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Get into the habit… “And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: ‘because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.’” – 2 Chronicles…

God helped him. “And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.” – 2 Chronicles 26:7

No one cared when he died. “Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.” – 2 Chronicles 21:20

One heroic act. “But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of…

Is God able to bless you? “For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.” – 2 Chronicles 24:24

You’re better off taking the loss. “And Amaziah said to the man of God, ‘But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?’ And the man of God answered, ‘The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.’” – 2 Chronicles 25:9

No matter who well you’re doing… “But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.” – 2 Chronicles 26:16

It’s that simple. “And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.” – 2 Chronicles 26:5

Eudaemonic! “So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.” – 2 Chronicles 27:6

They were the ruin of him. “For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.” – 2 Chronicles…

They’re for our own good. “Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.” – 2 Chronicles 32:31

It was a stunning victory. “No king is saved by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not delivered by great strength.” – Psalm 33:16