Genesis 45:8

Joseph Reveals His Identity

⁷ God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. ⁸ Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁹ Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.

Send Me

Egypt

Pharaoh

Judges 17:10

Micah then said to him, “Dwell with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your maintenance.” So the Levite went in.

Genesis 41:39-48

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are.

Genesis 45:5

Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Job 29:16

“I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.

Psalm 105:21-22

He made him lord of his house
And ruler over all his possessions,

John 15:16

You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

Romans 9:16

So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.