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“Then I volition hear… forgive… heal.” When God’s 4 conditions for revival and restoration are met, past His threefold committedness of revival volition beryllium fulfilled.
• God volition crook distant His choler from His people, perceive to their hopeless outcry and beryllium attentive to their prayers (v.15). In its words, the archetypal grounds of revival is that God begins to perceive and reply prayers from eden (vv. 14-15) and shows compassion for His radical (cf. Ps 85:4-7; 102:1-2,13; Jer. 33:3; Joel 2:12-13,18-19).
• God volition forgive His people, cleanse them from their sins and reconstruct His favour, presence, peace, truth, righteousness and powerfulness among them (cf. Ps 85:9-13; Jer 33:7-8; Hos 10:12; Joel 2:25; 2Cor 6:14-18).
• God volition heal His radical and their onshore by, again, pouring retired rainfall (i.e., carnal favour and blessing) and the Holy Spirit (i.e. spiritual awakening among the covenant radical and among the spiritually lost, cf. Ps 51:12-13; Hos 5:14; 6:3,11; Joel 2:28-32).
“Thus saith the Lord, ‘stand ye successful the ways and see, and inquire for the aged paths,’ wherever is the bully way, and locomotion therein, and ye shall find remainder for souls. But they said: “We volition not locomotion therein,” (Jer. 6:16).
“Ask for the aged paths.” God’s radical had strayed from the mode of righteousness into idolatry and wickedness, and He called them backmost to the erstwhile paths of the covenant and the Laws of Moses. Likewise, the religion indispensable ever analyse itself to spot if it has strayed from the way of the Spirit’s powerfulness and the righteousness proclaimed successful the NT. The afloat blessing of God volition beryllium enjoyed lone by those who ask, question and sound for His champion (cf. Luke 11:5-13) and who are committed to unrecorded according to the signifier acceptable distant successful NT (see Acts 7:44).
God Wants Us To Call Upon Him. He Wants Us To Pray
“Call to Me, and I volition reply you, and amusement large and mighty things, which you bash not know,” (Jer 33:3).
God assured Jeremiah that helium had lone to telephone to God and God would reply (see Psalm 145:18; Is 58:9; Mat 7:7). God is acceptable to reply our prayers, but we indispensable inquire for his assistance. Surely, God would instrumentality attraction of our needs without our asking. But erstwhile we ask, we are acknowledging that helium unsocial is God and that we cannot execute successful our ain spot each that is successful his domain to do. When we ask, we indispensable humble ourselves, laic speech our willfulness and worry, and find to obey him.
Answered Prayers—Unanswered Petitions
Not each petition is granted. Job’s request for answers from God was eclipsed by the awesome privilege of encountering Him (Job 38-41). Modern believers indispensable besides cherish communion with the Father much than their petitions.
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