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Jul Devotion: The Works of the Devil

Job 16:1-14 – “Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Job: Chapters 1 and 2 – Satan

1. His Dominating power – Chapter 1:6

2. His Desired plot – Job 1:7, 2:2

3. His Discovered perception – Job 1:9-10

4. His Desiring plan – Job 1:11, 2:4

5. His Definite perimeter – Job 1:12,2:6

6. His Disturbing performance – Job 1:13-19, 2:7-8

Some Things the Devil uses to work on us. Chapter 16

I. Seeks to separate us from good company – Job 16:7

II. Seeks to disfigure us – Job 16:8

III. Seeks to bring leanness to your life and soul- Job 16:8

IV. Seeks to take advantage of us in our helplessness -Job 16:9-10

V. Seeks to break us asunder and into pieces – Job 16:12

VI. Seeks to gang up on us – Job 16:13

VII. Seeks to overtake us powerfully – Job 16:14

Our Defense

1. Praise Him – Job 1:20,21

2. Perform right – Job 1:22,2:9-10

3. Put trust in God – Job 13:15

4. Persistence in maintaining ways – Job 23:8-12

5. Praise Him More – Job 42:12

Note- I Peter 5:8,9, James 4:7, Amos 3: 12,13

-Bro. Mike Goodson

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