Pray for your nation

I fear for our nation. The troubles we are facing seem so overwhelming!! It seems like there’s nothing I can do about it. But that’s not true. In 2 chronicles 7 King Solomon has just finished building a temple for the Lord. At night God comes to Solomon and tells him that if he’s shuts off the rains, or sends locusts or plagues to their land….pay close attention to this next part…if my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land. So if I’m reading the Godly principles here correctly, the people that are called by God’s name which today would be Christians because we bear Christ’s name, are supposed to do four things. Humble ourselves. We must put our own desires aside and realize who we are. Without Christ we are nothing. Pray. I think that the praying here isn’t just passing prayers but get on our knees in private and pour out your heart to God kinda prayer. Seek God’s face. How do we seek God? In his word for one. Seeking God isn’t just seeking his blessings and the “good things” but seeking him. Getting to know him and his will. It’s a life changing kind of thing. And finally turn from our wicked ways. How often do we dismiss the sin in our lives as just “who we are”? That’s not who we are supposed to be in Christ!! God desires for us to live for him. If all of us who call ourselves by his name would do these four things all together every day faithfully can you imagine how God would respond? He says I will hear from Heaven, forgive your sin and heal your land. Am I wrong to think that the responsibility of bringing our land back to God and his values is in our hands and if we do these things God will hear us and respond? Would it hurt anything to try? Whos with me? Dear Father in heaven, please hear our prayers! Forgive us for we have sinned against you. We know that without you we are lost but with you we have the Spirit of power, love and self discipline!! Please forgive us and heal our land!!