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on a preach for just a few moments this

morning from Genesis chapter 41 I want

to talk about this this story because in

the dream that pharaoh had that joseph

was to interpret was the skinny cows and

the fat cows representing the

interpretation of that was seven years

of famine and seven years of plenty the

fat cows being the years of greatness

and plenty and the skinny cows

representing bad days so so what you

have is I believe that speaks to us

today is that all of us in life are

going to have good days and bad days all

of us in life are going to have good

times and bad times and and what I want

you to understand is the Bible is a

manual for successful living not just in

the good times but it teaches us how we

are to think to live to react to the

good times and the bad times the times

of Plenty and the times of scarcity the

beautiful seasons of our life and the

extremely ugly times of our life the

principle that I’m going to share with

you today can save your marriage the

principle that I’m about to give you can

save your family your job your

relationship with God even your

relationship with this church God wants

to give you spiritual success and the

proper interpretation of Joseph’s dream

would be the secret to Egypt survival

and the secret to his own family

survival God showed him the way I want

you to handle the bad times is by

recognizing and it all depends on how

you handle the good times the way you

handle your good years will determine if

you survive the

bad years in other words you must learn

to maximize the positive if you’re going

to get through this famine that’s coming

Joseph was saying in the interpretation

if you don’t learn how to maximize the

good times and minimize the bad times

then you won’t make it through the

family you see the Holy Spirit in the

book of Acts was poured out upon the

disciples in the upper room and I want

you to understand that if you don’t get

the Holy Spirit saturating your upper

room which is your mind and your

thinking when the bad times come you

will become cynical you will become

critical you will become depressed

discouraged you become negative and we

need a baptism in our Upper Room of the

Holy Spirit we need a spirit baptized

brain to deal with the bad times and not

lose focus of the good see I guess what

I’m trying to say to you is this in the

dream the the skinny cows ate up the fat

cows and in other words here’s what I

want you to get this is the main point

if you don’t watch it you allow the bad

times to eat up the good times and you

begin to take on a belief system in your

mind that begins to defeat you we need

spirit baptized brains so that we will

think right especially in the bad days

because if I think right I will do right

if I think right I will act right one

man said we need a checkup from our neck

up I like that if you don’t get a

checkup from your neck up you’ll become

guilty of stinking thinking

and you begin to allow the bad to

swallow up and eat up but good and

that’s not God’s will for you to allow

that to happen we are victorious and

more than conquerors not just in the

good times but we’re more than

conquerors in the bad times if you don’t

let the bad eat up the good

I want a sanctified mind not just

sanctified from lust and unclean

thoughts but I want a sanctified mine

that is the mind of Christ that when bad

times and debt disappointments and

damaging use comes to my life

I don’t allow the bad to eat up all my

joy and all my salvation and all of my

freedom and all of my baptism in the

Holy Spirit all the things that I’ve got

going for me if I don’t watch it I can

let the bad thing swallow up the good

things even in church 2nd Timothy 2 and

verse 20 says in a great house everybody

shout a great house there are vessels of

Honor and vessels of dishonor see when

you come to church you can let the bad

that you don’t like swallow up all the

good in a great house and there’s

vessels of honor and dishonor then he

says there’s vessels of gold there’s

vessels of silver there’s vessels of

wood there’s vessels of clay and the

devil likes to highlight the one problem

you have he wants you to focus on the

hypocrite or focus on the thing you

don’t like or notice that clay dirt

thing and forget about the gold and the

silver and all the good things and let

the badge eat up the good but I don’t

care what you focus on God’s Word has

declared it’s a great house and so is

your house and so is your family and so

is your marriage

but if you allow it the bad can eat up

the good

Charles Dickens wrote a book called A

Tale of Two Cities and he begins at my

saying it was the best of times in the

worst of times and I challenge you to

listen to those words because that’s the

truth in many people’s lives today for

some of you these are the worst of times

but you’re not recognized and it’s also

the best of times

you’re rebuking me in your mind right

now while I’m talking to you and that’s

what I’m talking about because this book

does not want you to give in to your

fear and your defeat in your

hopelessness that’s a lie from Satan and

you got to recognize where it’s coming

from so it was the best of times in the

worst of times where the Bible predicts

in second Timothy chapter 3 and verse 1

in the last days perilous times shall

come

we’re in those last days but then Joel

at the same time not Joel Osteen he’s my

buddy but Joel the prophet prophesied

that in the last days the same last days

that perilous times are coming in the

last days I will pour out my spirit on

all flesh so it’s possible to have the

best days and the worst days at the same

time your worst days can become your

best days with Jesus you’re my worst

days were the days that God got the best

anointing out of my life my worst days

is when he gave me my greatest messages

my worst days when it felt like our

family was falling apart was when God

was going deep in me and forming things

in me that would help thousands of

people and I’m saying to you that God

has a way of taking the worst days and

making them

what you have to do is make up your mind

you’re not gonna let the bad eat up all

the good Philippians four and verse

eight

finally my brother whatsoever things are

true whatsoever things are honest

whatsoever things are just whatsoever

things are lovely whatsoever things are

of a good report if there be any virtue

if there be any praise think on these

things don’t let the bad eat up the good

think on these good things that’s why

the Bible said put on the helmet of

salvation that means we ought to walk

around in these kinds of days we’re

living in spiritually looking like this

and whatever hell brings against us all

we have in us is the Word of God that

says it is written it is written it is

written it is written the good is going

to overcome the bad the good is going to

triumph over the attack when the enemy

comes in like a flood the Spirit of the

Lord will put a barrier and say you

cannot go any further somebody give God

a shout of praise if you believe it this

is for somebody under the sound of my

voice praise God sanctify your brain

with the Word of God don’t let the enemy

get you to maximize the bad and minimize

the good Daniel Chapter three

everybody was bowing down to

Nebuchadnezzar’s decree except three

Hebrew boys they would not bow Shadrach

Meshach and Abednego and I want to give

you a formula for success three plus

fire equals four

that’s a good sermon title right there

there were only three Hebrew boys that

were put in the fiery furnace until

there was fire there were only three but

three plus fire equals four and when

they got in the fire they met the fourth

man and that fourth man was Jesus

sometimes listen to me

sometimes the only way you can get where

God is is to get in the fire sometimes

you cannot get to God

without going through the fire and three

plus fire equals four and I’d rather

have Jesus with me in the fire than

being the palace without Jesus because

Jesus plus nothing equals everything but

everything – Jesus equals nothing if

you’ve got Jesus you shall recover it

all somebody give God a praise don’t let

the enemy eat up the good

everybody take a praise break I feels

like something’s about to break loose a

new joy a new anointing a new faith a

new encouragement

a new anointing through the fire

sometimes the only way you can get where

God is is to get in the fire

millions of people bowing down watch

this

but Nebuchadnezzar gets transfixed on

the three that were standing and he

forgets about all the good that was

going on in his in his heart what he

desired he doesn’t see the millions that

are bowing down

he just gets fixed and the bad in his

life starts eating up the good focus on

that one bad thing and it’ll begin to

take over all the massive good things

that God is doing in your life if you’re

not careful you’ll let the bad eat up

the good I thought about the book of

Esther and how that even when it seems

like God is not there God is there the

scripture said that Esther came to the

kingdom for such a time as this and what

was happening is there was an evil man

by the name of Haman and he had a decree

because he was very powerful that when

he rode through everybody was to bow

down and show him honor he was the

King’s right-hand man and everybody in

that city of Babylon did it except for

one Jew named Mordecai and when all of

the others were bowing poor old Haman

noticed that one juice standing and he

let the bad eat up his good that one Jew

so got ahold of him that he began to

plot and he began to strategize how I

can not only kill him but I’m gonna kill

all the Jewish race I’m gonna wipe them

all out because that one guy didn’t show

me the honor he was supposed to show me

one day the Bible said that Haman this

evil man was in the presence of the king

and the King asked him a question he

said oh he said I want to ask you

something Haman he said I I have

somebody in my mind that I as King want

to show great honor to what would you do

if you wanted to honor what should the

king do to show great honor to this man

that I’m thinking of right now and Haman

about burst the buttons off of his shirt

because he thinks he’s thinking about

him and he oh let’s play this game I’ll

tell you what I would do Oh King I would

get a white stallion and I would take

the Kings robe and I would wrap it

around that man that the King wanted to

honor and I would put him on a white

stallion and I would have somebody take

the bridle of that horse and walk

through the streets announcing this is

the man whom the King honors bow down to

him and all of the sudden the king said

what a fabulous idea that’s what I want

you to do to Mordecai the Jew

can you imagine and all of a sudden God

turns the table you know the story how

that Haman hung on his own galas that he

had made to exterminate Mordecai and all

the Jewish race the plot turn and now he

hung and to this day the Jews have what

is called the feast of Purim which is a

celebration of how God delivered the

race in other words they they have a

feast and they give gifts on the feast

of Purim to this day the Jews do to

relive and celebrate listen what didn’t

happen we’re pretty good at giving God

thanks for all the things that he did

and has done but when’s the last time

you thank God for all the things that

didn’t happen

your destiny listen to me carefully

like Haman one thing one person one

offence one hurt can begin to so consume

you that you can lose your destiny

you can just be destroyed because you

won’t let it go maybe they did do you

wrong but don’t let the bad eat up the

good in the rest of your life maybe you

were abused but don’t let the bad eat up

the good maybe you did go through a

divorce but that doesn’t mean God is

finished with you maybe your husband or

wife did pass away our child did die in

a tragic accident or some horrible thing

has happened in your life and and the

enemy Satan wants you to be transfixed

and not let it ever go and never give

you a right to enjoy another day of your

life and what a trick of the enemy that

is not the voice of the Holy Spirit

let it go turn to somebody beside you

and say let it go don’t let the bad eat

up the good let it go if you’re in the

woods and a poisonous snake bites you

your leg begins to swell you’ve got a

decision to make

you can get ticked off at that snake and

start chasing him all through the woods

trying to get him back for what he did

to you

and in doing so you’re killing yourself

and speeding up your own death by doing

that or you can let God handle the snake

and you go find the great physician and

let him heal you some of you are so

worried about the snake and you don’t

understand the definition the definition

of unforgiveness and and wanting revenge

Thank You Holy Spirit the definition of

unforgiveness is I’m going to drink this

poison so it’ll kill my enemy and you’re

letting the bad eat up the good you’re

so bitter at that husband that left you

that you you don’t even see you’ve got

beautiful children you’ve got a healthy

body God is for you and God is with you

and God is going to help you don’t let

the bad destroy the good in your life I

want to close with this

Joseph illustrates so powerfully the

decision you have to make about revenge

and unforgiveness about letting the bad

destroy the good in your life you talk

about somebody who had a right to be

offended Joseph is it is thrown into a

pit and stripped by his own brothers

sold into slavery then he goes to

Potiphar’s house and hit and Potiphar’s

wife lies on him commit accuses him

falsely he’s in prison and stays in jail

for 14 years for crime he did not commit

while there he meets a butler and a

baker and they promise him when I get to

Faro because of the way you’ve

interpreted the dream to get me out of

here I will get you help I will not

forget you but the Bible said they both

forgot him but here’s what’s so

beautiful and so powerful about this

story Joseph now has been raised up 14

years later and he’s in the palace and

he is he has the keys to all of the

silos the world is in a worldwide famine

and history records that the population

of the earth would have perished had

Joseph not preserved the human race with

the dream that of the of storing up in

the years of good so that you can handle

the seven years of bad you cannot get

ahead by getting even and that’s what

Joseph understood Joseph wept privately

but then he came back out and then

Genesis 42 and nine and when he looks at

him this is the part that gets me and

Joseph remembered the dream had that

been me I would have remembered the

betrayal I would have remembered the

woman who lied on me I would have

remembered the prison I rotted in for 14

years for crime I didn’t commit

I would have remembered the butler and

the Baker who forgot me when I needed

them to remember me I would have

remembered all the bad things but Joseph

made a decision to not let the bad eat

up the good and the Bible said he

remembered the dream and I’m saying to

you today when he remembered the good

when he focused and was transfixed on

the good you meant it for my evil God

meant it for my good I’m not going

look on the bad I’m gonna look on the

good it saved his family it saved his

nation it saved his destiny and I’m

saying to every one of you that if

you’re going through bad times your

enemy Satan wants you to be transfixed

on the bad times and let the bad times

eat up the good times you’ve been

through drug addiction you may be still

addicted alcoholism and Satan says just

let the bad times keep eating up the

good times eaten up eaten up you’re

destroying your family you’re destroying

your destroying relationships the bad is

eating up the good but here’s the great

thing when Jesus steps into your life

he’s the good thing he’s the best thing

that ever happened to me and suddenly he

stops the bad and where ever bad has

happened please listen to me where sin

abounds grace does much more about where

failure abounds forgiveness much more

about where sin abounds grace does much

more about where there’s tremendous bad

there is more good wherever the enemy

has done bad God says I am so much

bigger than the bad and I can take and

reverse things if you just give me your

life he remembered the dream I’m through

preaching but I want to say to you that

you can get free from your past I want

to say to you

that the way you get over old

relationships is new ones and the Lord

would say to some people under the sound

of my voice behold I do a new thing and

don’t let the bad eat up the good new

thing I’m ready to do in your life

if trust me worship me praise me honor

me don’t just don’t just love me when

I’m blessing you but love me this is a

test don’t you see this thing’s gone

your trouble is gonna push you into your

destiny there are things that you’re

gonna get in God that you can only get

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