2 Chronicles 7:11-22

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1 2 Chronicles 7:11-22

2 2 Chronicles 7:11-22

3 1). A SACRIFICE OF SELF. 2 Chronicles 7:14a, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves

4 Job 1:21, The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. John 3:30, He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30, This is the assigned moment for him to move into the center, while I slip off to the sidelines. - The Message.

5 In order to have revival, in order to be in right standing with God, He has got to become greater, and we ve got to become less!

6 2). A SEEKING AFTER THE SAVIOUR 2 Chronicles 7:14, and 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, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

7 God is a God worth Seeking! The most important person we need to spend time with is God Colossians 1:17, He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Acts 17:24-28, 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and

8 breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, For we also are His children.

9 2 Chronicles 7:13, If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people God provided a recipe for revival and 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, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

10 3). A SURRENDER OF SIN 2 Chronicles 7:14, and 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, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Every great revival in history had one thing in common: REPENTANCE.

11 2 Chronicles 7:19-22, 19 But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by

12 it will be astonished and say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house? 22 And they will say, Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.

13 President Abraham Lincoln s proclamation April 30, 1863

14 The wages of sin is death sinfulness is a means of spiritually dying. Ex: Roman Punishment Only repentance frees us from certain death, for life and death cannot coexist indefinitely.

15 1). A Sacrifice of Self. 2). A Seeking after the Saviour. 3). A Surrender of Sin.

16 2 Chronicles 7:11-22