DON’T PLACE A FOOT ON GOD’S PRAYING PEOPLE👏🏼

THERE WILL COME A DAY

PRAYER - "What Kind Of Friend Tells You Not To Pray?"

Job's "friend," Eliphaz, believed Job's problems were simple to explain. Job was reaping what he sowed. Job

was evil, and God was punishing him for it. His analysis was wearisome. Be careful not to get lost in Eliphaz' criticisms. He was dead wrong. It is lethal to mix wisdom with foolish conjecture. He even went so far as to suggest that Job need not pray any more, because nobody would hear him. What a lie.

Job 5:1 - "Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?"

PRINCIPALS - "Satan Used Job's Friends"

Job was a son of Issachar and grandson of Jacob (Genesis 46:13). He lived in the days of Joseph, his young uncle. Joseph suffered in Egypt. Job suffered in the land of Uz. Job had three friends who came to comfort him - Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar. Both Joseph and Job were tormented by family and friends. Remember, Satan designs your trial to destroy you. He will even use your friends against you.

Job 4:1,8 - "Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ...Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same."

PRINCIPLES - "What Does Your Arguing Reprove?"

I do not know how Job kept his sanity after listening to Eliphaz harangue. His reply certainly indicated that Eliphaz

had done no good for him. Job bemoaned his situation again, and begged God, "that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Then should I yet have comfort." Then he scathed his friend.

Job 6:14,15,25 - "To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; ...My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, ...How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?"

PROPHECIES - "The Appointment"

Job's skin was broken and loathsome. His flesh was "clothed with worms and clods of dust." His friend smothered him with criticism. He wanted to die. "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? ...as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work." Yes. It is appointed unto man once to die, and afterward the judgment.
1.  Have you ever been just sick of the cares of life? Seldom does anyone come under such attacks as Job’s physical body, why you say?  Our attacks are in a higher order, the mind as a  man thinks Jesus said so is he.

Job 7:11,16 - "I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ...I loathe it; I would not live alway."

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