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"Things Can Get Better" - Alton Watkins
Oct 2, 2025
Program 001 When Life Gives You a Hard Situation - The Bible Shows You a Way to Get Through It.
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Hello, my name is Al Watkins. I'm a
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minister in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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And I just wanted to drop by and give
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you a reflection point from the Bible
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that should encourage you to keep on
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keeping on even when things are bad. I
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want to talk in particular today about
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Joseph, one of the first saints of the
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Bible. Not because he was such a great,
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wonderful person. He was all of that.
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But he was true blue to God's plan for
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his life even through thick and
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sometimes perilous and dangerous times.
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Uh what we see in his life as we see in
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our life a lot today is sometimes it
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treats us unfairly. We also must
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remember that setbacks are part of this
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life and those setbacks don't
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necessarily mean failure. They might be
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setups for something greater that God
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has in store for us later in our life.
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Trust in God, not what others do to us,
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for what people might mean for our harm.
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Verse 20 in chapter 50 of Genesis tells
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us that what others might mean for our
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harm, God can use it for our good.
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Joseph, the young man I'm talking about
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in the book of Genesis, he endured
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betrayal.
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He endured loneliness.
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He endured false accusations, but he
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never lost sight of God's presence for
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his life. That's a point of reflection
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today. I'm Al Watkins. God bless you.
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Thank you for watching.