Abiding in God (2 Chronicles 32:7–8)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 2 Chronicles 32:7–8, David Platt prays that God would help us to abide in him.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.4	7 Chronicles chapter 32 verses 7 and 8. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed
0:13.7	before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him. For there are more with us than
0:20.6	with him. With him is an arm of flesh but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight
0:30.3	our battles and the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah, King of Judah.
0:36.8	Are those not great verses? Like here are the people of Judah surrounded by an Assyrian army,
0:45.4	hundreds of thousands of them. It sure looks like they are outnumbered and there is no way they can
0:52.4	win this battle. And yet Hezekiah looks at them and says, be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid
0:58.8	or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him. Listen to this language
1:05.6	for there are more with us than with him. What do you mean there are more with us than with him?
1:12.0	Well here's what he means. Verse 8 with him is an arm of flesh but with us is the Lord our God
1:21.2	to help us and to fight our battles. You can't help but to think about Elisha and his servant
1:27.6	surrounded by an army of soldiers in Elisha saying, God, open the eyes of my servant to see.
1:34.4	There are more with us than with them and God opens the eyes of Elisha's servant and the servant
1:41.6	sees that there's an angelic army surrounding them, protecting them. You think about Elisha when
1:50.8	he's going up against the prophets of Bale. It's him. Verse 4 and 50 prophets of Bale doesn't seem
1:57.3	like there are more with Elisha than with Bale but the beauty was the Lord God was with Elisha.
2:06.6	Is with Hezekiah and the people of Judah here and that changes everything. There's a real sense in
2:13.1	which perspective is the key to strength and courage. I think about it. Everything changed
2:24.4	when Hezekiah said to the people, God is with us. Therefore we don't need to be afraid or
2:32.4	dismayed because God will help us and fight our battles and that changes everything.
2:39.4	So the most important thing for any one of us then is to make sure that we are with the Lord,
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