In Jehoshaphat's prayer(2 Chronicles 20: 6 - 20), Jehoshaphat takes a long time to remind the Lord of His covenantal promises that He gave to Abraham and his decendants - promises that cover such contingencies as military invasion, natural pestilence, and famine.
There is no doubt in His mind that God is God, the one and only God, Israel's God, His God, ruler of heaven and earth and "our eyes are on you."
Jehoshaphat drew a clear distinction between the Lord whose nature is to save and deliver, and the enemy whose nature is to steal, kill, and destroy (see John 10:10). He calls upon the sovereignity of God - His land, His people, His promise - “they are coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit” (2 Chronicles 20:11).
Today, it is the sovereignty of God that gets challenged. He can seem terribly tyrannical when life suddenly takes a tragic turn. A death, a sickness, a loss of somehing that was very valued, a funeral for instance - not everyone voices it, but many have thought it -" if God is so sovereign, why did this have to happen to me."
Today, it is also the sovereignity of God that enables those individuals who have never entered into a church building, have never prayed a prayer, never read a Bible and allows them to believe in the only possible person worth believing when nothing else matters. They will call on every "religious" person they know to get involved in praying.
Sovereignity of God - it exists - in our hearts, in our minds - we acknowledge through our actions.
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