“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 I will hear from heaven, and I will
forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:13-14
God warned
the people in this chapter that there will be hard times ahead, when God would
allow drought, famine, crop destruction and medical diseases to devast the
nation. The solution to that problem
will be God’s people—not the unsaved or the non-religious. God’s people need to humble themselves, pray,
seek God’s face and turn from their own wicked way.
The church
thinks the world is the problem. God
says that’s not true. Hard times come
when God determines it, not the world.
He’s cranking up the difficulties to kick start a movement by God’s
people, getting them off their seats and to their knees.
When God’s
people wake up, God promises to hear their prayers and bring power to their
places of worship. If God’s people turn
from wickedness, goodness and peace will come to the earth.
So wake up
church and stop trying to get the world right.
Get yourselves right and the world will follow when it sees God’s Spirit
return with such force that He can’t be denied.