From ? to ! From Doubt to Faith The Book of Habakkuk
Does God Care? Doesn’t seem to “deliver” us? Sloooow to answer prayer? Doesn’t seem to deal with evil?
Context Judah False gods, evil, and unrepentant Israel already gone; 727 BC Judah is next; 586 BC ( BC)
5 “Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
Answers to Prayer According to His will In His name Unselfishly
1 John 5: This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
John 16:23-25 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 24Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Deliverance
5 “Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
Deliverance…God’s Way
5 “Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.