As true today…

Friends, if we want our Father in heaven to heal our land, repentance comes first. “If my people…will humble themselves…and turn from their wicked ways…then I will hear from heaven and heal their land.” (2 Chr. 7:14) This is not earning grace or favor from God, or even earning deliverance. That is because repentance is not a work. It is giving up. Simply admitting that God is right, and I am wrong. It is forsaking sin and turning to him. That is not a work of our flesh, it is the work of the Holy Spirit.
But you might say, “Hey preacher, that is right! Everyone else needs to turn back to God. But I am a Christian, and I love the Lord. Surely I don’t need repentance. I’m doing pretty well. I’m not as bad as some. I’m better than most.” My dear Christian friends, who are called by the name of Christ, we need to take a good hard look at our own lives and see how we are contributing to the overall apostasy of the Church. Let’s continue…