and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.And said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?and he said, O Jehovah, the God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and art not thou ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee.
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… in front of the new courtyard and said, Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, power and might are in your hand and no one can withstand you. Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people, Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend? I want to preach a message today, write down the title. is called All Eyes on You. All Eyes on You. I know Tupac said all eyes on me. We as a church are saying all eyes on you. 90s kids are like... all eyes here's what we're doing for a year as a church we are going to get our eyes off of ourselves we're going to get our eyes off our circumstance and we're going to get our eyes on God our eyes are going to gaze at the beauty and the radiance the magnificence and the glory of the living God. All eyes on you. See, because I really believe that you're going to find whatever you're looking for. And it's not about what happens to you. It's about how you respond to what happens to you. In fact, I will say that it's not what happens to you that defines you. …
… in front of the new courtyard and said, here comes his prayer. Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand and no one can withstand you. I'm just telling you, that is an opening line that pleases the heart of God. When you put that as the preamble and the prelude to whatever the rest of your prayer is, not only are you positioning your mind with right thinking and really good theology, you getting the attention of heaven. Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend. He's just harking back to the moment when Joshua brought the people across the Jordan River and God led them in to possess this promised land. They've lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, if calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your name and will cry out to you in our distress. …
… Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court 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? 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 and they dwell in it and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name saying if disaster comes upon us sword judgment pestilence and famine, we will stand before this temple and in your presence for your name is in this temple and cry out to you and our affliction and you will hear and say, 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. …
… and here's what it says. Oh Lord, our 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? Y'all missed a great spot. Some of y'all need to pray this prayer right here. Hear what he's saying. ain't you God? Are you not, verse 7, 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, and they dwell in it and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying, verse 9, if disaster comes upon us, sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine, I like this, we will stand before this temple and in your presence. somebody ought to say amen somebody say I came to church today to stand in the presence of the God that I love and I serve for your name is in this temple and cry out to you in our affliction and you will hear and say look there's a shot look and somebody say he will hear and say say it again he will hear and say anybody here believes that when we call out to the God that we serve he hears us how do you know that Pastor Jenkins I know it because I've called on him in the past and he's answered my prayer. …