Musings October 3, 2024 issue
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Continue to Pray
Reprinted courtesy of
The McCreary County Voice.
Years ago, someone said to me in conversation that God never says “IF.” Of course, the first verse that came to my mind was, “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 I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
God is expressing a conditional promise to His people. “If” and “then” give us the parameters of the conditions. The “IF”is spoken, not to the world, but to the people of God who are called by His name. The promise in the Bible that God makes all things work together for good is a conditional promise. The promise is not to everyone, but only to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.
God gives the church are the conditions that, if walked out, will bring great blessings. The end result is the healing of our land. God is calling His people, not the world, to humble themselves. The church is the light of the world and the salt of the earth. God is looking to the church to be the means of blessing a nation. The Bible says God resists the proud but gives grace to those who are humble.
In our life, every great move of God starts with us humbling ourselves before the Lord. When we do this, we naturally begin to pray and seek the face of God.
Hosea said, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that He may come and rain righteousness upon you.”
When we seek the face of God, His purity begins to reveal the things in our life that are not like Him.
Job said it this way, “I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job’s heart was revealed in the glory of God’s presence. This caused him to repent, which led to God’s abundant mercy and forgiveness.
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Let’s continue to pray for our nation that we will see a great and mighty move of God, which will begin in the body of Christ.
“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.” Jeremiah 18:7