Without Job’s knowing it, a dialogue took place in the invisible world. As the Lord and Satan had their strange encounter, the subject quickly turned to this well-known earthly man. The Lord calls Satan’s attention to Job’s exemplary life.
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Full of Surprises
God was at work in the waiting, filling her thoughts with a plan. When you wait on the Lord, you don’t have to sit in a corner contemplating your navel, or walk around in a daze humming “Sweet Hour of Prayer.”
Read MoreI Will Stand
When it comes to touching the heart, few things do it as well as a song or a story. We all know occasions where the right music combined with the right lyrics wooed us or someone we know back to God.
Read MoreWatch Your Words
Have you noticed how suffering brings people together? Have you watched how people join forces to respond to disasters? Hardship forces us to grab hands with one another and pull up closer together.
Read MoreLiving Expectantly
Do you live expectantly? Do the little things excite you? Do you imagine the improbable and expect the impossible? Life is full and running over with opportunities to see God’s hand in little things.
Read MoreFaith Personified
When the woman saw that her son was alive, she didn’t see Elijah. She saw the Lord. “Elijah, I’ve heard you talk about the God of heaven. I’ve heard you refer to Him in various ways. But now, when I look at this miracle, I know that you speak the truth.”
Read MoreLaying the Foundation of Courage
Elijah had prayed that it would not rain and, ultimately, it did not rain for three and a half years. So the dried-up brook was just an indication that the very thing he had prayed for was beginning to take place. He was living in the result of his own prayer.
Read MoreFrom Hurt to Usefulness
As we read those words and try to imagine the original setting, we begin to see the surprising nature of God’s plan. The most logical arrangement, seemingly, would be to keep Elijah in the king’s face.
Read MoreAlone in the Gap
We’re first introduced to him as ‘Elijah the Tishbite’ (1 Kings 17:1). Talk about stepping out of nowhere! Elijah came out of this insignificant place–out of nowhere–to make such a significant contribution to God’s plan . . .
Read MorePrinciples vs. Precepts
What an epitaph! Not, “I found David to be a great warrior,” or, “I found David to be a faithful shepherd,” or, “I found David to be a brilliant king”—none of those things. It says, “I found David to care about the things I care about.”
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