"Do not say, 'Why were the old days better than these?' For it is not wise to ask such questions." (Ecc. 7:10)
It's not wise to say, "Why were the old days better than these?" because God's own personality designs life so that the best is almost always YET TO COME. Even the universe is known by science to continually expand. That is just like God...always bigger and better.
And with that in mind, read this word through Edie Bayer about your end ALSO BEING SWEETER THAN YOUR BEGINNING! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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The Lord is speaking! I prophesy over you today, and please take it to heart: Your end is sweeter than your beginning. You have survived the storms of life to get to where you are now, and your next season is so much better than anything you have ever imagined!
The Lord sent me to Job 42 the other morning, and immediately started talking. The very first paragraph states that God can do all things, and that NO PLAN of His can be thwarted. Do you hear that? NO PLAN! God has not changed His mind about you! The prophecy will still come to pass.
"I know that You can do all things, and that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained or thwarted." (Job 42:2 AMPC)
There are multiple examples of this throughout the Bible, but God has a purpose by speaking to us through Job in this hour:
What God Is Speaking to Us Through Job
• He is loosing you from the fetters and snares that have held you back and held you bound, and He is giving you double for your trouble. "And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before" (Job 42:10).
• The prodigals in your family are returning! Not just to you, but to Jesus! These former runaways, backsliders and rebels will fellowship with you and do great exploits for the Kingdom of God. Job's family and friends returned to him also: "Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house" (Job 42:11a). (Photo via Piqsels)
• God is restoring all your financial losses! You will receive income into your bosom, multiplied, shaken together and pressed down. Showers of blessings will fall upon you. "And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold" (Job 42:11b).
• The Lord is blessing YOUR latter days more than anything that you have seen to date! Pay attention to all these zeros! Get used to seeing them at the end of numbers connected to you! You will be 1,000 times more than you are today (Deuteronomy 1:11)! "And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys" (Job 42:12).
• The storms are ending and you are passing the tests! God gave Job 10 more children – 7 sons and 3 daughters (Job 42:13). The number 10 by itself symbolizes completion of a cycle. The number 7 also symbolizes completion and perfection: IT IS FINISHED! Totally over! The subtraction and division are over...God is multiplying you now. The number 3 represents new life and fruitfulness.
The Daughters of Job
Now, in understanding that women back then were treated as second class citizens, here is the awesome part: the boys were not named, but the girls were. Not only that, Job gave the girls an inheritance with their brothers. Considering the way that women were treated at that time, this is amazing!
God is obviously speaking...and what He is saying is contained in the names of Job's daughters. Their names were Jemimah, Keziah and Keren-happuch.
"And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers." (Job 42:14-15)
God likes to hide meanings in names. I researched the names of these three girls and what I found was that Job told his life story – and subsequently yours – through them. (Photo via Pikist)
Job's first daughter's name, Jemimah, is understood to mean "dove"; this word in Hebrew is YONAH. It is also the root word for JONAH. Interestingly, the word Jemimah, when written in Hebrew, looks, in part, like the word for SEA. We all know what happened to Jonah and the sea. He survived the storms by the grace of God and went on to finish the purpose that God had assigned to his life – and so will you.
But wait, there's more! Keziah, his second daughter's name, means "cassia" – a sweet smelling powder scraped off the bark of a tree.
Keren-happuch, his third girl's name, means "horn of antimony." Antimony was a black powder used for eye makeup. It also means "beautifier," which is why women used it: to be made beautiful.
Putting this all together, God is speaking, and I prophesy: Your end will be more beautiful and sweeter than your beginning! Job told the story of his life in the names of his three daughters. He survived the turmoil and storms, and his end would be more beautiful and a sweeter-smelling fragrance than his beginning. God has spoken this over you, too. This IS the story of your life!
Not only that, God gave Job many, many years to enjoy his new life (Job 42:16)! I prophesy the same over you – that you will have many, many years of joy and prosperity in your new, sweeter end.
Happy New You! Here's to a new vision made more beautiful and fragrant, more sweet smelling than ever before.
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Edie Bayer
Kingdom Promoters
Email: Edie@KingdomPromoters.org
Website: www.KingdomPromoters.org
Edie Bayer is co-founder of Kingdom Promoters along with her husband Darryl Bayer. Edie Bayer ministers as a prophetic preacher and is an author, a speaker, and traveling minister. Edie's primary call is to promote others that are ministering in the Kingdom of God, creating unity instead of a spirit of competition. Edie believes that we are to "complete and not compete!" Edie works diligently to create public and private events and invite other ministers to speak at them, helping to promote them and gain public exposure both for them and their ministries. Edie and Darryl reside on a small homestead north of the Houston area. They raise chickens, ducks, rabbits, and have two cats. Edie has two children and three grandchildren.
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