Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Job 42: 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. 10 When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before! 
12 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. 13 He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.
all throughout Job's trial and troubles the so called friends told him he has to have sinned.. that he had to have made God mad.. that God isn't going to just strip someone of everything if they were not in the wrong... while Job kept saying that he didn't know why God was putting him through this, he also said that he was not living in sin... the friends continued to be determined that he was... 
we see in this scripture in v10 that when Job prayed for those who kept condemning him.. that is when he was restored... 
it is hard to pray for those who talk badly about you.. those who refuse to see the good in you.. those who say they are our friends but show us something else.. yet that is what restored him... 
I wonder how often we withhold the good God would do for us because we refuse to pray for those who do us wrong... I find that in praying for those who are against me, that is where I see some type of good in them.. that is when I am able to let go of what they have done to me and give them to God and pray He will be good to them... 

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