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The Battle is Not Yours

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 20:3-17
Devotional Series: A Thankful Heart
Teaching: A Thankful Heart pt. 1 (SUN_AM 2024-04-21) by Pastor Star R Scott


In 2 Chronicles 20:3 we see that, “Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord.”  Couple of interesting things here, and I don’t want to bog down on them, but as you go through this twentieth chapter, and the enemy is oppressing you, and the enemy seems to be having victory over you, and your heart is smitten, and you’re cast down, whether it be on basic circumstances, whether it be, as we’ve said, the condition of your heart.  Maybe a besetting sin is manifesting again in your life, and you just are so tired of having to battle this on a continual basis.  A couple of little truths here, and I won’t go through them in depth, but look at the first thing that happens.  He calls a fast; amen?  He calls a fast in his life and, of course, for the people.  Then, secondly, he goes, and he puts together corporate prayer.  Two or three; amen?  Gathered together in My name.  Coming together to pray and to seek God, to make agreement on the promises and begin to recite those promises back to God.  We need humility.  If we are not thankful, we are not humble.  Amen?  And if we are proud, God resists the proud, but He gives grace, He will manifest, He will come beyond your merit and do good to you, hallelujah!  To those who have a humble heart before Him.  

Then we come down into verse 4, and we see the worship that’s brought in.  Then, next we see intercession, and after that we find a rest, down in verse 12.  And then God makes this great promise.  He said, “Listen, this battle is not yours,” verse 15, “but it’s the Lord’s”; amen?  “Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s.”  When we realize that, we come into that divine rest.  “You will not need to fight in this battle,” verse 17, “set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of God.”  As we go on in this very familiar passage, he said, “To morrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you,” verse 17, and Jehoshaphat then puts his face toward the ground and worships.  And the next day as they go forth, it says they stood to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high.  The declaration, “Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.”  And they went forth, and they began to praise the beauty of His holiness, hallelujah!  Not for what He’s done; but the beauty of His holiness.  The awe, the majesty of God.  As we’ve said so often lately, His uniqueness.  He Who lives in that realm other than all that He has created.  He stands alone.  There’s none like Him.  There are no other gods beside Him.  All the other gods that exist in the minds of men were created by men.  Because they wouldn’t retain God in their conscience, He gave them over to vile affections.  They knew Him and rejected His holiness.  They deified themselves and, therefore, made these images in their own likeness and after the creation.  The beauty of holiness.  Nobody but Him deserves our praise.  Nobody but Him deserves the worship.  He will have no other gods beside Him.  We praise Him alone; amen?

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