WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS


 


WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS

 

So often we are so consumed in our own pain… entangled in our own problems… wrapped up in our own lives… so introspective and indulged with our own circumstances we don't even realize there are others around us being stolen from… lied to… or destroyed.

 

For some reason we are solely focused on ourselves.

 

We have become needy and self-centered... still pleading for someone – a SAVIOR – to free us, deliver us, heal us, get us out of our predicaments… when… all along WE HAVE BEEN SAVED – SOZO – set free, healed, delivered, get on well, prospered, be made whole.

OUR NEED HAS BEEN MET (Ph4:19)

OUR REDEMPTION HAS BEEN PURCHASED (Col1:14)

CHRIST BORE OUR PAIN (Isa53:4)

BY HIS STRIPES WE WERE HEALED. (1Pet2:24)

IT IS FINISHED (Jn19:30)

 

Once we realize that our deliverance HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, we can finally turn our attention to those in need around us.

 

Jesus says to Peter, "…Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat;

but I have prayed for you, THAT YOUR FAITH MAY NOT FAIL…

and you, when once you have turned again,

STRENGTHEN YOUR BROTHERS." (Lk22:31-32NASB95)

 

Jas5:16KJV “Confess your faults one to another, AND PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER”

 

WHY?,

“…THAT YE MIGHT BE HEALED...”

 

You become a conduit of God’s power and might… it cleanses and purges YOU as it flows through you to someone else.

 

For 37 chapters God appears to be silent while Job and friends toss around their understanding of who God is.

 

Finally, God speaks… And from chapters 38 through 41 YAHWEH, GOD explains who HE IS… how HE operates… how HE thinks…

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa55:9NKJV)

 

HE instructs Job how all of his way of thinking has to change… how all the counsel of his friends… and all other Earthly wisdom is dung.

 

1Cor1:21AMPC “…the world with all its earthly wisdom failed to perceive and recognize and know God by means of its own philosophy, God in His wisdom was pleased through the foolishness of preaching [salvation, procured by Christ and to be had through Him], to save those who believed (who clung to and trusted in and relied on Him).”

 

And because of God’s nature, grace, and mercy the Lord restored to Job twice as much as he had before. 

 

Job42:10KJV “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job,

…WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS…”


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