13-Week Study & Discussion Guide

You'll Get Through This

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1.Lucado opens by acknowledging that life sometimes throws us into deep pits — seasons of pain, loss, or despair that feel inescapable. What pit, large or small, are you personally carrying into this study? You don't have to share details, but try to name it honestly to yourself.

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You'll Get Through This by Max Lucado is built around one of the Bible's most dramatic and hope-filled stories: the life of Joseph, son of Jacob, as told in Genesis 37–50. Joseph was thrown into a pit by his own brothers, sold into slavery, falsely accused, imprisoned, and forgotten — yet God never abandoned him, and what his enemies intended for evil, God turned for extraordinary good. Lucado's central thesis is captured in Genesis 50:20, the verse that anchors the entire book: what Satan intends to use to destroy us, God is already redeeming for his purposes. Whether your "pit" is financial ruin, a broken relationship, a health crisis, the loss of a job, or the grief of betrayal, Lucado argues with pastoral warmth and storytelling skill that God has a plan and a path forward designed just for you — and that you will get through this.

This study guide is designed for use over thirteen weeks — one week per chapter, plus a final Review & Reflection week. The best way to use this guide is to read the assigned chapter before your group meets (or before your personal study time), then journal your initial responses to a few of the questions before discussing them with others. If you are using this guide individually, treat each question as an invitation to be honest with God about where you actually are, not where you think you should be. If you are using it in a small group, create space for silence and for people to share real struggles — this book is for people in real pain, and the questions are written accordingly.

By the end of this guide, you will have walked through the full arc of Joseph's story alongside your own story. You will have been reminded that God's silence is not God's absence, that pit stops are not full stops, and that the same God who brought Joseph from the dungeon to the palace is at work in your most discouraging chapter right now. Come to these pages with honesty, and leave with hope.

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Read the Introduction of You'll Get Through This by Max Lucado. Primary Scripture: Genesis 50:20; Romans 8:28.

Before diving into Joseph's story, take a moment to name the 'pit' you are in right now — because this book was written for exactly that place.

2.The book's central promise comes from Genesis 50:20: 'You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.' Why do you think Lucado chose Joseph's story, of all the Bible's stories, to carry this message? What is it about Joseph's particular suffering that makes him such a compelling guide?

3.Lucado writes with the conviction that God doesn't promise that getting through trials will be quick or painless, but he does promise to use our mess for good. How does that distinction — between a promise of ease and a promise of redemption — sit with you? Does it feel like enough?

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Week 2: Chapter 1 — The Pit

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Read Chapter 1 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 37:12–36.

1.Genesis 37 describes Joseph being thrown into a pit by his own brothers. Lucado emphasizes that the betrayal came from family — the people closest to him. Why does betrayal by insiders cut so much deeper than harm from strangers?

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Week 3: Chapter 2 — Alone but Not Forgotten

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Read Chapter 2 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 39:1–6; Psalm 139:7–12.

1.Genesis 39 repeats the phrase 'the LORD was with Joseph' four times. Lucado dwells on this repetition. Why do you think the biblical author felt the need to say it so many times? What does that repetition do for a reader — or for Joseph — in a moment of crisis?

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Week 4: Chapter 3 — Finding God Faithful

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Read Chapter 3 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 39:7–23.

1.Potiphar's wife pursues Joseph persistently. Lucado notes that temptation rarely comes just once — it keeps returning, wearing us down. Where in your own life do you feel the exhaustion of resisting something that keeps coming back?

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Week 5: Chapter 4 — Thinking About Your Thoughts

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Read Chapter 4 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 40; Philippians 4:8.

1.Lucado draws on Philippians 4:8 — the call to think about whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and commendable — to argue that managing our thought life is a spiritual discipline, not just a psychological technique. Do you think of what you dwell on as a matter of faithfulness? Why or why not?

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Week 6: Chapter 5 — What to Do With Your Disappointments

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Read Chapter 5 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 40:23; Lamentations 3:22–26.

1.Genesis 40:23 says simply: 'Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.' Two words: he forgot. Lucado calls this one of the most painful sentences in the Bible. Why does being forgotten hurt so profoundly — perhaps more than being actively hurt?

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Week 7: Chapter 6 — God Fights for You

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Read Chapter 6 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 41:1–40; Romans 8:31.

1.Pharaoh's dream and its interpretation by Joseph set off a chain of events that Joseph could never have orchestrated. Lucado highlights the sheer improbability of what happens — a forgotten prisoner summoned to advise the most powerful man on earth. When have you seen something improbable happen in your own life that only God could have arranged?

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Week 8: Chapter 7 — Sidetracked by Bitterness

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Read Chapter 7 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 42–43; Hebrews 12:15.

1.Joseph's brothers arrive in Egypt not knowing it is Joseph they are speaking to. Lucado reflects on what it must have felt like for Joseph to see them — the people who threw him in the pit, who sold him for twenty pieces of silver. What emotions do you imagine Joseph felt in that moment?

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Week 9: Chapter 8 — Believe in God's Timing

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Read Chapter 8 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 44–45; Ecclesiastes 3:1–11.

1.Genesis 45 contains one of the most emotionally charged moments in the Bible: Joseph revealing himself to his brothers with the words, 'I am Joseph.' Lucado dwells on the mixture of emotions — shock, fear, relief, grief — in that room. What do you imagine it felt like to be one of the brothers in that moment?

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Week 10: Chapter 9 — Dealing with Those Who Have Wronged You

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Read Chapter 9 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 50:15–21; Matthew 18:21–35.

1.After Jacob's death, the brothers panic: 'What if Joseph still hates us?' (Genesis 50:15). Lucado notes that forgiveness can be so complete and so unexpected that the person forgiven can barely believe it. Have you ever found it hard to accept forgiveness — from God or from another person? What made it difficult?

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Week 11: Chapter 10 — God's Got This

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Read Chapter 10 of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Genesis 50:20; Isaiah 46:9–10.

1.Lucado's phrase 'God's got this' is not a bumper-sticker dismissal of pain — he earns it across the whole of Joseph's story. After everything you've read, what gives you confidence (or not) that God actually 'has' your situation? What evidence from Joseph's story speaks most directly to you?

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Week 12: Chapter 11 — You'll Get Through This

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Read Chapter 11 (and any Conclusion material) of You'll Get Through This. Primary Scripture: Romans 8:28, 37–39; Revelation 21:4–5.

1.The title of the book is also its central promise. As you reach the final chapter, how has your relationship to that promise — 'You'll get through this' — changed from when you began? Do you believe it more? Differently? With more nuance?

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Week 13: Review & Reflection

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Review your notes and journal entries from the entire study of You'll Get Through This. Re-read Genesis 50:20 and Romans 8:28–39.

1.Which chapter or week of this study impacted you most deeply, and why? What specific idea, story, or quote from that chapter has stayed with you?

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