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  As you and I were grieved and shocked over the events of yesterday with the shooting, very quickly the Scripture came to my mind and heart, "IF MY PEOPLE, WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN AND WILL FORGIVE." 2 Chronicles 7:14.  Ole Jehosphaphat said it so well also, "We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you." 2 Chronicles 20:12b.  OUR GREATEST WEAPON IN GOD'S ARMOR FOR US IS PRAYER; Ephesians 6:18. 

We have been given hellish circumstances by the evil one for years and they are accelerating in evil, in timing, and in the numbers killed.  My question is the same as the sign at the top of my blog: If not now, When?  When do Christ followers decide that NOW is the time for our prayers of repentance, confession, and for revival in our nation?  Do I wait until something else horrific occurs only in my family to pray?  Christ followers, too many among us have been playing church, and it is time that the Body of Christ raise up as the Army of the Lord God and take action.  Too often the power of prayer is demeaned by our other choices to use as tools of response to horror:  anger, hopelessness, apathy, fear, and the thoughts that it won't happen to us, etc. 

Surely we are desperate enough to allow correction to begin with each of us personally and then all of us be willing to rally in the Body of Christ in prayer.  We have choices and why not press the full impact of the Word of God and our prayers on the events of this world? Evil has many converts and God's will and purpose, we must pray down from Heaven NOW..."Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as in Heaven." We are not powerless..."The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.  On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds (mindsets) that raise itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.  And we will be ready to punish every act of of disobedience, once your obedience is complete."  2 Corinthians 10:2-5.  I meet with a group each Wednesday night at 6:30 in room 223 and pray.  Anyone can join us. Why not form a group at your home?  It is imperative to pray and the time is NOW.  "Prayer is battle. Could it be that in our churches the right slogan over the door of most of our prayer rooms would be "We Wrestle Not?" Leonard Ravenhill.   Forever learning.  In process.  #IHAVETHREESONS.