Habakkuk 1:1-4 Because God’s not Acting Habakkuk 1:12-2:1 Because of How God is going to Act Habakkuk 3 / Because of Who God is and How God has Acted in the Past Habakkuk 1:2-4 How long, 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 wrongdoing? 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. ‘And He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord’ Honest Prayer, like a lament, demonstrates Faith. Habakkuk 1:2 NIV “How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?” P U S H Psalm 77:1-9 I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted. I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint. You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak. I thought about the former days, the years of long ago; I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked: “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” P U S H Prayer positions us to , , and for what He has done. Psalm 77:11-12 NIV I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds. Psalm 77:13 NIV Your way, O God, is Holy. What god is great like our God? Habakkuk 3:2 NIV O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. Exodus 19:16 NIV On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Habakkuk 3:3-4 NIV God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power. Habakkuk 3:16a NIV “I hear” Psalm 77:13 NIV Your way, O God, is Holy. What god is great like our God? Habakkuk 3:16a NIV I Hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Habakkuk 3:16b NIV Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. P U S H