Open your Bibles, if you will, to 2 Chronicles chapter 7. I was going to read the whole chapter, or not the whole chapter, but a good portion of it. But in 2 Chronicles chapter 7, Solomon's just completed the temple. If you take a look at verse 1, when he had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offerings and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house. The priest could not enter into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house. That must have been some sight. Amen? And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worshiped and praised the Lord saying, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. And then the king and all the people that offered sacrifices before the Lord, King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. That is a lot of work. Amen? So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. And you read through that thing and you read that the people are in awe and Solomon is in awe and David made, it says in verse 6 that David had made the priests waited in their own offices, and the Levites also with instruments of music of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord. That thing was going on, we got a new piano and that thing is, it is loud, it's awesome, it sounds good, amen? I'm glad that we have musical instruments to worship the Lord, amen? They should be. I'm glad that we're not the Church of Christ. They don't believe you should worship with musical instruments. But anyway, but I'm glad we're not that. But anyway, that was going on. They had a grand time there. And Solomon, you know, thus Solomon in verse 11 finished the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that came to Solomon's heart to make in the house of the Lord and his own house he prosperously effected. And the Lord appeared unto 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 devour the land, or if I send pestilence among thy people, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear them from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Amen. Now mine eyes shall be open and my ears a tent. unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there forever, and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually." So again, the temple has been made, Solomon has offered all the sacrifices, the people have offered the sacrifices, and we get down to verse 14, 15 and 16, especially Verse 14 is a very well-known verse in your Bible, and it has been claimed and used by many people in many nations throughout the course of history. Doctrinally, of course, it is a specific promise to the nation of Israel. That is the doctrinal application, right? This morning, however, we're going to make a devotional application to those of us, you know, here in America. Before we do that, let's go ahead and go to the Lord in prayer and ask him to bless the service this morning. Father, once again, we thank you for an opportunity to be here. Lord, your people are gathered. And I know that while this may not be as glorious outwardly as when that first temple was made and when it was dedicated and with all the gold and the glorious thing that that temple must have been. Father, certainly, we are glad that you meet with us here. We're part of the body of Christ. And we are bought and paid for by the Lord Jesus Christ, by your son. And we're glad that we're Christians. We're glad that we're saved. Pray that we might meet with us here this morning as you met with them there. And Lord, just minister to our hearts. You know what folks need. And I pray that you would set me aside and let the Bible and the things of God minister to the hearts of your people. I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Now, I have a coffee cup in my office. Somebody was very nice and bought this for me. If I remember, it was for either, I think it was for retirement or my birthday. I've forgotten which one, but I really like the coffee cup. And it says, yes, I am a pastor. No, that last sermon was not specifically about you. I say that because there are some conversations that I've had over the last couple of weeks that have definitely gotten my attention and made me sit back and think. The thing is, when I begin to see a similar topic come up time and time again from multiple different people, some of them here, some of them not even here, in multiple different areas, I actually begin to think that maybe, you know, God is kind of prodding me along, and he put that in my mind because it requires some attention. All right? Imagine that. God actually influencing a sermon topic. Praise the Lord. Amen. I hope that didn't surprise you. Unfortunately, when that happens, you know, It can give an individual a reason to feel like they're being picked on. Right? If you and I had a conversation that covered some of the stuff that we'll be going over this morning, listen, I promise you, I am not trying to pick on you. If I was, I would talk to you directly. OK? Amen? But when it starts coming from several different directions, it just seems like it's a good thing to do some self-checking on. Amen? A thing to kind of brush up on. So while this message is not pointed at anyone in particular, it is my hope that it will affect everyone to one level or another. I know it's affected me already. These things make me think, OK? I have to sit back and think about them. So if you don't realize this, I have conversations with people all the time and discuss their joys, their fears, their problems, their successes, and a whole host of other things. And I want you guys to know that I actually, I learn from those conversations. I mean, I probably get just as much as more out of it than what little bit of advice or encouragement I'm able to give to you. It helps me. It really does, and I appreciate it. I am not above learning and needing guidance and correction myself. Sometimes I'll be sitting there talking with somebody. I remember very vividly back when I was your associate pastor, and our kids were younger, and I'm sitting talking and maybe counseling with somebody about, children about training their children and all the time I'm counseling and I Know the Bible. I know the answers and I'm giving advice and at the same time I'm looking at myself going, you know, I better make sure I brush up on that at my house, too Amen, that's probably why my kids were so you know, boom. I Was mean to them No, I tried not to be, I tried not to be, but, but it does, it makes you, you know, it makes you think. It says in Jude, be beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith. That's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to build one another up. We're supposed to encourage one another, learn from one another, right? We're all in this thing together. We're all part of the same body and we're all trying to keep you know, this body healthy and active for the Lord Jesus Christ. And in order to keep this body healthy and active, occasionally, sometimes there are things that need to be healed. Right? Every single one of us gets injured along the way. I know folks are very familiar with physical injuries, but there are other types of injuries that we suffer. And sometimes those things just need a little bit of the balm of Gilead, a little bit of healing. And that's kind of what I'm going down the course today. I titled this message very simply, God's Formula for Healing. And when I gave Brother Ricky the title for the Facebook message, he said, no, we're not having a, you know, Benny Hinn, wave my coat, and wah-ha, and you're healed. I don't have a white coat. If I had one, I'd be OK, but just kidding. But God's formula for healing. Now, we see the formula pretty well in verse 14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways, and I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." Well, like I said, that is doctrinally a promise to the nation of Israel, and it certainly has applications in the future, in the tribulation, all those sort of things. But what you see there is you see a pattern, a pattern by which we get God's attention. Amen? And if that pattern works, ladies and gentlemen, for us, getting God's attention, maybe it'll work for us with each other as well. Amen? Because we, you know, you and I should use that same formula in our lives because we all need to be heard. We all need forgiveness, and we all need a little healing every now and then. Amen? We need healing in our relationships with our wives, with our husbands, with our children, with our parents, with our friends. It's just a normal part of the process that we go to. And if Israel was to receive healing by following those steps, And those steps got God's attention so that he would focus his attention on them and listen and be attentive to them and forgive them and heal them. Guess what? It's probably a pretty good set of steps for you and I to take note of. Amen? So if you're going to heal, you are going to first need to be humble. All right, it says in verse 14, my people shall humble themselves. Humble, of course, is proud, not haughty, not arrogant, not assertive. It is offered in a spirit of deference or submission. That is, you get to the point where, you know what, you don't care anymore. You just want someone to listen so that you can get some answers. Amen? Listen, sometimes we can get to the place in our lives where we don't see the blessings that we really have. Right? Sometimes we get to the place where we become proud. We become arrogant. We become indifferent to the things of God if we're not careful. And then we begin to drift off course. We can begin to despise things that are good in this life. And before long we find ourselves in a place where we're taking a stand against the wrong things. and our pride won't let us turn around. We're too proud to see our mistakes. I'm sure many of you have probably read and heard about Brittany Grinner, a professional WNBA basketball star. She's been detained in Russia on drug charges, and she faces up to 10 years in prison. Now, from all reports, it certainly looks like, you know, they're probably blowing things way out of proportion. There was some little residue found, but that was enough. Nonetheless, whatever the case, I'm not really interested in that part of it. But here she is facing up to 10 years prison in Russia on charges because there was some residue in her vaping thing. I don't know what you call it. All right? That's a pretty stiff penalty. She was taken into custody in February after the dogs actually caught the scent. And they opened her luggage and they scanned it. And they noticed that it was there. And so she's in some pretty hot water right now. She's also a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the USA. Pretty high profile person. But she's also known for two years ago, at hashtag woke, she said that we should stop blaring our national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner before games. She said this, quote, I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season. I think we should take that that much of a stand. OK, Brittany, how bad is America now? I don't mean that to be cruel. But you know what? Sometimes you get off on a tangent. Your pride gets lifted up. You begin to not see things very clearly. You begin to take stands that maybe you wish you wouldn't have taken because you don't realize the blessings that you have. And this is just a simple example, right? And, you know, listen, I hope everything's worked out. I hope our diplomats are in contact with the Russian diplomats. And I hope they get this girl out because you and I know that what she did is probably minuscule and certainly not worthy of a five to ten year prison sentence in Russia. But I hope when she comes back, she realizes just how things are in the United States versus Russia. All right? Sometimes that lack of humility gets to us, and we go way, way, way off tangent. I hope that when she comes back, she finds some humility in all this. And I hope the next time she's at a professional basketball game, and they begin to play the national anthem, I hope it means something a little more to her then, after she sees what it's like in other countries. I understand we as America are not perfect. But you try spending 10 years in a Russian prison, and you come back to America, and I tell you what, you will have a different perspective on things. Amen? Humility. The Lord required the nation of Israel to first off to face this thing called humility. There are numerous ways that we could go with humility. There's just an endless array of topics. It says in James, humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Humility, you could go down this road. Humility is the first step towards greatness. In admitting that we do not know everything, we open ourselves to learning. In admitting that we can fail, we open another pathway to success. In admitting that we are flawed, we open ourselves to accepting others. a great thing. For you martial artist type people, I like this one. Humility. A Chinese proverb says this, be like the bamboo. The higher you grow, the deeper you bow. That's pretty profound, right? Humility. Humility leads to happiness because it makes you teachable. Another one. Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses. Now, again, any one of those directions or all those things combined on humility, you could spend, I'm sure, weeks preaching on humility. But that's not really the direction I want to go this morning with it. I want to go the direction on this. Humility is being able to open up. In 2 Chronicles chapter 7, Israel is told to what? Humble themselves. And go before God. And a whole list of other things that we'll begin to talk about. But ultimately, that whole passage there, the idea is that Israel is supposed to open themselves up to God. Why? Because God knows everything anyway. And God is watching them and they're looking for, you know, they're looking for some help. And they're told to humble yourselves as the first step of that process towards healing. Unfortunately, this is a very difficult thing for many people to do. We've become masters at hiding our true feelings. We've become very good at putting up a front so that nobody really can get in and see what's going on. Or we've just become pretty good at avoiding the difficulty altogether and hoping that it'll go away. Right? We find ourselves too proud to admit our own faults. We're too proud to let others in. We're afraid of what they might think. We're too proud to ask for help. You know what humility is? Humility is knowing of all those internal things about you and being willing to open up And in Israel's case, face the Lord anyway. Amen? And when you open up to God, he opens up to you. It says in verse 15, now my eyes shall be open. And my ears, what? A tent. When Israel humbled themselves before God, God promised them this. Hey, when you humble yourselves and you open up to me, I will open my ears to you. I will be attentive and I will listen. That's that first step towards healing that we read about in in verse 15 and verse 16. Now notice that the Lord is waiting in the case when he's brought pestilence, he's brought famine, he's brought whatever along the line to correct Israel. The Lord sits back and he's waiting for Israel to humble themselves and open up. Right? The Lord does not necessarily knock the door in when it's time to make Israel open up. Now, husbands, this is not the way you get your wife to open up. Wives, that's not the way you get your husband to open up. Parents, that's not the way you get your kids to open up. Kids, that's not the way you get your parents to open up. Right? It just doesn't work that way in general. The Lord stands at the door and does what? He knocks. And if any man hears my voice and opens up, then I will sup with him and him with me. You know what the Lord Jesus Christ is waiting for? The Lord Jesus Christ is waiting for us to humble ourselves enough to where we open the door and open up to him. Amen? First step, first step if you want to find any type of healing, is you have to be able to open that door. You have to humble yourself, open up. You have to obviously admit your failures, accept the responsibilities that are landed on your shoulders, and ask forgiveness. You know what? It is perfectly okay, ladies and gentlemen, to hear the Lord Jesus Christ knocking. and to go over there and just simply open that door up and say, okay, Lord, you know what? I'm ready. Here I am. Say, how do we apply that to us? You know what? You and I need that amongst ourselves as well. In families, especially. Husbands, wives, parents, children, families, in-laws, families, outlaws. Friends, I mean people that, you know, some of us have outlaws for, some of us have outlaws for in-laws. But you need that thing, you need to be in that mindset where, where you realize that, hey listen, the Lord is waiting there, He is knocking. And just like the nation of Israel, I mean, everything is going great. God just got through blessing Solomon, blessing the temple. He just, you know, fire came down. The offerings, I'm sure, were consumed. There was a lot of things going on. The priests couldn't go into the house for the glory of the Lord. It was an amazing thing. And he tells them, hey, you know what? When things get bad, if you'll do this, I will be there for you. And ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to our relationships, especially our family, our friends as well, we need to follow that same formula because there's a lot of healing that needs to be made. And that humility, one of the first steps that you've got to take is to be willing to just open Amen? You just gotta open yourself up. You say, but I don't want everybody to know. You just have to be willing to open yourself up. It's tough. I'm not saying it's easy. But it is the first step in God stepping in and healing some things that need to be healed. Amen? It is okay to be scared, but you have to get out there, open up, love, make mistakes, learn, be stronger, and start all over again. I know that's not Bible, but it kind of just sums up what you got to be willing to do. Amen? And that first step, that first step the Lord will card from Israel is to humble themselves. And I'm equating that to God already knows what's going on. A lot of times your husband or wife already knows what's going on. A lot of times your kids already know what's going on. Kids, a lot of times your parents already know what's going on. So what do you do? You humble yourself and you open up. And you know what? First step towards healing. Amen? First step towards healing. Second step, pray. My people, If my people pray. What is prayer? Prayer is what? Talking. Talking to God. I purposefully didn't say you need to communicate. Because that's a cliche. Right? Oh yeah, we need to work on communication in our household. Yeah, what does that mean? Right? It's easy to say that. Everybody knows that. I said this. You need to talk. Simple. It's descriptive. You don't need to worry about all the idiosyncrasies of communication and do I do that right? You know what you just need to do? You just need to open up and you need to talk. And that's a problem a lot of times that we don't have. You say about what? About everything. How come everybody's all quiet? When it comes to praying, right, Israel's supposed to humble themselves and pray. Well, when it comes to praying, we're given all kinds of instructions on how we ought to do it, right? We all know that we should pray without ceasing. Okay, let's use that as a instructions for how we ought to talk. Talking is praying, right? Talking to God. Right? So let's make that application. What should we do? We should talk without ceasing. All you wives are saying, oh, goody, yay. All the husbands are going, I hate you, preacher. Now, in my defense, we don't walk around praying every second of the day, do you? And I hope not, because I don't. I mean, there are times where you're occupied with other things, right? But we're always, hopefully, in a state where we're available. Something happens, and immediately, Lord, help me. Lord, would you give me some guidance? Lord, which way should I make this decision? You're always in that constant state of awareness, and you're available, and you're ready to pray, all right? So while I may not technically be verbally exchanging with my wife every moment of the day, When the opportunity arises or is needed, hopefully I'm ready. And then hopefully when she says something, I hear. And because I'm getting old, I usually ask, what? An awful lot at my house. But if I don't hear, I ask what, why? Because I'm actually interested in what she's trying to say. Just like we ought to be with the Lord. Amen? All right, Lord, I'm talking, I'm actually interested in what you're trying to tell me. That's how we pray to God. We talk to him, we're interested in listening, right? God's actually interested in listening to us. And believe it or not, I'm actually interested in listening to what my wife has to say. Now I'm old, my ears don't work, and sometimes I have to ask, what, two or three times. But I mean, imagine that for a second, actually being interested in what your children have to say. Oftentimes as parents, we look at our kids, oh, hush up, I'm busy. Not such a great idea. Doesn't work with your wife either, by the way. Doesn't work with God either, by the way. It's one of the steps. If you want to find healing, you've got to open up and you have to be willing to talk. Listen, we also know that we should pray about little things in life and not wait until the big things come crashing down, right? So we know not to wait until things crash before we start praying. All right, apply that lesson to talking. We should know that we need to be talking before Big things happen with our kids, with our wife, with our husband, with our in-laws, with our friends. Not wait until everything comes crashing down. Right? Just again, we're talking prayer. If they humble themselves and if they pray, here's some things you need to consider when you pray. Don't wait until you're, you know, about ready to get slammed in the slammer before you start praying about whether you should, you know, drink and drive or not. You need to have been praying a long, long, long time ago. Yet, when it comes to our, you know, when it comes to our wives and our husbands, our children, and our friends, sometimes we make the same mistake talking with them that other people make with prayer. Sometimes, folks, we wait until the last minute, until things have gotten way out of control. It's not good. I'm not saying God doesn't hear you if you wait that long. God will still hear you, but you could have been a lot more effective had you started a lot earlier. So God tells the nation of Israel, humble yourselves and then pray. You take a look at David. David prayed under all kinds of different conditions throughout the course of his life. David prayed, quite frankly, when he was horrified. This is probably what he looked like to God. David said this in Psalm 51, he said this, he said, Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against thee and thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Uh, cast me not away from thy presence, David said. Well, that's some pretty scary stuff. Take not thy Holy Spirit from me. O Lord, he said in Psalm 38, rebuke me not in thy wrath. Hey, there were plenty of times when David, the man after God's own heart, found himself in life in a position where he had kind of messed some things up, right? And David had found himself where he was having to go, oh my, I need some help here. And David was terrified that he had blown things so badly that God was going to turn his back on him and desert him. It was at that time, that was one of the times when David prayed. And you read through those Psalms and you see some of those. It says in Psalm 38, there is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger. Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sins. For my iniquities are gone over my head as a heavy burden. They are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. That's some pretty heavy sorrow. David's afraid of what's going on. He's looking at all this. He's seen the result of some mistakes that he made in his life, and he's having to face it, and it's not pleasant. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled. I am bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long, for my loins are filled with a loathsome disease. I'm glad the kids are in there. This is David, right? I'm feeble and sore broken. Lord, all my desire is before Thee. My groaning is not hid from Thee. My heart panteth. My strength faileth me, for I am ready to halt. I've had enough. I can't take it anymore. My sorrow is continually before me. I don't know how to handle what I'm going through. I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin." That's David, the man after God's own heart, trying to deal with some things that he had going on in his life. And you know what he had to do? He had to humble himself, and then he had to open himself up to the truth. And he had to pray, he had to go and talk to God. Now listen, there are times in life where, quite frankly, it seems like it's way, way, way, way, way too much to open up about. And talk. But when things got that bad for David, that's exactly what he did. That's why he's a man after God's own heart. Right? David poured out his heart to the Lord when things got to that place. And the Lord heard his prayer. And the Lord was attentive to his prayer. Listen, it is no accident that the Lord put that intimate, private, humiliating discussion between him and David in the Bible for all of us to read about. You ever stop and think about that? The Lord did not have to include that in the Holy Scriptures. He could have had that conversation in private with David and everything. I mean, there's conversations that David had in private that we know nothing about. This could have been one of them. But I think the Lord put that in the Bible so that you and I would realize just how bad sometimes things get. And you know what? It is okay when they get that bad to open up and to be able to talk about it. Amen? No matter how low we feel like we've sunk, the Lord's willing to hear. And that's part of the formula for healing. Right? Humble yourselves. Pray. Humble yourselves. Pray. Applying this to ourselves, open up. Talk. First two steps in healing, if you want the Lord to hear you. Listen, you need to pray when you're horrified. When it gets right down to it, you need to be able to talk to God, you need to be able to talk to people. That's what God told Israel to do. And then God gives us some pretty good examples in the Bible of people that did that, that are counted as great men. All right? It's not like, oh, he was a wicked sinner and everybody hated him and that's why he got in all that trouble. No. The best of the best of the best, that's where they wound up. Why? Because we're all flesh. Right? He's not made of anything different than you and I are made of. But if we want to heal, we follow the pattern that God gave to the nation of Israel. It's a good pattern. It's good principles to follow, right? It's that formula for healing that you can use not only with God, with your husband, with your wife, with your children, with your friends, with your family. But somewhere along the line, somebody's gotta take the step. The Lord's out there knocking. But somebody has to open the door and let him in. Amen? Listen, you should talk when you're horrified, you should talk when you need help. David cried out to the Lord not only when he was horrified and he was afraid and down and just completely broken because of the mistakes he had made and the things he had done in his life, but David cried as well when he needed help. He said in Psalm 22, he said this, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? You know the Psalm. Why art thou so far from helping me? and from the words of my roaring. Now we know that this is a prophetic thing about the Lord Jesus Christ. My strength is dried up like a pot shirt. My tongue cleaveth to my jaws and now has brought me into the dust of the earth. For dogs have compassed about me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones. They looked and stare upon me. They parted my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture. This is David writing, but obviously we know it's a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. And then it says this in verse 19, Psalm 22, 19. But be not thou far from me, O Lord, O my strength. Haste thee to help me. We need to open up and talk and pray when we need help. The Lord Jesus Christ was hanging on the cross, and guess what he needed? Help. Right? David was going through some of the things that he was going through. David was attacked by the enemies, and oftentimes he cried out to the Lord, hey, God, help me. Peter was walking on the water, began to sink. Lord, save me. You know, you, yeah, there's some times where things in your life have gotten you to the point where you're absolutely horrified, and you don't want to open up, and you don't want to talk. Well, you need to. There's other times in life where you get right down to it. And you know what you just need? You may not be quite as horrified, but you just need some help along the way. You've humbled yourself, and you've got to open up and ask for help. And there are times I'm going to have to hurry, and I'm probably going to stop right here. I'm not all the way done. As you know, we haven't gotten through it. But there are times when you're going through your Christian life. Listen, you should learn to talk, pray, to God, talk with each other, quite frankly, when you're happy, too. Amen? Not only when you're horrified, not only when you need help, but when you're happy, when things are going well. Listen, I don't have the time to read through all the Psalms, but David, you read through there, and David was writing Psalms and talking over and over again about praising the Lord and how the Lord was good to him and how happy he was with the Lord. He said in Psalm 28, seven, the Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart trusteth in him, and I am helped. He said, and therefore, my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my song will I praise him. David was a man that, after God's own heart, David was a man that God knew that if he reached out and put his finger on David and showed David some of his sin, David always had a tender heart. And even though he had made some pretty big mistakes along the way, he was always willing to sit back and say, Lord, I just need some help. But he's also the guy that was right up there in front praising God when he was happy and when he was content, when everything was going well, too. You kind of get this pattern with David. Rather he was on the mountaintop, or rather he was down in the deepest valley. You know what David was really, really, really good at? Humbling himself and talking to God. Opening up and talking to God. And God called that a man after his own heart. You don't get to be a man after God's own heart or a woman after God's own heart because you're perfect and don't make any mistakes. You get to be a man or a woman after God's own heart because you make it a regular habit of following that formula of humbling yourself, opening up, praying, talking to God. And it works with one another as well. As you know, I'm only about page 9 out of 14, 15, 16. No, 16 doesn't count. No, 15 doesn't. But I'm looking at the time. I'm going to have to go ahead and stop there. Let's go back to 2 Chronicles. 2 Chronicles. And I want to tell you this, this last point. Listen, not only should you be in prayer, be willing to open up and talk when you're horrified, right? When you need help and when you're happy. But there's a common misconception among communication, especially with guys. And sometimes we think we're big, we're tough, we don't need to open up. Yeah, even if you're big and tough. Look at him talk. He's probably talking to his mother on the phone. Right? And you guys in the military, you love calling mom. Hey, mom, how's it going? Hey, mom, I need some help. Right? Hey, mom, what's your advice? Hey, you know, the reality is I don't care how big and tough and strong you are. This thing applies to every one of us. Humble yourself. Open up. It's the first step towards that healing the Lord promised the nation of Israel, and that he will bring to you and me for the things that we're going through. Pray. When it comes to spiritual things and God, absolutely, be in prayer with God, take those things to God, but those same principles apply when we're interacting with one another, and you need to be able to talk. One of the greatest mistakes Christians make, and I'm just as bad about it, is we don't pray enough. One of the greatest mistakes we make in our families, we don't talk enough. It's almost like there's a correlation there. Surprise, surprise, surprise. But when we look back at what God promised to do, if we'll do these things, hopefully it'll give us a renewed desire, a renewed desire to incorporate some of these things in our life. And that's kind of what the next couple of points are about. And if the Lord will let me continue on this theme, we'll pick it up next week. If not, you got the verse. You got everything you need. Just apply it to what you're going through right here. Amen? 2 Chronicles 7.14. Let me read it one more time. which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. And I know that doctrinally that's literally about the land of Israel, but spiritually we can apply it to our Christian lives and this land he's given us. Amen? And that's what we need to be doing. I'm going to go ahead and close right there. Let's bow for a word of prayer. Father, we thank you again for an opportunity just to gather together. And Lord, I know these things are critical. And as the time comes when It's closer and closer to your appearing to get us out of here. Lord, the devil is going to be turning things up a lot more, the heat. And he's going to be trying to destroy things a lot more. And a lot of Christians, Father, are going to struggle a lot more. And what we need to remember, we need to remember back when you talked to Israel. You gave them a plan on how to take care of things when they went astray. And you promised them that if they would follow that plan, if they would humble themselves and pray before you, that you, Father, would hear, that you'd be attentive to their needs. And Father, we ask that you do that same thing for us. We need that. Lord, every single one of us needs to open up. Every single one of us needs to be able to talk. I pray you'd help us in those areas. I ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen.