Pray for America

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

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.

Friends, it is time to pray. Pray for your country. God gives us this promise in 2 Chronicles, but it comes with conditions. What are they?

The first is that we must be His people. Yes, that's right, God hears His people and not those who aren't called by His name. It's just the way it is. This says God won't hear those who do not give their lives over to Jesus Christ.

The second condition is that we must humble ourselves, pray and seek Him. We must admit that we need God. That without Him, we are nothing and can do nothing. We must admit to Him that we are sinful. We must come clean with all our weaknesses and faults. We have to come down from our own self-styled pedestal and lay at His feet with our face in the dirt. We must look for what He wants from us. How He wants us to live. What He wants us to give up.

The third condition, and I wonder if this isn't the most important, is that we must repent. Turn from our wicked ways is what God tells us. There is no option. We MUST repent. Leave all those things that are keeping us from God at the foot of the cross. Whatever that sin is, porn, drugs, work, food, sex, shopping, we MUST repent and turn from those things.

Once we meet those conditions, God will fulfill His end of the promise. Go ahead and test Him. He's faithful. He's true to His word. He will do what He says.

Friends, we need a revival in this land. We are headed down a horribly sinful path in this country and we need to reverse that. The only way that will happen is with God's help. We cannot do it on our own.

America needs all of the Christ followers now. We must do this or this country could be lost.

Will you set out from now on to humble yourself, repent and pray for America? If we do, we will be astonished at what God will do for our great land. He promised it, He'll deliver.

God bless you and may God bless America.