June 11, 2016
MY FRIENDS, STAY FOCUSED GOD IS IN CONTROL!!
Job’s trials begin in Job 1:12 (KJV) with God giving Satan the go-ahead; “all that Job hath, is in thy power.” all, meaning every situations and circumstances that involves one’s life, Satan now has power over, “but don’t touch His body.” God tells Satan. Now all of this is going on behind the scenes without job’s knowledge. My friends, it’s personal so let’s exchange our life with Job. Our entire world is about to take a turn for the worst.
All that we hold so dear, will now disappear, and we “do not know what tomorrow will bring….For [we] are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” James 4:14 (ESV) Satan can’t believe Job’s faith even after he has lost everything. So now he ask God for permission to touch his body and God grants it. “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.” Job 2:6 (NKJV) What this narrative of Job tells us; nothing is done against us without God’s knowledge or permission.
But as God’s children. He knows the point at which we get to where Satan becomes the victor. So He will not allow that to happen or allow us “to be 
tempted beyond what [we] are able, but with the temptation [He] will also make the way of escape, that [we] may be able to bear it.” 1 Cor. 10:13 (NKJV) My friends, Job lost everything even His children. And now in (v,7) Satan strikes him “with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.” Then his wife makes a suggestion in (v, 9) “Do you still hold fast to your integrity?
Which means, she knows job’s pure and moral character and His faithfulness to God, but she does not understand God will never “leave, nor forsake his faithful children.” My friends there will be those that question our integrity also and like job’s wife wonder why are we still faithful to a God that has deserted us because there is a easier way for “wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it” and like Job our response must be “…….Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?”
So now Job cries out to God as he asked for help, But the Lord does not answer and sometimes we will not here His voice either, but we must remember God still guides our foot-steps and when God does answer job His words were,“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?“ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the world………Job 38:2-5 (NKJV) My friends we must understand God knows “the plans [He] have for [us]……plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you [and I] a future and a hope.” Jer. 29:11 (ESV)
So we must stay focused and like Job in the end “the Lord blessed his latter days more than his beginning.” Remember we are closer then we have ever been before, so God is preparing us for that time of “great tribulation, [like nothing that has] occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.” Matt 24:21 (NASB)
So today He prepares His elect for such a time so when it does occur we will remain “steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labor is not in vain….” [as we move out on-to the front lines of the battle field seeking souls for God’s kingdom] 1 Cor. 15:58 (NKJV) and one day if we are faithful and endure until the end we will be saved “and our latter days will be more than our beginning” in God’s pure and holy kingdom.
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