If My People

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If My People

• 2 Chronicles 714 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
  forgive their sin, and heal their land.
• 15 Now mine eyes will be open, and mine ears
  attent unto the prayer that is made in this
  temple.

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• Temple
• Created by Solomon
• Temple of the living God
• 2 Corinthians 616 - And what agreement hath the
  temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple
  of the living God as God hath said, I will dwell
  in them, and walk in them and I will be their
  God, and they shall be my people.
• 1 Corinthians 316, 17 - Know ye not that ye are
  the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God
  dwelleth in you?
•  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall
  God destroy for the temple of God is holy, which
  temple ye are.

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• Believers can pray anytime and anywhere
• Humble themselves
• Be willing to hear Gods Word concerning you
• Manasseh
• 2 Chronicles 33 10 - And the LORD spake to
  Manasseh, and to his people but they would not
  hearken.
• 2 Chronicles 3312 - And when he was in
  affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and
  humbled himself greatly before the God of his
  fathers,
•  13 - And prayed unto him and he was intreated
  of him, and heard his supplication, and brought
  him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then
  Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
• Pray ask
• Sin of prayerlessness leads to lack of dependence
  on God
• Jesus asked us to pray always (Luke 181-8)
• Pray earnestly Psalm 628 - Trust in him at all
  times ye people, pour out your heart before him
  God is a refuge for us. Selah.

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• Seek His face follow hard after God
• Matthew 77 - Ask, and it shall be given you
  seek, and ye shall find knock, and it shall be
  opened unto you
• Psalm 421 As the hart panteth after the water
  brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• Turn from the wicked ways Change your ways to
  godliness
• Ephesians 5 10-11 - Proving what is acceptable
  unto the Lord.
•  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works
  of darkness, but rather reprove them.
• Result healing of the nation
• 2 Chronicles 7 14c - then will I hear from
  heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
  their land.

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• England
• John Wesley
• Reforms
• What about USA?
• Christian aation
• Can we maintain the title as
• Christian nation or become
• as heathen nation?
• Pray and turn!