When No One is Listening...

Based on Job 17-19, Acts 10:1-23

"And though after my skin worms destroy this body, Yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, And mine eyes shall behold, and not another; Though my reins be consumed within me."

Job 19:26‭-‬27

As we've gone through the readings of Job, he continues to realize that his friends are really not helping him. They are not listening to him, they are just speaking whatever they think is right (remember, right vs. righteous!). When we come to this place, where we feel we have no one to turn to, God is there! And even when we have reliable & trustworthy friends, God should still be our first go-to! Job truly held onto God the whole way through, even though sometimes he was a little stronger than other times. No matter if skin worms destroyed him or the words of his friends, he knew he would one day see God! When Cornelius thought he was an outsider, a Gentile and not a Jew, someone who would not fit in with the other believers, God heard his prayers! Cornelius believed in God and prayed anyway!

"a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God." Acts 10:2‭-‬4

God then connected him & his household with Peter, and they were all saved through the Acts 2:38 plan of repentance, water baptism in Jesus' Name & receiving the Holy Ghost! God listened, and brought him people who would listen & help him in his next steps of faith! So, even when it seems like no one is listening, pray! God is listening. He hears you. He will direct you & connect you with those who will be a positive Spiritual influence upon your life!