Satan's Will For Your Life Series

The fact is we never stand alone. We either stand with the crowds or stand beside Christ. Jesus said, ‘Lo I am with you always’ but that was under the assumption that our lives were living out the Great Commission.

9 Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 "Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

There were two who knew Job better than he knew himself. There are two who know us better than we know ourselves. One is God. The other is Satan.

Satan knew Job very well. He knew where all Job’s hedges were and how strong they were. He knew how much God had blessed him.

Satan knew he had no chance with Job unless God gave him permission.

Although Satan knows us better than we know ourselves he still does not know us better than God knows us. Satan thought he knew what would work with Job.

11 "But put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will surely curse You to Your face."

Satan has some ideas of how to make us fall. He underestimated Job but rarely is he wrong with most others and he has found out that it takes much less than what he used on Job to get many to abandon God’s will in their lives.

For many people Satan does not have to touch ‘all that they have’ but just ‘ANYTHING THAT THEY HAVE’ to make them angry at God.

I remember years ago when we were living in Tulsa, OK. Our house was right on a turn so that if we left our garage open a person turning could see inside of it. Whenever I would go golfing I would put my clubs in my trunk and then when I returned would take them out and put them in the corner of my garage. In their special place. One day when I was about to go golfing I went to my golf altar, (I mean the place I put my clubs), and they were gone. Somebody had stolen my golf clubs. It must have been Satan behind it because God would never have had a problem with my golf addiction.

Do you think that any of the ‘all that you have’, if messed with or taken, would make you angry with God? Satan probably thinks it will. Your phone, computer, car, house, boat, day off? clothes? health? finances?

God did not allow Satan to touch any one thing but God left the decision to Satan about what he would touch.

12 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, ALL that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him." So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD.

Satan attacked four areas of Job’s life: Family, Finances, Fitness and Friends.

Job’s testing not only showed that God was right about Job’s character and godliness but it also made evident:

1) What God thought of Job’s rebellious children: They had made life choices that left them vulnerable to Satan’s attack and the day came that it happened.

2) Job’s wife: While Job refused to curse God his wife was more than ready to. What Satan did to Job also affected her family and finances as well.