Hi everyone, its aunt Fernita
Today's story is called "Free at last"
The memory verse is from Matthew chapter 25 verse 23
It says: Well done Good and faithful servant! you have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things."
Today's message is God helps me to be faithful no matter what happens
Have you ever had a dream you couldn't remember?
Or have you had a dream that didn't make sense?
Today's story is about dreams that left someone very puzzled
Potiphar put Joesph in prison after Potiphar's wife accused Joseph of a crime
God knew that Joesph was innocent
He let Joesph go to prison anyway
Sometimes God lets his people be put in the strangest places
For a special reason
God blessed Joesph even in prison
The prison warden noticed the good work Joseph did
He soon put him in charge of the other prisoners
Pharaoh's cup bearer and baker were 2 of the men Joesph met in Prison
One day Joesph noticed that these men were sad
They both had just dreamed a dream they could not understand
Joesph knew about dreams
God had given him some important dreams when he was younger
He listened to the mens stories
and God helped him to tell them the meaning of their dreams
everything he said would happen, did happen
The cup bearer returned to work for the king
but the baker did not
Joesph had asked the cup bearer to mention him to pharaoh
in hopes of getting him out of prison
But the cup bearer forgot all about Joesph
and Joesph spent 2 more years in prison after that
One night Pharaoh had 2 dreams
In the first dream he saw 7 fat cows eating grass on the river bank
Then out of nowhere came 7 skinny cows and ate them up
in a second dream pharaoh saw 7 ears of healthy corn
and then suddenly 7 little unhealthy ears of corn appeared and swallowed up the healthy ones
These dreams disturbed Pharaoh so much that he couldn't go back to sleep
what did they mean?
No one in Pharaoh's palace could understand the dreams
Than the King's cup bearer remembered Joesph
and Joesph was brought from prison
Joesph told Pharaoh that God sometimes gives people dreams
he had given these dreams to pharaoh for a reason
And God had given Joesph the meaning of them
"Your 2 dreams predict the same event," Joesph explained
for the next 7 years Egypt will grow more food than you could possibly use
The cows and the grain will be fat
Then the 7 years after that will be very bad
No food will grow and many people could starve
You should built more storehouses
"Keep the extra grain grown in the fat years" Joesph suggested
"If you do, Egypt would have enough food for the years of famine"
Pharaoh agreed with Joesph
He decided that Joesph was a wise man
So he set him in charge of building the storehouses
Pharaoh gave Joesph his official ring
He gave him nice clothes
nicer than those taken by his brothers of by Potiphar's wife
and he placed Joesph in charge of the entire country of Egypt
Truly the Lord was with Joesph
He left Joesph in prison for a reason
When bad things happen to us
We can be faithful like Joesph
God can help us be faithful to him
The God we are learning abut in our home and church families
He can do great things with our lives no matter where we go or what happens