Prayer Watch Bible Studies: Week 31, July 29

Sunday, July 29, Job 1 - 3, Acts 21

How does Job 1:1 describe Job's character?
What was Job's initial reaction to all the bad news in chapter 1?
Why would Job's wife recommend in Job 2:9, "Curse God and die!"?
For a week Job's friends sat with him and didn't say anything. Is there any value in comforting people just by being with them?
In Job 3:20, Job wonders why life is given to those who are "bitter of soul." What hope would you offer to someone whose circumstances are very difficult?
In Acts 21, why did Paul continue his trip to Jerusalem when he had people urging him not to go there?
Why was Paul arrested by the Romans in Acts 21?

Monday, July 30, Job 4 - 6, Psalm 86

Eliphaz tells Job in 4:6, "Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?" Was this good advice?
Eliphaz says in Job 5:8, "But if I were you, I would appeal to God." Was this good advice?
What does Job say in 6:9 that he would like God to do for him?
Why does Job say in 6:28, "be so kind as to look at me"? Are there suffering people you know who feel like no one is really looking at them?
In Psalm 86:11 David prays, "give me an undivided heart." What do you need to do to have an undivided heart?

Tuesday, July 31, Job 7 - 9, Acts 22

Why does Job say in Job 7:16, "Let me alone; my days have no meaning"?
In Job 8:5-6 Bildad said, "But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty, if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state." This seems like reasonable advice. What was Bildad missing?
In Job 9, Job says that God is too wise and too powerful for a mere mortal to appeal to Him. Job cries out for a mediator in verse 33 saying, "If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together." How has our need for a mediator been answered?
What did Paul say in Acts 22 that caused the crowd to quit listening and start shouting?

Wednesday, August 1, Job 10 - 12, Psalm 87

Job prays in 10:8, "Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?" Since God made you, what should your attitude be toward your life?
In chapter 11 Zophar told Job, "if you put away the sin that is in your hand" (verse 14) "You will surely forget your trouble." (verse 16). Zophar believed that Job's problems were his fault because of sin. What is wrong with assuming that someone in trouble has caused it themselves?
Job says in 12:13, "To God belong wisdom and power." How does knowing that God has all wisdom and power impact the way you face challenges?
Why does Psalm 87 speak of recording far away places saying, "This one was born in Zion"?

Thursday, August 2, Job 13 - 15, Acts 23

In Job 13:15 Job says, "Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him." What outcome did Job expect from the trial he was going through?
Job said, "If someone dies, will they live again?" (Job 14:14) Did he have the hope of eternal life?
In Job 15:4, Eliphaz escalated his attack on Job by saying, "you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God." Why did he say this?
What did Paul say in Acts 23 that started a dispute between the Pharisees and the Sadducees in the Sanhedrin?
What did God say to Paul to encourage him in Acts 23:11?
Why did the Romans move Paul to Caesarea at night?

Friday, August 3 Job 16 - 18, Psalm 88

Why does Job call his friends "miserable comforters" in Job 16:2?
Why does Job say, "come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you"? (17:10)
Job, chapter 18, has Bildad explaining that bad things happen to bad people. He was assuming that Job must have been bad for bad things to have come upon him. Why did Bildad believe this?
Psalm 88 was written in a time of great trouble, but verse 9 says, "I call to you, Lord, every day; I spread out my hands to you." How should you pray when life is difficult?,

Saturday, August 4, Job 19 - 21, Acts 24

In Job 19:21 Job asks his friends for pity rather than criticism. Why were they motivated to accuse him?
In Job, chapter 20, Zophar elaborates on his belief that bad things happen to bad people and concludes by saying in verse 29, "Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God." Why were Job's friends so persistent in their accusations?
In Job 21:13-15, Job speaks of people who spend their years in prosperity but have no interest in God. What conclusion does he draw about such people?
Why did Felix have Paul stop talking in Acts 24:25?

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