05/31/2026
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Who Told You That Was Your Title?
Pastor James Hilton
Who are you allowing to title your story?
Genesis 45:3 - Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.
Genesis 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!”
Genesis 45:5 - “And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.”
The chapter you won’t open is the one that won’t close.
Genesis 45:5 - “And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.”
Genesis 45:6 - “For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping.”
Genesis 45:7 - “But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”
Genesis 45:8 - “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.”
You can’t choose the story, but you can choose the title.
Genesis 45:9 - “Now hurry back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.’”
Genesis 45:10 - “You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.”
Genesis 45:11 - “I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.”
Genesis 45:12 - “You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you.”
Genesis 45:13 - “Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
The chapter that hurt the most God uses to change others.
2 Corinthians 1:3 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
2 Corinthians 1:4 - who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
