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 and 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 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 that 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 your your hand here these people have gone rogue they've 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 solve
