January 19, 2025, 2 Chronicles 7:1-3, (Live)

2 Chronicles 7:1, God answering prayer in His own way
2 Chronicles 7:2-3, the people immediately answering God's response, giving Him praise, proclaiming 'prais[e] the Lord [...] for [H]e is good; for [H]is mercy endureth for ever.'
2 Chronicles 7:11-12, God's 2nd response to Solomon's prayer: God accepted the house Solomon built, as a house for offering to God
2 Chronicles 7:13-14, Matthew 6:33, God's promise to His people, if they would humble themselves (not set themselves above God), PRAY (honestly communicate with the King of Kings), seek Him (have need for God), and repent (turn away from the ways of wickedness- turn away from being enemies of God)
Matthew 5:27-28, although the act of sin was not yet committed, but the mere thought of it already conceived sin
2 Chronicles 7:14, a promise on the condition that God's people would turn away from sin (among other requirements)
2 Chronicles 7:15, God hears everything because He is omnipresent
2 Chronicles 7:16-22, a blessing and a curse, if Solomon would do what God asked (the blessing remaining) versus if Solomon chose to rebel (the blessing being removed)
2 Chronicles 7:19-22, the curse and judgment if Solomon and the people abandoned the Lord, who rescued them out of slavery and out of the iron furnace (even out of Egypt), which further proved the presence of God (if people let God abide with them) meant goodness and the absence of God (if people shut God away) meant misery

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