Lesson

Where do you place your hope?

Prayer is not to be used for making personal demands. It’s a humble conversation from a heart submitted to God.

Is it because we can’t or won’t trust God that we place our trust in all this other stuff? I believe there is a big lesson to learn from Israel’s king, Ahaziah.

Don’t choose a king by his cover (or a wife, husband, friend, president for that matter). Beautiful bodies lose their lure when they house a shriveled heart.

In the story of Israel’s first king, we learn an important lesson: sometimes God answers our prayers, and we live to regret it. And from this lesson we learn an important application: be very careful what you pray for.

Jephthah’s tragedy is a lesson for us all. Trying to manipulate God always backfires. He will not be used.