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II CHRONICLES 14:11

"HELP US O LORD"

Intro: At the beginning of his reign, Asa was a good king. He instituted
       spiritual reforms, he  had an army of 450 thousand men. Word came
       that their land was being invaded by  Zerah, the Ethiopian, with a
       million men and 300 chariots.

I. "AND ASA CRIED UNTO THE LORD HIS GOD."
        A. This is the wisest thing he could do.
                1. Whenever you are faced with insurmountable odds, it is
                   wise to pray.
                2. When it seems hopeless to go on, it is wise to pray.
                3. When you lack strength for the battle...

II. "LORD IT IS NOTHING FOR YOU  TO HELP, WHETHER WITH MANY, OR WITH THEM
     THAT HAVE NO POWER."
        A. Odds mean nothing to God.
                1. No difference between 2-1 or 440-1.
                2. Russia will discover this soon when she moves her
                   mighty army against Israel.
                3. The mightiest army of man is nothing against almighty
                   God.
        B. The word difficult is not in God's vocabulary.
                1. Difficulty must always be measured by the capacity of
                   the agent doing the work.
                        a. The state of Washington when building a road
                           made a cut through a mountain of basalt
                           material. It took them 5 months, 24 hours a day
                           to remove 1 million cubic yards. Mt. St. Helen
                           moved 5 billion 350 million cubic yards of
                           similar material in 27 minutes.
                2. When God is the agent doing the work, any talk of
                   difficulty manifestly absurd.
                3. God can provide you a million dollars as easily as
                   five.
                4. He can heal leukemia or cancer as easily as a cold.
                5. Difficulty is only in our minds as we carry our
                   limitations over to our concepts of God.

III. "HELP US, O LORD."
        A. This is the single petition in the prayer, "Help us."
                1. Then why offer such a long prayer?
                2. It's good to remind ourselves of who we are talking to
                   and His abilities.

IV. "FOR WE REST ON THEE."
        A. This is where we often have a problem.
                1. We are prone to pray and worry.
                2. Or pray and try to work it out.
        B. How beautiful to rest on God.

V. "IN THY NAME WE GO AGAINST THIS MULTITUDE."
        A. This is putting himself squarely on God's side.
        B. We are so anxious to get God on our side.
                1. We devise our program then pray, God bless our program.
                2. The purpose of prayer is never to get my will done on
                   earth, but rather God's will.

VI. "O LORD, THOU ART GOD!"
        A. None like Thee in all the earth.
        B. You created and are above the universe.

VII. "LET NOT MAN PREVAIL AGAINST THEE."
        A. We are so much on your side they will not be prevailing
           against us, but you.