Habakkuk 2:6, 15-3:2 Our Prayer for Revival

Habakkuk 2:6, 15-3:2 Our Prayer for Revival

VI. The Lord Discloses Himself that Should Move us to Worship Him

1. How does the Lord answer Habakkuk’s complaint He’s using wicked Babylon to crush Israel?

2. What are the woes that the Lord taunts Babylon with in verses 6-19? 

1. What is the woe that the Lord taunts people with who use drugs to take advantage of them sexually? Verse 15-16 

2. What judgment is pronounced on those who shed blood with violence? Verse 17 

1. How did the Chaldean Babylonians do this?

2. In what ways are we seeing this done in our own day? 

3. What is behind murder and all sin? Verses 18-19 

3. How is the Lord different than all the idols?  Verses 19-20 

1. How should we respond to the Lord? 

2. What should we do when we are “hushed” before the Lord? 

VII. Habakkuk’s Prayer, an Example of the Reverent Prayer the Lord wants From Us 

1. What kind of emotion is appropriate in our prayers to God?

2. Instead of questioning, what does Habakkuk pray for? 

1. When you are face to face with the Lord, how will you respond like the Koreans in 1907?

2. Where should we want reviving to begin? 

3. What does it mean for you to ask God to “revive” you or others in 3:2? 

1. “Revive” refers to God’ bringing to _________.  Psalm 85:4-7; Hosea 6:1-2 

2. What happens when God revives His work of life-giving mercy? Luke 15:21-24

3. What cup does Jesus drink so that we might receive mercy?  (see 2:16; John 18:11) 

4. How can an unbeliever pray the prayer of 3:2? 

5. How may Josiah have been an answer to Habakkuk’s prayer? II Chronicles 34 and 35     

4. How can following Habakkuk’s example of prayer change and deepen our prayers? 3:2