Episode #45: The God Who Blesses and Restores

What if your hardest season isn’t the headline of your life? We walk through Job’s story with fresh eyes—beginning with God’s hedge of protection, moving through the shock of cascading losses, and confronting the voices that push shallow answers when hearts are raw. From there, we sit with the moment God speaks from the whirlwind, not to shame, but to reframe, reminding us that divine wisdom holds what our limited view cannot.

Across the conversation, we show how Job’s early restraint gave way to weary words, and why that matters. His friends mean well, yet their counsel tightens the knot by equating pain with guilt. Then comes the pivot: Job repents for speaking beyond knowledge, prays for those same friends, and experiences full restoration. Scripture records a double portion, renewed family, and long years—clear proof that suffering marked a chapter, not the whole book.

Along the way, we highlight practical takeaways. Guard your words when grief swells. Stay under God’s covering with obedience and trust. Refuse fatal scripts like “this is just my life.” Seek God’s character in Scripture until your perspective shifts. The message is not denial of pain; it’s confidence in a God who blesses, restores, and writes better endings than we can imagine.

If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs hope, and leave a review so more people can find these conversations. Your story isn’t over—let’s walk it out in faith together.

Transcript

Welcome And Purpose

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Hello, my name is Stephanie. Welcome to the All Is Well Podcast. My mission is to teach people the Word of God and emphasize its importance in their daily lives. I'm glad you decided to join me today. Let's get started. Welcome to episode 45. Well, I'm glad you decided to join me today. On today's episode, we are going to talk about the life of Job. So we're gonna start off what happened to Job, but we need to realize that he didn't stay in that state his entire life. God blessed him at the end. So let's get started. We're going to talk about the book of Job. So let's go to our Bibles and turn to the first chapter of Job. I'm going to start to read in Job chapter one, verse six. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to Satan, From where do you come? So Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it. Then the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth? A blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? So Satan answered the Lord and said, Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? So let's stop right there. What does the word hedge mean? Hedge is a protection. We are God's children and we are obedient to him. We have a hedge of protection that is around us. And so the enemy here knew that Job had a hedge of protection. So it says you have a hedge of protection around him, his household, and everywhere, on every side. So the devil could not touch him. So let's go back to us. God has a hedge of protection around us when we are his children, and no harm can touch us. But that's what the hedge of protection is. God's hand over our lives. And then let's go on to continue what he says. You have blessed the work of his hands and his possessions and have increased in the land. So with God too, he blesses the work of our hands. Whatever we do, we're going to prosper, and the possessions will increase, and he increased in the land, and the devil saw that he knew. So this is an example here about how our lives should be, having that hedge of protection, God protecting us, and God blessing the work of our hands, and us prospering in everything that we do. But then in verse eleven it reads, But now, stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse you to your face. And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not lay a hand on his person. So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. And this is when we start to read the destruction that happens to Job. So the hedge of protection got released from Job, and that's why Satan could go and attack him. Because before Satan knew that he could not attack Job. He says, I can't touch him, because you have a hedge of protection on him. He says, I know that he's a man of God, but I can't touch him. So let's go back to that. This Satan knows when he can't touch you. He knows when he can't touch you. When you're a child of God, when you're reading his word, when you're obedient to God, that's the important part. When you're obedient to him, following his commands, the devil can't touch you because he knows who you are. It's like you have children, and if they know who those children belong to, they're not gonna mess with those children. Oh, that's their mom, that's their dad. Okay, I'm not gonna mess with them. They can't be touched, they can't be messed with. In the same way, that's how we are. We can't be messed with when we have God as our father. Do you see? So, don't forget that. Now let's see what happens to Job. Now in verse thirteen. Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and a messenger came to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing and the donkeys feeding beside them, when the Sabeans raided them and took them away. Indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you. sixteen while he was still speaking, another also came and said, The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you. While he was still speaking another also came, and said, The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away. Yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you. While he was still speaking, another also came and said, Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you. Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshipped, and he said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrong. Just as it says in that scripture, Job did not attack God and blame him. God, why did you do this to me? Why did this happen to me? Why didn't you do anything about this? That's what people like to say when things happen to them. Why did you allow this, God? Why did this person and my family pass away? What happened? Why am I going through these bad things, God? Why did you do this to me? But as we can see here, it wasn't God who did those things to Job. It was Satan. And that's what we need to remember is not to confuse the two. God is here to bless us were his children. Why did God allow him to? He permitted him to, and then Satan did what he wished. So during this journey of the things that happened to Job, he still had his wife and he still had his friends. So during the chapter of Job, there's many conversations that are going on. He's going through grief. A lot of the things that he had, especially people's lives, he lost. Not just one person, but a lot of people in his life he lost, especially his children. So he's grieving. So you can imagine the things that he's thinking of. And so throughout the chapter of Job, he has a conversation with his friends, and he's just talking about who God is and what happened. So I'm not going to dive into all of it because it's a lot, but there's just a few points that we can read. So let's look at a few. So in Job chapter 10, this is what Job is saying. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. Does it seem good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands? So see how he's speaking? Then on one of his friends. CHAPTER twelve. No doubt you are the people and wisdom will die with you, but I have understanding as well as you. I am not inferior to you, indeed, who does not know such things as these? I am unmocked by his friends who called on God and he answered him, the just and blameless who is ridiculed. But he's having so many conversations with his friends. He's thinking about what happened to him. Where is his life going now? And so in chapter twelve, Job also talks about the strength of God and his characteristics. He says, With him are wisdom and strength. He has counsel and understanding. If he breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt. He imprisons a man, there can be no release. If he withholds the water, they dry up. If he sends them out, they overwhelm the earth. So right there he's talking about God's strength and how strong and mighty and powerful he is. So he's having these conversations with his friends, but his friends are they're there for him, but then the things that they're telling him, like in chapter 18, then Bildad answered and said, How long till you put an end to words, gain understanding, and afterwards we will speak? Why are we counted as beasts and regarded as stupid in your sight? You who tear yourself in anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or shall the rock be removed from its place? So they have a different viewpoint of Job and what he should do. So throughout this, as I said, God's hearing them. So they're complaining, why am I going through this? What's happening to me? But in verse 19, it also goes to say, Then Job answered and said, How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? These ten times you have reproached me, you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. He's in a battle with his friends too, because they're not agreeing on the same things. He wants to keep trusting God, but then his friends are not thinking that he should. And so God's hearing them. So through all this time that the friends in Job were talking about what happened to Job, the Lord had enough. And in verse 38, he says, Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Prepare yourself like a man, I will question you, and you shall answer me. Now let's turn to our Bibles to chapter 38. Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, Who is this who darkens counsel? By words without knowledge, now prepare yourself like a man, I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I lay the foundations of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know, or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone? When the morning stars sing together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. So God heard them, and God is putting him in his place. Look, I heard you now. And so he says, I will question you, and you shall answer me. So God goes on and he's talking about the things that Job does not know. In chapter forty it says, Moreover, the Lord answered Job and said, Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it. So yes at the beginning he didn't blame God, but then thinking about it, being around his friends who were not helping him, they were not putting him on the path that he needed to go, and then he started to think these things and start to blame God. And so it says, He who rebukes God, let him answer it. So now this is Job's response to God. Then Job answered, and the Lord said, Behold, I am vile. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand over my mouth. Once I have spoken, but I will not answer. Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further. So Job knew that he messed up. He knew that he had no idea what he was talking about with his friends, and for him he felt that it was better off that he didn't say anything. But God was not going to let him not say anything. So this is what God's challenge to Job was. Then the Lord answered Job out of the world went and said, Now prepare yourself like a man, I will question you and you shall answer me. So there's a time when God gets stern with us, and this is when God was stern with Job. He said, Would you indeed annul my judgment? Would you condemn me that you may be justified? Have you an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like his? Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and array yourself with glory and beauty. So he keeps asking him, Can you do this? And these are the things that only God can do. Then in chapter forty two, then Job answered the Lord and said, I know that you can do everything, and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you. You asked, Who is this who hides counsel from knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand. And that's what happens a lot to us. When we go through things, we think that we know the answer to it, but just what Job said here, I have uttered what I did not understand. God is listening to us, and so when it's different from his character and what it says in his word, we're uttering things that we do not understand. And Job continues to say, Things too wonderful for me which I did not know. Listen please, and let me speak. You said I will question you and you shall answer me. I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see you, therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. So he realized what he had done wrong. And let's stop right there. People may say, but he just went through so much turmoil. Why does he have to repent? Because of the words that he was speaking towards God. When we're going through a tough situation, we need to remember, and yes, we want to complain, but we need to know who God is in the midst of it. We need to know his purpose, just like Job said in the beginning. I know that you can do everything and then no purpose of yours can be withheld from you. And with that, Job was disgusted with himself and he repented in dust and ashes. He repented. He said, God, I'm sorry for the things that I spoke towards you. Even though I was going through all of this, even though I lost all of this, you are the one that I should have trusted more than anyone. And so it was after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz, the Temanite, My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, 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 him, lest I deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of me what is right as my servant Job has, because Job repented now he was in God's favor. So Ilifaz, the Temanite, and Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naumite, went and did as the Lord commanded them, for the Lord had accepted Job, and the Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. So let's go back to that. So after God has a conversation with Job, he repents because of the things that he was speaking, his friends also repented, he prayed for his friends, and after that it says when he prayed for his friends, God restored Job's losses. So Job did not stay in that condition that he stayed in. And many people want to stay stuck on that fact. But Job's life was so much more than that. And it says indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then all his brothers and his sisters and all those who had been his acquaintances before came to him and ate food with him in his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold. Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters, and he called the name of the first Jememiah, the name of the second Kaziah, and the name of the third Karen. In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. So Job died old and full of days. So you can see there, after he was restored, he lived for one hundred and forty years. So you can tell that that part of his life did not happen for a long time. After he repented, God blessed him. Don't think that we're here just to suffer and to go through things. We're here so God could bless us because at the beginning of Job's life, he wasn't in turmoil. God had blessed him, just as the enemy had saw that God had blessed the work of his hands. Everything that he touched, he was prospering. God had a hedge of protection on him, everything was going well for him. That is how we should live. And even though he went through this horrible time, God blessed him at the end. He didn't stay that way. So don't forget that God wants to bless you. He doesn't think like us. His thoughts and his ways, as it says in Isaiah, are higher than our thoughts and our ways. So God blessed him, he multiplied. So if you were to ask Job now, so how was your life? How was it? He probably wouldn't mention what happened to him. He would mention the great things that God did for him in his life and the life that he got to live with his family. So what I would recommend for you to do is to recognize who God is. And when challenges come in your life, is the thing that we need to do is to submit our lives to God and to recognize who he is and seek him diligently and repent if we need to. But also is that, like I mentioned in the beginning, is that he doesn't leave us where we're at. If we allow him to, then he'll bless us. Because there are times that we'll even say, Well, this is just the way it is, this is my life. I'm just gonna stay here and stay stuck. Your words have trapped you. And also, when you say things like, Well, if it's not one thing, it's another, how can God God work through those things when you keep trapping yourself in those things. Just like Job, he wasn't able to come out of where he was because he was complaining. It started to get to him. But then when God got a hold of him and told him how it was, Job repented and said, There are things I did not understand. We need to know no matter where you are in life, God wants to elevate you. But he only can if we allow him to. We have to let him into our lives. So what I would recommend for you to do is to meditate on the Word of God day and night and put God first in your life, and you will see the good and wonderful things that God will do in your life. If this message helped you in any way, share it with a friend or a family member, and thank you for tuning in. If you have not accepted Jesus into your life, say the salvation prayer with me. Heavenly Father, I admit that I have sinned. I repent. I believe in my heart you raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth, Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now I receive forgiveness by the blood of Jesus. Come into my life. I am saved. In Jesus' name, amen. I'm glad you pray that salvation prayer. Make sure that you plug yourself into a spirit filled church and read the Word of God. Well, I hope you enjoy the message and thank you for tuning in.