And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.” Verse 3: “Then Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. What should we do when God releases our enemies against us? We should do what Jehoshaphat did. It is time for Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah to experience the protection of God in another way. He could have continued to hold them back. God has ceased to protect Jehoshaphat by holding back his enemies. Verse 1: “After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meumites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.” We learn back in 2 Chronicles 17:6 that Jehoshaphat was a good king in Judah: “His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord.” And verse 10 tells us that in those days the way the Lord protected him was that no enemy even arose: “And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat.”īut in chapter 20, God loosens his sovereign grip on the nations around Judah and allows the enemies of Jehoshaphat to come against him. He protects us from unbelief, and preserves us for his heavenly kingdom. We will all die if the Lord does not return in our lifetime. Other times he allows the danger to attack, and gives us the victory so that we live on and serve him in gladness.īut in the end, one enemy is never driven off, the enemy of death. Sometimes he prevents danger from even arising on the horizon of our lives. There are three ways that God protects his people from danger.
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