Where Is God When Everything Goes Wrong?

A) There was a dream about the sheaves, and there was a dream about the stars!

* In the first dream God told Joseph He was going to elevate him above the world’s resources.

* In the second dream He would elevate him above the world’s rulers.

* Always in the back of his mind and in the bottom of his heart, there was that remembrance that

God had promised him elevation and exaltation!

* Joseph knew that no matter what happened, God would keep his Word.

* Rather than dwelling on his problems, he dwelt on His promises!

B) When dark days and dreary nights come into your life, when everything is going wrong,

instead of sinking on the premises you need to be standing on the promises.

* I can hear Joseph now as he makes the pit and the prison his personal platform of praise, living

in full confidence that God’s promise for him would be fulfilled.

* If the song had been written, I guarantee you Joseph would have been singing: “Standing on the

promises that cannot fail, When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,

* By the living word of God I shall prevail, Standing on the promises of God.”

* When the devil comes to me and presses me beyond measure, and taunts me and say, “What does

your future look like now, Preacher?”

* I just answer, “My future is as bright as the promises of God!”

C) I could give you thousands of promises from the word of God for those times when

everything seems to go wrong ... But let me just give you one: Proverbs 3:25-26,

* “Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the

Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.”

* Men, many times, have to eat their words, but God never has to eat His!

* He will keep His promises! * You can depend on His promises ... If He says it, He’ll do it!

(2) RELY ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD!

* Joseph was thrown into the pit and forsaken by his family!

* Then he was thrown into prison and forgotten by his friends.

* Neither time was Joseph being punished for doing what was wrong, but for doing what was right! A) His brothers were jealous because of his dreams, and threw him into the pit!

* Potiphar’s wife was angry because of his dedication and had him thrown into prison!

* Now you think about it, Joseph lost his liberty because he would not compromise his purity,

corrupt his integrity, or cast away his dignity!

* He was not suffering for doing wrong ... He was suffering for doing right!

* 1Pet. 2:20 reminds us, “For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take

it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with

God.”

* Don’t get the idea that when something bad happens to someone it’s because they are not living

right ... It may be because they are!

B) I heard about a preacher who returned home from a trip and one of his laymen met him at

the train station! * The preacher asked him how things were going!

* He said, “Well, while you were gone a cyclone came through town and tore my house down.”