In 11chronicles 7:14 It says “ 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 its My will to hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” Among all the other promises that God gives us in His word, this is very clear-cut and seriously stated by Him. If we ever needed a healing in the land, it is never more needed as it is today. God has called us to stand in the gap to be a part of the healing process for this nation. Let us tear this scripture apart and define its true meaning. King Solomon had just completed the house of the Lord. This was something God had him build so that, He could live in it here on the earth and have fellowship with His people. God was trying to communicate with Solomon that, He wanted to have a relationship with His people in this house.

In 1Corinthians 6:19-20 Paul the Apostle states, “Our body is the temple and sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, whom we received as a gift from God. We do not belong to ourselves to do our own thing. We were bought with a price-purchased and paid for by Jesus sacrifice on the cross. So now we can honor and bring glory to Him in our daily relationship with Him, because we are His children.” If you are a born again believer and have been adopted permanently into God’s family then you are His sons and daughters which qualifies you to be called His people. The word for called in the Hebrew is gara: which means to be addressed by name and to be met in person. Where it says my name, this represents all that God possess.

In John 1:12-13 he states, “But to as many that do receive and welcome Jesus, to them He gave His authority, power and privilege to become His children. That is to those who rely on all His name represents. In turn, we do not owe our birth into the kingdom through our own willful and physical efforts. Nor can we inherit the kingdom because our earthly father is saved and get in on his coattails, but only because we have become new born again creatures that have been impregnated by God’s own sperm into our being.”

This has to be our rock solid foundation in Jesus if, we are going to have the confidence that God is going to hear our petitions. So now that we know the bases of our salvation, the next thing this scripture tells us is to humble ourselves before we pray. This word humble is a characteristic of the Holy Sprit and only He can motivate and initiate this type of Spirit from within us. It is only by us allowing the Holy Spirit to operate His perfect will in our lives that puts us in the position for Him to channel His perfect petitions to God the Father on our behalf.

The word for humble in the Hebrew is kana: meaning, to bend the knee, to defeat in battle, to overcome fear, or subject our will to another. The word for pray is paisa: meaning, to judge, to intercede with a deep feeling and conviction with serious intent. We will only be lightly touching this definition of prayer in this article. We see here that this is nothing like a simple prayer over our food or saying an Our Father with no more understanding then a ritualistic expression of words.

James 5:16 tells us, “The earnest heartfelt and continual prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available and is dynamic in its working.” Prayer is us becoming one in a relationship by coming into agreement with the mind of Christ that we received the day we were born again. Prayer is having a continual conversation and relationship with the Holy Spirit by feeling His passion and commitment to the world He created that was sabotaged by Satan in the Garden. Only people who are hungering and thirsting after God can tap into this power that will be needed to cast off the cunning deceptions of the Devil. It is the Holy Spirit’s power operating and being energized by Him in us that breaks the demonic forces at work in people’s lives.

This scripture goes on to say that, we need to seek God’s face. The word for seek is baqush: meaning, to search out in worship and a requesting of the Lord. It can only be obtain by some effort and it must be to a completed end. The word for face is paneh: meaning, many things but primarily it is an attitude of going to war over a cause with intensity. It also means we live in an atmosphere of divine power like the air we breath to stay alive. You can see that, this has to be a top priority in our life and not a commitment of a casual pursuit.

Mathew 11:12 states, “Since the day that John the Baptist came on the scene, until this present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault and violent men must seize it by force as a precious prize. Our share in the heavenly kingdom has to be sought for with the most ardent zeal and intense exertion.” We are in a spiritual warfare, which is going on in our minds. It is the Holy Spirits power alone working in us and showing us our weapons and how to use them that will make us become over comers. Being a born again Christian and standing in the gape for God, is not a game of playing church and living a life of obligation to religious systems of legalistic observances. The word violent man literally means that, we need to be seized upon by the Holy Spirit and become griped with His passion and purpose to fight a fight of restoration and deliverance from a demonic attack.

The next part of the scripture we are using says that God wants us to turn from our wicked ways. The word for turn is shuwb: meaning, many things but primarily, to be fetch home again, repent, restore, and recover or to weep. The word for wicked is ra: meaning, evil, harmful, mischievous, or being wretched. The word for way is derek: meaning, a conversation, a guide or a way of walking. When we pray for something or someone the Holy Spirit first begins to expose any healing we need in our own soul that has to take place. We need to understand that any thing contrary to God’s will is considered wicked in God’s eyes. When we live in ignorance of God’s principals and miss God’s perfect will it becomes harmful and we cannot function in the inheritance that He gave us when we became born again believers. Sin in any form is defined in scripture, as missing God’s inheritance and His perfect will. It effects our very being which is our (mind, will and emotions.)

Sin is induced into our thought life, when we measure our purity before God in judging ourselves by rules and regulations, which produces deeds contrary to God’s intentions for us.

When we have no passion for God, it keeps us in a state of being vulnerable to Satan’s devices.

King David was known to be a man after God’s own heart and in Psalms 139:23-24 he states, “Search me thoroughly O God, and know my heart! Try me, and know my thoughts and see if there is any wicked and harmful way in me, and lead me in the way of your eternal purposes.” We must allow the Holy Spirit to do the searching of our heart and not us living in condemnation and focusing on our faults. This is the attitude we must have to keep our hearts pure and functioning in a loving relation with the Holy Spirit and we must not allow our camaraderie with the Holy Spirit to be broken in any way. Our friendship of walking and grazing in God’s rich green pastures and allowing Him to be our Shepard and Guide is the Devil’s main target that he wants to derail.

The next part of this scripture says that it is God’s will to hear from heaven. The word for will is ratson: meaning, a debt as something owed, a delight, and reconciliation between two parties. The word for hears is shama: meaning, indeed listening and to proclaim to be sound. The word for heaven is shameh: meaning, a lofty place and seating or celestial place where God’s providence is doled out to His people. Providence meaning, God’s future care and nature being exercised over the entire universe

Scripture tells us that God’s laws of a vibrant life are already written down from the beginning of time. It’s His extreme pleasure to reveal to us His laws and plant them deep into our subconscious mind and heart so that when the time is right, we can speak the completed work by God into existence by the Power of the Holy Spirit speaking through us and bringing His kingdom into this world. When we are ignorant of God’s concepts of thinking then, we become sheep lead to be slaughter.

We can learn to be child like, acknowledge our limitations, and not try to help God out in the predicaments that we get ourselves into. Peace will have its perfect rule in our being. We must come to understand that this is a lifestyle of continual feeding at the Lords table of life.

Acts 10:38 tells us that “God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with strength and ability and power; He went about doing good and in particular curing all that were harassed and oppressed by the power of the Devil, for God was with Him.” If there is going to be any healing in this land it is going to be done by God’s born again children as they allow the Holy Spirit to use them for God’s purposes. Maybe you not pastoring a church, or not some great Prophet or have some Apostolic ministry. However, being one of God’s kids, do not let anyone make light of you’re giftings and His great purpose He planted in you to be about your heavenly Fathers business in the market places of your life. I have personally done more ministering outside the church structure the last forty years that I have ever done in the structure of the church. We are living in the last round up. Never before, have I seen the great need to minister to the hurting and disillusioned lost people and I am also talking about born again believers. Individually we are to minister in the settings that God has put us in. This is being involved with our families and friends and the people we meet everyday

It is my prayer that we put aside our denominational beliefs and focus on God purposes alone. Scripture states that it is the entrance of God’s word into our mind and hearts that gives us a clear vision of knowing the power we have in God to change circumstances. It is as we get our attitudes focused on His priorities alone that, we will receive His favor.