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40 Days in the Desert
by Ricky Jones
Jesus spent 40 days in the desert in prayer and fasting. It was rough, but it was life-changing. Now it’s your turn. We’ll be going through a chapter each day of the Book of Job and exploring the power of redemptive suffering and see how the struggles of life make us into saints!
Episodes
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Day 18 - The Anger Effect
Have you ever been hurt by someone? If not, you are a rare creature! Most of us have been hurt plenty of times by others. And I think one of the most common ways of dealing with that hurt is anger. Some people will hold on to a grudge, with feelings of resentment causing a foul taste in your…
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Day 17 - Holding On
I remember having a conversation with an old friend and explaining to him what I had been up to and how I was running my own business. I said, "thank God!" showing gratitude to the fact that God had blessed me and been with me throughout the journey. He seemed agitated that I would give God all…
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Day 15 - Do You Know Better than God?
We explain the truth of the infinite wisdom as God as His omniscience. Basically it means that we believe that God knows all things. If that is the case then we must also admit our own limited knowledge. Only the mind of God could conceive of all that exists in the created universe. Yet sometimes...
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Day 14 - Worth the Wait
Trees are pretty resilient. If you cut off their branches they will grow back in time. Some trees will even sprout again after being cut down completely. On the other hand, human life is short and death if final. And that's the message we here from Job in today's reading. "But when a man dies…
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Day 12 - Swimming Upstream
Rivers flow downhill. That's a fact. It's just the way water works. They start at the top of mountains winding there way down to the valleys and eventually emptying themselves into the ocean. It is an actual sport to sit on an inflatable raft and let the current take you where it wills. And the...
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Day 13 - Show Me My Sins
Our faults are something we tend to keep hidden. We don't broadcast to the world when we've failed or fallen short of our goals. And when we sin, we keep it secret for as long as we can. But in today's reading Job says something significant about sin. "What are my faults and my sins? My misdeed…
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Day 11 - Lift Up Your Face
Have you ever heard that line "keep your head up"? It's what people will say to lift the spirits of someone who is feeling sad. Well that's sort of what Zophar, the third of Job's friends to speak, says in today's reading. "If iniquity is in your hand, remove it, and do not let injustice dwell in...
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Day 10 - You Hunt Me Like a Lion
We've heard Job tell God to basically give him some space. He feels the weight of God's presence. He feels pressured by God's rules. And in today's reading as Job continues his discourse with God he uses a rather strange analogy, comparing God's constant pursuit of him as being hunted. "You hunt…
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Day 9 - You Are NOT Worthy
Day 9 - You Are NOT Worthy by Ricky Jones
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Day 8 - The Death Question
Today's reading is the first response from the second of Job's friends. His name is Bildad and he too tries to help Job see both reason and through the eyes of faith. Again some of the things he tells Job are to challenge him, to get him out of this funk that he finds himself in and hopefully to...
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Day 7 - Slaves of God?
We've been listening to Job in his anguish for three days now. But today he directs his words directly at God about the brevity and harshness of life. "Is not life on earth a drudgery, its days like those of a hireling? Like a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for wages, So I…
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Day 6 - When "Friends" Fail Us
In our reading today Job continues in his reply to his friend Eliphaz. Even though the words of his friend were meant to encourage him to stay strong in the struggle, Job doesn't see it that way. He lashes out, clinging to his pain. When we are in the midst of the storm the darkness can seem to…
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Day 5 - Fatherly Discipline
"Happy the one whom God reproves! The Almighty’s discipline do not reject. For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands give healing." — JOB 5:17-18 Many people struggle with the idea of whether God punishes or not. This translation uses the word reprove, and I think to punish is a...
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Day 4 - When It Hits Home
Today we hear from the first of Job's friends. Now that he has had time to mourn his loss and lament his pain, his friends attempt to share some words of comfort and consolation. "Look, you have instructed many, and made firm their feeble hands. Your words have upheld the stumbler; you have...
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Day 2 - Skin in the Game
Today it gets personal. At this point Job it would seem that Job has already lost everything—his wealth, his livelihood, and his family. But Satan isn't done with him yet. There is another conversation between Satan and God, similar to the one we saw yesterday.
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Day 1 - Blameless and Upright
Today we meet Job. He is described as being "blameless and upright". He is a holy man who trusts in God. He's got a wonderful family, makes a great living, and starts off every day in prayer and making sacrifices to God. He is what we all strive to be, a living saint.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jesus spent 40 days in the desert in prayer and fasting. It was rough, but it was life-changing. Now it’s your turn. We’ll be going through a chapter each day of the Book of Job and exploring the power of redemptive suffering and see how the struggles of life make us into saints!
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Ricky Jones
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Jesus spent 40 days in the desert in prayer and fasting. It was rough, but it was life-changing. Now it’s your turn. We’ll be going through a chapter each day of the Book of Job and exploring the power of redemptive suffering and see how the struggles of life make us into saints!
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