Tie yourself to your confession

SUMMARY: King Jehoshaphat publicly and visibly pledged to seek and await an answer from God during a military crisis. He commanded the entire nation to pray and fast, publicly committing to his dependence on divine help. By verbalizing our requests in a public way, we establish a spiritual commitment that adds power and weight to our prayers. This represents a declaration of war on the principalities that seek to overwhelm us and a strong declaration of confidence in God's faithfulness. Jehoshaphat engaged the entire nation in a powerful act of faith, understanding the great power in public and community prayer.

Faced with the greatest military crisis of his entire reign, King Jehoshaphat not only took time to pray and cry out to the Lord, but publicly and visibly pledged to seek and await an answer from God.

When King Jehoshaphat commanded the entire nation to pray and fast, he was binding himself to his dependence on divine help. He was committing himself publicly and spiritually! He was saying, “I believe in the power of prayer. I believe in the God who has promised to intervene on behalf of his people the day we cry out to him. And I believe enough to summon the entire nation and publicly compromise our faith. " Jehoshaphat was taking a great risk by doing this. He was, in a sense, testing in a final and irrevocable way the entire religious system that underpinned the nation of Israel.

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