Not at the Ballot Box

“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.” — 2 Chronicles 7:14
 
Where are you putting your hope for our country?
 
I’m going to tell you to vote. As a child of God, you have a responsibility to vote your values, and those values come from the Bible. I heard a statistic that fewer than half of evangelical Christians in our country are even registered to vote. That ought to bother us. So get registered, and then go vote. How you vote is between you and the Lord. There’s my paid political announcement for the day.
 
But let me tell you something just as important. God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. And He’s not an independent either. He is God.
 
Don’t ever think your vote will create a movement of God. That’s not how it works. The key to a real movement of God in our country is not the outcome of an election. The only thing that brings real change to a county, a state, a church, or a country is when God’s people do God’s business God’s way, seeking His face.
 
Notice who God speaks to in this verse. He doesn’t call on the government, the culture, or the other party. He says, “If My people.” The healing of the land starts in the house of God, on our knees.
 
I’m broken over what I’m seeing in our country and around the world. I pray that God would visit us one more time before Jesus comes. And that will happen when His children pray without ceasing.