“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Job 29:2 WEB
today’s when God watches over us the
days when God watches over us you
remember do you remember the days when
God watches over us every person
everyone all all have been in those days
when God watched over you when you felt
like God was watching over you when
everything you said had an ear to it
when people were interested and listened
when everything you did went according
to God’s plan for your life I hear a lot
of people saying yeah but then in those
days God was with me I could hear the
Lord so clearly I could do this and I
could do that read the book of Job not
from your understanding but from what
God is saying God is saying that every
person goes through the same thing every
person goes through the same thing and
what is that thing what is that thing
well the enemy comes and says yeah but
things are only going well with them
because they say they love you is it for
no purpose that they say that take away
your hand from over him stop watching
over him over her let me get my hand on
them and you will see how they turn and
curse you
and the enemy gets his way a lot of
times a lot of times when things start
going wrong people just turn away from
god oh god doesn’t exist
I believed that then but so much bad
things happen to me that I well I just
turn away but God had faith in you God
had faith in you God said to the enemy
yeah well I know who that one is I know
how I created them I know they are able
to stand but the world is a hard place
and if you just take your attention away
from the Spirit for a moment and focus
on what is happening to you in the flesh
you will fall but job job is not just
over some people say no but that doesn’t
apply here that doesn’t apply to you
let’s apply to me because we are not
like Joe perfect you forget one thing
everything that God created is perfect
after creation he took that day off
looked at everything and said it was
good it is good
remember that Joe was just the natural
state of man that’s all it was
and so the enemy comes with a plan to
bring you down just like you did with
Adam and Eve and people fall for it but
remember job 29 the days when God
watched over me those were the good days
job 29 verse 2 job 29 verse 2 o that I
were as in the months of old as in the
days when God watched over me when his
lamp shone on my head and by his light I
walked through darkness as I was in the
ripeness of my days when the friendship
of God was in my tent when the almighty
was yet with me and my children were
around me when my steps were washed with
butter and a rock poured out streams of
oil for me when I went out to the city
gate when I prepared my seat in the
streets when everyone listened when I
had respect when I had all my wealth and
all my children were with me oh that I
whereas in the months of old as in the
days when God watched over and the
inclination of the righteous is that
when things go bad they remind
themselves of when things was good when
things were going good when God watched
over them be like job no matter how long
how bad things get
remember job losses children his cattle
everything his money his wife told him
curse God and die
that’s how wretched wretched his life
had become curse God and die just just
do it
but he remembered and he said oh that I
were as in the months of old as in the
days when God watched over remind
yourself of what God has been doing in
your life what God has done for you how
he loved you how he brought you up
remember remember remember what God did
for you
how he did it for you how he loved you
cared for you give you everything you
had everything you just had a thought
and did it remember remember those days
remember remember and whenever the world
is telling you hey look at your
situation now remember how your
situation was how your situation was in
those days remember how it was don’t
drown yourself in self-pity the way to
keep up hope and faith is by reminding
yourselves of what God has done of who
he is
remember when Paul was in Chains in the
basement of the jail what he did
they sang hymns they sang hymns blessed
be your Lord blessed be your Lord your
reply to everything to every accusation
is oh that I was as when God watched
over me blessed be the Lord for the
intent of the world is not to well it is
to destroy you but the only way they can
destroy you is if you turn away from God
that’s the only way even if they put you
apart ignore you even if they authorize
you if they intimidate you whatever they
do as long as you don’t give up God they
cannot destroy you
they can’t bless it be your Lord and all
he has taught us through all of his word
job is not just of someone perfect now
everyone was created in the image of God
in your soul
everyone is job those who say no no no
they are looking at things in a worldly
way they are looking at what they see
with their lying eyes sometimes we look
at things with our lying eyes and we
need to learn to see things with our
soul through the eyes of God and so God
after blessing you after helping you on
your way he sits back and looks at what
you will do with all that grease that
you have received what will you do with
it
will you hold on to it will you run your
race will you let the world bring you
down take you out of God is that what
you will do already hold on and
sometimes it is time for something new
but in core hold on to God for God does
not change maybe you have to do
something new but the doctrine is the
same bless it be your Lord in Jesus
mighty name amen
so Lord let us do our reading let us do
our reading Lord give us your words
speak with your voice speak unto the
hearts of those who are under the power
of your voice in Jesus mighty name amen
job 29 job Joby I speak many languages I
mix up the pronunciations that’s why I
say to everyone read along reader a
version that you understand read along
read your Bible read the Word of God Joe
be 29 verse 1 Joe be again took up his
parable and said oh that I were as in
the mounts of old as in the days when
God watched over me when his lamp shone
on my head and by his light I walked
through darkness as I was in the
ripeness of my days when the friendship
of God was in my tent
when the almighty was yet with me and my
children were around me when my steps
were washed with butter and a rock
poured out streams of oil for me when I
went out to the city gate when I
prepared my seat in the street the young
man saw me and hid themselves the aged
rose up and stood the princes refrained
from talking and laid their hand on
their mouths the voice of the nobles
washe was hushed and their tongue stuck
to the roof of their mouth for when the
ear heard me
then it blessed me and when the I saw me
it commanded me because I delivered the
poor who cried and the fatherless also
who had no one to help him the blessing
of him who was ready to perish came on
me and I caused the widow’s heart to
sing for joy listened to the Word of God
hear his blessing all that honor all
that glory came because he delivered the
poor who cried and fatherless also who
had no one to help him the work of the
true Christian and then the blessing of
him who was ready to perish came on me
there is no greater blessing from men
than the blessing from one who has
nothing I mean not only nothing the poor
the poor in goods the poor in spirit
those who are ready to die the blessing
of him who was ready to perish came on
me
and the widow who has no reason for joy
her heart sang out in joy blessed be
your Lord may we all be able to deliver
the poor and the fatherless
so that we may have their blessing for
their blessing is only a blessing in the
spirit they have no goods to bless you
with they made a widow who has lost her
reason for joy may her heart sing for
joy when she sees you
Jovie 29 verse 14 I put on righteousness
and it clothed me my justice
was as a robe and a diadem I was eyes to
the blind and feet to the lame I was a
father to the needy the cause of him who
I didn’t know who I didn’t know this is
the thing even the enemies even the
Devils help one another love one another
the thing is love the one you don’t know
love the one who loves who looks
wretched and poor and who seems unable
to do anything bad
I was a father to the needy the cause of
him who I didn’t know I searched out I
broke the jaws of the unrighteous and
plucked the prey out of his teeth then I
said I shall die in my own house I shall
count my days as the sand my route is
spread out to the waters that you lies
all night on my branch my glory is fresh
in me my bow is renewed in my hand
men listen to me waited and kept silence
for my counsel after my words they
didn’t speak again my speech fell on
them they waited for me as for the ring
their mouth drank as with the spring
ring I smiled on them when they had no
confidence they didn’t reject the light
of my face
I chose out their way and sat as chief I
lived as a king in the army as one who
comforts the mourners blessed be your
Lord blessed be your Lord Oh
that we were again as then that we may
always be aware of the days when God
watches over us that all our days God
may watch over us in Jesus mighty name
amen
blessed be our Lord amen
