Job

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Job 1 & 2

1 There was a man named Job who lived in the country of Uz. He was a good, honest man. He respected God and refused to do evil. ² Job had seven sons and three daughters. ³ He owned 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 1000 oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He had many servants. He was the richest man in the east.

⁴ Job’s sons took turns having dinner parties in their homes, and they invited their sisters. ⁵ The day after each of these parties, Job got up early in the morning, sent for his children, and offered a burnt offering for each of them. He thought, “Maybe my children were careless and sinned against God at their party.” Job always did this so that his children would be forgiven of their sins.

⁶ Then the day came for the angels^[a] to meet with the Lord. Even Satan was there with them. ⁷ The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you been?”

Satan answered the Lord, “I have been roaming around the earth, going from place to place.”

⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him. He is a good, faithful man. He respects God and refuses to do evil.”

⁹ Satan answered the Lord, “But Job has a good reason to respect you.¹⁰ You always protect him, his family, and everything he has. You have blessed him and made him successful in everything he does. He is so wealthy that his herds and flocks are all over the country. ¹¹ But if you were to destroy everything he has, I promise you that he would curse you to your face.”

¹² The Lord said to Satan, “All right, do whatever you want with anything that he has, but don’t hurt Job himself.”

Then Satan left the meeting.

Easy To Read Bible Version

Job 1:13-19  Job loses all he had, YET in vs 20 he tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground and worshipped God.

Job 1:20-22 and Job 2:10   Here we see Job’s response to calamity.

• He BLESSED the name of the LORD
• Job did not sin against God nor charge Him with wrong
• Job did not sin with his lips

John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.

Job 2:1-10  Satan comes again, this time to ask for Job’s bone and flesh.

Characteristics of Job

• Job was blameless
• Upright
• Feared God
• Shunned evil
• Job was a man who had great possessions (7000sheep, 3000 camels, 500 female donkeys, large household
• Job was the greatest of all the people of the East
• Raised had children and raised godly children
• Children were united and fellowshipped together often
• Job sanctifies his children after feasting  “often” “regularly”
• Job rises early in the morning to offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all
• Job offers burnt offerings because he recognises that his sons may have sinned and cursed God in their hearts
• Job, as a family burden bearer, who did not leave his children to their own devices
• I see Job as a man after God’s own heart, a man who has crucified flesh even though he lived “before the Cross”

God confirms Job’s characteristics (God’s testimony about Job)

• God calls  Job “My servant”
• God testifies that there is none like Job on the earth
• God declares Job a blameless, upright man who fears God and shuns evil.

Satan’s thoughts

• Thinks he knows why Job feared God. “
• Thinks Job feared God because God has made a hedge around him, his household and all that he he has on every side
• He knew God blessed the work of his hands
• He knew his possessions have increased in the land
• Satan thinks if God stretches out His hand and touch ALL that Job has he will “surely” curse God.
• Satan thinks a man will give all he has for his life
• He asked God to touch Job’s bone and flesh and he will “surely” curse God.

PRAYER  POINTS

• Let us thank God because He is more than enough to support us through trial.
• Lord, let my joy be in Your testimony of my life, not in any man’s testimony
• Let Christ be fully formed in me so that my life can reveal Jesus to people around me Galatians 4:19.
• Thank God because He is beautiful for situation Psalm 48:2
• Lord, help me to live a blameless and upright life, shunning evil Job 1:1
• Merciful Lord, I pray as I go through time of suffering, enable me like Job not to sin or charge You with wrong Job 1:22
• In my trial period, do not let me sin with my lips Job 2:10
• Father, like Job some of us cannot sleep because our sorrow is deep, I pray that You comfort them and pour out Your mercy on them Job 7:4
• In the midst of trial, my Lord, may I know that You are the one who has granted me life and favour and that Your care has preserved my spirit   Job 10:12
• I thank You, my Father because You know the way that I take. When You have tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Job 23:10
• Teach to me know what to say when I am faced with trial or calamity or when I have to counsel some one through similar situations. If it is to be quiet, Lord, grant me grace to do so, so that I might not sin against You.

Sometimes things are allowed to happen so that the quiet power of our Lord to arrange and rearrange events according to His purpose may be shown.
AMY CARMICHAEL
Culled from: Women of Destiny Bible - New King James Version

Finally, Job was able to say

“For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know that in my flesh I shall see God”

Job 19:25-26

And in Job 42:12- 16  we see that God blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning…..He lived 140 years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. He died, old and full of days.

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Solomon's Prayer

2 Chronicles 1:1-12 (KJV)

1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.

4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

5 Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

9 Now, O Lord God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

The first nine chapters of the book of 2^nd Chronicles narrate the peaceable reign of Solomon:

Made possible by his deliberate actions in recognising the place of God in his domain.

• He did not misuse the divine privilege given to him.
• He carefully merged his earthly inheritance with his divine inheritance. 
• He honoured God with SACRIFICE (2^nd Chronicles 1: 1-6).
• He honoured God with PRAYER (2^nd Chronicles 1: 7-12).
• He honoured the people of Israel with trade (1^st Chronicles 1: 13-17).

1. God honoured Solomon in return and also made it possible for the people to honour him. The presence of God strengthened his HEART, HANDS and made a SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in his labour on the throne (2^nd Chronicles 1: 1-3).

PRAYER:

• Lord, please visit the foundation of my walk with You afresh and rid it of any pollution. Remove anything that is not of You that has secretly or publicly crept into my life, so that I will not misuse the divine privilege upon my life. Set me free from all forms of entanglements by way of religious rites, affluence, habits, association, self-righteousness, pride, lust, etc. 

• I present my life as a living sacrifice to You. Consume me and let Your presence make an evident difference in every area of my life. Establish my heart in Your word and strengthen my hands in my labour of love for Your Kingdom. 

• Grant me the grace to engage all within and outside my cycle of influence in the things that pertains to THE CROSS. 

2. Solomon made a public declaration by his manner of worship from the start of his rulership. He ensured SACRIFICE (himself) was not far from the ALTAR (God). He laid hold on the eternal truth and the established understanding that IT IS ONLY THE ALTAR THAT CAN SANCTIFY THE SACRIFICE (2^nd Chronicles 1: 4-5).

PRAYER:

• Lord, have mercy on me and forgive me where I have not publicly declared my stand in You, where I have missed it, or mixed it up due to carelessness, or pressure from my leaders in all capacities. 

• Lord, put out all the strange fires on my sacrifice unto You. Let Your Holy Fire burn constantly in my life. 

• Lord, please bind all aspects of my sacrifices unto You to Your ALTAR, sanctify and purify them with Your HOLY FIRE; so they can be acceptable and measure up to the standard of heaven. 

3. Solomon's CHOICES and DESIRES reflected in his prayers. His prayer reflected his heart and what he gave preference to in his life. It was the preference of heaven for his labour that drove his heart desires for the Kingdom labour (2^nd Chronicles 1:6-10).

PRAYER:

• Lord, please affect my choices and desires in significant ways for Your pleasure, affect all the areas that are still untouched by the life of Jesus; so that I may reflect Your nature and character in all my endeavours. 

• Lord, let me not carelessly remove You from the throne of my life. Be the centre, be my all, be my vision in all things, be my confidence and be my dominating focus. 

• Help me to co-operate with You to work out what You have already worked out in me. Let me be content in whatever position I find myself in You (full, empty, abased, abound, weak, strong, etc). 

4. Solomon acknowledged God as the SOLE-GIVER of knowledge and wisdom. He admitted that God put him in that position, and would give him the grace for the duties attached to it according to the Spiritual Order of Heaven (2^nd Chronicles 1:8).

PRAYER:

• Lord, open my eyes and my heart to The WISDOM (Jesus) that comes from above. Increase my faith in Your Wisdom, and grant me the grace to live my entire life through Your Divine Wisdom and Knowledge. 

• Lord, quicken my heart to This Wisdom and abundant grace, so I can faithfully work and walk in the Spirit of my FATHER through the Lord Jesus Christ. 

• Lord, help me not to talk, live or throw myself out of the Spiritual Order of Heaven. Keep me near The Cross where my life will constantly and consistently measure up with the rules of Your Kingdom. 

5. Solomon did all from the very beginning to ACTIVATE THE PROMISES OF GOD in his life and labour. He made the promises of God as the platform for approaching God's throne and for discharging his duties as the recipient of those promises. (The Promise made to David, his father - 2^nd Samuel 7: 13-16).

PRAYER:

• Lord, please let not my life forfeit Your mercy.
• Grant me the wisdom and grace to fulfil my part in standing on Your promises for my life.
• Lord, please grant me glorious answers to my requests according to Your will.
• Crush my confidence in anything that does not have a place in heaven.
• Let me always seek YOU first in every area of my life.

Scripture Lyrics: Solomon’s Prayer

(2 Chronicles 1:7-12. “When I Survey”)

1. The Lord came down, to Solomon

Israel’s king, and David’s son,

By night He said, come ask me now,

What shall I give, To thee my son?

2. The king looked up, and said to God

Mercy hast Thou, my father shown

And me Thou made, his stead to reign

O Lord God now, hear me I pray

3. Give unto me, wisdom, knowledge

That I may go, and come before

This mighty flock, for who can judge

This Thy people, that is so great?

4. Thou hast not asked, riches or wealth

Thine enemies, lives did not ask

Wisdom, knowledge, is granted thee

With much more too, Replied the Lord

5. Grant Lord my heart, Like Solomon’s

To seek Thee first, Thy kingdom too

Abide in Thee, and Thou in me

One with my God, is all I seek.

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The New Jerusalem

The New Jerusalem

1. God's angel carried me away,

A great and high mountain me took

He showed to me that great city

From heaven descending to earth.

2. Jerusalem great and holy

God's city with glory too

Her light was like unto a stone

Like jasper stone and crystal clear.

3. It had a wall so great and high

Twelve gates twelve angels and twelve names.

The names of twelve tribes of Israel

The east, the north, the south and west.

4. Twelve foundations had all the walls

Inscribed on them the names of twelve

Apostles of the Lord Jesus

The Lamb of God who saved our souls.

5. Of jasper was the city wall

Of purest gold the city built

So precious like unto clear glass

And decked with many a precious stone

6. The first foundation jasper was

The second of saphire stone

The third a chalcedony stone

The fourth an emerald as well.

7. The fifth of precious sardonyx

The sixth of precious sardius too

The seventh stone was chrysolite

The eighth of precious beryl stone

8. The ninth was precious topaz stone

The tenth of chrysoprasus stone.

Th' eleventh precious jacinth stone,

The twelfth of precious amethyst.

9. Twelve gates, twelve pearls, each gate a pearl

The city's street was purest gold.

Such gold just like transparent glass,

God's glory lights the city too.

10. Make this my home my Lord I pray,

My name engraved inside Thy book.

With saints in white and crown of life,

In glorious joy I'll sing Thy praise.

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The Mystery of The Gospel

The Mystery Of The Gospel

(1Cor15, 1Tim3:16. tune: “Must Jesus Bear”)

 1. The mystery of the Gospel's great,

Jesus came in the flesh,

To save and show the only life,

Acceptable to God.

2. The mystery of the Gospel's great,

Jesus died on the cross,

To do away with the race accursed,

He was the last Adam.

3. The mystery of the Gospel's great,

Jesus was buried to,

Put out of sight th'Adamic race,

Our sin was buried too.

4. The mystery of the Gospel's great,

Jesus rose from the dead,

To birth on earth a brand new race,

Race peculiar divine.

5. The mystery of the Gospel's great

Jesus was seen of some,

The specimens of this new race,

His body called the Church.

6. The mystery of the Gospel's great,

Jesus ascended up,

In heav'n prepare for us a place,

The mansion made of gold.

7. The mystery of the Gospel's great

Jesus sent th'Holy Ghost

To seal all those of this new race,

Glorify Christ in us.

8. The mystery of the Gospel's great

Jesus gave us the means

Discipleship to grow and mould

And set apart His own.

9. The mystery of the Gospel's great

Jesus is coming back,

With trumpet sound, the victory shout,

We shall be changed and gone

10. The mystery of the Gospel's great

Jesus will come to reign

With thousands of His saints with Him

Restore all things to God.

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The Ten Virgins

The Ten Virgins

(Matthew 25:1-13. Tune: "There Is A Fountain)

1. The kingdom of heaven is like,

Ten virgins who went out,

To welcome the mystery bridegroom,

And partake of his feast.

And partake of his feast, and partake of his feast.

To welcome the mystery bridegroom, and partake of his feast

2. Five of them wise, and five were fools.

Took no oil with their lamps

The wise took extra oil inside,

Their vessels with their lamps.

their vessels with their lamps. their vessels with their lamps.

The wise took extra oil inside, their vessels with their lamps.

3. The mystery bridegroom tarried long,

They slumbered and all slept.

And at midnight there came a cry,

The mystery bridegroom comes!

The mystery bridegroom comes! The mystery bridegroom comes!

And at midnight there came a cry, The mystery bridegroom comes!

4. The weary virgins all arose,

To trim their lamps for light.

The foolish said unto the wise,

We pray thee lend us oil.

We pray thee lend us oil. We pray thee lend us oil.

The foolish said unto the wise, We pray thee lend us oil.

 5. Not so, the wise answered their friends.

Lest there be not enough

For us and you, but go to them,

That sell, and buy some too.

That sell, and buy some too. that sell, and buy some too.

For us and you, but go to them, that sell, and buy some too.

6. And while the foolish went to buy,

The mystery bridegroom came.

And they that were ready went in,

With him the door was shut!

With him the door was shut! with him the door was shut!

And they that were ready went in, with him the door was shut!

7. The foolish virgins came later,

Saying Lord, open to us!

The mystery bridegroom answered said

Begone, I know you not!

Begone, I know you not! Begone, I know you not!

The mystery bridegroom answered said, Begone, I know you not!

8. How sad the foolish virgins were

Beloved let us learn!

I pray thee LORD in my vessel

Give oil until You come!

Give oil until You come! Give oil until You come!

I pray thee LORD in my vessel, Give oil until You come!

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New Heaven And New Earth

1. A new heaven and earth I saw,

The first no more, hath passed away.

New Jerusalem coming down

From heaven prepared as a bride.

2. From heaven a great voice I heard,

Behold God's tent is here with men.

He'll dwell with them and be their God,

And they His people all shall be.

3. And God shall wipe all tears away,

No death nor sorrow, crying and pain.

The former things are passed away,

I make all things new, says the LORD!

4. 'Tis done I'm Alpha 'nd Omega

Beginning and end of all things

I'll give to him that is athirst,

Life water's fountain free of charge.

5. He who overcomes inherits

All things and I will be his God.

He'll be my son and dwell with Me,

Forever in my sweet abode.

6. The fearful and unbelieving

Abominable murderers too.

The whoremongers and sorcerers,

In lake of fire shall have their part.

7. The lake of fire where liars go,

Idolaters who live for self.

The lake which burns with brimstone, fire,

Is also called the second death.

8. My Lord I come to You today,

To live for You and You alone.

To You I owe my life my love,

My all, my Lord to You I give.

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My Destiny

(Ruth 1-4. tune “On Christ The Solid Rock”)

  

1. Elimelech of Ephratah

In Bethlehem, of Judea

A man of destiny in God

From famine fled, to foreign land

My destiny’s in Jesus Christ

I shall not flee to foreign land

My destiny’s in Je-sus Christ

I shall not flee to foreign land!

2. Naomi, Mahlon and Chillion

His family, with him did flee

Sons took to wife two foreign girls

The one Orpah the other Ruth

3. Elimelech died in Moab

His two sons too died in Moab

Distressed Naomi looked around

Arose in tears, Bethlehem bound

4. Orpah deserted but Ruth clave

To Naomi and to her God

God embraced Ruth and changed her fate

She found her destiny in God

5. Beloved be rooted in Christ

Be built up bearing fruit in Him

No glory in the outside world

“Without are dogs” our God has warned

Ruth 1:1-2

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

God’s Word against Moab - Deut. 23:3-6

What makes a man certain that he will enter into and fulfil his destiny? Only as he abide and remain inside Christ

What is the famine that seeks to separate you from the love of Christ? Romans 8:35

Prayer Points

• Grant me daily, a heart revelation of “Whose I am and “Who I am in Christ.” Col. 2:3,9; Acts 17:28; 1 John 1
• Lord, let this understanding secure my heart and deepen my roots inside Christ. Keep me standing with and for JESUS in the face of persecution and famine. Help my life so that I never exchange my destiny/inheritance/birth- right for food or the passing pleasures of sin. Heb. 11: 24-27
• Help my heart keep knowing that it is only as I abide and remain in Christ that I am certain of a glorious destiny. Psl. 36:9
• Deliver me from decisions that can potentially cost me and my loved ones our lives, or more importantly rob us of our inheritance/destiny in Christ.
• Holy Spirit, show me areas of my life that are still sojourning and/or continuing in Moab (World or World System) and help me take practical and deliberate steps to return back to Judah (Christ).
• I John 1:1-2 Open the eyes of my heart so I can see Jesus, grant me ears that hear and can discern Your voice; may I touch and experience You in a definite way not fleeting shadows. May I manifest and bear witness of who You are.

Romans 8:35,37-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ruth found and secured her destiny in God. LORD, keep me on this journey of faith and on heavens highway!!!!

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