God appeared to Solomon that very night and said, “I accept your prayer; yes, I have chosen this place as a temple for sacrifice, a house of worship. If I ever shut off the supply of rain from the skies or order the locusts to eat the crops or send a plague on my people, and my people, my God-defined people, respond by humbling themselves, praying, seeking my presence, and turning their backs on their wicked lives, I’ll be there ready for you: I’ll listen from heaven, forgive their sins, and restore their land to health.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (MSG)
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
And we continue to pray for America.
ReplyDeletePraying for our enemies is hard, but more needed, I think.
Hope you all have a blessed weekend, Reverend.
As always, the thing I find significant in the verse is how God's people are the ones that can drive the change, not the world around them.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Linda.
ReplyDeleteTB, He set His system up to require our input, repentence and acceptance. It's so simple, it takes a theologian to mess it up. :)