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Text: Genesis 39:20-41:1
Title: Prospering in the Prisons of Life
Speaker: Dr. Jim Schettler
Genesis 39:20-23 KJV
Genesis 40:1-23 KJV
Genesis 41:1 KJV
Introduction
I. What are the Prisons of Life?
A. State of Not Doing What you Feel you Should Be Doing
B. Place of Waiting in Suffering/Pain and Loss that Won't Go Away
C. Consequence of Someone Else's Bad Decision
II. How Do You Thrive in a Prison?
A. Be a Doer not a Quitter
B. Serve Others not Yourself
C. Experience God's Presence not God's Plenty
III. Why Do We Have to be in Prisons?
A. God is Preparing us for Something Greater
B. God is Providing for us Something Better
Conclusion