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Our God ReignsHow long, O LORD, must I call for help,    but you do not listen?Or cry out to you, “Violence!”    but you do not save?Why do you make me look at injustice?    Why do you tolerate wrong?Destruction and violence are before me;    there is strife, and conflict abounds.Therefore the law is paralyzed,    and justice never prevails.The wicked hem in the righteous,    so that justice is perverted.

Habakkuk 1:2-4

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Habakkuk: God where are you? Why don’t you do something?God: I’m right here and I have it under control.

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Our God Reigns“Look at the nations and watch—    and be utterly amazed.For I am going to do something in your days    that you would not believe,    even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians . . .

Habakkuk 1:5-6a

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Habakkuk: God, where are you? Why don’t you do something?God: I’m right here and I have it under control.Habakkuk: God, what are you thinking?

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Our God ReignsO LORD, are you not from everlasting?    My God, my Holy One, we will not die.O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment;    O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;    you cannot tolerate wrong.Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?

Habakkuk 1:12-13a

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Habakkuk: God, where are you? Why don’t you do something?God: I’m right here and I have it under control.Habakkuk: God, what are you thinking?Habakkuk: I am going to watch and see how God responds.

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Our God ReignsI will stand at my watch    and station myself on the ramparts;I will look to see what he will say to me,    and what answer I am to give to this complaint.

Habakkuk 2:1

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Habakkuk: God, where are you? Why don’t you do something?God: I’m right here and I have it under control.Habakkuk: God, what are you thinking?Habakkuk: I am going to watch and see how God responds.God: Write this down: I have everything under control.

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Our God ReignsWrite down the revelation    and make it plain on tablets    so that a herald may run with it.For the revelation awaits an appointed time;    it speaks of the end    and will not prove false.Though it linger, wait for it;    it will certainly come and will not delay.

Habakkuk 2:2-3

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Our God ReignsSee, he is puffed up;

    his desires are not upright—    but the righteous will live by his faith.

Habakkuk 2:4

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Habakkuk: God, where are you? Why don’t you do something?God: I’m right here and I have it under control.Habakkuk: God, what are you thinking?Habakkuk: I am going to watch and see how God responds.God: Write this down: I have everything under control.Habakkuk: I get it. Our God reigns.

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Our God Reigns

LORD, I have heard of your fame;    I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD.Renew them in our day,    in our time make them known;    in wrath remember mercy.

Habakkuk 3:2-3

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Our God Reigns

Though the fig tree does not bud    and there are no grapes on the vines,though the olive crop fails    and the fields produce no food,though there are no sheep in the pen    and no cattle in the stalls,

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Our God Reigns

yet I will rejoice in the LORD,    I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength;    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,    he enables me to go on the heights.

Habakkuk 3:17-19

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Take a Step

ASK

1. Where have I misunderstood God and his plans for the world? . . . his plans for me?

2. Do I really trust that God is at work even in the midst of hardship, suffering? . . . uncertainty?

The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it . . . “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. . . “Psalm 24:1; Matthew 28:18

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Take a Step

ACT1. Today, I will say to God,

“I don’t understand, but I trust you. “

2. I will refuse to allow circumstances to impact my faithfulness.

“ . . . yet I will rejoice in the LORD,     I will be joyful in God my Savior.”Habakkuk 3:17

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Delirious?

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