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God Who Makes Dreams Come True

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Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the one 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 42:6)

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Joseph had ten older brothers and one younger brother.

Joseph's mother, Rachel, was Jacob's favorite of his four wives.

Joseph's mother, Rachel, died giving birth to Joseph's younger brother Benjamin.

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Somehow, Joseph grew up and became 17 years old.

Jacob had Joseph help his four older brothers (Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher) to take care of his sheep.

Joseph saw his brothers doing things that were not right in the sight of God.

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Joseph could not get over the fact that his brothers were ignoring their sins.

So he told his father Jacob all their faults.

Joseph's brothers didn't like him for doing that.

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Father Jacob's love for Joseph was very special.

He made and put on special long sleeves for Joseph.

Joseph's older brothers didn't even have a good conversation with Joseph, who was especially loved by his father.

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Then one day Joseph had a strange dream.

Joseph and his brothers were tying sheaves of grain in the field.

But when the sheaf that Joseph had tied up rose from there, the sheaves that his brothers had tied up gathered around Joseph's sheaf and bowed down to it.

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The next morning, Joseph told his brothers about the dream he had had.

When the brothers heard Joseph's story, they became very angry with him and said,

“Do you think you will be our king? Do you really think you will rule us?”
The brothers hated Joseph more than ever before.

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Not long after, Joseph had another strange dream.

The sun and the moon and eleven stars were in the sky with Joseph's star.

But the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to the star of Joseph.

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The next day, Joseph told the story of the dream to his brothers again.

“Listen. Yesterday the sun, moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

Joseph also went to his father Jacob to tell the story of that dream.

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After hearing about Joseph's dream, this time Jacob also rebuked Joseph.

“What dream is that? Do you really think that me and your mother and brothers will bow down to you?”

But his father, Jacob, had Joseph's dream in mind.

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Joseph had a dream that God had given him.

It was a foreshadowing of what kind of person Joseph would become in the future.

Thirteen years after Joseph had the dream, the dream came true.

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After Joseph told the dream to his brothers, the brothers hated him even more.

The hatred resulted in Joseph being sold for 20 pieces of silver to slavers going to Egypt.

They committed the crime of lying to his father by putting the blood of a sheep on Joseph's clothes and telling him that he died from the bite of an animal.

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17-year-old Joseph, who had a dream that he would be exalted by others, became a slave in Egypt.
Joseph's brothers were convinced that Joseph's dream would never come true.

But wherever Joseph was, he trusted and relied on God to be with him.

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God was always with Joseph, who was a slave in Egypt.

13 years after God gave Joseph a dream, he made that dream come true in Egypt.

Joseph became the prime minister of Egypt at the age of 30 by interpreting the dream of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

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After some time passed, a severe famine struck all over the world, and there was nothing to eat in all the lands except Egypt.
Joseph's brothers who lived in Canaan also came to Egypt to buy grain. Joseph's brothers do not know that the Egyptian prime minister is Joseph, and they bow down in front of them with the utmost courtesy.

The dream God had given to Joseph came true.

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God is the one who gives His dreams to us who are His children and makes those dreams come true. Through Joseph, we learn that the dreams God gives can come true no matter what difficulties we face. He gives dreams to children who love God and makes them come true.

I hope that God will give you dreams like Joseph.

And like Joseph, I hope that that dream will come true and give glory to God.

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