Job 16 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Job 16.  Job is speaking.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/job/16/1/s_452001

Meditate on verses 1-2 and 19.

 

Then Job answered, I have heard many such

 things; sorry comforters are you all.

Even now, behold, my witness is in

heaven, and my advocate is on high.

 

Job is fed up with his friends; they have done nothing to comfort him, but he has an advocate and a comforter, and so do you.

 

My little children, I am writing these things

to you so that you may not sin.

And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate

with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

—1 John 2:1

 

Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD

 Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies

and God of all comfort, who comforts

 us in all our affliction so that we

will be able to comfort those who

are in any affliction with the comfort

with which we ourselves are comforted by

God.  For just as the sufferings of Christ

are ours in abundance, so also our

 comfort is abundant through Christ.

—2 Corinthians 1:3-5

 

Perhaps you are in a difficult situation, and friends have let you down.  Pour out your heart to God and let Him comfort you.  As you experience His comfort, extend it to others.

 

Use Job’s words from verses 7, 11, and 19 to tell the LORD how you really feel as His faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, I’m exhausted, and I feel like You have handed

me over to ruffians and tossed me into the hands of the wicked.

LORD, I need Your help! 

You are my Witness and my Advocate.

You are Jesus, the Righteous,

In whose name I pray~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell