1 Chron. 7:14

2 Chronicles 7:14 “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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.”


God’s remedy for a broken world is not complicated, has always worked in the past and can be counted on to work in the future. The prerequisite is a sick land. I think America qualifies for that. We are broken economically with nearly 10% unemployment, people losing their homes by the millions and life time savings disappearing. We are broken socially with families falling apart at record rates, kids raising themselves, marriages having less than 50% chance of success,. We are broken morally with teenage pregnancy through the roof the acceptance of homosexuality as an alternative to one man and one woman, and web pages that will connect you with another married person so you can commit adultery anonymously for a fee and the murder of unborn babies still hovering around a million and a half a year. Is our land sick? Without an infusion of the blood of Jesus Christ we are terminal.

The prescription starts with his people. The people of the world have no chance of healing the bleeding. Certainly the politicians are powerless to make the change because the change that’s needed is the change of the individual heart. So it starts with His people humbling themselves to pray. Why humility is so important is because pride keeps us from praying. As long as we think we can pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps we will never really get on our knees. Notice that forgiveness is so connected to the healing of our land. In a world that doesn’t even see sin as sin how is that going to happen? The answer is the Holy Spirit convicting the world of sin as a response to the repentance of God’s people repenting. It must start with us and when most of us take the remedy God will heal the land.

Pastor Rick