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America has become the land of sudden death.

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The latest mass murder in Dayton, Ohio, tragically

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marks the 250th mass shooting in this country.

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In 2018, America had six mass shootings resulting

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in 59 deaths, and in just the last

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few days we've had four mass shootings in

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four different states.

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America has become one big killing field, and

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it's not safe to even go outside without

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the fear of being gunned down by a

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madman.

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America used to be known for its great

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spiritual awakenings and revival.

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Now she is known for being a nation

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of murderers who senselessly kill one another at

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random.

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It's too late in the game to continue

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to diagnose America's spiritual condition and search for

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answers to why a nation that has forsaken

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God has been forsaken of God.

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The Bible is replete with the attributes of

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a holy God and the plague of man's

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sinful heart.

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It's too late in the game to point

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fingers at a government that has legislated God

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out of the country and has legalized sin

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and promoted evil.

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It's too late in the game to point

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fingers at a sleeping church that slumbers in

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a sad spiritual declension on pillows of conformity

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and compromise.

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It's too late for all these things, as

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the nation is too far gone.

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But it's not too late to pray, to

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repent, to turn back to the living God

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of the Bible.

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In 1 Kings, in chapter 8, we see

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the heartfelt prayer of King Solomon as he

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beseeches God to forgive the sins of Israel,

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seen in the beginning in verse 34.

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Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the

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sin of thy people Israel, and bring them

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again unto the land which thou gavest unto

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their fathers.

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When heaven is shut up, and there is

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no rain, because they have sinned against thee,

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if they pray toward this place, and confess

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thy name, and turn from their sin, when

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thou afflictest them, then hear thou in heaven,

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and forgive the sin of thy servants, and

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of thy people Israel, that thou teach them

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the good way, wherein they should walk, and

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give rain upon the land.

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America's ills are not related to gun control,

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or domestic violence, or psychological environmental issues, but

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rather America's ills are due solely to the

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reality that America herself is ill, for she

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is sick with sin, sick with unrepented sin,

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sick from provoking a holy God by flagrant

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perversion and sin.

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America's social problems cannot be solved by man's

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solutions, but only by a heartfelt repentance and

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a return to the living God of the

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Bible.

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The only thing that will keep this once

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great nation from total ruin is a heaven

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-sent revival to a broken-hearted people who

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have confessed and forsaken their grievous sins.

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If the spiritual leaders in the churches are

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too fast asleep to lead the way in

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repentance and a turning back to God, then

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it must come from Christian individuals who are

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sick of the senseless murders and tired of

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the moral drift of the country as these

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individuals call out to God in prayer themselves

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and stand in the gap for a nation

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so it won't be destroyed by an offended

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God.

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It's up to the Christian believer who is

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desperate enough to see revival and who is

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broken-hearted over his own sins and the

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sins of the land.

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It's up to the Christian to bend the

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knee and cry out to God in intercessory

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prayer, crying, Oh Lord, heal our land.

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Like I said earlier, it's too late to

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look for reasons why we are in the

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sad shape we are in as a nation,

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but now it is the time to seek

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God in prayer and call upon him and

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believe he will hear from heaven.

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God himself declares in 2 Chronicles chapter 7

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and in verses 13 through 14, If I

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shut up heaven, that there be no rain,

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or if I command the locusts to devour

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the land, or if I send pestilence among

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my people, if my people, which are called

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by my name, shall humble themselves and pray

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and seek my face and turn from their

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wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven

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and will forgive their sin and will heal

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their land.

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America, revival aroon!