April 5, 2020 – Cottonwood
Resolute! It’s Time To Seek the Lord! 2 Chronicles 20
¬ Unshakeable! We Will Not Fear! Psalm 46
¬ Certain! We Are Going to the Other Side! Mark 4
Resolute! It’s Time to Seek the Lord!
Resolute: Having a fixed purpose; determined, bold, firm steady, constant in pursuing that purpose!
Hosea 10:12 Sow with a view to righteousness, Reap in accordance with Kindness; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord Until He comes to rain righteousness on you!
2 Chronicles 20:1-30 – A Resolute Response to Times of Threat!
¬ The Threat: A Great Multitude Is Coming Against Us! Army is Coming Against Us! 1-2
¬ The Resolute Response: In His Fear, Jehoshaphat
⎫ He Turns His Face to seek the Lord
Jeremiah 45:5 But you are you seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them;
2 Chronicles 12:14 He (Rehoboam) did evil because he di not set his heart to seek the Lord!
Psalm 27:8 When You said, “Seek My Face” my heart said to You, “Your face, O Lord I shall seek!
Psalm 34:19 The young lions do lac and suffer hunger, But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing!
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me when You search for Me with all your heart!
Matthew 6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all thexe things will be added to you.
Colossians 3:1 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God 2 Set your mind on things above, not on the things that are on earth!
⎫ Proclaims a Fast throughout all Judah
A Biblical Fast: To abstain from food for a specific amount of time for a specific appeal to God.
1. Deuteronomy 9:9-19 – Moses fasted for 40 days and nights twice: While Receiving the word of God and Prayng for Israel for their sins!
2. Jonah 3:5 Finds the people of Nineveh responding to Jonah’s message, by believing in God and calling for a 40 day fast!
Jonah 3:10 When God saw their deeds that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared Hew would bring upon them. And He did not do it!
3. Esther 4:13-17 Finds Esther appealing to Jews in Susa, Babylon to fast for her for 3 days after discovering Haman’s plot to exterminate God’s People.
25 Day Fast During this Coronavirus:
Sometimes during the next 25 Days we are asking you to set aside some time for prayer and fasting: You may choose to have an extended time without food. You may choose to do Intermittent fasting: You may Miss a meal or two during a number of days. All that we ask is that whatever you choose, that in those times you normally eat, that you would pray and give attention to the Lord.
1. Seek the Greatest Relationship with the Lord.
2. Cry Out for Repentance from Anything that is in your life that is not of God. Repentance as a family, church, or nation!
3. Deliverance from the Virus however serious it is and the removal.
4. Deliverance from fear!
5. Personal, Church, National and Global Revival, where People return to the Lord or come to the Lord for the very first time!
⎫ Judah Gathers to Seek the Help of the Lord 4
⎫ Jehoshaphat Prays, We Do not know What to do, but Our Eyes are on You! 5-12
⎫ The Word of the Lord Comes!
Do Not Fear, This is Not Your Fight! Put Your Trust in the Lord, Give Thanks to the Lord for His loving-kindness is forever! Go Worship! And Watch!
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