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Then Job answered the Lord and said, "I know that you can do everything and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you. I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Job 42:1-2, 5 (New King James Version) These powerful passages of scripture are often lost within the spontaneous celebration that takes place in Job 42:10 when we discover that after all that Job went through, that God gave him twice as much as he had before. Some often sermonize this passage to say that Job received double for his trouble. Yet, the revelation that Job received in our devotional passages overshadows in comparison, the double fold blessing. Through trial, trouble, and tragedy, Job discovered something about God that no one else could have ever revealed to him. He had come to know God through his own personal experience with Him. It has often been said that a man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion. Job had been subjected to the thoughts and opinions of others including his so-called friends. They gave Job all the reasons why he was going through what he was going through and even his wife in a moment of human despair, concluded that he should just curse God and die. What if Job had listened and acquiesced? Suppose his friends were able to convince him that he had indeed erred and therefore deserved everything that was happening to him? There could have even been the slightest possibility that Job could have settled for less by making everyone else's experience his own. Yet and still, there is something about knowing God for yourself. It is the experience of a lifetime and one that can never ever be taken from you. Beginning with Job chapter 38 through 41, God silences the opinions of Job's friends by answering Job out of a whirlwind. At the end of God's discourse Job sees his relationship with God from a totally different perspective. He now concludes that God was sovereign and that He could do everything. What a revelation that transcends all human comprehension. We must be careful not to ride the coat tails of someone else's experience with God. While it may encourage us, inspire us, and uplift us; it can never take the place of knowing God personally and experiencing Him for yourself. Job's personal revelation of God helped to deliver his friends. "For I will accept him lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of me what is right as my servant Job has." Job 42:8b (NKJV)

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“Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one which I rode. Nehemiah 2:12 (NKJV) God has a purpose and plan for your life. It takes it shape in the form of your vision and assignment from God. No one else has the exact same call or mandate. No one else can do what God has called you to fulfill. No one can. “For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarry wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV) But you must be keenly aware of those who may not have your best interests at heart. Sure, we don’t want to believe that this is true, but it is. Vision killers are lurking about unaware. Often within very close proximity to where we abide. It was no different with the Prophet Nehemiah during the return of the children of Israel from Babylonian captivity. Their return has been met with devastation and despair. The walls of Jerusalem have been destroyed. The gates are on fire. Nehemiah is in great mourning and travail from what he has heard regarding the condition of the city. “So it was when I heard these words that I sat down and wept and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” Nehemiah 1:4 (NKJV) The stage was set. Now all that would be required is that Nehemiah follow the plan of God to fulfill his purpose. And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” Nehemiah 2:5 (NKJV) As with any assignment from God that results in our purpose and vision being fulfilled, it does not come without opposition and resistance. Often from “secret enemies.” Many will even encourage you, smile in your face, and some even have the audacity to tell you that they are praying for you. Do not be deceived and most importantly always remember that you cannot always tell everything that God has placed in your heart and what He has called you to do. The plan of God for your life cannot be stopped or invalidated. Not by mere men with clandestine and ulterior motives. You cannot be defeated.

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