“If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.”  2 Chronicles 7:14 (Amplified Bible)

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O God of earth and altar,

     Bow down and hear our cry;

Our earthly rulers falter,

     Our people drift and die;

The walls of gold entomb us,

    The swords of scorn divide;

Take not Thy thunder from us,

    But take away our pride.

 

From all that terror teaches,

    From lies of tongue and pen;

From all the easy speeches

    That comfort cruel men;

From sale and profanation

    Of honor and the sword;

From sleep and from damnation,

    Deliver us, good Lord.

 

Tie in a living tether

    The prince and priest and thrall;

Bind all our lives together,

    Smite us and save us all;

In ire and exultation

    Aflame with faith, and free,

Lift us a living nation,

    A single sword to Thee.          

          G.K. Chesterton

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How far we God’s people are from being a single sword of the Lord in our world today.  We’ve profaned the Lord’s name and corrupted His battle.  Perhaps because we do not pray, do not pray as one, do not pray for the Lord’s “smiting.”  His “thunder” has been removed from us. 

 

He longs to show Himself.  He waits upon us, His people. Let’s beseech the Lord for the living Tether, the Holy Spirit, to bind us to Him as one—to ignite us with the fire of faith. 

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