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 (609-598 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 5:14-15 14This 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.