Job 42:4-6 "You said 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.'  My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.  Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."  

Thank you God for all that do, for the breath in my lungs, for loving me.  We praise your might name! 

Be blessed and encouraged today.

Job 38-40  God responds to Job.  We all know Job is grieving, and upset and just wants to know why?  God replies with questions of his own.  It is so important that we understand who God is.  We so easily can get the idea in our head that He is just this loving father, that cares and wants only the best for all of us and forget that he is THE CREATOR.  Think about who He is in your life.  I pray that this encourages you and your walk with Him.

Blessings!

Job 3 - 12  Your freinds mean well, but if you really want the right answers, go to God.  He IS!

Be blessed!

Job 1:13 - 2:10 "... and he fell to the ground in WORSHIP and said 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.  The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.'  In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing."

Isaiah 55:89 God's ways are not our ways.  We're not always going to understand... we have to be ok with that.  How?  RELATIONSHIP with Jesus.

Be blessed today!  

God created you for a relationship with Him.  As we go through the book of Job I pray that God reveals Himself to you in a way that is so personal, you are never the same again.  

Job 1:1-12 

Hebrew 4:12

Be encouraged today!

I was totally wrong - it's Hebrews!  Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and active.  Sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." 

Romans 8:1 (read the whole chapter)

Isaiah 48:10 "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction."

Daniel 4  Could all the things that the people of God went through - captivity in Babylon have been for the sake of saving King Nebuchadnezzar's soul?  

Don't question what God is doing, just be obedient, and give God your ALL.

I pray today you are blessed and encouraged!

Romans 8

We have to trust God no matter what.  Stop listening to the lies and living according to your flesh, and listen to the Holy Spirit of God, and his truth - the Bible.  Romans 8:38 "... nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."  Did you hear that?  NOTHING can separate us!  Trust Him no matter what, and He will bring you through. 

Blessings!

Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 13:32-36

Remember what you are called to do.  If you stay busy doing what He asks, you will not have a problem staying awake!  

(Here's where I am reading in the chronological bible reading:  Jeremiah 39-40 & Lamentations 1-5)

Proverbs 12:25 "Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad."

James 3:6 "And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness.  The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell."

What kind of fire are you setting?  Hell fire, or Holy Spirit fire?  It's never to late to change course, to put out the hell fire, and let the Holy Spirit - God's Holy Spirit set your life ablaze!  

I pray you are encouraged!  Blessings

Romans 15:13 "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope."

Websters Dictionary "Hope: The feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best."  "Faith:  confidence or trust in a person or thing."  "Trust:  reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.  confident expectation of something; hope."

Hope, faith, and trust all go hand in hand in or relationship with Jesus.  Let him give you peace.  Read His word, pray (talk to him), he is faithful!

Be blessed and encouraged!