OUR MESSAGE FOR TODAY’S SUNDAY SERVICE ON MAY 24, 2015 IS GENESIS 50:1-20: THE GOODNESS OF GOD THAT REASSURES, HEAL AND RESTORES:

THE GOODNESS OF GOD THAT REASSURES, HEAL AND RESTORES: 1. The goodness of God creates generational blessings and also opens doors for Gods glory even when it looks like all hope is lost. Jacobs love for Joseph and the glory of God upon his life made his son Joseph to bury him Jacob his father like a King, though in the land of the Egyptians on exile, but the Goodness of God opened doors for Joseph to bury his father in the tomb of his fathers Abraham and Isaac in Canaan. Pharaoh granted the request of Joseph because of the goodness of God upon his life. See verses 1-6 2. It might interest you to know that there is nothing God cannot do no matter how difficult it is, provided that the glory of God and his goodness is upon your life. Take note here that Jacob has mourned the death of Joseph and never believed that he will see him again, not to talk of giving him a befitting burial, but the goodness of God turned all that around and the same Child he sowed coat of many colours for, and loved was alive as a Minister in Egypt and the one to give him a Kingly burial. Is there something you have lost that may have caused you great pain? If yes hold on to Gods goodness for he will reverse the irreversible for you. Do not give up hope, but wait on the Lord, for your day of Joy will come. See verses 7-10 3. It is interesting to note that at the threshing floor of Atad near the Jordan, Joseph observed seven days mourning period for his father Jacob with his high powered delegation entourage from Egypt where he was supposed to be a slave but the Goodness of God turned all that around for him to be the second in command next to the Pharaoh of Egypt the king of the land and ruler of the worlds first civilization then. When the Canaanites saw it, “they said that the Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning”. That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim, So Jacob’s sons did as their father has commanded them to do concerning his burial. See verses 11-12 4. They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought, along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. This proved that whoever walks in the goodness of God like Joseph, the Lord will surprise he/her beyond their imaginations. It also means that when you find favor in the sight of God, you can be celebrated where ever you are like the owner of the Land. After burying their father they returned to Egypt with the glory of God. See verses 13-14 5. It is very important to have a good heart irrespective of what anybody may have done to you to forgive and forget so as to walk in the Goodness of God. The brothers of Joseph meant evil for him but God turned it to good, that is why you need not to fight the battle that belong to God. Joseph brothers thought he will pay them back with their own coins after their father’s death, but rather Joseph reassured them and asked them to allow the past to remain the past, but did not fail to tell them that what they meant evil to him God turned it to good that they may see this day and that many lives be saved. You evil doers out there give up your evil ways and begin today to correct your ways and walk in the goodness of God. See verses 15-20. 6. My prayer for you today is to receive the Anointing power to walk in the Goodness of God that reassures, heals, restores and celebrates in Jesus name Amen. Genesis 50:1-20 New International Version (NIV) 50 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. 2 Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3 taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. 4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, 5 ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’” 6 Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.” 7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt— 8 besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.9 Chariots and horsemen[a] also went up with him. It was a very large company. 10 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. 11 When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.[b] 12 So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them: 13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. 14 After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father. Joseph Reassures His Brothers 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: 17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept. 18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said. 19 But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Watch out for our MAY 2015 daily words of Exhortations on “EMPOWERMENT TO WALK IN GODS GOODNESS AND GLORY" TOMORROW MAY 25, 2015. 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