King Jehoshaphat

by Pastor Lim Bee Ngor

2 Chronicles 20:1-30

This paragraph tells how King Jehoshaphat handle crisis

2 Chronicles 20:1-4
Christians are not spared from crisis

John 16:33
In this life you will have troubles....

How King Jehoshaphat responded to the crisis :
1. He sought the Lord
- seeking God's face
- it's a deliberate act from the King to turn his eyes away from the crisis and focus his eyes on God instead
- when we come into the presence, we receive something
- how you respond during a crisis reveal how often you seek God

Jeremiah 29:13
"You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart"

Psalm 20:7
"Some trust in chariots and ...."

2. He called for a fast
- fasting is abstaining from food for a spiritual purpose. It must accompany with prayer otherwise it becomes dieting. Fasting has a way of breaking satan's grip in our lives

Isaiah 58:6
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen :
to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?"

Matthew 6:16-18
- v16 "when you fast"
- v17 "when you fast"
Fasting push away the power of darkness out from our nation, our lives, others lives, a situation, a crisis

Isaiah 59:19
"From the west, people will fear the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the Lord drives along."

3. He prayed to the lord
2 Chronicles 20:5-12
focusing on v12
"O our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on you."

3 things we observe about King Jehoshaphat prayer :
1. God-centered prayer
2. It's a desperate prayer
3. It's a humble prayer

Psalm 51:17
"My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise."

2 Chronicles 20:14-19
A. God's victory was assured
"do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God's"

v20-v30
B. God's battle was fought
"As they began to sing and praise, the lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated."

"And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace, for his God had given him rest on every side."