Fellowship Bible Church - Mullica, Hill N.J.

“This book records the prophet’s dialogue with God concerning his questions…While other prophetic books brought God’s word to the people, this book brought the people’s questions to God.”
Life Application Bible

“The old easy assurances that peace, health, long life, and prosperity were tokens of divine approval have collapsed in the face of experience, but Habakkuk, in hardship and privation, comes to know God more fully and to rejoice in him for his own sake and not for the benefits he bestows.”
F.F. Bruce

Asking God “when” is best asked by those:

(1)Who have a personal relationship with God (1:2)
(2)Who have prayed consistently to him (1:2)
(3)Who have a greater concern for the wrongs done against others than themselves (1:2)

Asking God “when” is best asked by those:

(1)Who have a personal relationship with God (1:2)
(2)Who have prayed consistently to him (1:2)
(3)Who have a greater concern for the wrongs done against others than themselves (1:2)

“Habakkuk here faces the dilemma that has confronted faithful people in every age—the dilemma of seemingly unanswered prayer for the healing of society. The prophet is one with all those persons who fervently pray for peace in our world and who experience only war, who pray for God’s good to come on earth and who find only human evil. But he is also one with every soul who has prayed for healing beside a sickbed only to be confronted with death; with every spouse who has prayed for love to come into a home and then found only hatred and anger; with every anxious person who has prayed for serenity but then been further disturbed and agitated.”
P.J. Achtemeier

“This is what we must keep in mind: prayer is a relational interaction, not merely a service transaction. Faith is not divine currency that we pay God in order to receive whatever we ask in prayer. Faith is a relational response of trust in what God promises us. Faith says to God, “I trust what you say so much that I will live by what you say.”
Jon Bloom

Asking God “when” is best asked by those:

(1)Who have a personal relationship with God (1:2)
(2)Who have prayed consistently to him (1:2)
(3)Who have a greater concern for the wrongs done against others than themselves (1:2)

Asking God “why” is best asked by those:

(1)Who acknowledge the providence of God in theirlife (1:3)
(2)Who embrace the Scripture-derived character of God (1:3)
(3)Who desire for hearts to be receptive to God’s Word (1:4)

Asking God “why” is best asked by those:

(1)Who acknowledge the providence of God in theirlife (1:3)
(2)Who embrace the Scripture-derived character of God (1:3)
(3)Who desire for hearts to be receptive to God’s Word (1:4)

Asking God “why” is best asked by those:

(1)Who acknowledge the providence of God in theirlife (1:3)
(2)Who embrace the Scripture-derived character of God (1:3)
(3)Who desire for hearts to be receptive to God’s Word (1:4)

(1)God’s answers are always greater than we could have imagined (1:5)
(2)God’s answers are often in process before we ask (1:6)
(3)God’s answers will not be avoided, denied or overcome (1:7-11).

(1)God’s answers are always greater than we could have imagined (1:5)
(2)God’s answers are often in process before we ask (1:6)
(3)God’s answers will not be avoided, denied or overcome (1:7-11).

(1)God’s answers are always greater than we could have imagined (1:5)
(2)God’s answers are often in process before we ask (1:6)
(3)God’s answers will not be avoided, denied or overcome (1:7-11).

"Such a word from God implies that the turmoil and violence and death in our societies may not be evidence of God’s absence from our lives but instead the witness to his actual working in judgment as he pursues his purpose. No event in human history, therefore, is to be understood as completely divorced from his lordly action and will. God is always at work, always involved, always pressing forward toward his kingdom. But the means by which he chooses to pursue that goal may be as astounding as the destruction of a nation or as incomprehensible as the blood dripping from the figure of a man on a cross.” P.J. Achtemeier