Joseph

Joseph was always his father's (Israel) favorite son Genesis 37:3-4: 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. Joseph was greatly affected by God even from the early age of seventeen when God affected him by coming to him in a dream Genesis 37:5-7: 5Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it." Obviously they were not very happy about this dream since he was basically telling them that he was going to be their king. This coupled with the robes Israel gave Joseph made the brothers furious so they decided to throw Joseph of his robes and throw him into a pit Genesis 37:23-24: 23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the richly ornamented robe he was wearing- 24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it. When his brothers were eating their lunch they saw a caravan of slave traders and decided to sell Joseph to said slave traders but little did they know that they just set in the motion the chain of events that would lead to Josephs dreams coming true. Genesis 37:26-28 : 26 Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.
 28 So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
The next way God affected Josephs life is by letting the slave traders sell Joseph to one of Pharaohs captain of the guard whose name was Potiphar Genesis 39:1 1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. This would be very important because Joseph would start to grow on Potiphar who would very soon appoint Joseph as the attendant of his house and everything Potiphar owned which would get him even closer to becoming king as his dream from God had said. And since Joseph was in the house of Potiphar his house was blessed and so was his fields. The next thing God did to affect Josephs life is he threw Joesph in prison by making Potiphars wife want to sleep with Joseph so that when Joseph refused she would tell him that Joe was trying to sleep with her so he would throw Joe in jail. But even in jail Joseph was still successful because God provided for him.
The next thing God did for Joseph was that he made two servants to the king ask Joseph about some dreams they had about their positions as baker and a cup bearer for the king in which Joe interpreted as one of the guards was going to be replaced as Pharaohs cup bearer while the baker was going to be hung by the king in three days. Because Joe interpreted these dreams he was appointed as Pharaohs dream interpreter to Pharaoh because he was having bad dreams. So then Joe was appointed as king of Egypt and that is how God affected Josephs life.