Welcome back.
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We've been talking about
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how to pray for
your spouse and marriage.
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And right now we're
praying through crisis
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and we're using 2
Chronicles Chapter 20
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as the pattern for prayer,
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with Jehoshaphat
and the Kingdom of Judah
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who was about to be
overrun by these three nations
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that are coming against him.
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And so far in the
prayer what we've had is,
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we pray first about God.
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Who god is?
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We remind ourselves of
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how big He is and
how powerful He is,
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and then we remind
ourselves secondly,
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of what God has
done in our past history.
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We remind ourselves
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that He has been
guiding every step of the way,
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He's always been there.
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I think following that,
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the next thing
that Jehoshaphat did is,
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he prayed about
what God had promised.
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That's right.
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He said all right, I'm here.
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I've looked back to see
what you have done before,
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but you've also promised
some things for the future.
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Go back to verse 8,
it says, they have lived
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and they're
talking about this land
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that you've given to them.
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You drove out the
inhabitance and gave it to them,
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He gave to us.
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They've lived in
it and have built you
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a sanctuary here
for your Name, saying.
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Verse 9, "Should
evil come upon us,
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the sword, or judgment,
or pestilence, or famine,
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we will stand before this house
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and before You for
Your name is in this house
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and cry to You in our distress,
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and You will
hear and deliver us."
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Basically we're
saying, Lord, we're doing
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just what You told us
because that has come upon us.
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We, we're experiencing disaster
or famine or pestilence.
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It's come upon us and you said
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that when it came upon
us, we could come here.
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When the temple was dedicated...
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This is the place to come.
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That was the
instruction He gave.
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God said come here. Come here.
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When you are in
trouble, come here.
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Come here and pray
and I will deliver you.
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So we say to God, Lord,
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it has come upon
us, our family is...
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Here we go.
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In crisis.
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I'm coming here,
whether that's beside your bed,
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it's in your closet,
wherever it is I'm on my knee's,
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I'm coming here to You.
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You said come here to
Me, this is the place.
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You promised, Lord.
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When we... Yeah, go ahead.
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God will always
honor His promises.
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He will.
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Always honor his promises
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and so when we pray
His promises back to Him,
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his music to His ears.
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He loves to hear us--
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Realize that our Father cares
enough to make promises to us
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and He's not
going to let us down.
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He will stand good
for those promises.
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I think, He loves the fact
that we remember, you know.
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Yes.
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We remember that
He's promised something
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and then He loves the fact
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that He's able to deliver on it.
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Absolutely.
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I have promised this.
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And again, like
we found in Psalm 23,
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He will do it for his name sake.
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He will do it because
He is true to his name,
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he is true to his word.
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He will not
allow His name to be--
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To have any blemish for
not fulfilling His promise,
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for not honoring what
He has said he will do.
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When you and I've made
promises to our daughters
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and then they comeback to us
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and remind us of
those promises, you know.
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Yeah.
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Daddy, you promised. Yeah.
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Momma, you promised. Yeah.
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There are times
when you say, oh, I did.
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I did, yeah, okay.
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But because they
remind you, you promised.
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You said, oh, I did
promise. I will do it.
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Yes.
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I will do this for you.
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I want my children
to be able to trust me
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and depend upon me.
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And so when I promise, I'd
always try to fulfill that.
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Well, if I as an earthly
simple father can do that,
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how much more does
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the Heavenly
Father long to do it?
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He longs to do it.
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And so when we
come to Him and say,
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You promised Lord.
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Yeah. Yes, I did.
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Yeah. Yes, I did.
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And in my time,
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I will fulfill
the promise for you.
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And I will fulfill
it in the right way.
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I mean, I think, that's
the other part of the promise
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that we know,
then He's going to--
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It says, He will hear and save.
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I will hear and save. Yeah.
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So we don't know exactly
how that's going to happen,
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but we know that
we're at the right place
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and we're at the
person, we're with the person
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who has the power to do it.
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And He has
said, I will hear you,
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it's not gonna
unheard and then I will save.
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I'm gonna come through.
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Hey, God--
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You called God the,
the Living One who sees me
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and named the
well Beer Lahai Roi,
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the well of the
Living One who hears me.
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He hears, He sees,
he's the Living One
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who's there for you
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and He hears and
sees us today, does He?
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Yeah.
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The next thing
that he praise about is,
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he describes the problem.
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So it's appropriate
to describe the problem,
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but he doesn't
spend a lot of time on it.
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He just lays it up before God.
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All right. Verse 10.
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He says, "And now behold
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the men of Ammon
and Moab and Mount Seir,
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whom you would
not let Israel invade
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when they came
from the land of Egypt,
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and whom they
avoided and did not destroy,
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behold they reward us
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by coming to drive us
out of your possession
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which you have
given us to inherit."
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There's a little side bar there.
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Yeah.
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It sounds it like a
little bit of sour gourd.
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So you wouldn't let us
peel them on the way through?
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Now look how
they're rewarding us.
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But, you know, what?
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I think He's permitted that
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because after all
they're coming to drive him out
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and to destroy all of Judah.
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And, you know, what he's doing.
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Yeah. He's
being honest with God.
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Yes, he is.
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And when we come to God,
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sometime we have
feelings of unfairness.
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We feel--
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This isn't fair. Right
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I don't understand
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why this is
going on in my family.
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Lord, I've tried to serve You,
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I've tried to do
what you've said to do.
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And God can
handle that. Yes, He can.
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Because He handles our honesty
better than our dishonesty.
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Yes.
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He says, I want you
to be honest with Me.
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I know what
you're thinking anyway.
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I know what's in your
heart, so just say it.
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We tried to standardize
our prayers sometimes
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to make them
sound more Christian.
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I think God wants
them to be more real.
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Absolutely.
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You know, I'm angry, I'm upset.
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Because it's a
relationship. Yes.
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It is a relationship.
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And you can't be in
relationship with someone
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you're not
being honest with Him.
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Absolutely.
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It's not a true
relationship then.
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So He says, come
and lay it all out here.
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And that's what he does.
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Now he didn't
dwell on the problem.
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No.
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He says, they are
about to kill us and,
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and, you know, we need some help
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because they are bigger than us
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and they're going to destroy us.
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Yeah, I mean, that's
pretty, pretty basic thing.
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Yeah, pretty basic.
They're going to kill us--
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They're going to kill us--
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Because we can't
do anything about it.
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So he's described the problem.
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Now the next step,
does he makes a request?
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He makes a request and
we find that in verse 12.
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Verse 12.
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He says, "O our God,
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will You not
execute judgment on them
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for we are powerless
against this great hoard
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that is coming against us.
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We do not know what to
do but our eyes are on you."
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I love that. I did too.
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I love that.
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First of all he acknowledges
that we're powerless,
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we can't do anything.
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We can't do a thing.
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But he ask God
simply for judgment.
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I'm not gonna tell
you how to do this, Lord.
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You know, I've
got a few suggestions,
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fire from
heaven, lightning bowls,
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anything of that you want to do,
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just open up
here to swallow them,
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I don't really care.
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It doesn't matter.
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You are God, You
take care of it Your way
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and I'm going to trust You.
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So here's my request.
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Please execute judgment
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and then we're just
gonna keep watching.
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We're gonna watch.
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Lord, you know,
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this cancer is
about to take my life.
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Yes. My eyes are on you.
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Yeah.
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I'm about to loose my home.
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My eyes are on You.
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My child has strayed
away, my eyes are on You.
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Yes.
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No mater what the crisis
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and some other
crisis are horrible.
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Yes, they are. Horrible things.
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They are.
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But my eyes are on
You, because You said,
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You would hear and save.
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You said You would.
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You can trust Him.
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Well, that's the
pattern for prayer.
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He prayed about God.
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He prayed about
Gods acts in the past.
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He prayed about Gods promises.
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He described the problem
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and he made a
request and he said,
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now we're just gonna
watch and see what happens.
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Stand back.
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Stand back and God did not
let them stand back for long.
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No, He didn't.
He sent an answer.
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He sent an answer.
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Verse 14, "Then in
the midst of the assembly
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the Spirit of the LORD came upon
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Jahaziel the son of Zechariah,
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the son of
Benaiah, the son of Jeiel,
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the son of Mattaniah,
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the Levite of
the sons of Asaph."
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And Asaph is the
name I recognized.
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That is the name we know.
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Yeah, because when
you read the Psalms,
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some of the Psalms
were written by Asaph.
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And you study, you
realize that Asaph was a Levite
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whose job was to
be in the house of God
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and to write
music for the worship,
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that's what his family did,
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but he was also
David's personal prophet.
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And so this man,
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Jahaziel is a
descendant of Asaph,
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and so he's also a
priest, he's a musician
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and God spoke to a
musician and gave him a word
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and answered to
the king's prayer.
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Isn't that
interesting? Yeah, it is.
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He didn't make them wait. No.
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Sometimes we do have to wait.
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Yes, yeah.
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But He dint make
them wait in this case
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and He sent an
answer to a musician.
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He said, listen to him because
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I've spoken to
him and He stepped up.
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Verse 15.
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He said--
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"And he said, listen all Judah
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and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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and King Jehoshaphat,
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thus says the Lord to you.
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Do not be afraid
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and do not be
dismayed at this great hoard
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for the battle is
not yours but God's."
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Oh, praise the Lord.
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And He tells him what to do.
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Gives them instruction.
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Gives them instruction,
but the first thing he says is,
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do not be afraid.
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The most frequently repeated
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negative command of
scripture is fear not.
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Oh, man we fear all the time.
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In fact that command is repeated
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365 times in scripture.
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One for every day of the year.
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Yeah.
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The one thing the God doesn't
want you to do is, be afraid.
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If you go to a
religious meeting,
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you hear someone preach
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and the result in your heart
as the child of God is fear.
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What you experience
was not the sprit of God.
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He said, I'm not
giving you a sprit of fear.
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That's right.
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He doesn't give you fear.
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He comforts, He calms, He
gives you a sprit of peace
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because you've gone to
the God of the universe.
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We know how the
story ends in our lives,
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how the universe ends, God wins.
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Yeah.
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And we can be on God side
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and when we're
on God side, we win.
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That's the bottom line.
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So there's no reason for fear.
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So he says, don't be
afraid, don't be dismayed
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because this battle
is not yours, but Gods
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and that's true of
every battle of our life.
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He's taken it out of our
hands, we don't have to carry it
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and we don't have to have
the cloud over us, the burden.
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And, you know,
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maybe that the
circumstance is still there,
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the
circumstance has not changed,
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but we know that
He has an end control,
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He has it in His hands.
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And the battle is not
ours, He's gonna fight it.
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Yeah.
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But what happens next
in the story is that--
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Instruction has given.
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Jahaziel gives
instruction directly from God.
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Basically he gives
the scouting report,
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he tells them exactly
where the enemy is located,
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exactly where
they're going to come up
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and then gives
them instructions,
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go out and meet them.
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Just go on out
there. Go out and meet them.
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And they're gonna come
up there tomorrow morning,
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so go out and meet
them tomorrow morning.
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So they would know exactly
which way they're coming,
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they know where they are
and so that's what they do.
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Well, that's a scary
thought to though, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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All right, this hoard is
still a lot bigger than we are.
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Yeah.
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And yet we're supposed to
just go out there and meet them.
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Yeah. But it's a--
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And he also told them
they're not gonna fight.
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Yeah, and he repeats
that later on in instructions.
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Fear not, again don't be afraid,
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go out and meet
them, but don't be afraid.
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It's not your battle,
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you're not gonna
have to fight this battle,
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the Lord is gonna
fight it, so they did that.
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They went out to meet them.
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But you know, verse 21,
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when Jehoshaphat
consulted with the people,
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he appointed those
who sang to the LORD
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and those who
praised Him in holy attire,
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as they went out
before the army and saying,
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"Give thanks to the LORD,
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for His
lovingkindness is everlasting."
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They sent the army
into battle. Oh, they sent--
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I mean, I mean,
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the choir into
battle ahead of the army.
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They sent the choir? The choir.
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If you're the choir director,
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you don't necessarily want
to show up that right, right?
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That's right.
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It's time for my assistant
to get some experience.
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Yeah, I'm a little hoarse today.
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Yeah.
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But he sent the
choir ahead of the army.
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So they start singing
the song about praise to God
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for his
lovingkindness is everlasting.
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That word lovingkindness.
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We talked, last
show about the word
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"hesed" or "chesed,"
the fanatical love of God.
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That's what this word is.
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His fanatical
love is everlasting,
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there's no end to it.
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So He's saying to our
family when we're in crisis,
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walk forward, do
what I tell you to do.
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Be obedient.
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And do it singing and
speaking about My love.
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Yeah.
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Just remind yourself
that you are so dearly loved
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that you can move forward.
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Its okay, it's
going to be all right.
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You got nothing to
fear if God loves you.
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His crazy love for you,
His fanatical love for you,
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there's nothing to fear
and that's what happened here.
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They started singing
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and these three
armies heard the songs.
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I think it scared
them, they thought,
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who gave them scouting reports,
they know where, you know,
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they are gonna kill us
and they killed each other.
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By the time Judah
got to the vista point
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where they could see the armies,
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they were all
dead, everybody was dead
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and it took them three days
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to carry the spoils
of battle back home,
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not only did
they not get killed,
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but they got
rich in the process.
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Wow.
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God fought the
battle... What an ending.
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These guys killed each
other and so they went home
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and had a big celebration,
singing praises to the God
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who delivered them
in the time of crisis.
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Its true of
every battle, isn't it?
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Yeah. It's not our battle.
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The reason it's not our battle,
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it's because we
can't fight it any way.
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We can't.
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When those big things come,
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those crisis that
we can not handle--
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We're powerless. Yes.
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So let's be willing as a
family to say, all right God,
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we've got to
hand this off to you
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and we're going to trust
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that You're going
to take care of it
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and our eyes
are gonna be on You.
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That's right.
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We may have to move forward
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and it may not
happen the way we think.
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And it's pretty
scary. Pretty scary.
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But He says you're not.
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And we can trust him
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because of His
fanatical love for us.
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The same is true for you.
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God has the fanatical love
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for you and for your family.
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Trust Him in times of crisis.
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Trust Him when times are good.
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Trust him because
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He wants you to be madly
in love forever, trust Him.
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