How To Pray For Healing and Restoration
March 26, 2023
- Harold Long
- 40 Days of Prayer
- 2 Chronicles 7:12-22
- Acts 3:19
- Deuteronomy 4:29-31
- Ephesians 6:18
- Hebrews 11:6
- Isaiah 17:10
- Isaiah 66:2
- James 4:6
- James 5:13-15
- James 5:16
- John 16:23-24
- Mark 8:38
- Matthew 11:29
- Matthew 18:19
- Matthew 6:33
- Proverbs 28:13
- Proverbs 8:17
- Psalm 14:2
- Psalm 25:9
- Habits
- Hang-ups
- Healing
- Humble
- Humility
- Hurts
- Mind
- Miracles
- Premise
- Promise
- Promises
- Repent
- Repentance
- Restoration
- Seek
- Sin
- Turn
- Wicked
- Wickedness
- Word
- World System
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
2 Chronicles 7 / Common English Bible
4 Then the king and all the people sacrificed to the Lord. 5 King Solomon sacrificed twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep when the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple. 6 The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the Lord’s musical instruments, which King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord, saying, “Yes, God’s faithful love lasts forever!” and which David had used when he gave praise. Across from them, the priests were blowing trumpets while all Israel was standing.
7 Solomon also dedicated the middle of the courtyard in front of the Lord’s temple. He had to offer the entirely burned offerings and the fat of the well-being sacrifices there because the bronze altar Solomon had made was too small to contain the entirely burned offerings, the grain offerings, and the pieces of fat.
8 At that time Solomon, together with all Israel, celebrated the festival for seven days. It was a very large assembly that came from Lebo-hamath to the border[a] of Egypt. 9 On the eighth day there was a gathering. They had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for another seven days. 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month,[b] Solomon dismissed the people to their tents, happy and content because of the goodness the Lord had shown to David, to Solomon, and to his people Israel. 11 In this way, Solomon finished the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He successfully accomplished everything he intended for the Lord’s temple and his own palace.
Solomon again meets God
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place as my house of sacrifice. 13 When I close the sky so that there is no rain or I order the locusts to consume the land or I send a plague against my people, 14 if my people who belong to me will humbly pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 15 From now on my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayers offered in this place, 16 because I have chosen this temple and declared it holy so that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. 17 As for you, if you will walk before me just as your father David did, doing all that I have commanded you and keeping my regulations and case laws, 18 then I will establish your royal throne, just as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a successor ruling in Israel. 19 But if any of you ever turn away from and abandon the regulations and commands that I have given you, and go to serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot you[c] from my land that I gave you, and I will reject this temple that I made holy for my name. I will make it a joke, insulted by everyone. 21 Everyone who passes by this temple—so lofty now—will be shocked and will wonder, Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and temple? 22 The answer will come, Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods, worshipping and serving them. This is why God brought all this disaster on them.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 7:8 Or Wadi, traditionally Brook
- 2 Chronicles 7:10 September–October, Tishrei
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 Or Israel (or them)
Hello Kingdom Family,
Welcome to our Jesus-centered community. We are glad you are listening to today’s message. “We are People Helping People Experience a Jesus-centered Life.”
Today we return to our new 40-Day Growth Campaign called 40 Days of Prayer. The title of today’s message is “How To Pray For Healing and Restoration?” Our main scripture is 2 Chronicles 7:12-22 (CEB). In today’s message, we learn how to pray for healing and restoration for ourselves and others. The key takeaway is that with every promise, there is a premise, meaning we have a part to live into with our relationship with God; it’s not a one-way experience.
Before you listen to the message, you are encouraged to go to our website and download the lesson plan and bulletin for this message, dated March 26, 2023. You can find them on the home page and then click on the tab Bulletins and Lesson Plans. Our message today is, “How To Pray Throughout Your Day?” This sermon is Part VI of VII, and should you improve your approach to God when it comes to seeking, asking, hoping, and praying for healing and restoration for your life.
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