2 in 1-The Problem & The Solution

WOW...Challenged today by this. Have you ever heard the phrase, "So goes the church, goes the culture?"

Read Hosea 4:9...
'"And what the priests do, the people also do.' So now I will punish both priests and people for their wicked deeds."

I remember Sean Smith saying when he thinks about the challenges of his city and nation, he knows both the answer and the problem stare at him in the mirror.

1 Chronicles 7:14 doesn't say if the WORLD will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways then God will heal the land...it says if the people of God will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways. The responsibility is on us as believers. As a believer I feel a personal responsibility when I hear about someone committing suicide in my state. It doesn't matter if I never met them, or knew them. I feel a responsibility as a Christ follower, who has been entrusted with the power of the Holy Spirit to see spiritual strongholds like hopelessness and depression demolished, to declare freedom and see captives set free! We have that power as believers--but it takes us to believe that and operate in the authority Christ has given us.

I have heard many examples of how revival and transformation came as a result of a handful of praying people who set themselves apart to seek the Lord. I want to be so sensitive to the Holy Spirit that when someone's life is in the balance, He can trust me to answer the call to pray and intercede for His intervention. I know it doesn't depend all on one person, but it depends on the Body of Christ as a whole--but the whole is made up of individual parts, who all have a part to play. But too often we alleviate ourselves of the responsibilty. What if EVERY believer began to take suicide and the souls of people personally? What if we began to pray like the eternal souls of this generation depended on us? What would that look like? And what would happen with that kind of urgency and action? What if when you see a precious person bound in addiction, instead of looking the other way, you looked at yourself, as both the problem and the solution.