23rd.: When We All Pray
The book of 1st Chronicles starts out with long lists of genealogies.
Buried within that long list are various interesting snippets and short stories.
These snippets are easy to miss, because of the drudgery of the long list of names.
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, we see:
“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.
The Reubenites must have been afraid.
I suspect those prayers were short, quick, battlefield requests for help.
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, this is an example of corporate wide prayer.
Corporate prayer is very powerful, when trying to move (convince) God.
Return to Home“Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass.” (Ps. 37:5)