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IF MY PEOPLE!

Wayne Thorn

Rev. Cecil Thorn

2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)

14 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.

The last part of this verse  states “will heal their land”

I think some of us may have forgotten what prayer can do. We need healing in our country and around the world.

We talk, we complain, and we participate in marches for the topics we fill compassionate about, but we don’t hear a call to prayer much.

We as Christians have a mandate from God to pray.

Matthew 6:5–13 (KJV)

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Hear Matthew in verse 10 start off with When you pray, not if you pray, but this is how you do it. Then he goes and says in verse 10 “10  Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

The right kind of prayer has a passion for God’s glory and agenda. His name, kingdom and will have the top priority[1]

This day, I’m calling out to all of you to go to your prayer closets and start praying for this country of ours and for the world.

[1] David Guzik, Matthew, David Guzik’s Commentaries on the Bible (Santa Barbara, CA: David Guzik, 2013), Mt 6:9–13.

One response to “IF MY PEOPLE!”

  1. Cecil Thorn

    I will pray! Will you?

Still going….

Rev. Cheryl Eaton

When you seem at your worst: keep holding on. When it seems your faith is as small as it can get; keep holding on through prayer!

Often times through my journey it seemed I would give up! I kept hearing Christian teachers and preachers in my head saying to stay strong. I would remember the scripture that says: ” Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls…Matthew 11: 28-29(KJV)

All God asks of us is to be faithful. God asked His own son to be faithful and fulfill the earthly plan by coming to earth in the form of a human. Even in the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus had to pray in agony until droplets of blood seeped through the pores of his forehead. He was agonizing before God so he would not turn and run. Who in their right mind wants to put themselves over to be mutilated and tortured? Jesus had to get the mindset of the Father. He came through victorious because He sought the will of God.

You also will come through victorious! Keep quoting scripture that strengthens you and encourages you to continue to turn the battle over to God!

Keep going so that you can say to others as a testimony: Still going for Christ!

Is it wrong to pray for something specific?

Rev. Cecil Thorn

Well, let’s think about this, there are some very specific times when God’s people pray for very specific things, Like the healing of the man let down through the roof. His friends must have been praying that if they could get him to Jesus he would be healed (Mark 2:1-12(KJV). There was a time when Jesus’s mother asked Jesus to do a miracle at a wedding and He turned the water into wine (John 2:1-11(KJV).

These are two examples of asking God /Jesus to do something specific. Hezekiah asked that his life be lengthened and God did so by giving him 15 more years of life.

Now we must be careful about what we ask for because it may not be in the will of God for you to have some of the things we ask for. So let’s give it a test:

  1. Does it Glorify God in this thing
  2. Can God be seen in this thing
  3. Will this shine through you about God’s love for us

know there is a thing called the perfect will of God and we can do this by praying in the spirit to God. Here you don’t know what yours saying or thinking but you come into union with God about these things through this kind of prayer. God’s perfect will is not always what we would want it to be because God’s perfect will may be Life or Death, Wealth or poverty, etc.

I believe you can pray one way or the other pray for that specific need when you know it or pray for God’s will when you don’t know what to pray for.

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