Whatcha Grubbin On?

Job 3:1-26

1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

2 And Job spoke, and said:

3 “May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said,’A male child is conceived.’

4 May that day be darkness; May God above not seek it, Nor the light shine upon it.

5 May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months.

7 Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it!

8 May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan. 9 May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day;

10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

14 With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves,

15 Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver;

16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light? 17 There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest.

18 There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there, And the servant is free from his master.

20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul,

21 Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures;

22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

24 For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like water.

25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me.

26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes.”

 

 

Radio Station Contest

• Listeners would call in and tell what they had eaten that day
• Diverse culture and ethnic foods
• Produced some strange combinations
• Catch phrase “Whatcha grubbin on?”

 

What we put into our minds and hearts will be what comes out of our mouth!!!

 

Over 75 times the Bible tells us to fear not!

 

What are you afraid of?

 

John 6:63 (MSG)

The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don’t make anything happen. Every word I’ve spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life making.

 

John 6:63 (KJV)

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

 

The Bible clearly states the there is power in the spoken word!

 

Mark 11:23 (KJV)

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

 

 

Matthew 7:7 (KJV)

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

 

What comes out can only come from what you put in!

 

Whatcha Grubbin On?

• Friends
• Media
• Relationships
• Reading material
• Thoughts

 

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

 

• Satan cannot read our minds
• Temptation means to tempt
• We must make the decision to partake

 

• Liver & Onions
• Collard Greens
• Egg rolls

 

NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU EAT WHAT YOU CANNOT STAND!!!!!!

 

Job

• Negative for 25 verses
• That which I feared
• CAME
• It was not until Job had a heart/attitude change did his situation turn

 

 

 

2 Tim. 1:7 (KJV)

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Our world surrounds itself with fear

• Insurance
• Lawsuits
• Health concerns
• Commute
• Living

 

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE THIS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

2 Corinthians 10:3-8 (MSG)

3 The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will.

4 The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture.

5 We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ.

6 Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.

7 You stare and stare at the obvious, but you can’t see the forest for the trees. If you’re looking for a clear example of someone on Christ’s side, why do you so quickly cut me out? Believe me, I am quite sure of my standing with Christ.

8 You may think I overstate the authority he gave me, but I’m not backing off. Every bit of my commitment is for the purpose of building you up, after all, not tearing you down.

 

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT!!!

 

Romans 8:35-39 (MSG)

35 Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

36 They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

37 None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us.

38 I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow,

39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

 

Paul was stating what he already believed in his heart.

 

• SPEAK FAITH!
• SPEAK POSITIVE!
• SPEAK YOUR VICTORY!

 

• SAY TO YOUR MOUNTAIN!!!

 

Numbers 13:33 (KJV)

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

 

Israel wandered for 40 years because of how they spoke defeat!

 

• 2 times Jesus showed emotion
• 1-rejoicing over sinners repenting
• 2-weeping

 

Why did Jesus weep in John 11?

• Lazarus’s death?
• He got there to late?

 

NO!!!

 

Because what they thought in the heart, came out of their mouth.

 

• “If you would have been here”
• “We don’t need a miracle later, but rather now”
• “No use in going the graveyard, he stinks by now”
• Because of their unbelief
• He Wept

 

Can we speak positive today, and the miracles happen now?

 

YES, But…

 

• Repentance is necessary
• Turning from the direction that we are going
• Speaking miracles is essential
• Attitude shift