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Second Chronicles chapter 28 verse 22,

in the time of his distress, he became yet more faithless to the Lord.

This same King Ahaz. Wow, what a commentary on King Ahaz's life and the time of his distress.

Like when things were not going well, when the nation of Judah was struggling,

King Ahaz became yet more faithless to the Lord. And you read his story, not just faithless,

but idolatrous and immoral. And when I read this verse, I think, God helped me in times of distress

to be faithful, like more faithful, like more full of faith. And if we're not careful in each one of

our lives, when we go through challenges and difficulties, there is an adversary who wants

to make us think that God is not good, that God is not powerful, that God is not wise,

that God is not listening to your prayers, that God is not going to answer your prayers.

There's so many different ways that the adversary attacks faith in times of distress. And I

just want to encourage you, even as I'm encouraged by this text this morning, in the middle of distress.

May we be all the more faithful. These are the moments we need more faith, not less faith,

more trust in the faithfulness of God, more trust in the goodness of God, more trust in the

power of God and the wisdom of God and the reality that we know, God hears and answers our prayers

according to his good wisdom and his good ways that he is working all things together for

our good, the good of those who love and have been called according to his purpose.

I don't know what kind of distress you might have experienced over the last year,

you might be going through right now. But can we just pray, God, to help us to become

yet more faithful in times of distress? God, we pray that you would keep us from becoming yet more

faithless, like King Ahaz did here. God, I pray especially for people who are walking through

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