standing before the lord

The Next 23 DaysPrayer: • Prayer Fast on June 13

• “One church family” prayer on June 14 at 8:30 & 10:15

• 24-hour prayer chain on June 25

The Next 23 DaysFasting:• Personal between you and

God• Consult your physician• Start with one meal (lunch?)• Proceed to a one-day fast• Three- and seven-day fast

are not for everyone but may be for you!

The Next 23 Days

Fasting:• Set the date for your one-

meal fast!• Set the date for your one-

day fast!

2Chronicles 20:1-131 It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat.

2Chronicles 20:1-132 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar” (which is En Gedi).

2Chronicles 20:1-133 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2Chronicles 20:1-134 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the LORD; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

2Chronicles 20:1-135 Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

2Chronicles 20:1-136 and said: “O LORD God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You?

2Chronicles 20:1-137 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

2Chronicles 20:1-138 And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying,

2Chronicles 20:1-139 ‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’

2Chronicles 20:1-1310 And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir—whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them—

2Chronicles 20:1-1311 here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.

2Chronicles 20:1-1312 O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

2Chronicles 20:1-1313 Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the LORD.

Standing Before the

LORD

Standing Before the LORD

• Peril comes quickly

Matthew 8:23-2523 Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. 24 And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. 25 Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

2Chronicles 20:13Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the LORD.

Standing Before the LORD• Peril comes quickly• Our refuge is in God

2Chronicles 20:6,76 … “O LORD God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You?

2Chronicles 20:6,77 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

Psalm 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 62:5,65 My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.6 He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense;I shall not be moved.

2Chronicles 20:13Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the LORD.

Standing Before the LORD

• Peril comes quickly• Our refuge is in God• We must make earnest

appeal to Him

2Chronicles 20:3-63 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2Chronicles 20:3-64 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the LORD; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

2Chronicles 20:3-65 Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

2Chronicles 20:3-66 and said: “O LORD God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You?

Acts 17:26-2826 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Acts 17:26-2827 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

Acts 17:26-2828 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

Standing Before the LORD

• Peril comes quickly• Our refuge is in God• We must make an earnest

appeal to Him

2Chronicles 20:13Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the LORD.

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