WE INVITE YOU TODAY AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US DAILY ! ! ! --Saturday, December 20, 2014--7:14 aM---OUR PRAYER IN UNITY AS A NATION WE ARE PRAYING 2 CHRONICLES 7:14 IN UNITY EVERYDAY @ 7:14 am & 7:14 pm =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-GODs Promises=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Prayer of 2 Chronicles 7:14 for our Nation And God said:“If 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, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chron. 7:14) -------------------GODs Promises----------------------- FORMULA FOR REVIVAL 2 Chron 7:14 I f my people, who 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. INTRODUCTION: WHAT A REVIVAL IS NOT: * It is not a schedule meeting that a church has; * It is not seeing lost people saved (although that is a product of revival) * It is what God sends down - It is not what we work up. What does the word revival mean? It come from the Latin work Re - again & Vivere - to live. To make alive again. THE TEXT: This is the time of Solomon’s reign. David had died. God would not let David build the temple because he was a bloody man. (He was guilty of murdering an innocent man.) He prepared the material and his son erected the temple. It was quite an occasion. He preached to the people - He prayed - they celebrated - THEY OFFERED SACRIFICES {22,000 oxen & 120,000 sheep). No wonder the historian of that day wrote, What meaneth this endless flow of blood from Israel’s alter. It was God dwelling with his people in His temple. We are the temple of God. It is a message to the church but only as He dwells individually with each of us. It is when the fire of God is burning in our midst. Revival is when God’s people have their hearts right so that the living God can move and have his will and way in the midst of them. I am convinced that you will not find any better formula for revival than you do here in 2 Chron 7:14 “If my people, who 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.” I. THE PEOPLE OF REVIVAL: If my people, which are called by my name, It is God’s people who needs revival. We need it on a daily basis. It is not lost people who need revival. A revival is not about getting the lost saved. It is about getting the saints living again. A saved person is the temple of God - God does not move into a lost temple. The great truth is that we belong to God. We are his people. We are called by his name. We belong to him by creation but even more important that. We belong to him by regeneration. The first birth and the second birth. Isa 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Psa 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. It is not the people in the bars that need revival. II. THE PROCESS OF REVIVAL: shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS A PROCESS: 1. Shall humble themselves Humility is the total realization that you can do nothing apart from God. Pride is the opposite of humility. It is the demonstration of a life that testifies by the way they live that they don’t need God. The Bible says, Pride goeth before a fall. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. A VERY REVEALING SCRIPTURE ABOUT HUMILITY: Deut 8:2 – 3 “And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to test thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not. And he humbled thee, and allouwed you to get hungry so He could feed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.” It has been my experience that God is going to humble you. It just depends on how easy you want to make it on yourself. If you are saved and prideful. You have some hard knocks ahead of you. Matt 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Matt 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 2. And pray There is a process to a revived heart. Humility must come before prayer can be effectual. 3. and seek my face Knowing that we are walking in the presence of our living Savior. 4. and turn from their wicked ways How can you be right when you’re wrong. III. THE PROMISE OF REVIVAL: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 1. I will hear (give audience to) from heaven 2. I will forgive their sin 3. I will heal their land. ========================== 2 Chronicles 7:1 The Fire came down from Heaven, and consumed the Burnt-Offering. It was a very gracious and immediate response to the prayer of King and people. If we make room for God, He always comes and fills. If we seek Him, He is instantly with us. Directly the soul confesses, it is forgiven; or consecrates itself, it is accepted; or claims deliverance from the power of sin, it is cleansed. Do you really want the Lord to come to you? His glory has even now begun to shine in on you, to grow and enlighten you forevermore. The fire stands for the Divine Presence. Oh to have always a consciousness of it! Nothing would so soon arrest and destroy the impurity and evil within; as sunshine does fungus-growth. We are told that the fire was to be kept burning on the altar: it was never to go out. Thus, we should always perpetuate and practice the presence of God, feeding the fire with the fuel of prayer and meditation. Fire also stands for the Divine Purity. As the Plague of London was stamped out by the Great Fire which destroyed the nests where it had bred; and as the furnace rids the ore of dross— so the Holy Spirit in thy heart and mine is a guarantee of holiness and righteousness all our days. Fire also stands for Divine Fellowship. It consumed that part of the offering which was placed on the altar; and it seemed as if the Divine nature was therefore feeding upon the sacrifice, whilst the remainder of it was consumed by the offerer. Thus, also, we have communion with God, as we eat the bread and drink the wine in the Lord’s supper. We feed on Christ in adoration, faith, and identification. God feeds on the completeness of Christ’s obedience, and the glory of His character. Thus we have fellowship with the Father and the Son, by the Holy Ghost 2 Chronicles DEVOTIONALS F B Meyer Our Daily Homily Today in the Word - Moody Bible Institute
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