May 29, 2019
Job 42:7-9
 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.  So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”  So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
New International Version (NIV)
                 One thing is sure:  more people talk about prayer than actually pray.  We tell people we will pray for them.  Do we?  How should we practice interceding for others?  What should we ask?

                After God had Job’s undivided attention, he sought and found Job’s “friends.”  Recall that Job’s friends were at their best when they said nothing.  Only when they started talking did they offend so greatly.

                Now God is talking.  He corrected Job's first three friends and then made a strange promise:  Job will pray for you and I will accept his prayer for you.  If you were Job, wouldn’t you have been tempted to say, “Lord let them dangle for a little while...”?  The friends made their offering to God.  Job prayed and God restored Job’s life.

                George Buttrick said we should start our intercession each day, praying for our enemies, saying something like this, “Lord bless                           , whom I have foolishly regarded as an enemy".  One way to respond to our frenemies is to pray for them.  Often.  Somehow when we pray for those who offend us, we are the ones who find our lives restored.  God’s arithmetic!
Pray with me:    
Father, bless those whom we have foolishly regarded as our enemies.  Restore them.  Restore us.  How we thank you for your work of restoration.  Nobody does it better.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.  
This year our Every Day with Jesus readings will follow The Bible Project Read Scripture Plan.  Copies of this reading plan are available at Tallowood Baptist Church, or download 
the app at readscripture.org.  Read through the Bible with us in 2019!
Joyfully, 
Duane 
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