- Learning to Pray through Desperate Times
- Prayer for the Gathering Storms
- Praying in the Middle of the Storm
6. Expect Complete Victory.
When
God delivers, He does so decisively. Here’s how 2 Chronicles reports it:
As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and
Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. The Ammonites and
Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they
finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
(vv. 22-23)
In the end the voluminous
provisions these invaders had brought, with the probable intent of repopulating
Judah, instead became an abundant overflow of God’s blessing.
When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the
desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the
ground; no one had escaped. So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and
they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value—more than they
could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect
it. (vv. 23-25)
If
you summarize this victory, you have to include:
Enemies destroyed;
Super-abundant plunder;
God’s people rejoice;
God’s reputation is exalted.
And the kingdom enjoys peace!
God doesn't always win the victory the way we’d prefer. But He is the God of the
storm. Even the wind and the waves obey Him. And in the end, He brings His
people to safety and to blessing.
