Series: More than a Song #5
Sermon: The Secret Power of Worship
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I. Worship changes our
2 Chronicles 20:1 (NKJV) 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.
1. Scary problems come out of nowhere
2 Chronicles 20:3-4 (NKJV) And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
2. Seeking the Lord is the best
3. shifts our eyes from the problem to the problem solver
2 Chronicles 20:12b (NKJV) says “our eyes are upon you”
2 Chronicles 20:9 (NKJV) ‘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.’
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II. Worship changes the
1. Worship God’s presence
2. Worship our hearts to hear God’s voice
2 Chronicles 20:14, 15 (NKJV) Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel. . . and he said, Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem and you , King Jehoshaphat! 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.
God is more interested in what is happening inside of you than what is happening outside of you.
2 Chronicles 20:16-17 (NKJV) Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel. 17 You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.”
3. God’s word requires a proper
2 Chroinicles 20:18-19 (NKJV) And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the Lord, worshiping the Lord. Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with voices loud and high.
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III. Worship changes us and it changes our
2 Chronicles 20:12 (NKJV) 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.
1. are changed
2 Chronicles 20:20 (NKJV) So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”
2. is changed
Worship is not just a response to victory, it is now the pathway to victory
2 Chronicles 20:21(NKJV) And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: “Praise the Lord, For His mercy endures forever.”
3. are changed
2 Chronicles 20:22 (NKJV) Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.
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