Prayer Works Morning Devotion: August 14, 2025

Thus Says The Lord-Who God Says He Is, His Commandments and Promises

Genesis 37:5-11 "Joseph's Dreams "

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Good morning saints. Let us start out the day out with Psalms 136 the first six verses. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for he is good, for his mercies endure forever. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for he is good, for his mercies endures forever. 

Oh, give thanks unto the God of gods, for his mercies endure forever. Oh give thanks unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endures forever. To him who alone does great wonders, for his mercy endures forever. 

To him by his understanding made the heavens, his mercy endures forever. To him who spread out the earth upon the waters, his mercy endures forever. Let us pray. 

Father God, we thank you for your mercy, Father God. You have new mercy and grace for us every day, every day, Father. A lot of time we get up and we just think, well, I'm supposed to wake up, I'm supposed to start his day but Father God is all about you.  

And we thank you that your mercy endures forever, Father. Father God, whatever it is they may bring Father God we ask you for your mercy and your grace, Father. We know you give to us, Father God, but we just want to ask for it.  

And Father God, we just want to bow down and let you know that we recognize, Father God, your love, your mercy and your grace and your kindness that you give us every day. And Father God, we thank you that for this we can put out a whole attention on you.  

Father God, we are the kind of people that you will have us to become Father. Father God, you told us they love you first and love each other. Father God, let us check out our selves daily. 

Father God, because this is your commandment and we love you. You said we keep your commandment and we thank you Father. Father God, we thank you in Jesus name, Amen. 

This morning saints I would be, my lesson comes from the Genesis 37:5-10. And now we're talking about Joseph dream. And I bet all of us that we would never doubt Joseph dream.  

We can remember maybe all of it, you can remember nothing know yes, I can follow. But his dream is so important and it all ends up in obedience. And we can see that as we get into our lesson.  

Let me sort of read in the Genesis 37:5-10, King James Version. And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren and they hated him yet some more. And he said to them here I pray you this dream, which I have dreamed.  

But behold we were binding sheaves of grain out in the field. My sheaves are rolled and also stood up right. And behold, your sheaves stood round it and bowed to my sheaf. 

And his brother said to him, are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us? And they hated him yet the more. But his dreams and for his worries. And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothermen and said, behold, I have dreamed yet a dream and behold the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. 

And he told it to his father and to his brother and his father and said to him, what is this dream about his dream? Should I and my mother and my brother and me come and bow down ourselves to the earth.  

So Joseph, he was he was loved by his father. But he was hated by his brother. Jacob the father loved Joseph more than any of his other son because he was born in his old age. And they had resentment against him and there were jealous of Joseph.  

And when his father made Joseph, they coat with the colors, they become very jealous. And the Bible said that he was that Joseph was born in Jacob old age. And I think that made the father feel very special.  

And he showed it and reading it I can pick up a lot of things like what we do when we are proud. Sometimes we show it and everybody can see it. But we were proud and we have loved our father.  

We shouldn't let other people see it. Joseph was 17 years old. We saw it in verse five. But Joseph was foolish to tell his dreams to his brothers. He knew that it would make them hate him even more.  

His father had made him think that he was very important. So he thought that he was more important than his brothers. He probably wasn't a teasing his brothers. His dreams were true, but he was teasing them.  

He wanted to see their facial expression full of anger. Jacob’s brothers didn't have a Joseph’s brothers didn't have a dream to tell it back to him. So they had nothing. They had to listen at him.  

Well, we’re going to say that Joseph was bragging right now. At their young age the role was not just a sacred love for Joseph but also a tangible representation of his favoritism.  

This favoritism led to bitterness and animosity to among Joseph brothers. Same to say for events that were followed. And these events, you can say just about followed him on lifetime.  

This story serves as a cautionary tale about the danger of showing partiality and favoritism within families as it can lead to division and strife. It can also separate families for years, some people never get over it.  

Some people never ask for forgiveness or be forgiven. Joseph’s resentment that Joseph brothers kept towards him both showed the betraying and mistreatment of Joseph were later spilt at their hands.  

Jacob may have been willing to continue showing love to his son, the favoritism ultimate caused a drift within a family that would have last in repercussion. The way Jacob showed Joseph love was not just him in his heart.  

He should have hidden hid heart and not showed it to the others because it is that which caused jealousy. And this passage set the stage for unfolding drama in Joseph's life.  

And this drama followed him years throughout his life. But God’s servant work through human acts and emotion. It lays a foundation for trials and triumph that Joseph with face later.  

When Joseph wants to power Egypt and the reconciliation with his brother, the story of Joseph how life is going faith and provision even in the midst of the trial and hardship, showcasing obvious panic and ultimate bringing about redemption and reconciliation.  

So for the other situation in a family, God can change it. He can change but Joseph throughout his life, he was faithful. And back to Genesis 37:5 and Joseph had a dream and shared a with his brother, leading jealously and animosity towards him.  

This situation unfolded with Joseph describing the dream to his brothers, telling them that they were binding sheaves in the field when suddenly his sheaf rose and stood upright while their sheaves the other around and bowed down to his sheaves. 

So this made his brother very jealous. Joseph dream made him look good and he brothers look bad. And then he could have told his dream another way. But Joseph seemed to have a power attitude.  

And I guess most of it was happy, but the way he told it, and he knew his brother hated him. He knew their facial expressions. He knew what they would say and Joseph opened and shared his dreams with his brothers.  

Joseph and I had a full aggressive dream, more resentment and evil, it could stir him on his brothers. And this was a lifetime with the same. But we see what change. This event foreshadowed the trials and tribulation Joseph will face due to his special calling, either from God.  

And Joseph might not have realized what he was doing. He might not realize it, at 17 sometimes we are mature, Joseph could have been a little mature, but he hadn't still the way he told his brother dreams.  

It's like he was down at them. The brother's reaction to Joseph dream was jealousy. They ridiculed with him, personed his intention and suggestion that he seeks to rule over them.  

Their reaction revealed that deep-seed in jealousy and rivalry present among the brothers due to the favoritism of their father. Jacob the father had shown toward Joseph. This jealousy ultimately leads to the brother betrayal to Joseph by serving them and to slavery.  

So the father, we could say a lot about the father. He was happy because like we said, Joseph was born in his old age, but the way the father showed favoritism and made the other brothers jealous.  

And this event and the broader context of the Bible sits at stage for a fulfilment of plans for Joseph. So God had a plan for Joseph. Joseph went through a lot of trials and tribulations in his life, but there was God's plan, and well as the salvation of Jacob family. 

Joseph dream, which would later be interpreted in each. So as a way for God to communicate his plan and purpose for Joseph and his family, although brother actions are driven by indent and malice. 

God would ultimately use these events to bring about the greater purpose. And this passage highlights the theme of sibling rival and the consequences of jealousy. So our Joseph and his brother served as a cautionary tale about destructive nature, jealousy and the importance of humility and forgiveness.  

And forgiveness is one of the main things. This story and our family, we can tell, we can tell who our family is distant, who hates, those who love those who are jealous. We can tell, but it should lead to forgiveness.  

It reminds us of the harm that can be caused when one of our enemies has stuff their hearts. Lead into the trail and broken relationships. We can draw a parallel between Joseph and Jesus Christ in a new testament, both were beloved by their fathers. 

Rejected by their own people, and betrayed by those closest to them. But through their suffering and eventual exaltation, both Joseph and Jesus played crucial role in bringing about salvation and redemption to their people.  

The story of Joseph dream in Genesis 37:5-11, teaches us about the submissive role. The consequences of jealousy and the trail, the importance of remaining faithful to God's plan, even in the face of adversity.  

It reminds us that God can use even most challenging circumstances for his glory and to prove his command purpose. And Jacob sent Joseph to check on his brothers. This is getting into the 37 on down, verse 18- 24. 

Who were attending their flock, and he sent them. As seen in Genesis 37:18-24 this part is a crucial point in Joseph's life, soon to say just for the events that were eventually to his rise in power in Egypt.  

Then Joseph’s brothers sees his far off and plans to kill him, and then this was a story that was just in chance. And reading back to Genesis 37: 5 it says and Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him yet the more.  

Verse 8 said, and his brother and said to him, Shabbat indeed reigned over us, Shabbat indeed held the men and over us, and they hated him yet the more of his dreams and his word.  

So we see yet that hate, hate is power and I google hate, and it says a whole lot. I'm going to read this. I'm going to read just not all of it, but most of so we get a good understanding how far hate can go.  

It goes a long way. It's trouble all throughout the body, through our the bloodstream, through our the veins. And as I feel a intense hostility and evasion, uses that rearing from fear, anger, or sense of injury. 

It is a stream dislike or discourse. Hatred is an emotion, a stream hatred can inspire violence. Hatred is a feeling of everyone has felt, and experienced at some point, especially of the being betrayed or hurt physically emotionally by someone.  

It is normal to have hateful feeling and have a feeling hatred over a long time and holding on to hate and be determined to the mind and the body. Well we can say everyone has experienced hate at one time. 

 We really can't say everyone's hate, or this is what Google says, because some people they just have the love of God. Some people are humble. They humble themselves. They talk to the Lord and also say that hate can read more negative emotions.  

It can affect personal and professional relationships. Hatred changes that chemistry in the brain. It stimulates the area in the brain responsible for planning and institutional emotion. This part triggers aggression while feeling hatred to either defeat or attack.  

This also creates fight and flight responses and increases the love of two hormones and adrenaline. These hormones can cause hate. It can cause insomnia, anxiety, depression, mental health, stress, so hatred can go on and on.  

Hatred is not a good thing. But the only way we shake hatred off is through the word of God. We have to practice reading, studying, and meditating. Talking to our community on Christians, because hate is a spirit.  

It just don't smell alone. We just can't get rid of it. We just can't tell it to go away. We have to have the spirit of God. And Calvin when he spoke about that, we really don't have just dreams like Joseph. 

It comes to mean that, well, he did speak about the whole spirit and that’s what popped in my mind, for he just said that. But we have to have the holy spirit. We don't look for dreams like Joseph, but we talk to the holy spirit.  

And John 4:10-26 tells us, but the helper, the holy spirit, who the father was seeing in my name, he would teach you all the things that bring your remembrance, all that I have said unto you.  

So we see the holy spirit play the important part of our life. The whole spirit is our life, but we have to receive him. We have health, humility. John 14:16-17 says, and I will ask the father and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you for help.  

The spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him, nor knows him, but you know him, but he lives with you and will be in you. And so we see that we have a helper that we want to know something.  

Sit and have a hard time, talk to the Lord, not just sometimes or something that we want to know today, but every day, this is a real life with the Christians. When Joseph was telling his brothers about his dreams, he didn't have the holy spirit. 

They didn't have the whole spirit. They did not know, but hatred was led his brothers to want to kill him. They did, they sold him into slavery. They didn't kill him, but they want a one-on-one into him.  

But the meaning of this passage lies in Joseph of being in his father. Despite knowing that his brothers may not have the best intention towards him due to their jealousy and hatred, Joseph does not have the taste of fulfil his fathers requests.  

This act of obedience is a powerful example of honoring one's parents and following through our responsibility, even in the face of a tender danger or adversary. The claim of obedience and respect toward parents is echoed throughout the Bible in verses such as Ephesians 6:1-3. 

Which instructs children to obey their parents and the Lord. We have to look at what he really said. It's an obey to the Lord. A lot of time parents tell children, well I'm tired, go sit down.  

I don't want to be a mother. That's not raising a child. We have to do it the Lords way. We have to talk to the child. Joseph joined it to find his brother because also he's seen as a metaphor for our own spiritual journey.  

Joseph thanks the trials and uncertainty on his way to Dothan. We too encounter a challenge and obstacles on the path toward fulfilling our own God given purpose. And so even when we call us for a special purpose, even when we're doing God's purpose, we still have trials.  

We still have tribulations, but we have to push through. This passage served as a reminder that God is always with us, guiding us through difficult times, and shaping us into the people he had sent for us to be, just as he did Joseph.  

In Genesis 37:12-17 says, but extra-ordinary souls are Joseph. Illustrated things of obedience, faith in this, and sovereignty are brought in shape in our destiny. Joseph was willing to beg his father and walk into the unlawful shadow of an incredible journey.  

He was about to involve them. Ultimately showcasing the faith in this and provision of God in all circumstances. The Bible says we walk by faith and not by sight. All through Joseph's life, we see that he did the things.  

He was faithful and he was obedient. Romans 8:26 says likewise, the spirit of our weakness, we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 

Joshua 1:89, it says this book of the Lord, shall not depart out of that mouth, but thou shalt meditate there in day and night, that thou may assert to do according to all that is written there in, but then thou shalt make thy way prosper. 

 And then thou shalt have good success. For that, I commend thee, be strong and of good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for I, the LORD thy God, am with thee wherever thou goest.  

So we know what God has a called in our lives, it might look bad for us, but the scripture says, God is with us, wherever we go. All we have to do is just walk a straight line, and that straight line is from us to the cross, and that's where Jesus is.  

So we have to meditate on the word day and night. And Romans 28:28 says, and it shall come to pass, because thou shalt walk in diligence to the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and do all his commandment, and which I command thee in this day. 

That the Lord thy God will sit thee on high above all the nation of the earth. And we know in Joseph, like at the end, how things fold, they come forth, and they came together, because God is the Lord.  

And Joseph had plenty of accomplishments in his life. And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man, and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. Another point, and his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he needed to prosper in his hands.  

Another point, and Joseph found race at his sight, and he served him, and he made him overseers over his house, and all that he had, he put him put it into his hands.  

Another point, and he came to pay us from the time that he had made his overseers in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian house for Joseph's sake. 

And the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. Another point of accomplishment, and he lived all that he had in Joseph's hands, and he knew not out, he had  saved the breath, which he did eat.  

And Joseph was a Godly person, and well favored. Saints, we know that we could live a life like Joseph. We love reading stories, we love reading events, we love reading parables and all, but we're those same people that God called us to do something, but we have to ask.  

If we didn't act on when God called us we have to ask, Lord, what can you for me to do? What did you tell me to do, and I didn't do it? And so there's more we learned a lot from Joseph.  

From Joseph's dreams, to the Holy Spirit, and to Joseph's accomplishments. Thank you. Let us pray. Father God we thank you for this day again. We thank you for waking us up from the rising of the sun and the setting of the same Father.  

When the sun go down, Father will still be here, Father. And Father God, we thank you for a day of thanksgiving. A day of thanksgiving is every day. It's not a special day, it's not a special time, it's not an emotion, and it's not a feeling.  

Father God, we just want to thank you, this day Father. Father God, give us the mind to pick a day, some days, to just sit down and just do all the work, or whatever we carry on that day, just to thank you.  

Not to ask for anything, just thank you, because you are God, and your son, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Just have a thankful heart and a thankful mind. Father God, because there is so much that you have done for us, because you love us, Father. 

And we thank you, Father, and we want to show it by just open our mouths and saying thank you, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. Father God, we don't want this just to be of sometime, we want it to be all the time.  

Before we even pray, Father God, we want to just thank you for being our God. We want to thank you for taking care of us. We want to thank you for leading and guiding us. We want to thank you for the Holy Spirit.  

We just want to say thank you, and all say it and done, we just want to use those powerful words, Father. Father God, I just thank you for being on my life. I just thank you for leading and guiding me.  

Father God, you commanded us to love Father God, and let us show love for the God to others. Father God, we been so thankful, Father. Father God, don't let us be like Joseph brothers, Father God. 

And the other people, jealous of other people or hate other people. Let us love everybody, Father God, because you say it so. Father God, let us love through your eyes, Father God, because you say it. 

Father God, we want to live a life pleasing to you, Father, and we thank you, Father. Father God, you have plenty of work for us to do, Father God, and Father God, give us the mind and just want to do it.  

We just want a make up mind just to do what you say do, and our first do is to tell the others about you. Our first do is giving our testimony to what you have done in our life, and we thank you, Father.  

Father God, we just thank you for taking sickness out of our bread and out of the water, Father God, out of the food. We thank you, Father God, for cleaning up everything, that's in our past, that's not right, and you do that everyday, Father.  

Psalms 9:1-11 says, you are going to give your angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways. And we thank you, Father God, we see that. Father God, let us look to the hills, and that's where our help comes from the Lord, our help come from nowhere else, Father God. 

You have us, Father God, whatever man say, Father God, we don't know, we don't know what they're doing. What other people are doing, what the law makers are doing, but we know what you are doing, Father.  

And we thank you for the mind that we want to follow you. We just want to thank you for being your children, and you being our Father.  

We thank you, Father. We thank you for this day. We thank you for everything that you do for us, just sometimes we just think we've barely made it through the day, but now we didn't barely make it.  

We made it, because you let us make it. And we thank you, Father, in Jesus name we pray, Amen. So saints let us have a wonderful day of thanksgiving, not even thanksgiving, the word thanksgiving, and we thank you. So go enjoy this day and be blessed in Jesus name, Amen.