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This morning I read 1 Kings 8, about Solomon dedicating the temple, and felt the Lord speak to me about the following passage:
“When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come, and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel—being aware of the afflictions of their own hearts, and spreading out their hands toward this temple—then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know every human heart), so that they will fear you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.
Solomon asked the Lord two things – to forgive the people for the sin in their own hearts and to act on their behalf. We are living in a time when we see a plague in our land and are crying out to God to act, to kill the virus, to heal the people, to save our economy.
I felt it was so important to examine my heart first and ask Him to forgive me for anything that I have exalted above Him. Have I made money and comfort an idol? Have I let fear have a stronghold over faith? The truth is that God is good, He is merciful, and He forgives. We can rest in knowing the truth, even in times of plague.
(Tracey de Blank is IFA Director of Operations and Events.)
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Let us pray!
Amen.
We remember the final plague that first Passover.
All the land of Egypt was plagued and all their gods were struck down and judged; because they would not let God’s people go. Instead of embracing them, they enslaved them.
All the world is plagued today, and gods of gold and silver and economic pleasures have been struck down.
Let’s pray.
Almighty God, we know You are good and did not do this. We also know You are wise and You have used this…to open our eyes.
Lord, we have sinned. We’ve failed to embrace The Passover Lamb; The Lamb Of God that takes away the sin that plagues our world. We’ve become enslaved to running to and fro, ever-increasing useless knowledge and never ending lust for pleasure.
Over night, it’s all come undone. All the rotten fruit, wood, hay and stubble has been shaken away.
Here we stand, naked and exposed.
Please forgive.
Merciful Lord, we ask for mercy to triumph over judgement.
This holy week, as we remember You, our Passover Lamb; remember us, remember Your sacrifice and let Your blood once again, deliver us from death, heal our hearts and heal our land.
So that all the people of all the world will know that You are Lord of all the earth, please accept our prayer, forgive our sins and declare death to this plague.
Lord we ask for You to do what only You can do, bring life, from death. Turn the grim reaper’s scythe into the Lord of The Harvest’s sickle.
Yes! I think also of the Lords Prayer; to pray for our sins to be forgiven.
Thank you!