in chronicles the famous verse that we all remember second chronicles chapter 7 verse 13
when i shut up heaven and there is no rain or command the locusts to devour the land or send
pestilence among my people so this is talking about bondage meaning god is allowing heaven to
be closed god is allowing locusts speaks of like demons and the enemy to devour our land and send
pestilence among our people god says pretty much if i allow you to be delivered to certain things
because you forsook me because you turned your back on me because you stopped worshiping me you
ignored my truth and god says if that happens i want you to get this across us today being
delivered by god into the hand of their enemy is not god disowning you it's god dispossessing you
displacing you not disowning and then it says this if my people they're delivered into pestilence
they're delivered into captivity they're delivered into drought but he says still my people meaning
they did not get disowned they did not get relationship god's love and mercy didn't stop
if my people in drought closed heaven being eaten by locusts being eaten by pestilence if
my people god says the same god who delivers you into the enemy is ready to deliver you
from your enemy is ready to deliver you from your demons is ready to deliver you from your struggle
is ready to deliver you from homosexuality from lesbianism from transgenderism come on somebody
if my people and look what it says if my people do what humble themselves let me tell you how to
be delivered humble yourself you can't be cute and be delivered you can't remake keep your image and
be delivered you gotta get desperate and God says if you're proud you can't get delivered i don't
want to manifest you can't get delivered oh but i don't what do people will think you have to choose
do you want people's opinions or your freedom God says if you're in shroud if pestilence is
eating you he says humble yourself when you get rid of your pride when you get rid of your ego
when you get rid of your self-entitlement will you get rid of what will they think about me God says
you're ready for deliverance humble yourself but i don't want to tell that person that i'm struggling
with that what will they think what if i lose my job humble yourself if you want to be free
i'm giving a simple recipe humility if my people humble themselves and they pray begin to pray
oh but i need to go to a prayer line prayer line helps but you know that God can deliver you
if you pray when you're in drought you don't pray but when you want to be delivered you need to pray
that means five o'clock in the morning you need to pray if you are bound to alcohol if you are
bound to some sexual immorality if you are bound to perversion if you are bound maybe to drinking
perhaps you are bound to cursing maybe you are bound to nightmares or something and you're like
man i felt like God gave me up humble yourself and begin to pray set your clock early and begin to
seek the lord's face why there is power in prayer God says if you call upon me i will deliver you
i will deliver you if you call upon me i will deliver you if my people humble themselves and
pray oh but i love this and not just pray but seek my face you were seeking the face of your
boss you were seeking the approval of your wife you were seeking the approval of your ex-boyfriend
you were seeking the approval of the culture but God says seek the pleasantness of my face
seek the smile on my face seek my face and then God says begin to turn away from your sin
meaning the sins that you can turn away from but god i need you to deliver me no no my friend you
can cancel that relationship you can cancel that subscription you can unplug that tv you can remove
that you can do it yourself through the conviction of God turn from their evil ways four steps
humble yourself pray seek my face and turn away from your evil ways when you do these
four things God says then this is what i'm gonna do i will hear i will hear your cry
God says i will forgive you i promise to forgive you i won't fight you back i won't revenge i will
forgive i will wipe your slate clean and God says not only i'm going to set you free i will heal
your land i'll begin to heal your life it might not happen overnight it might not happen in one
week but God says i'm going to start restoring the very things the locust has eaten the pestilence
has eaten homosexuality has eaten your anger has eaten your drinkiness has eaten maybe your
judgmentalism has eaten maybe your pornography has eaten the things that it has eaten God says i will
not only hear not only forgive but god says i will begin to heal your real estate your land
our father who is in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done give us this
day our daily bread lead us not into temptation and then it says this and deliver us from evil one
that means it's possible to call him your father and be needing deliverance it's possible to be my
people but prayerless proud and living compromised life but then pestilence eats things up maybe it's
in the mind because God gave that up maybe it's the passions that are ruining you because God gave
you up to it maybe it's your body that is causing you pain because you're drawing identity from it
because God gave you up to it and now you're seeing God i humble myself God i pray God i
seek your face God i turn away from the wicked ways and God will deliver you from the evil one