What Are You Carrying That Needs God’s Protection

Sermon Text: Ezra 8:21-23

Doctrinal Theme: Call to fasting

Point: Dedication

Transitional Sentence: The hand of God is upon all that do well

What to do in difficult times (8:21)

A. God’s intervention 

1. Consider your source

2. Seek God in prayer

3. Call a fast

4. Give a sacrifice

5. Know (His) God’s ways  

a. Psalms 5:8 

b. John 7:17

c. 2 Timothy 1:12

Where to go in difficult times 

1. The power of His word (8:22)

1. Psalm 119:105

2. Hebrews 4:12

3. Psalm 119:11

B. The evidence of God’s power 

How to go through difficult times

1. Test are by design (8:22b)

2. 1 Corinthians 9:15

3. Romans 8:28

1. Psalm 34:16 

2. 2 Chronicles 15:2

1. Conclusion

A. God honor’s the right sacrifice (8:23)

1. We must go to God properly

B. Seek God’s truth rather than your own

1. Philippians 3:19

2. Proverbs 16:18