"God Performs the Thing That is Appointed for Me" (Job 23:8-17), Part 4/4

Job says God “performs the things that are appointed” for him, and we treat that statement like it actually means something for real life. We walk through why people try to limit hard passages, why “everyone is a Greek scholar” online, and why the plain sense of the text still lands with force: God is sovereign without degrees, and His decree is not competing with human strength, suffering, or timing.

Then we tackle a line that sounds comforting but collapses under pressure: “God is so sovereign He can accomplish His will through our free will.” We explain why that framing sneaks in a weakened sovereignty and leaves Christians scrambling to find meaning when calamity hits. From there, we pivot to Christology and ask the sharp question: could Jesus have sinned? We connect the temptation narratives, 1 John 5:18, and the difference between Adam and Christ to show why the sinless Savior is the only sure foundation for faith.

The back half turns pastoral and personal. We talk about Job’s trembling fear as reverent awe, how affliction can soften the heart instead of hardening it, and why trusting God is not denial but endurance. You’ll also hear practical encouragement from our group, a reading from the Legacy Standard Bible, a book recommendation (A.W. Pink’s The Sovereignty of God), and we close by praying for specific needs in our community.

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Transcript

Job And Divine Appointment

SPEAKER_08 0:00

He's not just, he's not talking. Now, somebody could look at this and go, well, Job was talking about himself. Job was different. He wasn't talking about the rest of us. Somebody else may come along and say, oh, well, that appointment, that was only for the Jews. That wasn't for us. Oh, that was only for the Old Testament saints. That was only for, you know, this is what people do when they don't like the truth. They don't like the truth. When you read appointment, it is not difficult to understand. It's like, I don't need, like, if I read appointment, like right here, when Job says appointed, I don't need to go to the Hebrew to understand what that means. I don't. So you have all these every everybody now on the internet is a Greek scholar. Everyone. Everybody that's a Christian now is a Greek scholar. Everybody's, oh, the Greek, the Greek, the Greek, the Greek, the Greek, the Greek, the Greek. Everybody. And it is hard to find someone who is a true Greek scholar and coin A Greek at that, which is not the Greek that we have today. You won't see anybody walking around speaking Koin A Greek. I understand looking at concordances and getting all that kind of stuff done. But if you read this verse, he is of one mind. Who can turn him? What his soul desires, that's what he does. For he performs the things that is appointed for me. There is no other way to take this. There's no other way to take it. God appoints all things. All things.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

I agree. 100%. There is nothing that is more worth more, should I say, worth more than Jesus Christ. Nowhere, no how, no way. That's right. So that's how I feel. I'm just I love it.

Can Sovereignty Use Free Will

SPEAKER_08 2:06

She keeps it succinct and clear. I like that. Sister Megan and Rod.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

When when you were talking about appointments uh and God's sovereignty, it was this somebody, I heard somebody quote this. I want to hear your thoughts on it. They said, Well, we know that God is sovereign. I believe that God is so sovereign that he can accomplish his will through our free will. What do you have to say about that?

SPEAKER_08 2:35

Stupid.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Somebody wrote that in the chat. Yeah, no, that it was a comment on a video and it stuck with me. I'm like, what does this mean? I just wanted your thoughts on that. It says, he this is what he quoted. God is so sovereign that he can accomplish his will through our free will.

Could Jesus Have Sinned

SPEAKER_08 2:58

See, let me let me let me let me put it to you this way. If God is so sovereign, and first of all, I don't even want to use the word so sovereign. He's either sovereign or he's not. Sovereign or him being so sovereign seems to indicate that there are degrees to sovereignty, and there are no degrees. God is an absolute sovereign. So let's start with that. Now, that means that he has decreed all things that take place. So that's number two. Number three, if he ordained all things that take place, as is as the Bible makes very clear, then his and his mind is one, like Job says, that means that whatever God has decreed was done through from all eternity. There was never there was never a period in God where his decree for all creation wasn't in his mind. In other words, what what God's decreed what he has decreed has always been his decree. So that's I don't know where I'm at, number four now, maybe. So lastly, the idea that God has ordered all things that do take place that are based on his decree and are appointed to be effectuated in time, how can you still say your will is free if God had ordered all things that you're going to do? Look what Job says. Job says that God has ordered everything, uh has performed everything that is appointed for him. Everything. So if God has ordered everything you're going to do, if he ordered it, then where does your free will come from? Now my sister Reese said Christ had her free will. I have to ask the question. Did he now? Did he? No, he couldn't sin. Could Christ sin?

SPEAKER_03 5:03

Adam and Eve did. No, because they did have the choice.

SPEAKER_08 5:07

You know, it it's it's it's a it's a really uh, you know, when it comes to Christ, it's a real slippery slope. People think that because Christ, because the devil tempted him, that the temptation itself implied that Jesus Christ had had an ability to go different in a different direction than what he did do. But see, Christ couldn't. Like Sister Reese says, he didn't sin. He knew no sin, and he didn't sin or knew no sin because no sin was in him. It wasn't in him. There was nothing to be to be teased, there was nothing to be tickled. He didn't have that. Christ could not sin. And the will to sin was not in him at all. Because even if he had the tendency to sin, how would that have made him different than the first Adam? Because he had the tendency. He hadn't sinned until he did, but the tendency was there as evidenced by the fact that he did. And that's why it says in Genesis 2.17 that it says that God tells Adam, in the day, in the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die. In the day, guess what it means? When you eat from that tree, you will die. But what word is consistent with what that was talking about here? Appointed. Appointed. In that day, the appointed day. When you eat, you will die. So if Adam, even though he was made perfect and upright, he hadn't sinned, but the tendency to sin was in him. He had the tendency, he had the ability to sin. What makes Christ different is that he did not. He didn't have that ability. He couldn't do it. And if Christ had a runner up as a potential suitor who could die in our stead, the only person that could be found remotely close, close, which is far away from Christ, would have been Adam again. But Christ could never sin. He could never sin. That's why he is who he is. That's why we are now in him. Certain and assured, like Job. In these verses. I love these verses. Even reading them right now with all of you, it just brings it out even more. Let me read the last one.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Why they can't, why he can't sin I quick.

SPEAKER_08 7:56

What's that?

SPEAKER_01 7:58

In 1 John 5.18, why Jesus can't sin? What if I support what you're saying about Jesus could not sin? Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead and read it. Go ahead. Says 1 John 5.18. We know that no one who is born of God sins. But he who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. So that seed of God is in him. He cannot sin. And then what does he tell the devil when he tempts him? Because he cannot tempt the Lord thy God. You shall serve him. Right. It is written.

Job Trembles Yet Reverences God

SPEAKER_08 8:33

Amen, sister. Amen to that. Actually, let me see if I want to read this last one. Let me read these last three verses because this will close out this chapter, and we'll start in Job 24 tomorrow or Wednesday. Job says, Therefore, you know, he talked about the sovereignty of God here. And now he says, Therefore, I am troubled at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him. For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me. Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face. So the consideration of God's power and purpose produces a fear in Job and an inward trembling. This shows and proves that Job understood what God said about him early on in the first chapter, that Job was one who revered God. He reverenced God. And this is another, this is Job attesting to that fact that he reverences God. He says his heart is softened, as opposed to what? A heart that has been hardened. His condition did not harden him. See, this is what a lot of people do today. When something happens and tragedy or catastrophe or calamity befalls them, there's a certain element of people who start cursing God as Satan expected Job to do. And they harden their hearts against God. And they start coming up with conclusions that make them want to go around and make a crusade of deconstructing Christianity and deconstructing Christ. Because they had a hard time. Things were so bad for them that they, you know, well, how could he let this happen to me? How could he take my wife or my son or my daughter? And these are all terrible tragedies. But let me tell you something. There could be 10,000 worlds with 10,000 tragedies for every person that lived on every one of these worlds. And all of them collectively don't come close to what our Lord suffered for us on that tree. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

Can never because of our sin.

SPEAKER_08 11:02

Job says that I am troubled at his presence. Yes, Christian, be troubled when you are when you have something going wrong. Be troubled. And when you consider this, be afraid. Certainly. Job admits the truth of his own heart. But he says this God makes my heart soft. He didn't give me a hard heart. He made it soft. This affliction didn't harden me, it softened me. And yet, this tenderness that God shows to Job, it does increase the distress that he's under. And he has this struggle that he has under the weight of all of this. He's suffering. And it seems to be to him that there's a mystery behind it that he doesn't quite yet understand, but he will. And so the desire expressed here is not for escape by death, not alone anyway. But Job is hoping for relief from the overwhelming darkness that he talks about. Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my faith. He's still alive. Still, even in fear, Job is not rebellious. He has a deep and reverent awe under the hand of God. And that goes back to what Brother Pat brought up earlier when he asked me the question. I forgot the question you asked me, Pat, earlier, but Job here, oh, about Job uh cursed God. What Job is doing here is reaffirming what we already knew about him was that he was one who feared and reverenced God. And Job is saying it right here in this verse. He is showing that what God said about what God said about Job was true. Or Job is confirming it. It was true because God said it, but Job himself is confirming it. He is agreeing with God about his state, his own condition. He fears and he's not in rebellion against God, but that he has a deep and irreverent awe as he smarts under the hand of God. And this is where we will close.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Jonathan, can I read these three verses in LSB? They're really good. It's Legacy Standard Bible for y'all that don't know. I just got it. It's really good. Listen to what it says. It says, Therefore, I would be dismayed at his presence. I carefully consider, and I am in dread of him. It is God who has made my heart faint, and the Almighty who has dismayed me, but I am not silenced by the darkness, nor thick darkness which covers me.

Turning Pain Into Endurance

SPEAKER_08 14:07

Beautiful. Beautiful way of putting it. And he's saying he's like, he is almost like he's saying, I, you know, God has made me to know that my time has not yet come. Not yet. And so Job just gave us a lesson. He just gave us a lesson on how to endure in the midst of the most extreme and severe trial. He knows that his God is his God. He knows that he's sovereign and he knows that he has a that this situation that he's going through is appointed by God. And all he can do is submit to it. And that he knows that he does something he must do. And he knows that he is submitting to a difficulty. It is hard to live on these trials. But when you take your mind off your trial briefly and remember what our Lord did, what he suffered, what he gave up, and what he is now sharing with us. It is of inestimable and is an immeasurable inheritance that we all are waiting for. And we are getting samples of it right here with the seal of God that holds us, guaranteeing our appointment to glory. Be provoked and be persuaded. I love you guys. I love y'all. Last words. Let me start with Brother Rod. No sermons. No sermons.

SPEAKER_06 16:02

All right, all right. I mean, I'm let me let me get my notes here. Let me see what I want to say. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Um this is good, man. This is good. I mean, because I guess I'm gonna say this. Um, the hardest part of my walk is, you know, uh someone once told me they seemed that I'm more heart than flesh. And you're more what? I'm more heart than I am flesh.

SPEAKER_08 16:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 16:28

And I didn't quite understand it. Right. But as I've walked and getting closer and getting more intimate and getting more closer with the relationship with him, with the father, you know, um, it pains me because I want to help. I want to, you know, be there for everybody, just as much as people, you know, may not have been there for me, you know. And so that's just the the hardest part of the walk because you just literally see people not believing in. This passage is so it's it's a weird theology, and it can be, can be, can be bad, you know, it can be uh losing the word if it's misunderstood, you know. So because I have so many friends who, you know, they're like, well, Rodney, if God wouldn't do this, if he wouldn't have took my parents, or he wouldn't have did this, or he wouldn't have did that, and you know, for whatever reason in me, despite what I'm going through, right, I'm able to sit there with them. And this may have been before I came back, right? And that's the part where I'm like, well, he's always been there, you know what I mean? And that's the scary part now, because I'm like, well, how do I make up for that, you know? Right. And you said a word earlier where I don't want to, I can't remember it, but you scared me with it when you were saying like you don't want to be looked at as that type of individual when we're talking about like not following it to the T, I think is what the best way I can define it. But I'm not gonna wrap it up. But it's just like, you know, sometimes, you know, what if the pain wasn't like an interruption that was your son? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_08 17:58

You say what if what if is that a not an interruption?

SPEAKER_06 18:03

Yeah, because you know, I don't, I still, and I just put that in there, you know, we can withstand almost anything as humans, but stuff that doesn't make sense. We just find this desire to try to make it make sense. And I was doing that with my situation. And and man, I can't tell you until I decided to just, you know, get closer. All the answers came. I met you guys, you know, and he brings peace to the heart, as he as we just literally said, you know, it job was so scared, you know, it softened his heart. Even Meg just said it with the heart so faintly. And I'm sorry to go off, but I don't know about the Holy Spirit just running through me right now.

SPEAKER_08 18:40

The heart is getting away.

SPEAKER_06 18:42

You know, it it it it's it's just it's just crazy. Like, I don't be thinking about this rest of the night. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna wrap it up now. He interrupted my life or my situation to show me what my assignment was gonna be, and that's with year seven.

unknown 18:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 19:00

I like that word, brother. I like that word assignment because you're right. What we go through, it is something that we that it is a divine appointment, which means it has become our assignment to endure, to go through. That's what we're called to do. And so, and brother, just just keep hanging in there because it is clear to me, and I'm sure to everyone else, you are definitely growing. Very clear to me. Anyway, and I'm grateful for that little bit of time you you let me get to be a part of. And I'm sure everybody else feels the same, brother.

SPEAKER_06 19:32

So keep my daughter, my daughter popped in here.

SPEAKER_08 19:35

What's her name?

SPEAKER_06 19:37

Uh her name is Zara. Zyera, how are you? I don't know if she's still here, but I I asked her to jump. Well, since she's doing her homework, and um all right. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna text her now and see see where she is. She may still be on here, but I don't know, bro.

SPEAKER_08 19:55

All right.

SPEAKER_06 19:56

So thank you, everybody.

SPEAKER_08 19:57

Sister Vanessa, last word for the night.

SPEAKER_05 20:00

Well, I just want to say I am so grateful that I have this family. I have I'm alone all the time. And when I get on here, I feel like I'm fully fledged in a family of Christ. Right. And I love every single minute of it. And I'm just so amazed by what the teachings are. And tonight has been I love this chapter. I've been reading it all day, trying to get together to see, you know, what I can say, because it's hard for me. Right. And um, excuse me.

SPEAKER_08 20:37

That's all right, sis. Take your time.

SPEAKER_05 20:39

I uh I'm just I can't be grateful enough for the things that God has done for me, and bringing this family to me and then and the teachings with it. I feel so blessed.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

Well, we I just I'm just grateful. Love you so much, Sister Vanessa.

SPEAKER_08 20:59

Yeah, we do.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

We do more than you know, and I love everybody.

Rest That Comes From Sovereignty

SPEAKER_08 21:04

Yep. Yeah, Sister Vanessa, and in fact, you guys tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning, tomorrow night, she's giving her testimony here tomorrow night. So we're gonna be hearing her tonight. I mean, tomorrow night. I keep saying tonight, tomorrow night. And so um try to make make it be there. Everybody, I don't never have to tell anybody, but you guys are always here everywhere, every day anyway. So Vanessa's giving her her testimony tomorrow. And um she she you know, she let me talk her talk her into this. And and uh, but I'm glad she's she's she's doing it. Like she said herself, she's she's a little shy, but she's a wealth of of uh a wealth of of wisdom and knowledge, believe me when I tell you that. So um um Sister Meg, last word for tonight.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

You know, I think with these set of verses tonight, um it has truly uh Really shown the heart of Job, and you know, we're really starting to see the the truth of why God deemed Job righteous, upright, perfect, a shoot evil, and feared the Lord. And it it's beautiful because he is understanding, I feel like he's starting to understand God's sovereignty and he's starting to rest in it. And especially from chapter 19 till now, um, after the declaration that he made in uh verse 24 through 27. Um, but I think what it what it says about us is that when you truly understand the sovereignty of God, you that is where your rest comes. No matter what happens in your life, Job knew that he was not in the hands of Satan. In fact, Satan has not been mentioned once during this book, other than chapter one. Right. He is in the hands of an Almighty God who has never and will never take the hedge of his soul. Henceforth, we are in the hands of an Almighty God that no matter what happens to us, that same hedge that is over Job that will never be removed is the same hedge that's over us that will never be removed. And I encourage you guys, if if there's something that you when it comes to God's sovereignty, there is a book by A. W. Pink. It's called The Sovereignty of God. It is the best book to get a full understanding. And after that, you will find what it what it's really like to have the peace that surpasses all understanding. It's not a it's not a prayer you pray, it's a space that you operate in.

SPEAKER_08 23:53

Right. So Nathan said no sermons made.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

I timed mine. It was at one minute and 37 seconds.

SPEAKER_08 24:04

Brother Eric, last word, brother. Welcome to I'm glad you're here tonight.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Glory to God. Thank you for allowing me to be here. But just really quick, you know, the correlating theme up since I was here all night, and the thing I just keep hearing in regards to God's sovereignty is trust him.

SPEAKER_08 24:19

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

You know, um, Job is is the man that literally declared, and I man, this is one of my favorite verses. It's definitely my favorite verse in this book. But Job says, though the Lord slay me, I will still trust him.

SPEAKER_08 24:32

Amen, brother.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

You know, and I think in his sovereignty, and and I'll land the plane right here. Um, we see throughout the entire Bible, um, it's all about trusting God, and and the enemy always tries to get us to doubt, doubt, and it and it's not really our it's it's not it within ourselves, but it's this right here. He gets us to doubt who our God is as Father, as Lord, as Savior. And he tries to get us to also doubt his identity and what he has said as God and what he has promised. So in his sovereignty, no matter like Jonathan said it perfectly by the Holy Spirit, no matter what we're going through. Like we're talking about the first church, man, and we're talking about being fed the lions. Uh you know, and I'm talking about being thrown in the circuit. So no matter what we may face, if even in the flesh, if there's a sickness we may have to go through, if like like no matter what we face, God in his sovereignty is in complete control and we resolve it right here. I am fully persuaded and convinced that the good work which he has started in me, yeah, he indeed will bring to a completion even unto the day of Christ Jesus. And we should rest in that right there.

SPEAKER_08 25:43

Amen, brother. Amen, brother. Excellent word as always. Excellent, excellent. Sister Lisa, last word.

SPEAKER_09 25:52

Well, I will just say another amazing study. I've had my mind has been reeling and reeling. Um, so many things I I see that Job is saying that we learn later on, you know, the soft heart, Ezekiel. It's this man knew God, and this is where we need to be, everybody. We just need we need to know our Heavenly Father. He is amazing. And I wanted to say, Vanessa, I'm so excited to hear you tomorrow. And if you're nervous, don't be because remember, it's just us. So, like when you're talking, like when I did mine, I looked like such a I was such a uh I wasn't talking to y'all. I didn't, I felt like I was talking out, out, but we're here, so it's just like we're talking today, like right now. Right. And so I I can't wait to hear. So don't be nervous, and I'll be here cheering you on, and and everybody else is will be too. So I love you, and I can't wait to hear what what your testimony is gonna be. Thank you, brother. I love you too.

SPEAKER_08 27:00

Love you too, sister. Sister Candy, last word.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Not a sermon, but may it go on a start of timer. I just want to share something with y'all, and I think it's fire with when it comes to Job, but it is about the temptation of Jesus as well. But it's beautiful because it I'm gonna jump back and go to uh John chapter 3 when uh or Matthew chapter 3 when Jesus was baptized, right? He was baptized, and when the Holy Spirit came down in the shape of a dove, it was cut, it says it was called lighting on him, right? As soon as he was baptized, he was led out into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil of the spirit taking him, right? Follow me here, follow me, because this is just so fire. So for 40 days and 40 nights, what happens to anybody when they don't eat for 40 days and 40 nights in the flesh, especially? We are weak, right? So Jesus is weakest, but the tempter came, so he he tempts him and says, You know, command that these stones be made of bread. It's not by bread alone, it's by every word of God that man shall live. So then he's tempted again. Follow me here, because how many times was Job Job tempted? And what all was allowed to happen to him, and then Jesus comes afterwards, right? This is fire, but anyway, uh he says, so um, where do I have? It is written, man should not be by bread alone, but by every word of God's mouth. So I said, Job was also using the words of God to get him through, right? So the Spirit of God was also upon him to speak the words through him to defeat the enemy at this point, his friends who were trying to persuade him, just like the serpent was trying to persuade Jesus here that he wasn't the son of God, because that's how he that's what he came at him with. But as it's written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, he tells him. So then he says, What is it? Um, he shall give his angels charging concerning thee, and their hands they shall bear thee up, lest any time thou dash thy foot against the stone. And Jesus said, It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And again, the devil tries him again. He shows him all the kingdoms of the world. Well, God's kingdom is not of the world, so no good for that one. But anyway, he says, All these things I will give to you if you fall down and worship me. So, what did Job's friends try to do? They try to tell him that God will give them, give him everything in the world, right? If he would just fall down and repent for something that he didn't even do. You know what I mean? But anyway, um then Jesus said, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall you serve. So the devil leaves. He doesn't tempt him anymore. My point of it all is is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus at his weakest. Our flesh, what's he what does he tell us? When we are at our weakest, that's when he's the strongest in us. That is when he is our strength. So, how do we overcome the temptations and the enemy and the wiles of the devil? Just like this right here. It is by every word, not just the bread alone, but it is by Jesus and every word of God. Get in this book, man. Get to know the man that saved our life, who died for our sins, who was no sin, knew no sin, but took all of our sins upon himself, the wrath of God. Man. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. But man, trust him, trust him, trust him, trust him, trust him.

SPEAKER_08 30:46

All right, all right. Brother Pat, last word.

Why The Word Never Gets Old

SPEAKER_04 30:52

Yeah, I just I've got to say that I I I've probably studied the book of Job. This is probably my fifth time round. And something about the word of God, uh, you know, somebody would say to say to me, Um, well, you already know it. What's the point in going back to the book of Job? In fact, they could look at my life and say, Well, you're also a person that knows about the sovereignty of God, you're a person that knows about election, you know about perseverance, you know about all these doctrines. So why would you go back to study? You know why? Because this word of God, it transforms us from the inside out. And no matter how well you know these truths, you don't know them good enough. It it will never get old and it will never stop taking hold of your soul and changing you from the inside out. Am I wrong, Jonathan?

SPEAKER_08 31:50

No, brother, you're you're you're dead on, man. You you never you never arrive. You never arrive.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

You've been to seminary, right? And they taught you a lot of things, right?

SPEAKER_08 32:02

Man, listen, you learn, you learn a lot of things, and you get into the scriptures and you realize you don't know anything.

SPEAKER_04 32:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 32:15

You realize you don't know anything.

SPEAKER_04 32:16

You still need it, don't you? Even when you have a a degree, right? Right. Even even if you went to the right church and you have all the pedigree, this word of God, you don't know it enough. No, as long as we're in this life, because these are the very words of life.

SPEAKER_08 32:33

Right.

unknown 32:34

Man.

SPEAKER_08 32:41

You don't learn in the classroom. You don't. Not not in an earthly classroom. And so this is what we need to really, you know, understand. This is what we need to understand. This is something, these things are only things that the Holy Spirit of God can teach you. Only things only the Holy Spirit of God can teach you. So good word, Brother Pat. Sister Mariah, last word.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Yeah, I'm just truly amazed of of how he has obtained all this knowledge. Like me, I you know, I have the word of God. So, you know, um, I've come to this knowledge through the word of God, and of course, the Holy Spirit teaching me. And I know that it's the the Spirit of God teaching him as well, but it's just amazing because he he had nothing um as as like we do. Um, but here in this chapter, I can clearly see and understand the scripture that says the um the fear, the beginning of wisdom is the fear, the fear of the Lord, right? I may be saying that twisted, but you know what I'm trying to say. And so Job fears the Lord. And I love that we could stop screaming, that we can see it coming to life, you know, um, why God has said the things that he said about Job.

Prayer Requests And Closing Prayer

SPEAKER_08 34:12

Amen, sister. Well, you know what? Uh uh Rodney is gonna pray for us tonight. And Rodney, when you do, um please remember uh Jamie. He is uh uh blazing rose's daughter, Kelly. That's her daughter, uh Jamie. She has an irregular heartbeat that she's dealing with, so remember her in the prayer. And um, but before we do that, I want to say goodnight to the kids because I think that Mariah is probably needed to get needed needs to get with them right away. Am I right, Mariah? Okay, well we'll go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

Yes, sir. Hurry up, say goodnight, guys.

SPEAKER_08 35:03

Bye bye, good night, sleep tight.

SPEAKER_07 35:06

Hey, kicky kiki, yes.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

I think they were just upset because Mariah was talking and wouldn't let them talk. It wasn't their turn, mama.

SPEAKER_08 35:19

I know, I know. That's good. That's that's that's that's the choir. Um, but um bless the children. I just pray for those kids at night, too. I I really do.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

I love them. I love when they tend to Jesus.

SPEAKER_08 35:32

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, Brother Rodney asked to lead lead us in prayer tonight, and I really, really appreciate that. When people start asking to do it, that's just a beautiful thing. So, Brother Rod, don't forget Blazing Rose's daughter, uh Jamie, and then whatever's on your heart, brother, go ahead and talk to us. Talk to the Lord.

SPEAKER_06 35:50

All right, so I'm gonna uh do a little differently tonight. I'm gonna start with the word. Um, I'm gonna pull from John 15, 1 through 7, uh the true vine, uh his word. I am the true vine, and my father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away, and every branch that bears fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered, and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done. By this my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you will be my disciples. The prayer I have to, your glory to God, I'm pulling from a book I started with when I first started my walk. Um it was gifted to me by Jermaine Copeland. It's a prayers that avail much. Um, so I'll start now. Um Father, the course that you have set before me is clear. You have called me into this prayer group to respond to the many prayer requests we receive from those who need agreement or who don't know how to pray for themselves. Lord, you are the vine dresser, Jesus is the vine, and I am the branch. We are the branches. I am him, I remain in him, and he remains in me, and my prayers bear much fruit apart from him. I can do nothing. Father, at times we are tempted to grow weary and overburdened with the pain and the heartache of others. Help us to remember that Jesus said, Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11, 28. I take his yoke upon me and learn from him, for he is gentle and humble in heart, and I we will find rest for our souls. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. Lord Jesus said that I ought always to pray and not turn coward. I am earnest and unwearied and steadfast in my prayer, life being both alert and intent, and praying with thanksgiving. Therefore, since I am surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, I throw off everything that hinders the end, the sin that is that's so easily entangles, and I run with perseverance that race marked out for me. I fix my eyes on Jesus, the author and the perfecter of my faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of your throne. I consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that I will not grow weary and lose heart during times of intercession. And before I close, I would like to, Lord God, if you can bless uh blazing roses' daughter Jamie of supernatural healing and just continue to cover her and um what she's doing what she's dealing with. Um I say this in Jesus' name. I pray. Amen.

SPEAKER_08 39:05

Amen.

SPEAKER_07 39:06

Amen. Thank you for that, brother.

SPEAKER_08 39:11

Thank you. Everybody, have a great night. I look forward to uh Sister Vanessa's um uh testimony tomorrow night. I hope we'll all be able to come and show some support for her. Uh we love our dear sister Vanessa, and we I'm looking forward to hearing her testimony tomorrow night. So let's come let's come together tomorrow and show her some support. May God bless you all. Have a great night. It's been a great discussion. I love it. They seem to just get better and better and better. So uh God bless you all and um and have a great night. We'll talk to you. Good night. Good night. God bless you all.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

Peace. God bless.