 We want to thank the Lord for giving us this day again to come before him. I want to welcome all of you who are present here and also those who are online to our day 6 of the KAM meeting and also for our fourth devotion during this week. The Lord is great, the Lord will be able to be with us as we worship Him this day. We are proceeding with our theme, let God be God. Let God be God. Let us pray. Precious Father, we thank you so much for being good to us. You have woken us this morning. It is not natural. It is your divine power that cares for your children. Thank you God for being so good to us. We want to get holy words from you. We pray for the power of the Holy Spirit that Lord you may never leave us alone and you may speak to us this morning in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We want to look at the main chapter of 2 Chronicles 20 and on a man called Josephat and we will see also some other backgrounds to this man and I pray that at least we read the first two verses verse 1 and 2, 2 Chronicles 20 verse 1 and 2 it says it came to pass after this also that the children of Muab and the children of Amon and with others and others with them besides the Amorites came to battle against Josephat then some came and said to Josephat saying a great multitude is coming against you and beyond the sea from Syria and they are in Hazazon Tamar which is El Gedi. Let me do verse 3 and Josephat feared himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed 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. Josephat is a good king of Israel and because it's good the Lord is with him but the all nations around him all the nations around him are coming to fight him just imagine if where we are as a nation all our neighbors are coming to fight with us how would it be? that situation is very terrifying because you can't fight them all the resources in your country you can't muscle them and fight all your neighbors and that is why the Bible is saying Josephat feared and then he proclaimed fast throughout the entire nation a small background that I want to give unto you would start from chapter 17 Josephat was a good king of Israel he loved to go on the ways of his father David the father was called Asha but any other king who was doing good was doing like David so he was doing as David did so in chapter 17 you can see that when he entered the kingdom he started to do reforms he did not follow Baal that is one two he chose leaders who were spiritual to go to several cities to teach people the ways of the Lord so because of that the Lord was happy with Josephat and because the Lord was happy with him when you look at verse 10 of chapter 17 it says and the fear of the Lord fell among all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah so that they did not make war against Josephat also some of the Philistines brought Josephat presence and silver as tribute jumped to verse 12 so Josephat became increasingly powerful and he built fortress and strong cities in Judah he had much property in the cities of Judah and the men of war mighty men of Vala were in Jerusalem these are their numbers according to their houses of Judah the captives thousands I don't want to say many of those things but the number of the soldiers that he had were 300,000 men of war meaning if it was war no one would make war with Judah you can see that this man feared the Lord and the Lord wanted to prosper him but he made a mistake in chapter 18 that Ahab was leading Israel as Josephat was leading Judah so Ahab came to him and asked him can you help me go and fight Assyria? then he said no, we are friends and we are neighbors there's no way I can not support you so he accepted but said like David before we go let's call prophets to tell us the will of the Lord so Ahab called 450 prophets and all the 450 prophets told him go to war you are going to succeed then Josephat tells Ahab that is the whole of chapter 18 that is there any other prophet then Ahab says there is one called Micaiah but he is always prophesying against me then Josephat insists please call him then he is called when he is called he first told him just to go then Ahab tells him how many times have I told you to be telling me nothing but the truth then he decides to tell him the truth he tells him I saw the armies of Israel scattered which means they are not going to succeed then Ahab tells Josephat did I not tell you that this man is always prophesying against me then Josephat accepts and goes to war then the king Ahab is telling him me let me go and be as a soldier but you were kingly robe and remain as a king and they are in the war then the Israelites were defeated and they are coming to kill Josephat and Josephat cried to the Lord and the Lord rescued him after the Lord had rescued him that is chapter 19 after the Lord had rescued him sorry chapter 18 verse 22 for it was when the captains of the chariot saw that it was not the king of Israel that is Josephat let me do it from 31 so that at least you see it was when the captains of the chariot saw Josephat that they said it is the king of Israel therefore they surrounded him to attack but Josephat cried out and the Lord helped him and God diverted them from him so it was when the captains of the chariot saw that it was not the king of Israel that they turned back from pursuing him now a certain man drew about at random and struck the king of Israel between his joints between the joints of his armor so he said to the driver of the chariot turn around and take me out of the battle for I am wounded then the battle increased that day and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the syrians until evening and about the time of sunset he died Ahab died Josephat was saved saved by the Lord then chapter 19 verse 1 and 2 says then Josephat the king of Judah returned safely in the house of Jerusalem to his house in Jerusalem and Jehu the son of Hanani went out to meet him and said to King Josephat should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord therefore the wrath of the Lord is upon you nevertheless good thing are found in you in that you have removed the wooden images from the land let me leave it at that a lot of background and we have done it Josephat is loved by the Lord he messed in going to help Ahab in going to war but he is being told you made a mistake but a good thing has been found in you that you have done a reform in the land of Judah but I think because they decided to go to war and they were defeated when he comes back now in chapter 20 the nations surrounding Israel decides to go to war with Judah and all the nations are coming and he remembers that he went to support in the war and they were being defeated then that is why chapter 20 verse 3 is saying Josephat feared by the way you must fear because you know if the Lord abandons you there is nothing you can do only with the Lord you can be able to succeed our theme for this week for this morning devotion is let God be God give him his position you may think you are able to do it you cannot do without the help of the Lord your God things may be strange and fearful but when you accept to go unto them meet them with the hand of the Lord you will be able to succeed so Josephat fears and he proclaims hafast to the old nation of Judah and when they are fasting his prayer is verse 5 then Josephat 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 the kingdoms of the nations and in your hands is there no power on might so that no one is able to withstand you you know when you go to God first recognize his kingship are you not God in heaven are you not the king of all the nations they are coming to attack me but are you not their king then he tells him in your hands is there no power on might telling him that I am assured of your might I am confident of your ability to save then he tells him are you not our God who brought who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever are you not the one who drove out nations and then this land you gave to Abraham and his descendants and remember Abraham is your friend and that friendship is forever then after when he continues to pray he proceeds let's jump to verse as prep proceeds let's jump to verse 12 he says oh our God will you not judge them oh our God will you now not judge them for we have no might against this great company that come against us neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon you I would say that this verse is could be our main text that verse 12 saying that oh Lord God we have no power he doesn't think of the 300,000 men of Valadatias but he's saying even with the multitude of war of warriors I cannot be able to put my trust in them there is nothing we can do so he says we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us nor do we know what to do our eyes are on you by the way in all our problems there are many of them we don't know what to do many financial crisis that we don't know what to do many health problems that we don't know what to do many family issues that we don't know what to do many legal issues that we don't know what to do spiritual problems that we have struggled with that we don't know what we can do that is when we tell the Lord our eyes are on you Lord our eyes are on you there is nothing we can do we have no power there is nothing we can do our eyes are on you then the Lord sends to them a prophet to talk to the children of Israel it's called jahazil you can see it in verse 14 then the prophet talks in verse 15 to them and says and he said listen all of you Judah and all his inhabitants and all you inhabitants of Jerusalem and you king Jeosaphat that says the Lord to you do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude for the battle is not yours tomorrow go down against them they will surely come up by the descent of these and you will find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel verse 17 you will not need to fight in the battle position yourselves and stand still and see the salvation of the Lord by the way the Lord is telling you after letting him be God in your life do not worry of what is going to happen do not fear this battle is not yours the battle belongs to the Lord he says just stand position yourself stand still do nothing and wait and see the salvation of the Lord these things that worry you and you don't know anything you can do to solve them tell the Lord then stand still and wait for the salvation of the Lord the Lord will fight for you the Lord will open for you away by the way even in sin something you have been defeated to overcome tell the Lord and tell the Lord that in your hand is there no power on mind there is nothing I can do save me oh Lord and the Lord is telling you stand still and see me work the ways in your life you are having challenges in your life tell the Lord pasavya the night may seem to belong but stand still see the direction the Lord is taking to deliver you in the end you will have a confession seeing what the Lord has done how the Lord has delivered you and you will understand surely the Lord is powerful in the end you will have a confession all your crisis please stand still and wait for the salvation of the Lord he will be able to bless you as choristers are coming that we sing our song our song 439 I am just pleading with you that let God be God situation may be dark things may be so difficult but the Lord is telling you please wait and see I am going to deliver you when it seems to be the darkest it will dawn in the morning any chorister around may come when it seems to be darkest in the night it is soon getting to dawn and the Lord will be able to deliver you the Lord will be able to take care of you until you will be sure that the Lord is a blessing the Lord is taking care of you I will wait till the choristers come when God told them that you just stand and see the salvation of the Lord they began to sing in verse 22 chapter 20 verse 22 they began to sing and praised the Lord set ambushes against the people who had come against Judah and they were defeated verse 34 sorry 24 so when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness they looked towards the multitude and they were and there they were dead bodies fallen on the earth no one had escaped when the Lord tells you that He will deliver you the Lord will deliver you He will take care of you stand still and see the salvation of the Lord the Lord our God He is God He will be able to take care of you to bless you to exalt you the night may belong but soon it will dawn because the Lord is going with you trust Him believe in Him