31/10/2010 - THE POWER OF INTERCESSION

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And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. (Job 42:10)

The story of Job is one example of the restoration that God can do in people’s lives. The ordeal that servant of the Lord went through was never suffered by anyone else. Because he wasn’t illumined enough, he ended up sinning but in the end, in an act of compassion while pleading for his friends, he was healed by the Most High, who gave him twice as much as the enemy had taken away from him.

All the fury of the devil was discharged in Job: he lost his children, his property, his health and if he had heard his wife, he would have lost his salvation too. Apparently, he was an example that it was useless to be righteous, blameless and upright, but he proved just the opposite – and that is what everyone who has the divine seed must do.

In his distress, that patriarch contended by faith and won. Job’s fight is a lesson that teaches us how worth it is to trust in the Almighty; after all, He knows everything and rescues those who trust in Him. We can say that Job came to the depths of suffering, but his cure proves that there is no lost cause to God; even the fools can be freed.

The truth is that if the Lord could not recover the outcasts, He would not be God, so He gave us the ministry of reconciliation (II Corinthians 5:18-19). Therefore, there is cure for everyone, even for the lost ones. However, he who remains under the action of the evil one is not in his right mind; he is actually dominated by the enemy and is strong enough to prevent anyone of keeping him under control.

If someone cannot overcome the Satanic onslaught against holiness, health and other rights they have in the Lord, it means they have no faith in the Almighty – because faith that comes from God is part of Him and therefore He is able to rescue anyone who has fallen in the thickest and filthiest cesspool of sin.

The divine glory turns people into new creations, because everyone who is born of God overcomes the world. So brethren, fight and win, because he who does so proves that his heart truly belongs to the Father; on the other hand, he who quits declares his love for the enemy.

This is a personal word of the Lord to you: Be strong and go back home right now. Your place is with Him who created heaven and earth – and not by the destroyer’s side. The Almighty is ready to welcome you right now.

In Christ with love,

R. R. Soares