A People Called By His Name

Welcome to the Prayer and Faith Podcast where we pray for God’s will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.  Thank you for joining us for this podcast.  We are staring a series of prayer podcasts praying for and seeking Revival in our churches, and an Awakening in our land.

Our central verse in this series is a promise from God in 2 Chronicles  7:14

14 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. 1

(All Scripture is from the ESV or English Standard Version)

If we look around today, we see sharp divisions in our society.   Our societies are being pulled apart.    We need God to move.

Our first prayer today deals with the first part of that … If my people who are called by my name…

If you look at that verse,   the healing of a land depends solely on God’s people and what they do, not what the unbeliever does or does not do.   So the church cannot sit around blaming the “world”,   God put the ability to deal with issues, squarely in the hands of his people.

Now there are those that will pint out that this verse was written exclusively for the Jews.  I disagree with that.   First, God makes clear he is the same Yesterday, Today, and Forever.  So as a believer in Jesus Christ are you his?  Are you called by his name?

Romans 9 declares:

“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’

    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”

26 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

    there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

John 1 makes also this very clear:

11 He came to his own,[b] and his own people[c] did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God

2 Corinthians 6:16 declares:

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Does the church have authority in these issues?

Luke 10:19   tells us:

Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you

So as a believer, you are his people and you are called by his name, and he has given you authority.

We need unity of the believers, of the church.  We need an urgent call to the people of God to a place of humility, repentance and prayer.

Today we wil be praying

Thanksgiving for his goodness and his great mercy

Asking him to give us the strength, will and desire to stand in the gap for our land, people and nation.

Asking him to call the entire church to this place to contend for healing in the land.

Prayer for Blessing on the Listeners

 

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