Wonderful Holy Spirit, we welcome your awesome presence in revealing your word to our hearts for this hour. Move upon the hearts of the hearers of this message, Holy Spirit. Bring in conviction to the hearts of the hearers. Stirring the church up to pray like never before. And Father, in Jesus' name, I give you the glory, the praise, and the honor for it now, in Jesus' name. To the book of 2 Chronicles, chapter 7, verses number 12. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven, that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devolve the land, or if I send pestilence among my people, if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, Seek my face and turn from their wicked ways Then while I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land limitations chapter 2 verses 19 Arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord and Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street. Very unusual teaching I feel the Holy Spirit has pressed my heart with. America, it's praying times. Simple teaching, America, it's praying times. When you look at the news and pick up your newspaper, It seems like all you're seeing and reading is disaster, destruction, negative things that's happening here, negative things that's happening there. And I can recall back then, in years gone by, a lot of things that you hear and you see today was never heard or seen. My mind goes back to when I was in high school, in fact, in elementary school. We had a set time in praying in the morning before we even go to the classrooms. And it's amazing how the Holy Spirit brought all this back to my attention. Because as I watched the news, I used to think, Lord, when they took prayer out of the schools, I look at stuff that's happening now in the schools across America. All because a law was passed by one person. and this person caused it to be where prayer was eliminated from the school system. Well, it's almost like when prayer left out, the enemy walked in. And God really pressed my heart about this because in the book of Chronicles, after Solomon finished praying, the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and the Lord began to talk to Solomon and he said, I heard what you asked me. I've chosen this place. for house of sacrifice. Then God begin to tell Solomon, if I shut up heaven, that there be no rain. In other words, God say, if I cause drought in areas where they really need rain to never get no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, farmers can plant seeds and their harvest can begin to sprout up. But then the locusts can come and devour all what they have waited to bring to harvest. And then he said, if I send the pestilence among my people, think of the sicknesses that's in our country today. This epidemic of a flu virus, and it's always like one thing after the next that's coming upon the earth. I thought about when Israel was in Egypt, the 10 plagues that hit Egypt. And yet, the Israelites stayed in a place called Goshen, a place of protection, a place of provision, a place where they were kept. where no plague can nigh their dwelling. But God is telling Solomon, if I shut up heaven, if I command the locusts, or if I send disease, and notice, certain diseases on the planet, there is no antidote for it. There's no cure for a lot of stuff that's happening today. And it makes you wonder, where in the world are these things coming from? But God is telling Solomon, if I shut up heaven, that there be no rain or if I command the locusts to devour if I send that little insect that will rip up corn and vegetation and plants and fruit before they go to the harvest where the farmer can make money and people can benefit from seeds that's been sown that's like disaster again and then you say if I send pestilence disease sicknesses among my people And then God tells Solomon, if my people, which are called by my name, number one, shall humble themselves. America, it's praying time, shall humble themselves and pray. It seemed like whenever disaster hit a nation or a country, and I thought about Katrina, when this hurricane made this turn and came over the state of Louisiana and parts of Mississippi and different states like that. The disaster that took place and I remember people was praying Churches was coming together people was having all-night vigils and just crying out to God for mercy They were seeking God because of what took place and they didn't even know where to start to reveal and I look over time and how after everything was over with how when the city of New Orleans came back to life as you would call it and It's like the moment that city came back to life, like killing started taking place again. It's almost like nothing really affected people. It's like all the disaster that hit the city. I mean, I kid you not, we was trapped in our home. And after everything was over, we was walking down certain streets and it looked like World War III hit the city. I'm talking about old trees, a hundred years old, was toppled over. You could see the roots of the bottom of an oak tree. And my mind just begin to think, I say, my God, it's amazing how we survived such disasters. I seen telephone poles popped in three pieces and the light poles was just twisted, like you take a metal can and just step on it. I've seen, I mean, the whole side of buildings completely gone. And then we started trying to get to our home and we was up to almost water to my chin. All of this was in the same city. But after all of these disastrous things took place, people was praying and crying out to God and people forgot about racism and what color a person was and people was just coming together trying to help one another. People was reaching out to one another and they would go to people's home and just check on them and see how they're doing. Churches was having prayer. I mean churches that didn't normally have prayer meetings was now praying and crying out to God But it seemed like after all of that is blew over is like people went right back to doing what they've been doing and God is telling Solomon if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray see we often in America forget how good God has been to us and I remember years ago, I used to be told that before any book was given, they used to use the Bible in the schoolrooms to teach the children. You see, prayer and Bible reading was the foundation of America. I mean, prayer and seeking God and presidents of days gone by would get on their knees and cry out to God for directions. They will use the Bible for directions and God will speak to them through his word. But it's almost like the whole thing then become topsy-turvy. It's like people in America like we don't need God anymore. The Bible says righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. And God is telling Solomon, if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and stop seeking stuff, Stop seeking to be famous and stop trying to be popular and trying to get everybody to look at you and all of this kind of stuff. God said if we seek his face and what and turn from our wicked ways Then he will hear from heaven. He will forgive our sin and heal our land America, it's spraying time. This nation needs a massive healing. This nation needs a breakthrough like never before There's so much stuff that it took place in this country and god pressed me with this word. He says son tell america It's praying time I pray that those that's hearing this message would hear the voice of God that it's time for us to come back to God and what God is telling Solomon if my people which are called by my name see every church door where people go they need to be calling on Jesus My God help me here and then in limitations chapter 2 verse 19 He said arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out thy heart like water Watch this before the face of the lord. That means shed tears before god I mean break up your follow ground break up your heart. He said don't rain your clothes rain your heart God said break up your heart before me cry like water before the face of the lord lift up your hands for the light watch this of your young children what's happening in this nation today is because prayer has been taken out of the schools and now the devil has gotten rampant in the school but god is telling solomon if my people which are called by my name would humble themselves and pray america it's praying time america it's time for us to come back to god and then god told jose Chapter 14 listen to this Hosea 14 and 1 Israel You have felt you are a failed God you have fallen Let me get this here here Hosea chapter 14 Oh Israel return unto the Lord your God for you have fallen by your iniquity He said take with you words and turn to the Lord and say unto him take away all iniquity and receive us graciously so we will render the calves of our lips and And then God said, I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. I will be as they do. See what God will do if we pray. America, it's praying time. A lot of things we're seeing right now is a result of nobody praying. Yeah, there may be a few people in America crying out to God, but the majority of people in churches, we have become so complacent and still so relaxing this prosperity, name it and claim it and go get it and don't nobody want to seek God. But God is telling Jeremiah in Lamentation, Arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches wash your heart like water Before the face of the Lord lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children They're faint for hunger in the top of every street Don't we see our young people today in this hour. Don't we see our young people in this generation fainting and Just on the news the other day, a young man was killed in the store. I mean, the list just goes on and on in different parts of America, different states in this country. There's so much disastrous things. People at a concert and a man in a hotel just shooting at people and people dropping like flies. America, it's praying time. America, it's time to come back to God. America, it's time to do like God told Solomon. If my people, which are called by my name, would humble themselves and pray, and seek my face. Stop seeking material stuff. Stop seeking to be popular. Stop seeking to be famous. Stop seeking to get a reputation, but seek the face of God. God, we need you in this country. God, we need you in America. So much is happening in this world. There's so much things taking place now in this nation. Things we never heard of in the days gone by. But God is telling Jeremiah, arise, cry out in the night. In the beginning of the waters, pour out your heart like face. Pour out your water, pour out your face like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the light of your children. Our children are in danger. It's time to apply the blood, the blood of Jesus to America. It's time to apply the blood to our children, our grandchildren and children yet to come. It's time to apply the blood to the school system, to the kids in the schools of modern America. It's time to apply the blood to the teachers. My God, it's time to apply the blood. There's enough blood shed in America. There's blood being shed in every country, in every nation on the planet. But it's time for us to apply the blood of Jesus to the schools in this nation. America, it's praying time. Behold, oh Lord, and consider, to whom hast thou done this? Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of us spend long? Show the prophets and the priests be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord. The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets. Listen to this. This was written thousands of years before we came on the planet. And it's amazing how that word in limitation now applies to what's happening today. The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets. What a rhema word. America, it's praying time. America is time to come back to God. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. When a nation is righteous before God, God blesses that nation. And God has blessed America in so many ways. God has prospered this nation. I mean, in all kinds of ways. And the disastrous things that's happening now in this nation, God is talking. The Bible say for God speak it once yet twice yet man perceive it not God is talking to various means, but are we listening? Are we hearing God talk to us? Are we seeing that God is trying to get our attention and yet we're going about doing what we want to do But with God told Solomon If I shut up heaven That there'd be no rain and think about this. There are places on the planet where there's fighting drought. They need rain They need water. People are dying because of no water. And then he said, if I shut up heaven, that there'd be no rain. Or if I command the locusts to devour the land. Think of the prices of food today. How things are going up. Everything going up but the church. And God wants to bring us to a new place in him. The locusts devouring the land. Notice what God's telling Solomon. This ain't no coincidence. This ain't happen by accident. God is telling Solomon if I shut up heaven Because God is sovereign. He's still in control of everything Regardless of what people might think what people might say God is still in charge of everything He's telling Solomon if I shut up heaven if I fix it So God let it rain in one city and another city right next to it to be dry and I've seen this happen Rain on one part of the city, the other city ain't got nothing. The sun is beaming. On the other city, they're flooding. Amazing. If I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send disease, and notice this, this flu virus has been in America. They can't find a cure for this thing. People getting shots and what have you not. And yet, God said if I send pestilence, disease, that there's no cure for it. But there is an antidote. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, it's time to get out of pride. It's time for this showboating to end. It's time to outdo one another. It's time for the church to get real. It's time for us to come back to God. Come back to prayer. My house shall be called the house of prayer, not a house of playing. Not a house for concerts and a house for people gathering and nothing happening. There are too many people coming to churches seeking to be delivered and ending up getting nothing. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, it's time for us as the church to humble ourselves. Humble yourself and don't let God do it. Humble yourself and pray. Not just say a bunch of words. Humble yourself and really get before God. God, forgive us in America. Forgive us as a nation. Start with me. Forgive me, Lord. You have blessed us in so many ways. You have prospered our lives going in and coming out. The prosperity message is ruining your people. People getting blessed and still not saved. People worrying about getting money and still not delivered. People worry about getting homes and stuff, and that's fine and well, but you gotta keep a balance and stuff. People not saving, never giving their life to Jesus, prospering. Your prosperity, my friend, will not get you into heaven. You can have a million dollars or whatever, that doesn't make a hill of beans. What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? And God is telling Solomon like he's telling us today. America, it's praying time. Humble yourself and seek my face and turn, note something, turn from your wicked ways. You can't turn from somebody else's ways. You have to turn from your own. You have to see your own condition. You have to see your own life and stop comparing yourself with other people. Stop trying to be people you're not and be real. It's time to be real church. It's time to wake up out of sleep and slumber It's time that we come to ourselves as the prodigal son did and then come back to god See how for you walked away from him. He blessed you But how many times you spend blessing him? What an hour of faithfulness on the scale from one to ten with god Now answer that question. You could answer it for your own self And god is saying turn from your wicked ways Now note something, then will I hear from heaven. God wants to respond to us. God wants to do things in our life that we have never seen. But there's always conditions before the promise. There's always things God require of us before he do what he said he's going to do. My people that's called by his name, number one, we must humble ourselves. Number two, we must pray. Number three, you must seek his face. Go after God. Like you're going after money. Go after God. Like you're going after a career. Go after God. Like you're going after some material thing. Seek my face and then turn. From what you're doing, you know that's not right. Then when I hear from heaven, I will hear what you're asking me. My mind goes back to different parts on the planet. I get letters from people and the things that God is doing that really just motivates me and it breaks me on the same time. To think how God is moving in third world countries and how people are getting visitations from Jesus. How he's actually visiting people in third world countries and the reason why is because they have a hunger that we need in America. We got stuff that they might not have We got fancy buildings, but guess what they have more people than they have buildings in America We got the buildings with no people but over there they got the people They got more people than they got buildings. The buildings are too small to hold the people in third world countries because the encounters that they having with Jesus and He's saying I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and note this part. I will hear their land America. It's praying time America, it's time for us to come back to God. Our forefathers, I was told, believed in the word and prayer. They believed in the Bible and seeking God for directions. Oftentimes people can become so smart, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. And that's why God is telling Solomon, if my people would do these things, I'm gonna hear from heaven, I'm gonna forgive you, and I'm gonna heal you. And America need healing. I mean serious healing. Not just physical healings from sicknesses, emotional healings. Healing from scars of the injustice that's happening. People that's being wounded by people that's in power. People that's being mistreated and abused and looked over and they're hurting and god hear their cry god see the tears god see the pain god see the injustice that's happening america it's praying times the broken families and the broken homes of things that's happening in this nation america it's praying times father i thank you so much for your word i thank you for birthing this message in my spirit america it's praying time And I thank you for starting with me. Birthing prayer in my heart, my spirit even greater. And God, those that's hearing this message even now, Holy Spirit, as you moved upon the face of the waters, move upon the hearts of the hearers of this message. Bring conviction to the hearts of every listener of this message, Holy Spirit. Drawing us closer to Jesus and stirring our hearts back to prayer. Getting us to see now it's time to really seek God's face even greater. Holy spirit burnt prayer back in the church We've gotten so much stuff going on in the body of christ today where you have been ruled out This is why souls are not being saved like you want to be saved You may draw people to places holy spirit and they get nothing sometimes because we so programmed we've programmed you out Forgive us in america america is praying time and father. I thank you so much for your goodness Release an anointing of prayer, a burden for prayer in your people's lives today, Lord. Release prayer in the hearts of your people. Every person hearing this message today, I pray that you release an anointing for prayer to seek you, blessed one. As you told Solomon, we humble ourselves and pray and seek your face. Release that burden for prayer. Release that burden of seeking you, a hunger for you even greater, blessed one. I thank you for doing it now in the mighty and glorious name of Jesus. America, it's praying times.