Fight Your Battles with Prayer | Historical Books | 2 Kings 19:20-37

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Has your life plan fallen apart? Do you feel surrounded? How do you fight your battles? In today's episode, Keith shares how 2 Kings 19:20-37 encourages us to fight our battles through prayer. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Kings 19:20-37

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:13.0	The famous boxer Mike Tyson was asked about his opponents' plan to defeat him in the boxing ring.
0:19.0	Tyson responded with one of his best lines. He said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the boxing ring. Tyson responded with one of his best lines. He said everyone has a plan
0:22.8	until they get punched in the mouth. I'm not sure if he was trying to be funny or intimidating or
0:27.5	sarcastic or all three, but he said something that I think all of us can resonate with. We have a
0:33.2	plan for how our life is going to go, but then life punches us in the mouth, and our plans go
0:38.5	out the window.
0:39.5	A few years ago, Amazon released the most highlighted passage in all the books that were
0:44.0	read on Kindle that year.
0:46.1	And it was a passage from The Hunger Games that was highlighted twice as much as any other
0:50.6	passage that year.
0:52.2	Here's the line from the Hunger Games, because sometimes things happen to people,
0:56.2	they're not equipped to deal with them.
0:58.3	That was highlighted so often
1:00.3	because it really resonated with people.
1:02.9	That's how all of us feel about life.
1:05.1	We often feel like we're overwhelmed,
1:07.2	that we're not equipped to handle what life throws at us.
1:10.7	Any guesses what the most highlighted verse in the Bible was that same year?
1:14.9	Well, it was Philippians 4, 6 and 7.
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