King James Bible Study Daily Devotional

Message Title: Guided By The Holy Spirit
Date: Friday June 24, 2011
Chapters: Job 29-32, Proverbs 24, Psalm 14
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Details of Today's Chapters: Job recalls the story of his life and reviews his present condition, He insists that he is holding on to his integrity, and Elihu, the silent friend, now speaks.

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“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us...But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” - Romans 5:1-5, 8-10.

I imagine that we all have one regret in life, wishing that if we could do it all over again this is what we would do. Truthfully, it is through our tribulations that we have a better future. There are some things that I have gone through that if I had not I would not be the person I am today. You see, even when God decides to reveal Himself to us we must go through tribulation, we can not get saved until we admit we are sinners and ask Jesus Christ to save us, which for most of us only comes from tribulation. While we can not go back to the past and change it, we can use the past to change our future as we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us.

Job was just about out of words, there was not one thing he could say that would convince his friends that he was not hiding some wicked sin that caused all the tribulation he was facing. He began to recall his past, he did not boast, but did express that he was good, upright, and good to others.

“Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;.. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.” - Job 29:2-4,11-13.

When Christians allow the Holy Spirit to guide them they not only become moral and find God's favor, they pass that goodness onto others, blessing not only the receiver, but the giver as well. While it brings more joy to the soul to be the giver, it doesn't stop the soul from finding more joy as it learns that it is blessed more by giving first. “And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.” - Mark 10:29,30.

We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners and has given eternal life to all who ask Him for it. Job contrasts his present condition with his former honor and authority, he defends himself of their charge of hypocrisy. While it is best to let our actions speak for us, in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God to solemnly protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused.

“Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity...Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.” - Job 31:4-6,35,36.

God sees and hears everything, even what we are thinking, He knows when we are good or bad, knows our fears, and even knows when we need Him, the key, is asking. Through the whole book, not one time do we hear that Job prayed to God, praying is asking, it is the only way to get God to communicate with us. God does not want to see us suffering, but unless we ask Him for help, we will just continue to suffer. “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” - Ephesians 3:20.

So, why can't we receive God's blessings even if we are letting the Holy Spirit guide us? Something is hindering us, and it is most likely something we are trying to accomplish alone by ourselves or out of the will of God. “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts... But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” - James 4:2,3,6-10.

Everything we are today all comes from the grace of God as He blesses those through His power to guide them in the way that they shall go. It is only when we humble ourselves before God that He will show His presence, well, He will show His presence upon His wrath, but I would rather get God's attention by obedience than disobedience. Although we face all sorts of affliction it is exactly that affliction we need in order to get out of the past, use it as a guide never to go back there, and be a testimony of the mighty grace of God. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” - Romans 8:35-39. Praise God!

God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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