Learning to Pray Like Habakkuk

Read Habakkuk 1:12-2:1

Habakkuk is wrestling with God. Remember that his name means ‘embrace.’ Not a passionate, loving embrace, like a hug, but the embrace of a man who is being rescued, holding on to his rescuer… Genesis 32:24 Like Jacob, Habakkuk wrestles with God in prayer, – over great issues that he does not understand. How can a God whose essential nature is love and holiness and mercy and justice possibly conceive a plan to use a wicked nation to chastise a nation whom he loves. So once again, Habakkuk runs to God and wrestles with him in prayer.

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Text. Zechariah 13:4-6

Zechariah talks about ministry in chapter 13. He’s been referring to the time when redemption would be accomplished, when there would be a fountain opened up, so that sinners could be cleansed from their sins. What a change that would make in ministry! No longer would false ministers be tolerated in the true kingdom of God, in the body of Christ. As he makes this point, Zechariah hints at what a redeemed ministry would look like in v4-6…

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Habakuk's Burden.

Habakkuk was praying his way through very perilous days indeed. All of this turmoil was taking place in a nation that comprised the chosen people of God, and who find their ultimate fulfilment in the the New Israel, the church. That’s why this is SUCH an important book. It’s like history continually repeats itself, and the prayer and the answer to prayer of Habakkuk is our prayer too. In this study we look at Habakkuk’s approach to God in prayer, as recorded in God’s Word.

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