Karen Hays

Don't know what to do but eyes on u

2 Chronicles 20:6-7 (ESV)
and said, "O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.

2 Chronicles 20:12 (ESV)
O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."

Jehoshaphat prays and fasts in crisis

2 Chronicles 20:3-4 (ESV)
Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Jehoshaphat appoints judges

2 Chronicles 19:5-7 (ESV)
He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

But a certain man drew his sword at random.....

1 Kings 22:29-30 (ESV)
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

1 Kings 22:34 (ESV)
But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

Ahab and Jehoshaphat and prophets

1 Kings 22:7-10 (ESV)
But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?"

Ahab repents

1 Kings 21:25-29 (ESV)
(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

Elijah ag. the prophets of Baal

1 Kings 18:36-38 (ESV)
And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

1 Kings 18:43 (ESV)
And he said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." And he went up and looked and said, "There is nothing." And he said, "Go again," seven times.

Elijah revives widows son

1 Kings 17:24 (ESV)
And the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth."

1 Kings 15:27-28

1 Kings 15:27-28 (ESV)
Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

Arab provoked theirs more than any other.

1 Kings 16:33 (ESV)
And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

Turning from God at the end of his life... Why Lord?

2 Chronicles 16:12 (ESV)
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians.

Not a humble response when confronted.... Teach me Lord

2 Chronicles 16:10 (ESV)
Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

God is watching EVERYTHING!!

2 Chronicles 16:9 (ESV)
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars."

Depending on men this time.

2 Chronicles 16:7-8 (ESV)
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.

The Lord is with u if u are with hiim.

2 Chronicles 15:2-7 (ESV)
and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Recognized God as their strength

2 Chronicles 14:11 (ESV)
And Asa cried to the Lord his God, "O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you."

Asa did what was good and right. May this be said of me.

2 Chronicles 14:2 (ESV)
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

Great advice... Don't fight ag. The Lord!

2 Chronicles 13:12 (ESV)
Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed."

Asa was true to the Lord

1 Kings 15:11-14 (ESV)
And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done.

The child will die because God found something pleasing in him.

1 Kings 14:13 (ESV)
And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

Very powerful

1 Kings 14:7-8 (ESV)
Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel

Teaching of kindness on her tongue

Proverbs 31:26 (ESV)
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

If u have been foolish... Exalting yourself.....

Proverbs 30:32-33 (ESV)
If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Clean in their own eyes... But filthy

Proverbs 30:12 (ESV)
There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

Prophesy of Jeroboam being given 10 tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 11:29-40 (ESV)
And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.