Chapter Three ‘The Lord was with Joseph’ (Genesis 39) Introduction How do you tell when the Lord is ‘with’someone? What are the marks of God’s presence and blessing? The Church, and individual Christians, can be extraordinarily worldly in making judgments of this kind. In assessing the value of an evangelistic event, for example, or the effectiveness of a preacher, a church, or a ministry, we tend to ask, ‘How big? How many?’—as if numbers mean success and as if ‘success’ is an infallible guide to
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