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God doesn’t change His standards and expectations to meet our desires. We can learn so much from His dealings with ancient Israel. He is a God who rewards and disciplines nations while giving them clear standards for prosperity.
“Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 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. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.”
2 Chronicles 7: 12-14 (ESV).
What a powerful promise for us today!
Will you join me right now? Let’s humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways so that He will hear from heaven, forgive our sin, and heal our land. 🙏
Comment “Amen” below if you’re committing to this today!
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God foreknew us and knows EXACTLY when each of us will leave this earth.
“For you created my inmost being;
 you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Psalm 139: 13-16 (NIV).
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I prayed for today’s scripture and this is what the Lord dropped into my spirit. Maybe we all need this reminder that God has high standards. Christianity is a come as you are religion, but we are expected to allow Christ and the Holy Spirit to change us from the inside out.
“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Corinthians 6: 9-10 (ESV).
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“A Call to Repentance
Come, and let us return to the Lord;
For He has torn, but He will heal us;

He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
After two days He will revive us;

On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
Let us know,

Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning;

He will come to us like the rain,
Like the latter and former rain to the earth.”
Hosea 6:1-3 (NKJV).
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