Date: Wednesday,
June 03, 2015
Chapters: Job
27-29
Message Title: The Source Of Our Strength

Hello
My Friend,

God has placed me in a position the past few
years to where I only acquire the exact funds and things that I need
when they are needed. Now, recently I have been struggling with some
health issues, nothing major, just trying to adjust and keep the
symptoms at bay is the issue. I am telling you all this because we
all go through struggles, sometimes one, other times many, but then
there are the times when all is well and we sit back and wonder how
we ever got through all the chaos. Our source of strength, Jesus
Christ, and only He can give us the strength to endure so many things
that would send us to our grave earlier than we imagine. “Blessed
be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. The
LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am
helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I
praise him. The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength
of his anointed.” - Psalms 28:6-8.

When we are
faced with struggles it seems as though everyone wants to give us
advice, and it's not always the nice, kind words we long to hear. As
Job is laying there in pain, he tires of responding to his three
friends and their horrible accusations. Instead he speaks a parable.
“As God liveth, who hath taken away my
judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; All the while my
breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; My lips
shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. God forbid
that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine
integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it
go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. Let mine enemy
be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the
unrighteous.” - Job 27:2-7.

While Job did not
understand why he was being afflicted, he knew that he would be
justified before God. No, he did not think that he was perfect and
never sinned, but he did think that his God knew the steps that he
took, and was done trying to justify himself before his friends. We
have no one to justify ourselves to except to God, and He definitely
knows the way that we take, each and every one of us. “And
the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through
faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall
all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed
with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are
under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law
to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of
God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is
not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith.” - Galatians 3:8-14.

The world looks at
the things we see everyday as the pattern for the paths they choose
to take, if it looks good they want it, and go for it, if struggles
come, they run. There are many things in the world that science or
own logic can explain, things that God will never reveal to us
because it would be too much for us to comprehend. Job, speaks of
some of these things, “There is a path which
no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: The
lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains
by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye
seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing;
and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. But where shall
wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth
not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the
living.” - Job 28:7-13.

Did you ever stop to
think about how a child is formed in a mothers womb? People argue
everyday that a life is not a life until it is birthed out of the
mother. Life truly does begin at conception, and this is something
miraculous, something no amount of science can explain. We cannot
always explain God, but we can explain how God got us through each
struggle. God loves us and wants to see us blessed through the
struggles He allows in our lives, and that is why He allows them. We
really cannot choose the hand that God deals us, but we can choose
how to play the hand with confidence in the only one who can truly
give us the victory. “Whosoever believeth
that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth
him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we
know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his
commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever
is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the
world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”
- 1 John 5:1-5.

When we are in the struggles that we are
in, it's often necessary to remind ourselves of all the blessings
that God has given us. Job recalls his says of prosperity, giving God
the credit for all of them. “Oh that I were
as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his
candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through
darkness; As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God
was upon my tabernacle; When the Almighty was yet with me, when my
children were about me; The nobles held their peace, and their tongue
cleaved to the roof of their mouth. When the ear heard me, then it
blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I
delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had
none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came
upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on
righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a
diadem.” - Job 29:2-5,10-14.

It is the devil who
gets us thinking that everything is hopeless and that there is no end
in sight to the struggles, but we must recount every blessing, even
the struggles we are in. Everything we go through has a purpose and a
message behind it, sometimes we may never know the reason until we
see Jesus, but we cannot give up. God is with us, always, He is our
strength to keep going when we just want to lay in bed and hope that
our dreams will somehow become the reality. And guess what? If we
looking to Him, things will look up, and the reality will be better
than any dream we could ever dream of. “Let
your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be
careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus. Not that I speak in respect of want:
for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be
content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound:
every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to
be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me.” - Philippians
4:5-7,11-13.

Today's Prayer:
God, Thank You for the life that You have given me and the path You
have chosen for me. I do not always understand the steps You have me
take, but I do know that You are with me in all of them. I know that
I mess up and make some wrong decisions because I just don't
understand or are too impatient to wait for You to show me the
correct answers. I'm sorry for going over Your head, and not waiting
for You. Lord, lead me and guide me, give me the strength I need to
endure the struggles You allow in my life, let me not look to the
right or left, but straight toward You. I know that as long as I do
that You will always lead me back to the path I need to be on. In
Jesus' name. Amen.

God Bless You, I am praying for
you,
Christina

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