Sunday, January 26, 2025.

Mrs Pasteur BILLEY.

2 Chronicles 7

12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

14 if My people who are called by My name will 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.

15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.

16 For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

17 As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.

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 them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Solomon took 20 years to build the temple, because the Lord wanted him to use natural stone. And when he finished, he consecrated the temple, he brought all that was needed: the ark of the covenant and the necessary articles.

Then he prayed to God. 2 Chronicles 6:14-42

2 Chr6.20 that Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. Hear the prayer of your servant in this place.

Then God answered Solomon, He heard him.

12 The Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place as the house where sacrifices are to be offered to me.

13 When I close the sky and there is no rain, when I command the locusts to consume the land, when I send pestilence among my people;

14 If my people, on whom my name is called, will humble themselves, pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways-I will hear them from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And the Lord explained to him that there would be consequences for his people if they sinned. But if he humbles himself, doesn’t self-justify, and acknowledges his faults. Pray and seek his face to the point of turning away from his evil ways then there will be forgiveness and healing.

This Word is for those who belong to God, who know Him.

Asking for forgiveness seems easy, but it’s only part of the story. Then you have to renounce these things; then that’s what closes the repentance process. And triggers healing.

The temple built was a building, but not the building the Lord spoke of. But He brought Solomon’s gaze back to the condition of the people themselves, the condition of their lives. By specifying what his people were to do when they sinned.

The Lord is concerned about our souls more than anything else.

This is why the Lord gives us the opportunity to repent. For sin would destroy his people by bringing evils into their lives.

2 Chr 7.

13 As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

Repentance is the way out, and must not be superficial but profound.

There’s nothing worse than working for one thing, making sacrifices and then someone else comes along and takes that away.

Jesus went to the cross, went through so much pain so that we could be called children of God and in the end we end up with the devil?

No beloved. We must not accept this. We must preserve our salvation and our heritage.

Repentance is not only for the sins we know, but also for the habits, character, decisions we had made and influenced our lives…

For all this, we must repent.

This is how our destinies will be restored.

Beloved, change your way of thinking and come back to the Lord.

When we repent, we sever the connection between the enemy and ourselves. He no longer has a claim on our lives because we have repented.

The world will move on and so will its greed.

Isaiah 40.8 The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

We must therefore choose what will lead us to eternal life. We don’t have to justify ourselves.

Exodus 23 .2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; …

We must not follow the multitude to sin. What the world calls good, what the world accepts and glorifies…in the Kingdom of God this is not acceptable.

The verse in Proverbs 28:13 is similar to everything in 2 Chronicles 7. This means that repentance, in both the Old and New Testaments, is still relevant today.

Brother, sister, if you feed sin in your life, you won’t prosper.

In Solomon’s time, everything in his palace was made of gold.

We are blessed with Abraham’s blessing.

Why can’t we see this with our own eyes?

We must take repentance seriously.

When I’ve lied and the Holy Spirit convinces me I’ve lied, I need to repent quickly. Don’t make excuses and say if I hadn’t lied, I’d have been in trouble, I’d have been hit, etc…

Beloved, know that it is better to be smitten on earth than in hell. It’s better to repent on earth than to be thrown into hell.

You have to tell yourself that “as long as my Father is satisfied, all will be well!” . That’s what counts.

So, to experience God’s prosperity, we must work at this deep repentance.

IN THE NAME OF JESUS, Let Us Pray… →

Lord Jesus,

Let all that is hidden in me be exposed.

May all that darkness has hidden in my life be revealed.

Let Your light be established in me.

Lord, you have redeemed me with your blood.

Please give me a repentant heart in Jesus’ name.

I renounce the idols of my life in Jesus’ name.

I come back to you, my Redeemer,

Grant me the grace to love You deeply.

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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