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I got my first text from Nat'l Community Church as they conduct the “experiLENT" for the next 40 days to memorize and meditate and pray this verse… It is very cool that the same verse has been out focus at the QRF (Quantico Revival Fellowship) which is a prayer meeting at 12:12 every Friday.
I'm pretty fixated on the number 7, it was my soccer jersey number when we went to state back in high school, and I've always thought of it – not just as LUCKY (Remember that's inspired by Psalm 63:3 – Living Under Christ's Kindness, Yeah!) but I've also been taught that the number 7 stands for completion – i.e. the days of Creation, the number of times a righteous man will fall and rise again, the number of times the disciples thought were sufficient for forgiveness till Jesus multiplied it by 70. It is all pointing to the point that it's not about the specific number but about the completion aspect – Creation was done on the 6th day, but the rest on the 7th day was the completion! The principle in Prov 24 isn't that a righteous man won't fall or get up an 8th, 9th or 10th time, it's that he will fall and get up until he is complete – meaning he doesn't fall in that certain area any more. And the forgiveness of 70 times 7 means you forgive until that forgiveness is complete and you have no more bitterness or hurt from what the other person has done.
So here's the significance I see in this verse about the 4 things we do (4 signifies the number of the earth – or our natural identity) and the 3 things God does (3 signifies the number of God – His divinity as 3 in 1- the Trinity) this promise of completion starts with humbling ourselves and ends with healing our land, and I believe we all should meditate and memorize this principle and do the 4 and wait for the 3 until the day of completion with Phil 1:6 type confidence.
So do this if you are called by His name:
1) Humble yourself
2) Pray
3) Seek His Face
4) Repent (turn from) your sin (wicked ways)
And wait in expectancy for this:
5) God to hear from heaven
6) Forgive us our sins
7) Heal our land.
Peace,
Adam
PS: here it is again, just for good measure:
“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 their sin and heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV)
