Sermons by Bruce Wersen (Page 2)

What’s your master desire? The driving force that forces all other drives to fall in line?

When it comes to her cubs, it’s the lioness who provides and comforts and protects. It’s a picture of a mother’s warm, comforting arms … and claws.

Joseph quickly goes from being dumped like garbage in a pit, to being placed in the most powerful house in the most powerful city in the most powerful country.

Jacob’s dream paints a prophetic picture of our heavenly Father and the infinite gap that’s filled and fulfilled with Christ’s resurrection.

What’s so amazing about the R-rated testimony of Joseph, is that even though he’s repeatedly victimized, he refuses to play the victim.

Like Joseph, we’re being refined and strengthened to appreciate blessings and resist temptations.

Joseph avoids being murdered by his brothers. However, his deliverance is by way of enslavement. Hard to see that as an upgrade, unless you’re in the pit.

Joseph’s horrific journey highlights God’s purpose, peace, and power against a dark backdrop of abuse, neglect, and abandonment.

It’s in the emptiness, when it feels like God is least at work, that He’s most at work, preparing you and the timing for your created purpose.