Kept from the Evil One, sanctified in God’s Word of truth. Jesus prayed for us in John 17 that we would be kept from the evil one being sanctified by God’s truth, which is His word. He went on to say that for our sakes, He sanctified Himself by the truth. The word of...
The Lord is very compassionate and merciful. I must be honest with you, I avoided Job for years. I falsely thought that he had set himself in harm’s way through fear. I falsely thought that I could avoid being tested, and that testing was not the path to obedience. I...
This is the week of The Double Portion in Job. This week we begin doubling up on some portions of the Bible while not reading other portions. For instance, today we read Genesis 36 and 37, and leave out Job and Isaiah. We do this to help balance out the Bible sections...
The story of Job is about God’s double portion! Why would God point out Job to Satan? It was to move Job from self-righteousness maintained in sacrifice into a relationship maintained by God. That’s a big answer to say, God wanted Job to discover what he would not see...
The word is our authority as the Spirit is our power. Jesus submitted to the word of God. The Word of God made flesh submitted to the word of God that was written. Upon Jesus’ baptism, the Holy Spirit led Him into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. When...
