Month: July 2023

God Speaks To Job Through James (Part Two)

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Job refuses to concede to his contemporaries that he has forsaken God. Job concedes only to wait until his change comes from God.

TO ALL VISITORS TO THIS BLOG POST, PLEASE SCROLL BACKWARDS TO PART ONE OF “GOD SPEAKS TO JOB THROUGH JAMES” FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO.

(To My Readers…This is vacation time for me. Therefore, I will be Re-blogging the next three weekly blog posts.)

As promised, herein is Part Two of last week’s blog with the same title. I indicated in Part One that I had written this dialogue between myself and the Holy Spirit some years ago. And that so many revelations were flooding my heart that I had to implore my Lord to slow down and allow me to get a pad and pencil to write them down. Well, once again, in retelling this conversation to my readers, I feel the same excitement and power of the Holy Ghost. It is my prayer that as you read this inspiring message given to me from On High, you will experience the same revelations, too.

So, here goes…and I invite you to share your thoughts by contributing a comment and forwarding it to me.

“God Speaks To Job Through James“

MY BRETHERN, COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL INTO VARIOUS TRAILS.                  James 1:2

          Job, I know you are not feeling well, but, do you recall when Eliphaz said,
           ...'Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise
          the chastening of the Almighty'.                                                                                          Job 5:17

KNOWING THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH PRODUCES PATIENCE.                               James 1:3

          Well, Eliphaz said that after your calamity came upon you, you declared 
          that you wished you were dead, for you said, 'There the wicked ceased
          from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.'                                                                   Job 3:17

BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE IT'S PERFECT WORK, THAT YOU MAY BE PERFECT AND
COMPLETE, LACKING NOTHING.                                                                                                   James 1:4

          But from the very beginning, Job, you kept declaring how righteous you were
          and that there was no advantage to be gained if you were cleansed from
          your sin.                                                                                                                                              Job 35:3

          I was right there when you said, 'Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.  Even so,
          I will defend my own ways before him.'                                                                                     Job 13:15 

IF ANY OF YOU LACKS WISDOM, LET HIM ASK OF GOD, WHO GIVES TO ALL 
LIBERALLY AND WITHOUT REPROACH, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO HIM.                                James 1:5

          Honestly, Job, you should not have added that last part about maintaining
          your own ways, for you have spoken without knowledge and your words were
          without wisdom.                                                                                                                              Job 34:35

BUT LET HIM ASK IN FAITH, WITH NO DOUBTING, FOR HE WHO DOUBTS IS LIKE
A WAVE OF THE SEA DRIVEN AND TOSSED BY THE WIND.                                                    James 1:6

          Our true friend Elihu suggested the manner in which you should have
          prayed, remember...For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne chastening;
          I will offend no more; teach me what I do not see;'                                                      Job 35:31, 32a

BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO ENDURES TEMPTATION; FOR WHEN HE HAS BEEN
APPROVED, HE WILL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF LIFE WHICH THE LORD HAS 
PROMISED TO THIOSE WHO LOVE HIM.                                                                                      James 1:12

          Job, stop that...Do not desire the night.  For people that are in
          darkness are cut off.  Shhhh,...Lest he take you away with one blow.
          Then a Great Ransom (Jesus) cannot deliver you and you will not
          receive the crown of life.                                                                                               Job 36:20, 33:24b

SO, THEN, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT TO HEAR, 
SLOW TO SPEAK, SLOW TO WRATH;                                                                                             James 1:19

          Oh, good, Job!  You have calmed down.  You have repented to God
          by declaring...'Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you?"  I lay my
          hand over my mouth.'                                                                                                                Job 40:4

THEREFORE, LAY ASIDE ALL FILTHINESS AND OVERFLOW OF WICKEDNESS,
AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS THE IMPLANTED WORD, WHICH IS ABLE
TO SAVE YOUR SOULS.                                                                                                                   James 1:21

          Then Job answered the Lord and said:  'I know that you can do
           everything, and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you.'                           Job 42:1-2

          Furthermore, I receive with all meekness the engrafted word.  For my
           own words were hollow without understanding and knowledge.

          Therefore, I have uttered what I did not understand, things too
          wonderful for me, which I did not know.'                                                                                  Job 42:3

IF ANYONE AMONG YOU THINKS HE IS RELIGIOUS, AND DOES NOT BRIDLE 
HIS TONGUE, BUT DECEIVES HIS OWN HEART, THIS ONE'S RELIGION IS USELESS.             James 1:26

          Oh, Job, how wonderful our God is!  For after you repented in dust and ashes
          and bridled your tongue and harnessed your deceitful thoughts, the Bible says,..
          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.  Amen!                                                         Job 42:10

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God Speaks To Job Through James (Part One)

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Job loved God above all else!
This Book of Job in the Bible depicts the greatest love story.

(To My Readers…This is vacation time for me. Therefore, I will be Reblogging the next four weekly blog posts.)

In my younger days, I participated in various Sunday School classes as a teacher and had the privilege to teach just about every age group. If I had to select which group was the most challenging, I would have to pick the young adult classes. Why this particular group? Well, the truth is the young adults hardly ever came to class prepared.

Also, the young mothers were constantly late for class because they had to deliver their little children to their respective Sunday School classes. The young men would dominate the discussion time with job-related situations, New Age commentary, sound-bite buzz words from popular television preachers and other personal life experiences that often had nothing to do with the subject at hand.

As we all know, there are great physical demands placed on the lives of our young people and a number of extra curricular activities are vying for their attention. Devoting time to study their Sunday School lessons was a low priority on their agendas. Once a student told me that because I was so well prepared as the teacher, she did not feel she had to study! This disturbed me greatly because I knew what the Bible said about studying…’to show yourself approved‘ (2 Timothy 2:15). I also knew what it said about teaching…’teachers will be judged more strictly‘ (James 3:1).

And further more, as a servant teacher called by God, I was under the holy job description written in 2 Timothy 2:24-26: “And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, an apt teacher, forbearing, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth, and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.“

So I had a little talk with the Holy Spirit…

Subsequently, I categorically began to pray for every member of that class. I asked God to deliver fresh blessings on their jobs, children, educational pursuits, finances, emotions, health, marriages and other personal relationships. I begged God to open their eyes and ears; to whet their appetites; to give them a hunger and thirst for his holy word. Soon, I discovered that praying was not enough. Strongholds needed to be broken down. That called for fasting as well as prayer!

The fruit of my labor began to unfold when we started to study the Book of Job. Because of the students’ weak foundation in the Old Testament and their difficulty in understanding God’s treatment of Job, I found myself defending the scriptures instead of teaching the scriptures. I was just about ready to ask the Sunday School superintendent for a transfer out of the class when the Holy Spirit spoke to me a second time. (This time more forcefully.…)

I was led to read the first chapter of the Book of James. There I began to discover the answers to Job’s predicament…and my own. Revelations were coming so fast until I had to ask God to please slow down and allow me a chance to get a pen and paper. Praise God!!! These divine messages needed to be immortalized. The litany, “God Speaks To Job Through James” was the result.

PLEASE TUNE IN NEXT FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2023, TO READ HOW CHAPTER ONE OF THE BOOK OF JAMES COMPLEMENTS THE ENTIRE BOOK OF JOB. IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG BELOW.

English Christian Song | “Job’s Attitude Toward God’s Blessings”

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God Evaluated Mankind’s Propensity And Assigned Them Helpers

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Oh Boy! Now she’s gone and done it. She has entered the mind of God

No, that is not true. I have not entered the mind of God…I have entered the pages of the Holy Bible. This week’s blog is based on this particular verse: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27

This subject matter came to me as I entertained myself with TV news commentaries, buzzy body text messages, gloom and doom newspaper articles, and celebrity magazine gossip. I said in my heart this world would be a far better place if mankind was more considered, and loving to one another. And Bam! Suddenly, I began to receive confirmation from various prayer groups I’m a member of, and in general conversations I engaged in with friends and family, and most importantly direct from the Holy Spirit. My inner most thoughts kept crying out; “Remember-the-golden-rule…Remember-the-golden-rule.”

Then the Holy Spirit asked me, Daughter, why do you look forlorn? Respectfully, I responded, Oh Lord, since God created mankind in his own image, then why do we treat each other with such distain. The Holy Spirit’s answer was this: All of God’s creation was negatively affected because of the original sin of Adam and Eve. The Triune God was the only WORD that was not negatively affected. Since God had blessed the created man with a free will(*), He knew the propensity(**) of man. Thus God preserved the manifestation of Himself through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. (The Helpers who judge by fire(***).

God also preserved His Holy word by means of providing chosen men and women to record His edicts in the Holy Bible. He also specified certain passages that were the most important ones for mankind to perform. The one referred to in this blog as the “Golden Rule” was among them:

“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31

My prayer for you…

Dear Heavenly Father:

Lord God, I am sorry that I sometimes become despondent and appear forlorn as I read the Holy Scriptures without a clear understanding of its contents. I now realize how that disposition can effect how I relate witnessing to others. Please help everyone with that mindset to persevere when witnessing on Your behalf. I know that You Yourself will empower our testimonies, increase our faith and guide us in the ways of righteousness.

Especially make me, Lord Jesus, willing to witness to others about my relationship with You, and then use these people who have heard my testimony for the good of Your kingdom. Amen and Amen.

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(*) NOTE: Mankind forfeited his Free Will (received from Father God) for a lie (received from the Devil, the father of lies).

(**) NOTE: Bent of mind, natural or acquired; inclination; in a moral sense; disposition to any thing good or evil, particularly to evil; as a propensity to sin; the corrupt propensity of the will. Example: To inherit a trait from your father or mother.

(***) NOTE: Those who preach, teach, proclaim and witness for God are His fellow workers. And on That Day (of Judgement), every man’s works will be tested and assessed on how much of his teachings will withstand the All Consuming fire.

God Chooses Whomever He Wishes To Do His Bidding

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Suppose you imagined in your heart that the Holy Spirit whispered in your ear these words: I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you a (fill in a profession here)* to the people.

What would be your reaction to such a message?

Would your response be similar to the boy called to be a prophet in Jeremiah 1:6; “Oh no, Lord God! I don’t know how to speak since I am only a child.”

Prayerfully, I filled in the above blank with ‘writer‘. Then I added: Oh, Lord God, I’ve always wanted to be a prolific writer or blogger in the public domain. I love to write!

Suddenly, the next heavenly message I heard went like this! Sorry, my child, I don’t think you heard me correctly. What I said was; I chose you…not you chose you!

I provided and equipped you with skills and talents that are always to honor, reverence, trust and obey the subject matter I put before you which will enlighten and inform my people. See, I have appointed you over your tribe, clan, relatives and sojourners to be a pied piper to many soul searchers seeking after Me. So, stay focused, my beloved, as I order your steps for every Friday’s rendition of our conversations.

My Prayerful Mistake…

My confession of repentance is this; perhaps I should have inquired of the Lord as to what profession or special talent(s) He ordained for me instead of naming it myself. So often we are guilty of running ahead of God. And, no doubt we can end up on the wrong road to what we perceive as glorious.

My prayer…

Dear Heavenly Father, I no longer want to try to live the life that You have asked me to on my own. I want to be Your child who is led totally and completely by Your Holy Spirit.

Therefore, I beseech Thee to cleanse me and help me to surrender my life totally to Your control so that in the future Your Spirit can determine my actions as I strive to do Your bidding. In the Precious Name of Christ Jesus. Amen and Amen.

Scripture Lesson: So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:16, 25

(*) NOTE: Jeremiah was called by God to be a prophet.

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