Read Job 34, Acts 10:24-48 Miracles happen when we pray. Peter and John were heading to prayer at the ninth hour when the lame man was healed. Acts 3:1 Peter continues this practice of regular prayer and went up on the roof top about the sixth hour to pray. Acts 10:9 NET Cornelius answered: “Four…
Read Job 32-33, Acts 10:1-23 Elihu for the majority of the dialogue has said nothing, as he was listening. And now he finally with an urgency speaks up to address the grandeur of God. He will not accuse Job. Elihu highlights a deeper understanding with suffering. Job had brought up a question about where to…
Read Job 31, Matthew 25:14-46 Job describes his faithful life. Ashley Peterson Convicting. Had to read that a few times. May we not store up finances out of fear but use our gifts, assets, money wisely. Let us not trust in anything but God. Let us not put our hope in money or cling to it out of fear. Charity Rattray These are Job’s last words to his friends the next time he speaks will be in Job 42 as a response to God and yes his words are so convicting. And tmrw Elihu will take the stage. Christ’s words…
1 Peter 1:22 NET You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
Read Job 29-30, Matthew 25:1-13 “just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,”Job 29:4 NET Productivity here references fruitful as in a harvest. Friendship and abiding seem to coincide with fruitful. See John 15:5 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇There is a time where the righteous do reap the good of what they’ve sown.Galatians 6:9 NIV Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Read Job 27-28, 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 Job’s argument states plainly, God has denied him justice. Job 27:2 NET “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea…
Read Job 25-26, 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 Bildad’s third round steals the hope given to the fallen sinners Adam and Eve. He asserts a question, Can one born of a woman can be pure? (Job 25:4 NET) Bildad says nothing of the LORD’s promise from Genesis 3:15. The seed of a woman a future descendant of…
Read Job 24, 1 Peter 1:13-25 Job’s description of humanity’s condition isn’t something we haven’t seen. I was downtown Spokane and the temps at night were 17-19 degrees. I was unable to ignore the destitute and homeless. If you have any charity in your heart it will shock compassion into you. I have to give.…
Read Job 22-23, 1 Peter 1:1-12 It’s not quite the gospel without the realization, we are the gold, the valued child of our Father, the ransomed and redeemed, the married and beloved! This is the gospel, hinges on ‘FOR GOD SO LOVED’ John 3:16 God sits as a refiner (Malachi 3:3) and yes, there is suffering and trials (1 Peter 1:6) and I realize I might be tested even to my breaking as Job was broken in testing. But Satan has limits, destruction has boundaries. I hear Job’s confidence I will come forth as gold. (Job 23:10) Job says it…
Read Job 20-21, Luke 12:13-59 God is pleased with your life of faith. He isn’t gonna cancel you, because of the struggles you stumble over. Real friends talk it out. Find some people you can say the stuff to and they won’t go anywhere. Job’s friends are going in for round two. And Job doesn’t…