John Carver Show - Turned It Around

This show will challenge you.  Throughout history and up to the present day thousands upon thousands of people have made it through some really hard times.  This is a sermon I shared recently that illustrates that life hands us all some very difficult times but there are some who push through them to bigger and better lives.

Victor Frankl in his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, found meaning in his suffering while in a Nazi concentration camp. Here are some ways you can find a meaning in your situation to move past it:
What has it taught you?
Has it made you stronger/kinder/wiser?
Even simply enduring a bad moment has meaning in making your happy moments better.
“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” ? Ray A. Davis
Joseph was seventeen years old. He was a shepherd.
He did not participate in his brothers’ misconducts. In fact, he brought the reports of their mischief to his father, Jacob.
He was the favorite son of Jacob. Jacob loved him more than all his brothers. Jacob made a coat of many colors for him.
His brothers hated him for this reason and could not even talk with him well.

Joseph was rather naive to tell his dreams to his brothers about his future supremacy and his brothers’ submission to him. That intensified their hatred towards him.
So, when the opportunity came at Dothan, they planned to kill him. But Rueben tried to rescue him by persuading them not to kill him. His brothers sold him to the caravan of Ishmaelite going to Egypt.
His life was changed in a moment, from being the beloved son to the slave in an unknown land, Egypt.
Joseph was sold to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard. 
Potiphar’s wife accused Joseph of attempted rape.