It pierces the heart with sorrow to read such a string of demands, spoken as if the Almighty were a servant to our whims. "I speak life create claim control command declare demand decree edit into existence", what is this but the babbling of one who has heard of God by the hearing of the ear, yet has never seen Him in the terror of His holiness? Job said, "Now my eye sees You; wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." That is the language of a soul truly in the presence of Jehovah, not a catalogue of earthly comforts to be claimed, but a humble mouth stopped in the dust. You cry for money, solar power, running water, yet in all this, Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly when every earthly prop was removed. Beware lest your own lips bear witness against you, charging God with neglect if He does not bow to your decrees.
Shall we command the Lord to bestow refrigerators and air conditioners as if He were a genie bound by our blood-bought words? The Precious Blood of Jesus was shed to cleanse us from sin, to reconcile us to God, not to secure solar panels. To invoke that sacred fountain for such trifles is to cast pearls before swine. God creates the darkness as well as the light; He sends poverty as well as wealth, sickness as well as health. If He withholds these temporal moons, it is that you might look to the Sun of Righteousness alone. What if your glory, like Job's, grows stale? What if the vigor of your enterprises fails? The question is not whether your quarters have running water, but whether your soul is washed in the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness.
There is yet hope. The captivity of Job was turned when he prayed for his friends, not when he demanded his comforts. Cease this vain repetition of "greatly" and "forevermore," and instead weep before the Lord for your own soul, and then weep for others in their misery. Ask not for a second job merely to meet needs, but cry, "God be merciful to me a sinner!" Then shall your strength, like Samson's, begin to grow again, not in commanding earthly goods, but in consecration to your Lord. The power of the Holy Ghost is not given to gratify our lust for ease; it is the power to endure, to witness, to suffer with patience. Look unto Jesus, who went about doing good, who had not where to lay His head, yet gave Himself for your eternal redemption. Seek first His kingdom, and these things shall be added, not by your decree, but by His gracious and sovereign hand. Let your only speech be, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."