Lord of the Valleys
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Title:
Lord of the Valleys
--------------------------------- Date: 3/9/2000
Keywords:
"prayer" "victory"
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Passage: 1 Kings 20:28*
The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, "This is
what the LORD says: 'Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a
god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that
I am the LORD' ".
Questions
1. What's the point of this passage?
2. How can we apply it to pornography?
Practical help
Sometimes in Scripture God sounds remarkably like Rambo. This is one
of those times.
God's fed up with the Arameans, who labor under the mistaken
impression that his people can only succeed in the heights. The Arameans soon learn that
God can fight -- and win -- wherever he wants.
Centuries later, we still haven't got the message. We think our
personal valley -- pornography -- falls beyond God's reach. We stop praying for help,
believing the battle already lost. We give up the fight, settling in for years of trench
warfare. Don't. Pray for God's help, and you'll find his response suitably Ramboesque.
He'll come for you, guns blazing.
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