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A Heart in Prayer

Sunday, February 16, 2025
Pastor Jojo Ma

 

14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. 15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things. 16 The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf; 17 they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.

I.          Micah’s heart in prayer [v14]
II.        Micah’s hope in prayer [v15]
III.       Micah’s help in prayer [vv16-17]

I.         Micah’s heart in prayer [v14]
14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

Mic 5:4 says about this redeemer ruler, he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.

14 who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

Micah longed for the first coming of Christ; we long for the second coming of Christ. Maranatha, come Lord Jesus. When our king returns, he will raise the dead, judge the world, and make all things new.

II.        Micah’s hope in prayer [v15]
15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.

Tim Keller: “God will either give us what we ask for in prayer or give us what we would have asked for if we knew everything He knows.”

In the old covenant, God brought out one nation from slavery and bondage. In the new covenant, God is bringing out all nations from slavery and bondage. There simply is no comparison.

Bruce Waltke: “The exodus that Christ affords his church, bringing them out of a world of sin and judgment and setting them on their heaven-bound journey through the Wilderness, involves far greater ‘wonders’. Israel’s Passover, the baptism into the Red Sea, whereby they put Egypt behind them and set out for the Promised Land, and the heavenly manna and the water from the rock, all typify Christ and his greater salvation.”

1 Cor 10:1-4 1 For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.

III.      Micah’s help in prayer [vv16-17]
16 The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf; 17 they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.

God will show this world marvelous things: grace to the repentant, wrath to the unrepentant.