Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a…
And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. There was this wonderful laptop that I once had that was so emotional, it would start deleting things the moment it started up, especially when you opened a document. In addition…
If you’re going to get friends, please don’t get friends like that of Job. They are miserable mourners and comforters, terrible companions. All through the trouble of Job they blamed him most of the time. Imagine being at the worst point in your life and having to deal with people who will kick you while you’re down. That’s the kind of friends they were.
A lot of people are worried about what is going to happen when we leave this earth, what is going to happen when we leave this side of eternity?
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. If I were Job and I had been in this terrible life situation this long, I probably would be struggling with depression by now. I don’t think I’m gonna want anything to do with God because this pain is just too much for one person to…
When the enemy got ready to attack Job, he gained access through his fears. He looked for that one area in his life where he had a manifestation of fear and that one fear was enough to destroy his life.
Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD.” In all this Job did…
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips….
Imagine the devastation that Job had to go through as he went from the richest in the land to the most despised, the poorest, the ugliest, the most sick, and nothing to write home about.
Sometimes, God gives us a word as prophecy and it is unbelievable because it seems impossible. It’s so incredible that no mathematician can make it a reality in this life. We have that in our text today.
