If My People

2 Chronicles 7:12-16 If My People

1. THE PROBLEM

(a) Spiritual Barreness -

13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain,

(b) Spiritual Blindness -

or if I command the locusts to devour the land,

(c) Spiritual Brokeness -

or if I send pestilence among my people;

2. THE PEOPLE - 14 If my people,

(a) The Distinction - my people

His Investment in them,

His Interest in them,

His Intention for them.

(b) Description - which are called by my name

(c) Direction - shall humble themselves

3. THE PRAYER - and pray

(a) PRIDE must be ELIMINATED - humble themselves - Judges 8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more

1904, Evan Roberts a sermon by Seth Joshua "Lord, bend us!" - "Lord, bend me!"

One hundred thousand converted in six months

(b) PRAYER must be ESTABLISHED "and pray"

(c) PURITY must be EXHIBITED - "seek My face"

(d) PARDON must be EXPERIENCED -

"and turn from their wicked ways" Gen 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

4. THE PROMISE

(a) of Divine Visitation - then - "will I hear"

judgment or revival.

(b) Divine Absolution - "I forgive their sin"

(c) Divine Restoration - "I heal their land"