Stay On Target!God’s Purpose will prevailDon’t allow circumstances to change your pursuit of God - stay on target!God uses opposition as well as conformance to accomplish His purposeIsrael’s opposition to God’s purposes, in spite of which and by means of which those purposes were accomplished.Read Act Don’t allow circumstances to change your pursuit of God - stay on target!———————————————————Act God gave promises thru and to Joseph. His brothers were human and desired those promises for themselves - jealousyGen 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.Gen 8 His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.Accept what God has given you, be satisfied with it, thankful for it, and make the most of it.Be who God has created you to be.Don’t allow circumstances to change your pursuit of God - stay on target!Php 11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.Don’t allow circumstances to change your pursuit of God - stay on target!———————————————————Act Was this a quick process?An easy process?17 - Sold as slave by his brothers Falsely accused by Potiphar’s wifeJailedBetrayed by those he helped30 - Raised to Governor13 yearsDon’t allow circumstances to change your pursuit of God - stay on target!———————————————————Act Act Act Don’t allow circumstances to change your pursuit of God - stay on target!———————————————————Act Act Act ============================God‘s perspective is the big picture.The drama that was Joseph’s life is just one small part of the whole picture.Bottom line, we all live and die inside the working out of God‘s plan.Don’t allow circumstances to change your pursuit of God - stay on target!Php 12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.PRESS ON!