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In challenging times marked by financial turmoil, conflict, and societal issues, the message of 2 Chronicles 7:12-14 resonates with urgency. God calls His people to humble themselves, seek His face, and turn from wickedness. To heal our nation, believers must confront pride, prayerlessness, bad priorities, and presumption of grace. Inspired by Charles Finney’s definition of revival, we are reminded that obedience to God is essential. With the power of righteous prayer, we can hope for a reversal of the challenges facing America and a renewed commitment to faith.
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AMERICA, WAKE UP AND PRAY
2 Chronicles 7:12-14 “The Lord appeared to him at night and said: ‘I have heard your prayer and have chosen this
place for myself as a temple for sacrifices. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command
locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will
humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will
I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.’”
In order to bring His people to their senses, God sends difficulties into their lives as a nation.
And hasn’t He gotten our attention?
If we are to save our nation, then the people of God have to slay four enemies of revival:
We have to slay PRIDE.
James 4:2-3: “You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,
because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”
We have to slay BAD PRIORITIES.
We have to slay PRESUMING ON GOD’S GRACE.
Charles Finney, a great evangelist, defined revival as “Nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.”
James 5:16- “The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.”