Amaziah hired fighting men from Israel to help him in battle. But…”Even if you go out and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.”

When Amaziah sent the mercenaries home, they were furious, even though they went home with the promised money.  Why?  Could it be because they wanted the plunder as well as the money? Later on they raided many Judean towns, killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder.  

Amaziah tried to fight his battles on his own or by enlisting the help of others when it was promised…“The Lord can give you much more than that.”

 
How often do God’s people turn to something or someone other than God for help to fight their battles?  Many people, including the people of God, are near collapse carrying an oppressive burden of emotional problems and addictions. We often seek psychological and medicinal “band aid” treatments for these problems and addictions when a Biblical cure is what is needed. Instead of seeking temporary worldly solutions we should allow Scripture to surgically and permanently remove them.  

Heb 4:12
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Ezek 11:19-20
I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

It means facing our emotional problems and addictions and allowing the removal of our heart of stone that frees us to follow in obedience to Him. 

Amaziah discovered he would not be successful on his own or even if he enlisted the help of others. We need to learn that lesson as well …“The Lord can give you much more than that.” The Lord offers us so much more than the world can. In fact He offers us "immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine".

Eph 3:20-21
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.