Spoken With Love: Week 3 Day 6

Job 42:7 – 17 

After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.

We have come to the end where Job got what he seemingly earned because of his faith; happy ending! Did you happen to catch, however, the thing that Job had to do first? God told Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar that they had to have Job pray for them.

What is amazing is that Job, not knowing that God would rain down blessings on him, unhesitatingly prayed for these men who had treated him like they weren’t his friends, but a jury, ready to pronounce him guilty. But Job, true to his character, was humble, obedient, and kind, and prayed for his friends. AND THEN God poured out His blessings upon Job! 

Is there someone that God has laid on your heart that you need to pray for? Someone you don’t want to pray for, but you feel that “nudge” from God to do so? There may not be heaps of blessings poured out on you, but maybe, just maybe, God will give you peace where and when you need it most. Do it now, pray for them, and find your peace!