WE CELEBRATE JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR EVERYDAY -- 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31
Post date: Feb 17, 2016 1:09:44 AM
“After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has. So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has. So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the Lord commanded them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer. When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before. Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring. So the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.” Job 42:7-13. The same that Job trusted in his time is the one you also trust today.
Job is a perfect recorded example of God’s kind of restoration and perfect recovery that you will definitely have and should live to see with your own eyes, heard with your ears and experience in your own life after believing, trusting, following and obeying God faithfully all this years and do walk diligently with Him all along. Your expectations, your dreams, your visions, your hope are all too small compared to what God has for you and what He expects of you in life. It is evident that the Almighty God wants you to be restored, recover and to exceed your dreams, exceed your visions, exceed your desires and exceed your expectations and the expectations of men for you. When Job fell to the torture and intent of the devil against him, his family and his business, no one expected him to restored talk less of recovering and exceeding expectations. Due to their own thoughts and imaginations, Job was rejected by all; ignored by all; renounced by his wife; forsaken and denied by family and held in contempt by friends; but despite their thoughts, actions and inactions, Job was restored, Job recovered from all adversities and he exceeded all expectations of all the people around him and his own expectation of himself.
Job was rejected because of the calamity that befell him; rejected by friend and family for not being able to meet their needs again; rejected by business associates and community leaders for not being able to meet obligations; rejected by those who relied and followed him when things were good for not being there for them again; rejected by his former employees for not being able to maintain the business and pay their wages; rejected by rulers and their followers for not being sound mentally and bodily; rejected by creditors and lenders for being complete out of cash and not being able to maintain himself; rejected by wife and in-laws for not being the man and in-law he used to be; rejected by relatives and those far and near for not understanding what he was going through in life; but right inside of Job, the Almighty God was still his hope, trust and his stay. All through the period of his rejection, God was working something precious inside of Job that those who rejected him in his times of trouble and those who deliberately refused to associate with him in his times of pain will come to rely on and depend on him for their lives and the blessings they all expected in their own lives personally.
Your recovery and your restoration beyond the expectation of all will lead to the blessings and the restoration of many; it will go beyond you and will go before you. Those who had rejected you will come calling on you and pledging their support and allegiance to you and to the things that concerns you. It is not because of their imaginations and expectations, but because God had schedule you to be restored and to exceed expectations. Click here for prayer