23rd.: When We All Pray
The book of 1st Chronicles starts out with a long list of genealogies.
Buried within that long list are various interesting snippets and short stories
that are easy to miss for the endless genealogies.
One such short story is found in 1st Chr. 5:18-22.
The descendants of Jacob’ son, Reuben, and some of their distant cousins from the tribes of Gad,
and Manasseh fought several groups of people. Zeroing in on verse 20,
“And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them, for they cried to God in the battle, and he [God] was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.”
These people prayed in the midst of a battle - and God heard them.
I suspect those prayers were short, quick, battlefield, requests for help.
The Reubenites must have been afraid.
We can remember Psalms 56:3, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee [God]”.
Their short prayers were enough, simply because they put their trust in the Lord.
Since, no specific leader’s name was mentioned, it can be taken that most of the Reubenites were praying.
In reality it is an example of corporate wide prayer.
We can move God, when we band together in prayer.
Return to Home“Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass.” (Ps. 37:5)