What Joseph's Story Taught a Mother and Daughter About God's Unchanging Purpose

About this episode

Anne Graham Lotz and Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright discuss their personal struggles and how Joseph's story illustrates God's unchanging purpose.

Anne Graham Lotz and her daughter Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright, co-authors of God Won't Leave You There, came to Joseph's story the hard way. Anne survived breast cancer, lost her husband of 49 years after finding him unresponsive in their pool, and has walked through decades of suffering with a faith anchored in God's promises. Rachel-Ruth survived two rare SCAD heart attacks that should have killed her, spent three years in and out of the ER, and carried a nine-out-of-ten PTSD diagnosis while clinging to the Psalms in the middle of the night. Together they wrote this book because they had no choice but to. God's promises, the story of Joseph, and what it looks like to trust God when the suffering will not stop: Anne and Rachel-Ruth unpack how Joseph's journey from the pit to Potiphar's house to prison to the palace was never accidental, how God was teaching him at every stage even when it looked like abandonment, and why every hard thing in their own lives carried the same fingerprints. They also share what it was like to write this book together across two very different personalities, why Anne's father Billy Graham kept telling her for years that Joseph was the book she needed to…

People in this episode

Guests: Anne Graham Lotz, Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright

Topics covered

• faith
• suffering
• God's promises
• mother-daughter relationship
• trust in God
• personal stories

Keywords

• Joseph
• faith
• suffering
• God's promises
• breast cancer
• heart attacks
• PTSD
• Billy Graham

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: God Won't Leave You There, Joseph

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