II Chronicles 7:14

II Chronicles 7:14
and My people who are called by My Name humble themselves and pray, and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (NAS)

One morning as I was praying II Chronicles 7:14 over the Body of Christ, the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to something very important in that scripture. It was as if He took a huge highlighter and marked turn from their wicked waysand will heal their land. There is a great promise within that scripture. If we, the Church, will turn from our wicked ways, from our worldliness, from our lustful desires then God will heal our land. The scripture does not say for the wicked to turn from their wicked ways but for the people called by His Name to turn from their wicked ways. That is the Church, the Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ. The future of America lies in the hands of the saints of God. If we will turn and repent and live holy and pure lives before God then He will forgive and heal our land. We must begin to pray for believers to cleanse their hands and to purify their hearts before God. Our churches must not look like the world. We must be a holy and undefiled people.
Then the Lord took me to I Timothy 2:1-2 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. We have all prayed this over our government leaders and prayed the evil to be rooted out of our government, but now the Lord turned it towards our spiritual leaders. He wants prayer for our spiritual leaders and for evil to be rooted out of our spiritual leaders. We must have holy, undefiled leaders who will speak boldly to the congregations concerning sin. We need leaders who will bring forth apostolic preaching with the power of the Holy Spirit. When the power of the Holy Spirit is present, people are able to hear and to obey. They are convicted and willing to repent and to turn to God. The Church of Jesus Christ must turn from worldliness and self indulence and sin and become the Bride of Christ without spot or wrinkle. Then we can look to God to heal our land. America is in our hands.