{"id":3520,"date":"2017-03-21T05:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2017-03-21T05:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:27:42","slug":"blessed-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/blessed-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. &#8211; Genesis 39:2<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">God led Joseph into a place of trouble&#8230;and blessed him there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">The blessing existed and operated within the vicinity, parameters and constraints of trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">The blessing didn&#8217;t make the trouble go away. In fact, the blessing was submitted and committed to serving the place of trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">So don&#8217;t focus on trying to leave the place of trouble in order to be blessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">Realise that God is with you to bless you wherever you happen to be. And so when He leads you into trouble, understand that the blessing is on you in that place of trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">Once you grasp this, you can then lean into the place of trouble and feel for the presence of God in the fabric of your circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;\">He&#8217;s with you, He&#8217;s working on your behalf, and He&#8217;s placed you in Potiphar&#8217;s house to prosper you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Take this to heart, and you&#8217;ll start seeing it in your life.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAnd the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. &#8211; Genesis 39:2 God led Joseph into a place of trouble&#8230;and blessed him there. The blessing existed and operated within the vicinity, parameters and constraints of trouble. The blessing didn&#8217;t make the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/blessed-in-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blessed in trouble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}