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
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Day 18/365 Bible in a Year
Today I read Psalms 6-8. They are truely amazing.
This is another one of those read and comment things!! I know it's late..but it's so worth it to read God's word. I can't get you to grasp that concept enough guys. God is there for us ALWAYS! He has ALWAYS been faithful! Have some faith, and give your life to Christ.
Have a nice night! Prayer requests? Comment them below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
This is another one of those read and comment things!! I know it's late..but it's so worth it to read God's word. I can't get you to grasp that concept enough guys. God is there for us ALWAYS! He has ALWAYS been faithful! Have some faith, and give your life to Christ.
Have a nice night! Prayer requests? Comment them below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
Late One Wednesday Night...
I know it's technically almost Thursday, but I still haven't written my Wednesday Bible blog....... AHHH!!! Night guys!
Much love!
Much love!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Day 17/365 Bible in a Year
Today I am reading Joshua 11-15. Previously in Joshua, he and the tribes had over taken quite a few kings. God gave them the land and the people and they took them.
Chapter 11
So King Jabin of Hazor heard all about what was going on and told ALL the kings he know, and they all gathered their armies and stood guard to fight the Israelites. Well, God, as great as He is had already promised the land and the people to Israel. He told Joshua not to fear the armies, that He would hand them over to them. They took them down! Even burned their chariots! Joshua and his army killed everyone in the city and then burned it down. I know it sounds bad, but that's what God wanted. Joshua had to do it.
Then the land rested from war. All the tribes of Israel shared the land.
Chapter 12
This chapter mainly is a list of all the kings the Israelites defeated with the Lord's help. 31 in all! Imagine all the land form all those kingdoms east AND west of the Jordan River!!
Chapter 13
God tells Joshua in his old age that there is still so much land to be conquered. He even moves the people from those kingdoms ahead of time. He wants Joshua to divide the land among the tribes. To the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh was given allotments east of the Jordan. Levi received a portion of the offering they had burned for the Lord. And that was all the land of the Eastern side of the Jordan River.
Chapter 14
This is the land of the West side of the Jordan River. He gave that land to all the other tribe but not the Levites. They only received cities to live in with pastures around them. He divided it according to rules from Moses. Caleb requested his land that Moses has blessed upon him, and Joshua gave it to him.
Chapter 15
This chapter tells of all the land given to the tribe of Judah. The southern border was from the south bay of the Dead Sea all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. The eastern border stretched along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan River. The northern border was from the bay where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea all the way to Mediterranean Sea. And the western border was the shore line of the Mediterranean Sea. But the land that was given to Caleb he still conquered more. He gave his daughter to whoever defeated and captured Kiriath-sepher. Othniel captured him and married Caleb's daughter. He
gaver her the upper and lower springs as requested.
Then God alloted towns to Judah.
The Jebusites could not be driven out of the towns so they lived with the triber of Judah to this day.
I know these are so full of war in Joshua, but this was when God was giving the land He promised to the
tribes. Than the Lord for His faithfulness. Amen.
Prayer requests? Comment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
Chapter 11
So King Jabin of Hazor heard all about what was going on and told ALL the kings he know, and they all gathered their armies and stood guard to fight the Israelites. Well, God, as great as He is had already promised the land and the people to Israel. He told Joshua not to fear the armies, that He would hand them over to them. They took them down! Even burned their chariots! Joshua and his army killed everyone in the city and then burned it down. I know it sounds bad, but that's what God wanted. Joshua had to do it.
Then the land rested from war. All the tribes of Israel shared the land.
Chapter 12
This chapter mainly is a list of all the kings the Israelites defeated with the Lord's help. 31 in all! Imagine all the land form all those kingdoms east AND west of the Jordan River!!
Chapter 13
God tells Joshua in his old age that there is still so much land to be conquered. He even moves the people from those kingdoms ahead of time. He wants Joshua to divide the land among the tribes. To the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh was given allotments east of the Jordan. Levi received a portion of the offering they had burned for the Lord. And that was all the land of the Eastern side of the Jordan River.
Chapter 14
This is the land of the West side of the Jordan River. He gave that land to all the other tribe but not the Levites. They only received cities to live in with pastures around them. He divided it according to rules from Moses. Caleb requested his land that Moses has blessed upon him, and Joshua gave it to him.
Chapter 15
This chapter tells of all the land given to the tribe of Judah. The southern border was from the south bay of the Dead Sea all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. The eastern border stretched along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan River. The northern border was from the bay where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea all the way to Mediterranean Sea. And the western border was the shore line of the Mediterranean Sea. But the land that was given to Caleb he still conquered more. He gave his daughter to whoever defeated and captured Kiriath-sepher. Othniel captured him and married Caleb's daughter. He
gaver her the upper and lower springs as requested.
Then God alloted towns to Judah.
The Jebusites could not be driven out of the towns so they lived with the triber of Judah to this day.
I know these are so full of war in Joshua, but this was when God was giving the land He promised to the
tribes. Than the Lord for His faithfulness. Amen.
Prayer requests? Comment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
Study-Time!
All I did today was study. I actually enjoyed my quiet time. It was nice. Now to bed and class tomorrow!
I love you guys!!
No complaining!!!!
Mwah!
I love you guys!!
No complaining!!!!
Mwah!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Day 16/365 Bible in a Year
Today I read Genesis 8-11 amongst all my inbetween class studying. I also finish Crazy Love by Francis Chan, but that's another story completely. A very awakening book, nonetheless.
Chapter 8
We are still with Moses. Still on that same old ark. Still trusting God to save us before we run out of food. (Putting yourself in the story helps you remember it better.) Well, God remembered them all and the rain stopped pouring. The flood went down and the ark ended up on top of a very tall mountain. They waited 40 days and other mountain tops finally started poppin up like daisies. So Noah sent out a black raven who flew back and forth between the boat and vacant pieces of earth that stuck up until the earth was dried enough to stay out. He also let a white dove outto go find land to stay on, but the dove kept coming back because there was no land dry enough to live on. A week later he let the dove go again and it brought an olive leaf back. Then again a week later he let the dove go and it didn't come back. But they waited 2 more months on this boat..!!! UGH!!! But you know? Noah was patient in waiting this long on the most likely cramped boat. When the land dried up completely, God told them all to get on the boat. And Noah built an altar to the Lord. And God promised not to ever kill all of His creation again.
Chapter 9
I'll attempt to be less wordy here haha!
God told them all to repopulate the earth, and so they did. He told them that if anyone killed another person that they will be killed by human hands in return. He told them they could eat the animals, but not the humans (duh!) Then God also promises that He will never flood the whole earth again. RAINBOW!!!
One day Noah gets really drunk and ends up naked in his tent. Ham finds him and instead of covering him he runs off to tell the other brothers, embarassing Noah even more than before. The other two brothers, Shem and Japheth ran into the tent to cover their father up before anyone else saw him. Then Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan to be slaves to Shem and Japheth because instead of taking care of Noah, Ham just told others about his nudity. Wow!
Chapter 10
I did better that time with the wording..maybe better this time?
There is an account of geneaology from verses 1-31 and verse 32 tells you that you just read all the clans of Noah. :D
Chapter 11
Wow, that was short, but there was only names so.....
This is by far one of my favorite passages (chapter 11) I'm not sure why.. I think it's because God shows that He and He ONLY is in control of His creations accomplishments. I love it.
Once upon a time......no for real.. once upon a time EVERYONE on this entire earth spoke the SAME language?! What!? You bet.
Well...they all decided to build a great tower in Babylonia.. a tower that touched the sky. A tower that would show how amazing and awesome they are. How much THEY could achieve. How much THEY THEMSELVES could do for THEMSELVES and THEMSELVES only.. Not God.
When the God on the universe literally SEES everything you do, think, hear, touch, smell, and feel....why in the world would you want to basically tell Him He means nothing to you????!??!?!!?!?!?!!!!!
You would have to be crazy... well these people were.
God saw what they were doing and scattered their language. They couldn't understand eachother. Without communication they couldn't tell eachother their selfish needs, without the things they "needed" they couldn't build the tower, and without the tower there was no putting themselves up higher than our God.
Then there is the geneaology of Shem all the way to Abram. Abram marries Sarai, Terah dies, and Lot, Abram, and Sarai end up in Ur together.
So basically, I know this scripture isn't in Genesis, but it has a LOT to do with the Tower of Babel.
Psalm 127:1-2
"Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builder is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to His loved ones."
In another form, and simply put,
"Unless the Lord builds the house those who build it labor in vain." Psalm 127:1
Prayer requests? Comment below or email them to me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
Chapter 8
We are still with Moses. Still on that same old ark. Still trusting God to save us before we run out of food. (Putting yourself in the story helps you remember it better.) Well, God remembered them all and the rain stopped pouring. The flood went down and the ark ended up on top of a very tall mountain. They waited 40 days and other mountain tops finally started poppin up like daisies. So Noah sent out a black raven who flew back and forth between the boat and vacant pieces of earth that stuck up until the earth was dried enough to stay out. He also let a white dove outto go find land to stay on, but the dove kept coming back because there was no land dry enough to live on. A week later he let the dove go again and it brought an olive leaf back. Then again a week later he let the dove go and it didn't come back. But they waited 2 more months on this boat..!!! UGH!!! But you know? Noah was patient in waiting this long on the most likely cramped boat. When the land dried up completely, God told them all to get on the boat. And Noah built an altar to the Lord. And God promised not to ever kill all of His creation again.
Chapter 9
I'll attempt to be less wordy here haha!
God told them all to repopulate the earth, and so they did. He told them that if anyone killed another person that they will be killed by human hands in return. He told them they could eat the animals, but not the humans (duh!) Then God also promises that He will never flood the whole earth again. RAINBOW!!!
One day Noah gets really drunk and ends up naked in his tent. Ham finds him and instead of covering him he runs off to tell the other brothers, embarassing Noah even more than before. The other two brothers, Shem and Japheth ran into the tent to cover their father up before anyone else saw him. Then Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan to be slaves to Shem and Japheth because instead of taking care of Noah, Ham just told others about his nudity. Wow!
Chapter 10
I did better that time with the wording..maybe better this time?
There is an account of geneaology from verses 1-31 and verse 32 tells you that you just read all the clans of Noah. :D
Chapter 11
Wow, that was short, but there was only names so.....
This is by far one of my favorite passages (chapter 11) I'm not sure why.. I think it's because God shows that He and He ONLY is in control of His creations accomplishments. I love it.
Once upon a time......no for real.. once upon a time EVERYONE on this entire earth spoke the SAME language?! What!? You bet.
Well...they all decided to build a great tower in Babylonia.. a tower that touched the sky. A tower that would show how amazing and awesome they are. How much THEY could achieve. How much THEY THEMSELVES could do for THEMSELVES and THEMSELVES only.. Not God.
When the God on the universe literally SEES everything you do, think, hear, touch, smell, and feel....why in the world would you want to basically tell Him He means nothing to you????!??!?!!?!?!?!!!!!
You would have to be crazy... well these people were.
God saw what they were doing and scattered their language. They couldn't understand eachother. Without communication they couldn't tell eachother their selfish needs, without the things they "needed" they couldn't build the tower, and without the tower there was no putting themselves up higher than our God.
Then there is the geneaology of Shem all the way to Abram. Abram marries Sarai, Terah dies, and Lot, Abram, and Sarai end up in Ur together.
So basically, I know this scripture isn't in Genesis, but it has a LOT to do with the Tower of Babel.
Psalm 127:1-2
"Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builder is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to His loved ones."
In another form, and simply put,
"Unless the Lord builds the house those who build it labor in vain." Psalm 127:1
Prayer requests? Comment below or email them to me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com
Lanie
I'm Going Crazy!!
School is exhausting me!!!! I'm so tortured in my dreams about neurons and compassion...compassionate neurons...and dosage calculation problems that TALK TO ME! Even my skills chart in student development in spinning in my head!!!
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