Joseph's story reads like a movie — betrayal, slavery, false accusation, imprisonment — and yet Scripture keeps insisting "the Lord was with him." In part two of our series on suffering, Dave Scherrer walks through Genesis 37-50 and pulls out four things Joseph's hardest years teach us about suffering well: that God's presence never actually leaves, that hardship can be part of a bigger plan, that integrity under pressure is both protective and restorative, and that real forgiveness is possible on the other side of real pain. It all lands on one of the most quoted lines in Scripture — "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good" — and a hope-filled reminder that there are Kingdom offerings waiting to be claimed in our own suffering. Visit us at https://100foldministries.org
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