LET US PRAY

This year during the National Day of Prayer millions of Christians and sinners alike will gather in churches, chapels, synagogues, and even mosques to pray for America, but sadly I believe not much in the Spiritual realm will be accomplished. Oh they will have a wonderful time visiting with each other, eating, and even praying together, but I am not sure how much God will be involved in their prayers. The rallying verse from the Bible will be: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall 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." (2 Chronicles 7:14) Strange how we think today because of our ungodly culture and the moral decay of our society in America we have discovered this verse, but oh no my friends this moral decay and ungodliness has been going on in my life time since the early 60s and this verse has always been in the Bible. We kicked God out of school in 1962 (and the church did nothing about it) and now we wonder why we have so many school shootings and even killings? In 1973 the Supreme Court of America (while the church did nothing about it. They said they were concerned about souls and did not want to offend, but in reality the church was more concerned about the money and the power they would lose if they spoke up) passed a law (that impacted the world) to make wholesale slaughter of babies in the mother's womb legal. How greedy of the church. Since then we have had over 53 million babies offered up on the altar of convenience, pride, and selfishness and now wonder why the birth rate in America is decreasing and our financial systems in America are crumbling, not to mention the ungodly evil acts of barbarism. While all the time this verse was neatly tucked away in the Bible. So now we pop this verse out like a magic wand and wave it in the air as we pray thinking God will just forgive us and heal our land? How religious of us. In 2015 again the Supreme Court said sodomy was okay between a man and man and lesbianism was okay between a woman and a woman (God said they were an abomination) and even said they could marry (while the church said and did nothing) again it was a money issue and falling attendance. Again the church was more concerned about money and the influence, and power it would lose. How greedy and religious of the church. No my friend God will not look past America's sins our day is coming unless we submit and turn from our wicked ways. Why are we praying? Read the verse again. For our land to be healed there are things that must be done before we pray. It says we have to "humble" ourselves. This means we are to submit to the authority of God and His word in our lives thus coming into the kingdom of God whereby He sits on the throne of our heart as King and is the unquestioned ruler of our lives. What a strange concept for most Christians. We must submit to God and His word and not the denominationalism and title driven leadership structure (Bishops, Apostles, etc.), but submit to the truth that every word of the Bible is inspired right from the heart of God whereby we can no longer wiggle around verse after verse. My God we have lesbians and sodimites leading churches, denominations, and we think God will bless our nation? We are killing babies by the millions and selling their body parts. How foolish are we? We support and even vote for people who openly defy God and His word (by their words and actions) and feel we are still a Christian. How poor, blind, and naked are we? God will not bless a nation whose culture is ungodly and evil, I do not care how long and how hard the people pray. So we must "humble ourselves" and then "turn from their wicked ways." In other words we must stop aborting babies, call the homosexual lifestyles what God calls it, an abomination. We must stop calling evil good and good evil turning our heads away from sin. We do all of these things and just because we pray we think God is going to stay His hand of judgment. How ungodly and miserable are we? My friend God's heart for us is to come into the kingdom of God and for this to happen we must understand the truth about God and His kingdom. More to come on this topic in my next article. By all means let us pray, but praying to pray without humbling ourselves is insanity. Can God heal our land? Yes without question, but it is not up to God, His ability, or power it is up to us. When God speaks and promises us something it is always His intention in the speaking, but if God's intention happens it is because we have met the conditions for God's intentions to happen. And here in 2 Chronicles 7:14 we must humble (submit) ourselves, pray, seek God's face (which is more than praying), and turn from our wicked ways. Only praying will do little to nothing for us. I will be honest I am not hopeful America will change the Bible does not lend itself towards that, but I am hopeful in God and that is enough for America and us. Remember God is to us what we are to God. It is not God bless America, but America bless God.