FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️

Just a gal passing thru this world on her way back home. ⬆️☁️✝️
Jesus is coming back soon for His Church!
Faith Over Fear!
#Maranatha
#RaptureReady

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

This is one of my absolute favorite videos from Pastor @jdfarag!
So encouraging for those times when we struggle with fear and doubt.
Faith over fear! 😊🙌✝️

Hebrews 11:23
https://t.co/ennXOa9gNv

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

This 4th of July, be like an eagle... not a chicken.
Don't get into a flap! 😀🦅
Soar above the storm.

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[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

@HeatherJ2652 Thank you so much for your kind words and prayers, sister! It means a lot! Praying for you as well! ❤️🙏✝️

[Heather Jordan 🌸✝️🩸👀👂🎺 @HeatherJ2652]

True faith shines not in answered prayers, but in unwavering trust when the silence remains. Pray on family, His will, His perfect time 🙏🙏🙏

[Holy Bible @EveryBibleday]

Find one reason to be thankful in your current situation, acknowledging God's sovereignty.

[Mark @Mark_Wilson_25]

Why Did God Give Joseph an Egyptian Bride?

One small detail in Genesis may reveal a breathtaking pattern of redemption.

The Torah is full of patterns.

Again and again, God teaches not only through prophecy, but through people, places, and events that seem to echo a much larger story.

Joseph may be one of the most remarkable examples.

Most people remember that Joseph was betrayed by his brothers.

Far fewer notice when he married.

Yet tucked away in Genesis is an extraordinary detail that has fascinated readers for centuries.

Could Joseph's life be more than history?

Could it also be a portrait of God's unfolding plan of redemption?

Jewish tradition itself recognized Joseph's unique redemptive role. Later rabbinic literature speaks of Mashiach ben Yosef (Messiah son of Joseph)—a suffering, rejected redeemer who precedes the victorious Son of David. While this concept developed after the Tanakh, it demonstrates that Jewish readers perceived something extraordinary about Joseph's life.

Now consider the story itself.

Joseph is the beloved son of his father (Genesis 37:3).

He is sent to his brothers.

They hate him.

Reject him.

Plot against him.

Sell him for silver (Genesis 37:28).

Ironically, the very dreams that provoked their hatred would one day come true.

Though innocent, Joseph suffers slavery, false accusation, and imprisonment. Yet every apparent defeat becomes another step in God's hidden plan.

Then everything changes.

At thirty years of age (Genesis 41:46), Joseph is lifted from the prison to the palace.

He is exalted to Pharaoh's right hand and entrusted with authority over the kingdom.

Only then does Genesis record an easily overlooked detail:

"Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath... as his wife." (Genesis 41:45)

Joseph receives a new name.

A new position.

And an Egyptian bride.

His Egyptian name is debated, but proposed meanings such as "the one who preserves life" fittingly reflect his God-given mission.

Even more striking is Asenath herself.

She is an Egyptian.

The daughter of an Egyptian priest.

Entirely outside Abraham's covenant family.

Yet she becomes the bride of the rejected and exalted son.

Genesis never says this is a prophecy. But viewed alongside the rest of Scripture, it forms a remarkable biblical pattern: while Joseph remains separated from his brothers, blessing extends beyond the covenant family to the nations.

Then comes another fascinating detail:

"All the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain..." (Genesis 41:57)

The nations come to the rejected son because he possesses the bread that preserves life.

Throughout Scripture, bread becomes a recurring picture of God's provision—from the manna in the wilderness, to the Bread of the Presence, to the great Messianic banquet anticipated by the prophets.

Years later, Yeshua would declare,

"I am the bread of life." (John 6:35)

Years pass.

Famine eventually drives Joseph's brothers to Egypt.

One sentence quietly captures the drama:

"Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him." (Genesis 42:8)

The rejected brother knows those who rejected him long before they know him.

Eventually Joseph reveals himself.

"I am Joseph your brother..." (Genesis 45:4)

What follows is one of the most moving scenes in Genesis.

Joseph does not seek revenge.

He weeps.

He embraces them.

He comforts them.

The rejected brother becomes the one who saves the very family that rejected him.

Meanwhile, another transformation has taken place.

Judah—the very brother who proposed selling Joseph (Genesis 37:26–27)—later offers himself in Benjamin's place (Genesis 44:33).

Grace changes guilty hearts.

The story that began with betrayal ends with reconciliation.

Then comes one of the greatest declarations of God's sovereignty in the Torah:

"You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive." (Genesis 50:20)

Joseph does not minimize evil.

He names it.

But he also proclaims that God's purposes are never defeated by human rebellion.

The New Testament presents a similar mystery.

Paul writes:

"A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved..." (Romans 11:25–26)

Paul does not explicitly connect Joseph with this passage. Yet many Christians have long noticed the intriguing pattern: while Joseph remains unrecognized by his brothers, blessing flows to the nations; afterward comes reconciliation.

Whether one understands Joseph primarily as providential history, literary artistry, or as a divinely intended foreshadowing of the Messiah, the parallels invite thoughtful reflection.

❖ Beloved son.

❖ Sent by his father.

❖ Rejected by his brothers.

❖ Sold for silver.

❖ Innocent sufferer.

❖ Exalted after humiliation.

❖ Bride from the nations.

❖ Bread for a starving world.

❖ Brothers who later recognize the one they rejected.

Joseph is not the Messiah.

But perhaps he is one of the Torah's most beautiful portraits of the Messiah.

Long before Bethlehem...

Long before Isaiah described the Suffering Servant...

Long before Zechariah spoke of the Pierced One...

The Torah was already telling a story of rejection, suffering, exaltation, forgiveness, reconciliation, and life.

Perhaps that is why these patterns appear again and again throughout the Scriptures.

The Bible is not sixty-six disconnected books.

It is one unfolding story.

One divine Author.

One redemptive plan.

And one promised Redeemer, whose portrait seems to emerge in unexpected places—even in the life of a young man named Joseph.

[kathy gagliardi @gotchasgirl]

Please pray with me today , that some new sales or requests I'll get today, I really need to get some groceries, I'm trusting and believing God will provide

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

@thenewarea51 😄😄😄

[Heather Jordan 🌸✝️🩸👀👂🎺 @HeatherJ2652]

Sometimes God allows us to face situations so big we discover He is greater than all. The storm you're in may be the place God chooses to remind you what is impossible for man is never impossible for Him.
If you could get through it on your own you might never see what God can do

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

@thenewarea51 😄

[Heather Jordan 🌸✝️🩸👀👂🎺 @HeatherJ2652]

‘Every storm that tries to push you back can become the reason you step forward into His arms. Don't retreat. Don't shut down. Let the struggle drive you toward the One who never moves, never leaves, never fails’

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

I love this verse so much. ❤️✝️
👇

"Set your mind on things above,
not on things on the earth."
Colossians 3:2
☁️☁️☁️

[Tammy Jo Leichliter @tjpowell2008]

Just an FYI, Jesus warned us about all the things that are happening. He also encouraged us to look up when they do and rejoice because our redemption is near! So don’t look around or down, but look up! ☁️ 👀 👂 🎺 🙌🎶🎶🎶

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

Often times I feel more like a "prayer wimp" than a "prayer warrior"... so thankful the Holy Spirit steps in to help as only He can. ❤️🙌✝️

[Todd loves Jesus @ToddDoty8]

It was “faith in Jesus over fear”, as you say my dearest sister Faith.☺️♥️✝️

And all my brothers and sisters here on Twitt… uhh X, have lifted me up in prayer, 🙏🏼🙌🏼✝️ in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.😊

I was healed before I could even realize it. God is so good and He truly amazes me.

My fever left, my color came back. I became calm ☺️ instantly with the peace only Jesus can give.🕊️♥️🥰♥️✝️

Everything settled down and all the pain eerily disappeared poof💨. Like the storm that Jesus rebuked, it ceased at His command.

Our God is in control and will be victorious!

🙏🏼 Maranatha ☝🏼✝️

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

@ToddDoty8 @ChristIsComing5 @WendyWatson222 Wow! What a beautiful and encouraging testimony! Thank you for sharing Todd! God is so good! Praise Jesus!
Amen! Faith over fear!
Maranatha! 🥰❤️✝️

[Todd loves Jesus @ToddDoty8]

🙌🏼 Praising Jesus!

Last night I posted a praise tweet thanking 🙌🏼♥️✝️ our Lord Jesus for helping me to keep food and electrolytes down.

Then…

Within the hour, all the symptoms and pain just left me. 💯😳

He’s healed me before and I’ve seen others healed, and I say with confidence that this was definitely a miracle.💯

A calm came over me, as I waited for the pain to hit as it had been doing. But it didn’t come. And it’s not returned.☺️

🙏🏼 Thank You Lord Jesus for healing your child.
🥹🙌🏼♥️👑✝️

Thank You Lord for all my brothers and sisters here. Help us all to endure another day, as many are still coming to You and believing on You Lord Jesus.

Amen 🙏🏼

#JesusIsLord

[FaithOverFear 🌷❤️✝️ @FaithNotFear17]

@ToddDoty8 @ChristIsComing5 @WendyWatson222 WOW! Praise Jesus! That's so amazing brother! All glory to Him! So thankful! 🥹❤️✝️