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same manner and in the same sense 
that the apostolic church did. We pray to the sovereign God 
of heaven and earth, the sovereign God who created heaven and earth, 
the sovereign God who governs all his creatures and all their 
actions. That's meant to encourage you. An invocation isn't simply 
calling upon God, but it's also understanding and rehearsing 
who God is. It's confessing Him. It's understanding. It's praying according to knowledge. 
It's realizing the target of our petition is the one who has 
absolute ability to carry out what He has promised and purposed. 
Matthew Poole makes this observation. He says, the creation and government 
of the world is a good consideration to confirm us under all things 
that befall us here. Listen to that again. The creation 
and government of the world is a good consideration to confirm 
us under all things that befall us here. The God to whom we pray, 
the God we pour out our burdens to, is the God who made all things. the God who governs all things. 
And you'll notice that when they come to the application of Psalm 
2 in their current situation. They know that this enmity from 
the Sanhedrin against them. They know that this rage of the 
nations targeting Yahweh and His Christ, and those who have 
solidarity with Christ, they know this is under God's sovereignty. They're not for a moment thinking, 
you know, Lord, you've lost control. You know, Lord, there's something 
out of your hand here. These people have gone rogue. 
They've become renegades. They've become mavericks, and 
they're persecuting poor little us. No, they never give any inkling 
of that whatsoever. They are through and through 
convinced that God is over even the threatenings of the Sanhedrin 
leveled against these men such that they stop preaching the 
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Brethren, that is the vantage 
point upon which we pray. We don't come to a God who is 
crippled. We don't come to a God who is 
hindered. We don't come to a God who is 
neutered. We don't come to a God who is silent. We don't come 
to a God who is absent, but we come to the God who made the 
world and all things in it. We come to the God who governs 
all his creatures and all their actions. We come to the God who 
holds the hearts of all men in his hand. We come to sovereignty.