Over the past several months, IFI Team members have been contacting churches across Illinois to encourage them to host a prayer gathering based on God’s conditional promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14:
“…if my people who are called by my name humble themselves,
and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
We are calling our brothers and sisters to a penitential period of prayer this fall. We hope and pray that our pleas will resonate with church leaders and with the greater Body of Christ in Illinois.
Our state and our nation need Christians to intercede in prayer to ask Almighty God for His mercy and healing.
Would you make sure that your church is participating?
Our land is in desperate need of healing!
– 65 million children sacrificed in “legal” abortion since 1973
– Assisted suicide on the horizon
– Children exposed to graphic, immoral, “comprehensive” sex ed
– Critical Race Theory/oppressor-oppressed narrative taught as fact
– Soaring rates of STDs, addictions, and suicide
– Prideful celebrations of LGBTQ+ deviancy
– Human/sex/drug trafficking
– Marriage and gender redefined
– Gender confusion taught in schools
– Fatherlessness at all-time highs
– Church attendance at all-time lows
– Legal prostitution under consideration
– Corrupt politicians and media
– Deliberate destruction of the family unit through social welfare programs
– Pornography/adultery
– Growing gang violence, murders and crime
This is only a sampling of what’s happening in the nation, unabated. We can truthfully say that the foundations are crumbling (Psalm 11:3). Our state and our nation depend on God’s people to intercede in prayer to ask Almighty God for His mercy, especially as the November election approaches.
Our prayers must be focused on personal repentance according to 2 Chronicles 7:14. We must also acknowledge our culture’s rebellion against God, as Nehemiah did when he confessed his sins and the sins of his people.
While this conditional promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 was given to Israel, we believe that even today, God is pleased with those who would follow this biblical prescription. And while God owes us nothing, in His mercy and compassion, He invites us to bring Him our repentant hearts, along with our prayers, petitions, and requests.
Please CLICK HERE for a letter to bring to your church elders and pastor.
CLICK HERE for a list of suggestions for your church’s prayer event. These are only suggestions. We are not trying to run your prayer event. Make it your own.
Ask your church leaders to register your church at HumilityandPrayerIllinois.com so that community members can easily find a prayer gathering. On this special page, people will be able to find participating churches by entering a zip code.
Restore us, God of our salvation,
And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?
Will You not revive us again,
So that Your people may rejoice in You?
Show us Your mercy, Lord,
And grant us Your salvation.
~Psalm 85:4-7~
