God called Job a “righteous man,” but Job said that the “very thing I feared came upon me.”
Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."
What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come true. Job 3:25
The Bible says a righteous man stumbles seven times and rises again. (For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity. Proverbs 24:16)
We know that our righteousness (right standing with God) is through the blood of Jesus Christ.
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. Philip 3:9
For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." Romans 1:17
Listening to a good Bible study on how fear is believing for the wrong thing. There are different types of fear. Fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of physical harm, etc.
My mother would not allow me to talk on the phone for very long because we did not have call waiting and she would say over and over again, “Someone may need to get through in an emergency.” Those very words came to pass in my life in that I was on the phone visiting my mother from Florida, and my husband was a missionary over in India and my sister broke through with an operator when I was on the phone talking to him because she went to the hospital when her appendix ruptured.
I can go over and over on the number of people I know that put their faith in the wrong things. I was at a women’s scrapbook event and this pregnant woman said, “Everytime I get pregnant my husband loses his job.” You should just plan on your husband standing in the unemployment line.”
“I never win anything, what is the use of trying.”
I like what I recently read that Joel Osteen’s wife said, “You have to have hope because hope gives your faith action.”
If I don’t expect anything from anyone at any time or anything to go right in my life and I’m not putting my faith out to receive nothing from God, well that pretty much sums up what you are getting in life. I’ve heard that hatred is actually indifference.
Many times Jesus said, “be it unto you according to your faith” (Matthew 9:29) and your faith has made you whole.(Mark 5:34/Mark 10:52).
Jesus said out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak (Luke 6:45)
Mary said when she got pregnant by the Holy Spirit to the angel, “Be it unto me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38)
So how do you change your negative circumstances around in your life? The Bible talks about “being captive by the words of our mouth.” Proverbs 6:2 It says that God turned the captivity of Job around. How does the captivity get turned around? When Job prayed for his friends. Job 42:10
It’s prayer and I also find it’s saying God’s word out of our mouth.
“The greater one lives inside of me today and the greater one inside me is capable of facing every difficulty today. I am more than a conqueror through Christ."
It’s not waiting until I feel like I am more than a conqueror, but it’s saying it now to change our circumstances.
It says, “Let the weak say they are strong.” (Joel 3:10)
Our strength and hope is in the Lord, but we have to get our tongue wagging in the right direction. When you get a horse to go in the right direction you use reins, when you have a boat you use a rudder. In a Christian’s life it’s our tongue.
If you master your tongue to say God’s word, you are moving your ship (life) in the right direction and James said you can master the whole body.
When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. James 3:3-8
Jesus gave us the example of cursing the fig tree and he also said if you “say” to this mountain be moved and cast in the sea, and do not doubt, it will be done for you. We know God spoke creation into existence. Jesus was the word that became flesh (John 1:14) so when we speak God’s word, we are actually speaking flesh or physical matter like God did. It says that God’s word will not return powerless or void. (Isaiah 55:11) The enemy does not want us to speak the word, because he knows how powerful it is and I believe we need to say it out of our mouth because our ears needs to “hear us say it” to really believe it to come to pass in our life. Thinking God’s word is not enough. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so we need to say God’s word out of our own mouth. (Romans 10:17)
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