{"id":45,"date":"2020-07-25T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/?p=45"},"modified":"2020-07-25T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:15:47","slug":"2-chronicles-713-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/blog\/2020\/07\/25\/2-chronicles-713-14\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Chronicles 7:13-14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>This is a popular passage as of late, and for good reason.<br><br>2 Chronicles 7:13-14(NET)<br>When I close up the sky so that it doesn&#8217;t rain, or command locusts to devour the land&#8217;s vegetation, or send a plague among my people, if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.<br><br>We have to remember that this is written to the Israelites. It is actually saying God will heal the land of Israel. For proof, read on to verses 15 &amp; 16. While, using scripture, we can\u2019t say that this is a direct promise for any other part of the world, we can look to Israel for examples of how God deals with his people.<br><br>God told them to humble themselves. What does it really mean to humble ourselves?<br><br>It seems straightforward to pray. But what do you think God really means here?<br><br>Next is the phrase we tend to read over. \u201cSeek to please me\u201d. What is meant here?<br><br>\u201cRepudiate their sinful practices\u201d seems kind of obvious also, what does that really mean?<br><br>The final phrase we should really study is the last three words of verse 14. \u201c&#8230; heal their land.\u201d Exactly what is meant here?<br><br>Let\u2019s discuss! Answer the questions above, raise your own or make another point of discussion from this passage.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a popular passage as of late, and for good reason. 2 Chronicles 7:13-14(NET)When I close up the sky so that it doesn&#8217;t rain, or command locusts to devour the land&#8217;s vegetation, or send a plague among my people, if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/blog\/2020\/07\/25\/2-chronicles-713-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2 Chronicles 7:13-14&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowders.info\/wptest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}