My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
GOD's Promise and Warning
2 Chronicles: 11-22
¶ Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s palace, and successfully completed all that he had planned on doing in the house of the LORD and in his palace.
¶ Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’
¶ “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’
And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore, He has brought all this adversity on them.’”
{{ And the sceptic says that’s all fine and good but He is talking to Solomon, not to us. Wrong.
The Bible was written to all of us to show us who GOD is and how GOD does things, written so that we may know God the Father, Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. Who they are and what they did, are and will do, how life works, the blessings for obeying and the consequence for not obeying.
Being humble and repenting is a key point to salvation. Above there are a few points that I would like to lay out
1. “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
When tragedy comes in to this world or our lives, we have a choice to make, will we turn to the ways of man for answers or will we turn to Father God?
As a Christian, a believer in and follower of Christ the Lord, Farther God says; if we will humble our self, pray and seek His face, turn from our wicked ways, (our sin, our disobedience) then He will He will hear our cry for help, forgive us of our sins and heal our land.
You want this world, this country, your life to turn around and become a blessing aging?
Then turn to the Lord, humble yourself turn away from the wickedness in your life pray to Christ the Lord before the Lord, repent of the wickedness in your life, your sins, ask to be forgiven, for your heart and your land to be healed.
Key point humble yourself, and repent.
i am reminded of these scriptures:
Matthew 8:2
And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
The man humbled himself and approached Jesus. And in faith said “if You are willing, you can make me clean” And the result Jesus cleansed him.
Matthew 8:5-8 and 13
And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him, and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented.” Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
But the centurion said, “Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Matthew 8:13 And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed that very moment.
(A centurion was a man of power and authority, but yet he humbled himself to come to Christ in faith to ask Jesus to speak healing in to his servant, and because the centurion believed in Jesus the servant was healed.)
Matthew 9:2
And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
Matthew 9:20-22
And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak; for she was saying to herself, “If I only touch His garment, I will get well.”
But Jesus turning and seeing her said, “Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.” At once the woman was made well.
Examples of Christ the Lord responding to humility. By humbling oneself before the Christ the Lord repenting of one’s sins to the Christ the Lord, with faith in Christ the Lord.
He will hear from heaven and answer you.
Question is:
Can you humble our self?
Will you repent of your wickedness?
Will you except the love of Christ in your life?
Will you be a part of your land being healed or a part of its downfall?
dont just read this and move on. Think about it.
Are you a truly follower of Christ the Lord?
Or just a church attender?
Figure it out.
Let go of your arrogance
( what is arrogance? haughtiness, conceit, self-importance, high-handedness, bosting, condescension, distain, contempt, imperiousness, pride, vanity, snobbery, smugness, pretentiousness, scorn, mocking, sneering scoffing, presumptions a sense of superiority. )
Turn away from the wickedness in your life. ( the sins that you cling to )
Turn instead to Christ the Lord, repent and ask to be forgiven, except the forgiveness, read the word of GOD ask the Holy Spirit for Him to teach you and to lead you through life , to make you the man or woman GOD has created you to be.
Live out the greatest commandments ever given.
Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus right out tells us what they are:
And He (Jesus) said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’
This is the great and foremost commandment.
The second is like it,
‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’
Some may say well that is only once in the bible can’t be that important.
O YEA don't fool your self, read on we have been told to love the lord our GOD over and over again Here are a few examples.
Deuteronomy 6:5
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 11:1
“You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
Deuteronomy 11:13
“It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:22
“For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,
Deuteronomy 13:3
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 19:9
if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
Deuteronomy 30:6
“Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:16
in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.
Joshua 22:5
“Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Joshua 23:11
“So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
Mark 12:30
AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.'
Luke 10:27
And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
Go with GOD and you will go in peace.
Don't obey and you win a free ticket to spend eturnity in hell (hell - separated from Father GOD, Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit.)
it is your choice a choice no one ells can make for you.
so Chose well.
Choose this day whom you will serve.
Will it be man, satin or Christ the Lord?
Turn to Christ or reep the consiquinses.
if you have chosen to repent, ask Christ the lord to forgive you then go with the help of the Holy Spirit living out your life fulfilling the two greatest Commandments
The first;
'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOS WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
The second it like it;
'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' }}
Out for now.