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April 6
Monday


NOTHING LEFT
BUT GOD

READ:
2 Chronicles 20:3-17
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Do not be afraid nor
dismayed because of
the great multitude, for
the battle is not yours,
but God's.
__2 Chronicles 20:15
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A wise Bible teacher once said, "Sooner or later God will bring self-sufficient people to the place where they have no resource but Him--no strength, no answers, nothing but Him. Without God's help, they're sunk."

He then told of a despairing man who confessed to his pastor, "My life is really in bad shape." "How bad?" the pastor inquired. Burying his head in his hands, he moaned, "I'll tell you how bad--all I've got left is God." The pastor's face lit up. "I'm happy to assure you that a person with nothing left but God has more than enough for great victory!"

In today's Bible reading, the people of Judah were also in trouble. They admitted their lack of power and wisdom to conquer their foes. All they had left was God! But King Jehoshaphat and the people saw this as reason for hope, not despair. "Our eyes are upon You," they declared to God (2 Chron. 20:12). And their hope was not disappointed as he fulfilled his promise: "The battle is not yours, but God's" (v.15).

Are you in a position where all self-sufficiency is gone? As you turn your eyes on the Lord and put your hope in Him, you have God's reassuring promise that you need nothing more. __Jonie Yoder
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````````````````````Turn you eyes upon Jesus,```````````````````
``````````````````Look full in His wonderful face;`````````````````
```````````And the things of earth will grow strangely dim```````````
``````````In the light of His glory and grace. __Lemmel`````````````
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When all you have is God, you have all you need.

***********Today's Bible Reading __ 2 Chronicles 20:3-17***********

3 And Jehoshahphat feared,
and set himself to seek the
LORD, and proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah. 4 So
Judah gathered together to
ask help from the LORD.

5 Then Jehoshaphat stood in
the assembly of Judah and
Jerusalem, in the house of
the LORD before the new
court, and said: 6 "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?

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?...

10 "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__11 here they
are, rewarding us by coming
to throw us out of Your
possession which You have
given us to inherit. 12 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."...

15 Thus says the LORD to
you: "Do not be afraid nor
dismayed because of this
great multitude, for the battle
is not yours, but God's....

17 Do not fear or be
dismayed; tomorrow go out
against them, for the LORD is
with you."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Jehoshaphat, whose name means "Jehovah has judged," was one of
the good (though far from perfect) kings of the southern kingdom
of Judah. He ruled for 25 years, a time marked largely by peace and
extraordinary prosperity (2 Chron. 17:10-13; 20:31). __Bill Crowder