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 I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
2 Chronicles 7:14-15 NIV
In those moments when you found yourself wondering why God has not answered your prayers here is a place to stop and ponder:
Have you humbled yourself? Are you asking out of self-ambition?
Have you confessed your sins? More importantly have you turned away from your sins -- - in other words have you stopped sinning!
God wants to hear your prayers. God reminds Solomon that there are some requirements. God is not a genie in a bottle available at our command (that is my translation).
Prayer is a powerful thing in the hands of the humble and contrite.
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