{"id":75782,"date":"2019-11-07T04:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=75782"},"modified":"2019-11-04T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:45:38","slug":"5-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/5-e\/","title":{"rendered":"5.e.    &#8220;For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"verseid:18.9.15\"><b>Job 9:15<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:11.8.38\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>1 Kings 8:38-39<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,\u00a0\u00a0then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:46.4.4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>1 Corinthians 4:4<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:24.31.9\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Jeremiah 31:9<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:27.9.3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Daniel 9:3<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:27.9.18\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Daniel 9:18<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Job examined his life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He has lost his family, his flocks, and his body is being attacked with boils and sores.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In this calamity, he examines his life and proclaims \u201cI am in the right\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He is not saying he has done nothing wrong but that he has not done something to deserve all of this happening in his life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He has lived knowing that God is a rewarder of those who seek Him and live humbly before Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Humanly we can understand what he is saying because from the worldly view it does not seem fair or right.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We see what has happened and think what has happened to Job does not seem to be in line with the way he lived.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Justice does not seemed to have been awarded fairly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Does God ever make a mistake? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Is He ever unjust?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Does He ever do wrong?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Is there anything in all of creation that is not under His control?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In our trials and troubles, God may seem far away but He is ever-present.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In our trials and troubles, God may seem not in control but He is all-powerful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In our trials and troubles, it may seem God is unaware but He is all-knowing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In trials and troubles, God does not change and has not changed and will not change.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Though we do not understand we can trust Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We can seek His mercy and know that His perfect will is being done, His perfect plans are being carried out, and His purpose will be for the good of those called according to His purpose.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In times of chaos, cling to Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In times of trials and troubles, trust Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In times of loneliness, know He loves you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In times of sickness, seek the Great Physician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job 9:15\u00a0\u00a0Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. 1 Kings 8:38-39\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,\u00a0\u00a0then hear in heaven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/5-e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5.e.    &#8220;For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4388,12184,296,4440,4723,12188,12179,12183,12191,448,12180,180,4,12187,12192,4936,12185,7955,84,12193,3644,2195,125,12181,121,11799,12189,1447,12190,12186,12182,12194],"class_list":["post-75782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-accuser","tag-acquitted","tag-affliction","tag-appeal","tag-aware","tag-brooks-of-water","tag-cannot-answer-him","tag-children-of-mankind","tag-fasting-and-sackcloth-and-ashes","tag-father","tag-forgive-and-act","tag-hear","tag-heart","tag-i-will-lead-them-back","tag-incline-your-ear-and-hear","tag-israel","tag-it-is-the-lord-who-judges-me","tag-job","tag-mercy","tag-open-your-eyes-and-see","tag-plea","tag-pleas-for-mercy","tag-prayer","tag-render-to-each","tag-righteousness","tag-seeking-him","tag-straight-path","tag-stumble","tag-turned-my-face-to-god","tag-weeping-they-shall-come","tag-whose-heart-you-know","tag-your-great-mercy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75850,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75782\/revisions\/75850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}