NEW BEGINNINGS! A TIME TO REGROUP # 9
NEW BEGINNINGS!
A TIME TO REGROUP #9
Saints, as we enter the end of August, seeing a time of Regrouping, for some of you, much has changed. You find yourself, still maybe in a holding pattern, unsure of what's to come next, and the Lord would speak to you, NEW BEGINNINGS!
As we look at the prophet Job, I'm sure very few can relate, but what's relatable to you personally speaks to the space in your heart, that will encourage and edify you.
Job, the most righteous man at the time, plagued with injury after injury by satan, looks cursed to his friends, forsaken by God, but he's not. His friends only add insult to injury, pointing fingers at how bad Job is, and it's only right for the Lord to do him thus.
I've taught Job 28 and 29 in great detail in God's Fire Wall Healing of the Soul, having written workbooks on those two chapters. Job 28 reveals the down and out Job, caught in the darkness of God's Holy Mountain, uncertain of where he is and what he is doing, when suddenly his hand reaches for a piece of the mountain, and a shaft of light comes in, to show him the precious stones and metals surrounding him. It's then that Job proclaims, where can wisdom be found.
Being where I've been over the last couple of years especially, I look at Job 28, and think, that looks like a severe case of menopause, and even perimenopause. You might laugh and think it funny, but all kidding aside, the perimenopause and menopause I've experienced feels like you're banging on the doors of hell to get out.
People think you're crazy, because you're acting different, unaware yourself that you are, when then they flee from you, and the only person you find still standing beside you IS GOD!!!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!
I can so relate, when people thought I was crazy, moody, mental, and the like, and it was only in hindsight that I see IT WAS MENOPAUSE, IT WAS PERIMENOPAUSE! Praise God! So many judged me, and God thank goodness, separated them from me, because they were nothing but a critical voice, like Job's friends over his mess, pointing out my failures, and how much of a mess I was.
THANK GOD FOR HIS MERCY AND LOVING KINDNESS! It was recently, at the beginning of August, that Rich and I transitioned into this ease, that the only description was BUTTER! Ahhhhhh Then Job 29, which I've taught in great detail in the Ancient Hebrew, came to mind. Job 29 is where the prophet has found the wisdom of God, and he finds out he hasn't lost his mind, and neither is he cursed, it was merely the testing of his heart, to send him on a mission to find God as never before!!! PRAISE GOD!!!!
"When my steps [through rich pasturage] were washed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!" Job 29:6 AMPC
This depiction of ease that came to Job's mind was upon him, as his troubled heart once more REACHED AND FOUND GOD!!!!!!!!! GLORY TO GOD!!!!! The New Anointing, the Fresh Anointing poured forth, as he found himself at a New Beginning, where his later was greater than his former!!! Why? Because he found God in the difficult place, the dark place, where only grace sustains you, while all around you blame you for their own badness. THIS IS POWER, THIS IS CONFIDENCE, THIS IS LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD IS YOUR REWARD!!! HE IS YOUR BEGINNING!!! HE IS YOUR FRIEND!!!!!! (GENESIS 15:1)
GOD BLESS!
1 Then Job said to the Lord,
2 I know that You can do all things, and that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained or thwarted.
3 [You said to me] Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge? Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 [I had virtually said to You what You have said to me:] Hear, I beseech You, and I will speak; I will demand of You, and You declare to me.
5 I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, but now my [spiritual] eye sees You.
6 Therefore I loathe [my words] and abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.
7 After the Lord had spoken the previous words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job has.
8 Now therefore take seven bullocks and seven rams and go to My servant Job and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept [his prayer] that I deal not with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job has.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; and the Lord accepted [Job’s prayer].
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job and restored his fortunes, when he prayed for his friends; also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they sympathized with him and comforted him over all the [distressing] calamities that the Lord had brought upon him. Every man also gave him a piece of money, and every man an earring of gold.
12 And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
15 And in all the land there were no women so fair as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his sons’ sons, even to four generations.
17 So Job died, an old man and full of days. JOB 42:1-17 AMPC