Powerful First Responses to the Trials of Life!

1. Job Worshipped: Because that’s What Worshippers Do! Job 1 and 2

What God Said about Job: 1,8
How God Blessed Job:
What Satan Sand About Job: 9-12

Job 1:20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and he fell to the ground and worshiped! 21 And He said, Naked I came for my mother’s womb and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord!

¬ He Worshipped
¬ He Blessed the Name of the Lord
¬ He did not sin! He persevered
¬ He did not Blame the Lord!

Satan Smites Job with Boils.

What God Says About Job: 2:1-3
What Satan Says About Job: 2:5
What Job’s Wife Says:

Job 2:9 “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

What Job Says to His Wife: 2:10

In all this Job did not sin with his lips

Job Always Knew His Redeemer Lives!

Job 19:23 Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were in scribed in a book. 24 That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! 25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last H will take His stand on the earth. 26 Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I will see God! 27 Whom I myself shall behold and whom my eyes ill see and not another.

Job Knew His Future!

Job 23:10 But He knows the way I take. When He has tried me, I shall come forth as Gold!

Job 42:10-17 – The LORD blessed the Latter days of Jobmore than his beginning.

James 5:11 We Count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

2. James Considered it All Joy! James 1:2-4
James Knew: What God would Do Through Trials.

3. Paul & Silas Praised the Lord with Songs of Praise! Acts 16:22-34

Paul and Silas Knew: That Praise, Worship, the Joy of the Lord would produce supernatural results.
4. Jesus Prayed: Father, Glorify Your Name!

John 12:27-28 “Father, Glorify Your Name!” And God said, “I have both glorified and will glorify it again.”

Jesus Knew! Hebrews 12:1-3