Date: Friday, 6th June, 2025
Text: 2 Chronicles 7:13-14
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
We are called to the place of prayer to seek the mercies of the God of Heaven so that the raw glory experienced in the early church can return. When there is a people to pray, there is a God to answer.
In 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, God said, “If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
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 will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
The glory will return when we cry to the Lord in repentance and genuinely forsake all forms of spiritual coldness, lukewarmness and lethargy.
In prayer we shut ourselves out from the noisy dissenting voices in the busy world and find ourselves in the quiet stillness of God’s presence. There we discern the mind of God and receive specific instructions we need to prevail daily.
In the place of prayer we have the opportunity to intercede for others especially those who are lost in sin.
Temptations lose their power in the place of fervent prayer- Matthew 26:41. In prayer we commune with God and tap fresh grace for the fresh challenges each day presents. In the place of prayer, we receive strength to submit to the Lord and to resist the devil.
Action Nugget: Let us humble ourselves and return to a life of consistent, heart-felt praying that avails much.
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