Habakkuk 1:1-11 Learn from Habakkuk's Cry to God and the Lord's Answer

1. Pour out your Burden to the Lord like Habakkuk verses 1-4

1. What do we know about Habakkuk? Verse 1 with 3:19; II Kings 21:10

2. What is Habakkuk’s cry of complaint to God? verse  2 

1. What things do you complain about to God? 

2. What does Habakkuk see that he complains about to the Lord? Verses 2-3

3. What is Habakkuk crying out to God about in verse 4? 

1. How does Proverbs 16:11 relate to the Lord’s concern for justice in our time? 

2. What concerns do you have for which God seems silent? 

3. Why doesn’t the Lord rebuke Habakkuk’s groaning prayer? See Exodus 2:23-25; 17:1-7

• What is the difference between your complaining against God and groaning to God?

2. Be Ready for our Lord’s Unexpected Answer

1. Did you ever pray, and get an answer that was more than you bargained for? 

2. What unexpected answer did Habakkuk get to his cry to God? Verses 5-11

• What were the people like whom God was going to send down upon Judah? 

3. What unexpected things is God able to use in our lives? Verses 5-6 

1. What does this teach us about God? Habakkuk 1:1-11             Learn from Habakkuk’s Cry to God and the Lord’s Answer 

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3. What godless people is the Lord still using today to accomplish His purposes? 

4. Will God hold the Chaldeans and other wicked tools accountable?  Verses 7, 11 

3. Since All Are Accountable before God, All Need to Repent 

1. How does the Apostle Paul apply Habakkuk 1:5 to his contemporaries in Acts 13:40-41? 

1. What warning was Paul giving to his hearers? 

2. What is God’s message for us?  verses 5, 11

2. Concluding Applications 

1. How do we know that God judges nations? What message is in this for us? Luke 13:4-5 

2. What should be your attitude when God uses you to correct others? verses 7, 11 Isaiah 10:5,15 

3. How does the Lord want us to respond when we’re perplexed with God’s dealings? Verses 2,12