November 29, 2024
Read 2 Chronicles 14:1-15
There are several benefits to God’s help.
One of them is Restoration. When God begins to help us, we begin to experience the rest of the Lord. This means cessation of troubles. Verses 6-7 of our main text says that God had given him (Asa) rest. When we are rested, we can build, and we can prosper. In 1 Kings 5:3, King Solomon stated that his father could not build a house for God, because of the wars surrounding him on every side. He had no rest until God put his enemies under his feet. Only then was he able to even consider building a house for God. King Solomon was only able to build God’s temple because he had entered his own rest – 1 Kings 5:4.
We must remember to prepare for war in the time of rest and build in the time of rest. The time of rest is not the time to stop praying, or to stop attending church, as there will be a time when we will need what we built during the time of rest. Verse 8 of our main text showed how King Asa prepared for war in the time of rest.
We must remember to prepare for war in the time of rest and build in the time of rest.
Another benefit of God’s help is enjoying the works of God’s hands like divine intervention. In verse 12 of our text, we see how God struck the Ethiopians who had come to fight the children of God. This is divine intervention – the children of God did not even have to lift a finger. Sometimes, enemies can be stronger than us, and this is where God’s divine intervention comes in. If God be for us, who can be against us? Goliath sure was stronger than David, but with God on David’s side, even a stone was able to finish off the ‘great’ giant who had been terrorizing all of Israel.
One more benefit of God’s help is our enemies begin to experience the fear and the terror of the Lord. Verse 14 of our main text shows us how the fear of God gripped the cities around Gerar and prevented them from acting, so that King Asa and the people of Judah prevailed.
Jacob’s family was not attacked as they journeyed to Bethel, because the terror of God was upon all the surrounding cities – Genesis 35:4-5.
Once God is helping us, it is over for our enemies – they will not even be able to act!
May we continue to enjoy the benefits of God’s help in the name of Jesus.
Song of Worship
Helper (3X)
The man You helped has come to honor You (2X)
Song by Tim Bush and Tye Tribbett.
Prayer - Father, we thank You for your help today. Please continue to provide divine intervention for us. We pray that our enemies will constantly be gripped with the fear of God, and will not be able to harm us no matter how much stronger than us they are. We ask all of these in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.