiveness = to release freely.

List what they took from you?
– childhood, innocence
trust, reputation
friendship, peace

Release what they took from you.
childhood, innocence
trust, reputation
friendship, peace