JOB 16:1-4 – Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.” THEME OF THE…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
JOB 14:22 – He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.” THEME OF THE DAY: THE MISERABLE CHRISTIAN. Today’s scripture is the heart cry from Job. It occurs toward the middle of the Old Testament book bearing his name. Job is hurting. Job is complaining. Job is lamenting. By now in the story of Job,…
PSALM 50:21 – These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.” THEME OF THE DAY: OUR GLORIOUS AND TRUSTWORTHY GOD. There are four qualities in our God that will prove time and time again to be sources of encouragement when…
MALACHI 1:6–10 – “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ By offering polluted food upon my altar.…
JOB 1:13-22 – Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword,…
How do we respond when circumstances come upon us tempting us to fear? What do we do as situations we cannot control or change want to put us in a vise-grip of fear?