Day 19/365 Bible in a Year

Hey guys. Today we're talking about Job 5-6. In the previous chapters, if you remembered, Job lost EVERYTHING except for a few good servants and his wife. All his livestock and children were dead.. even his shepherds.. Then Job and his friends mourned for a week (7days and 7 nights). After that time was up, Job decided to make a little speech about how he wanted for God tojust kill him. Satan was testing Job because God KNEW that he would not give up on Him. He knew that Job was loyal and faithful to God. In chapter 4 Job's friends Eliphaz tells him that he doesn't need to wish he was never born! He had helped so many people through difficult times and nw he has a difficult tie and he wants God to take his life? WHAT??
Well we are pickin up in chapter 5.
Eliphaz is still talking here. Although he seem to be accusing Job of doing things that would deserve him his kids' deaths, there are still some great points here. He is sayin that resenting what happened is NOT going to help and being jealous of the people who still have everything isn't either. Bad things are going to happen, not that you, (Job) deserve it or anything. Stuff just happnens! People always have trouble, they are always going to have or cause trouble... That's just the way it is. God has always provided in times of need and trouble. God will provide for you now. Does He not give rain to the earth to grow? My favorite verse of this chapter is Job 5:9.

"He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles."

Amen?

God will bring you peace in your storm. Always know that you Home is always gonna be there. When you take a glance at everything you have, NOTHING will be missing. For Job, his children. He tells Job to listen to what he says and apply it to his life?!

Sound familiar? God wants us to listen to what He is showing us and APPLY it to our lives. How many of you do that? I know recently I've been VERY good at it, but it's not for me to boast. God did it through me. He gives me hope, and I take it. Thank God, right? Thank God.

Chapter 6
Job answers back and wonders why it isn't okay for him to complain. Why isn't it okay for him to complain when God just struck everything from him? (Satan took it all to test him in his strength in God, but he doesn't know this.) Again he wishes that God would take his life. He literally begs Him to. He was in so much agony!
Job is literally helpless right now. He is so vulnerable to anything. If Satan were permitted to kill him right now, he probably would have, but God told Him not to.
He accuses Eliphaz, his friend, of makin accusations against him. He tells him that if he were his friend he wouldn't do that. He would support him in his mourning. He wonders if his "friends" really want to help him in his desperation.

"Look at me! Would I lie to your face? Stop assuming my guilt, for i have done no wrong. Do you think I am lying? Don't I know the difference between right and wrong?"

On this note, would you be the kind of person who assumes that just because something bad happens to someone good that they must not have bene "good enough"? Or do you stop and think, have compassin for that person, pray for that person, HELP that person, and get that person through their troubles? Your choice... please make the right decision.. God helps everyone, and wouldn't you love to be helped by Him? Love your neighbor as yourself, and if you love yourself enough to want help, then give help to others.

Prayer requests? Comcment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com

Lanie

Day 15/365 Bible in a Year

Today I am reading Romans 5-6. The first part is called "Faith Brings Joy", you know? Those little title type things they label sections with in your Bible? That's what I mean.


Chapter 5
Key verse, and favorite verse from this chapter is 17.

"For the sin of one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ."

Adam, the first man on earth drove us all down to the sinful pits of...well...SIN! He and his wife betrayed God's trust. They sinned before there was a law to sin against. Yes, people sinned before there were laws, they just didn't know they were sinning. God gave us laws so we could see how bad off we were into sin...but it just became a common thing to do.

God gaves us grace after that. Grace was something not many found for a while. It was the light in the darkness, the good amongst all the bad. But God then sent His son Jesus to die for us. He died for a bunch of sinners like us. Like it says in verse 7, most people wouldn't even die for a righteous man these days..maybe for a really good guy.... but sinners? Jesus did it. Thank you Lord, you saved us all from Hell. We just need to belive in you the way you believe in us.

Chapter 6
This section is actually titled "Sin's Power is Broken". Already sounds amazing right? THe first paragragh of this chapter gives me chills. Go read Romans 6:1-4 and tell me it doesn't give you chills. It actually tells you what a baptism is and what it stands for.

There are a few verses I ABSOLUTELY love in this chapter.

Verse 6
"We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN."

Verses 10-11
"(10)When He died, He died once to break the power of sin. But now that He lives, He lives for the glory of God.(11)So you should also consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus."

Amen?

And finally verse 22-23
"(22)But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. (23)For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."

Amen.

Prayer requests? Comment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com

Lanie

Today I listened to these songs during my blog time. They are awesome!

Dwell by Casey Corum
Your Presence by Darren Clarke
If You Say Go by Diane Thiel
Holy by Brebton Brown

Day 10/365 Bible in a Year

Today I read Joshua 6-10. War, war, war...


Take a look yourself. God gave Israel the whole region after He gave the Jericho. After the commander of the Lord's armies came to Joshua, Israel conquered Jericho, the walls literally crumbled when they screamed! Amazing! Enjoy the reading today.

Tomorrow I am reading Psalms 3-5.

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Day 2/365 Bible in a Year

Today I had to read Genesis 1-3. This is what I re-learned from today's passage. I know it's wordy, but I'll try for it not to be.

Chapter 1: 

Day 1 for God. He created the heavens and the earth. The earth had not certain shape and there was nothing in it, on it, or around, but God. He also made light. Then he called the light day and the darkness night.

Day 2 for God. He created a seperation between the waters of heave and the waters of earth and called it the sky.

Day 3 for God. He created land by pushing the waters of the earth all to one place. He called the waters seas. Then He created vegetatoin on the earth.

Day 4 for God. Hecreated lights in the sky to govern the day from night, the seasons, and to give us light. The sun for day, the moon and stars for night. The stars as most of you know help us with determining the seasons.

Day 5 for God. He created life for the sky and the sea. (Fish and birds). 

Day 6 for God. He created all the beasts of the earth, livestock, wild animals, and critters alike. He also created mankind. Male and female. "Let US make man in OUR image, in OUR likeness". Notice the plural? He was already God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit before He even sent His Son to die for us. He was just chillin' up there with His Son until we messed it all up for Him.

Day 7 for God. He saw what He made, and He saw that it was good, so He took a load off and rested on this seventh day.

I know that y'all probably already knew all this, but it is AMAZING to think that ONE GOD created everything!!!! Just astounding!

Chapter 2:

Adam and Eve

So, you think you know the story of the rise/beginning of mankind? Did you have it in mind anything like this?

God made Adam out of dust. Who else can do something that awesome? NOONE!!! Not even Houdini! But God did, and He put Adam in a garden in the east called Eden. There were many trees in Eden and among those trees was the tree of life and of the knowledge of good and of evil. 

In Eden, the river that watered the trees split into four branches. The Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. Anyone who doubts that the Bible is real, re-read the names of the last 2 rivers mentioned. The what? And the what now? The Tigris and the Euphrates! Yeah baby! Read it again!

God put Adam there to work the garden, and told him not to eat from the tree of life and of the knowledge of good and of evil.

God brought all the beasts of the earth and the sky and the sea to Adam so he could name them all. God knew he needed a helper, but of the beasts, no suitable helper was found so, you guessed it! God created Eve, a woman from Adam's rib bone. OUCH!

They became one flesh and apparently they werre married :D

Chapter 3:

The Fall of Man...

So you though things were going pretty well huh? Well they were. Adam and Eve walked with God daily, they talked to God, discussed things with God, maybe even SAW God. Can you imagine physically SEEING God???!!! I don't know about you, but I would be physically peeing my pants!!! You?!
 The serpent...oh the serpent...the evil little serpent...!!
Eve was chillin out, maxin, relaxin, all cool, eat some peaches out by the pool when a sly serpent comes crawling by...and says, well, "Did God really tell you not to eat the fruit from that tree?" and Eve, of course tells the snake the truth. She tells him that God said if they ate it they would surely die. 
Now, the serpent is a tricky character.
He tells Eve she will not "surely die" so of course she believes, because noone has really lied to her before. God doesn't lie. But the serpent did. 
She takes the fruit to Adam after she eats from it and feeds it to him. Then BAM, they realize they are naked. So the make clothes for themselves.

Well God comes around and they hide because they are naked. They literally heard God coming and hid. God asks who told them they were naked..Really? The God of the universe is going to ask a question like that? He already knew the answer!! So he punished the serpent and the humans against eachother and said that the humans would always want to smash the serpents head and the serpent would always want to bite the humans' heals. 
To the woman He increases birthing pain, and gave her the desire for her husband, and the hisband he gave rule over his wife.


God banished them from Eden and made them always work to make their food, they would surely die, and not live eternally.


Well? Ain't that something?? I hate to say I'm glad Jesus died, but He did. For us. I am so greatful for that, so now I can live eternally with Christ. Amen.


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Thanks!
God bless you!
Lanie