FBT Daily Devotional: Job 39

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Phenomenal. Great day, everyone. Today I am going over Job. Not Job. Job 39. And today we're going through the revealing of God showing his wisdom through creation. Um, wisdom through creation. How does that work? It's okay, it's gonna be really good today. It really blessed me. So as we're looking in, think about examples, think about imagining yourself in the most complex and the most hard and the most unfannable situation, and God showing himself strong. So through these examples, not only do I not um not only am I asking you to glean in and look at your life, but look at the life of those around you and what God has called you to do. Jumping right in. Um in God, when you experience a delay, it's not a denial, it's not a you know, a no. Sometimes you're being slowed down because you have something that you are supposed to do. Um, of course, alignment and you operate in purpose is so important, but we're gonna kind of clarify today that purpose timing, because when we do things in God's purpose, there's always provision, there's always a way. Your job is to, I love to say it, be crazy enough to believe. Have an aspect of crazy faith that you say, no matter what happens, God has told me this thing, and I am going to stand on his word. That's the full encompassing thought and motion towards this word today, and we're gonna break it down in a loving aspect. So imagine God is managing what you can't see, he's managing what you can't see. So, have you ever been in a season where nothing made sense? And heaven was silent. So Job was there, right? He was suffering loss, um, and he asked questions, and God finally speaks in this chapter 39, but not in the way that Job expected. Instead of explanations, God gives him revelation of his wisdom. And so, in this context, um, if you're thinking about uh Job 38 through 41, God's responses in Job 39, God points to the animal kingdom to prove his truth. He said, If I can run creation without your help, I can run your life too. Now, amen. We know God created all of the animals, all of the heavens and the earth, every all of creation came from him. And he's saying the same thing to you. If I can run creation without your help, I can run your life too. So God is speaking about God is working in the hidden places. When he came in the um in the first chapter, he says he's speaking about the wild goats and the deer, like just giving attention to the detail. He says, Knowest thou time when wild goats of rock bring forth. Now, Noah's here is saying to know ultimately, to perceive, to understand deeply, God is saying, You don't even have visibility into basic creation process. But God does. God manages life processes in places humans never can see. The goats gave birth without human supervision, without human planning, without human awareness. So the aspect of the goats, you know, being created in themselves and then them having the ability to procreate all was in God's master plan. So if God can manage births in the wilderness from something He instantly created, He can manage breakthroughs in your wilderness. He's trying to birth something out of you. I just told Pastor Minister Tony the other day, I said, for me to look at the reflection of the season that I'm going through, I'm having a baby. You don't get tired of your baby. Amen. When we're whole in the name of Jesus, you don't get tired of your baby. You may be tired, but you don't get tired of your baby. Right now, you're you're you have a baby, you got to take care of it. And no matter what you're doing or what you're experiencing, you understand your responsibility and you get it done. But in this area, God is looking to push a breakthrough through you. So just because you can't see God is working doesn't mean he stopped working. We hear it time and time again. But amen, in this context, understand even here, God is revealing this to Job. Like, listen, we're gonna keep going. Who have sent you out? Who has sent the donkey out into excuse me? Who sit out the wild donkey free? Thinking about here, he's again just consistently speaking about the animals, you know, him aspect in the creation. And when we think about free in the Hebrew, this means liberated, unrestrained, not bound to human systems. So God intentionally created some things untamed, unconventional, and uncontainable. Not even, not everything God blesses fits inside of human structure. What does that mean? Some of you have been frustrated because your life doesn't look normal. But God is asking you, Who told you? I designed you to be domesticated? Who told you that? The wild oxen is an example of strength, but it is not controllable. Strength does not equal submission. So for us not to take that out of context, God is saying, stop trying to force systems, what God designed for wilderness. So sometimes we're trying to make stuff fit that did not fit, and we didn't go to God first and we didn't seek his presence, but we're just stuck on a mindset or a perspective that this is this is who I am and this is what I want to do without God's direction. And of course, without God's direction, we don't have his provision. And without his provision, we're trying to keep something in a place that it does not belong. And so God is like, hey, I didn't tell you that. Who told you that? So you have to take every thought captive and challenge it and compare it to the word of God to make sure that you are aligned to what he told you, not a word that you heard, as Pastor Carrick was saying. So God builds power within you. And he's speaking here, going down to verse 19, he's speaking about the war horses. He says, Has thou given a horse strength? Now, when we think about strength in the Hebrew, strength means might, warrior power, and heroic strength. God is revealing that courage of the horse is God installed. Courage of the horse here is God installed. So that means the horse calls the ground, runs toward in battle, and does not retreat. God installed that in him. And let's just say the horse decided to believe to operate in God's God-given, God-installed creativity. Now, some seasons are not attacks, they are training grounds. And again, I love the aspect of animals because a lot of people we can glean to animals, horses, you know, horses being trained, horses in races, or honestly, even dogs that are that are trained and may go to K9 training. And obviously, we know good dogs that are operating in a space that they're mannerable and they, you know, instantly operate in aspects of training and they're considered good animals, but there are also some that are wild, and some people with the wrong teaching teach them how to attack each other and to fight. When we think about training grounds, we have to understand God is not trying to break you, He's trying, He is building you, He is building you to go forth in the right direction. And amen, sometimes we can have training that's not of God, and we want to make sure that we don't align ourselves to that. So, God, in itself, if the battle didn't kill you, because sometimes it feels like, man, I'm going through all of this, and I was speaking to one of you, loving sisters, to say, you didn't, you're not in a situation like Jesus. You haven't been beaten almost to death, you're not gushing out with blood, you know, your whole everyone that you know did not betray you. You're not literally dying. It may feel terrible. I understand God gets it for sure. But if it didn't kill you, you got to understand God is using that situation to train you. Do not be a repeat offender. Because when you're going through a cycle, repeat of situations over and over and over, amen. Though the world may be coming at you, you have accountability and you have to get before God to say, what do I need to do differently to make sure that I don't experience this? So in closing, God sees you from a higher perspective. And I think about the eagles, doubt the eagle mount up at thy comment command. Doesn't an eagle mount up at thy command uh command? Doesn't an eagle mount up at my command? Yes. When we think about mount up is to rise up, is to soar above. It also reminds me of excellence. The eagle lives in the heights. Job cannot reach, job cannot see from them. Um, job cannot command. And so today, as we get ready to go in our breakout rooms, what feels confusing at ground level makes perfect sense from heaven's altitude. Focus your eyes on the hills, which all of your help comes from. And just remember that God knows not only who you are, but amen. He understands that even in our insufficiency, he is sufficient. We just gotta choose to believe it by faith. Ready for breakouts.