There’s HEALING And An ANSWER: It’s TIME To PRAY And Not To PLAY And FAINT!
“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, and not to FAINT (WEARY, GIVE UP, LOSE HEART) Luke 18:1(Emphasis Mine).
When you are up against the WALLS of personal, family and national ECONOMIC CRISIS, PANDEMIC DISEASES and the EFFECTS OF WAR, and other NATURAL or MAN-MADE disasters — you need no special vision or prophet to inform you that you need to CONNECT to the HEAVENLY in order to resolve your EARTHLY affairs.
There is ALWAYS AN ANSWER to human problems — and PRAYER MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
It is time to GIVE IT A GO, as in the Bible days of 2 Chronicles 7:13-15, when there are:
- NO RAIN
Meaning: NO job, productivity, employment, opportunities, creativity, innovation; and the side effects of this — NO love, joy, peace, or happiness as there should be.
- DEVOURING LOCUST
Meaning: NO productivity, economic meltdown, business/company closure, financial indebtedness, and personal or national economic decline. The powerful eating up the poor; and more — injustice, war, hunger, corruption and the like.
- PESTILENCE / EPIDEMICS / PANDEMIC
Meaning: Sickness and diseases of ALL sorts that can kill and ruin lives, leaving one stagnant and maimed with pain and suffering, just as with any epidemic or pandemic.
IT IS TIME TO GENUINELY PRAY AND NOT PLAY, AND NOT TO FAINT [OR GROW WEARY, OR GIVE UP]
THERE IS ALREADY AN ECONOMIC EFFECT GRADUALLY SEEING IN AS A RESULT OF PANDEMIC AND WAR EFFECTS ON NATIONS.
WATCH and PRAY before you BECOME a VICTIM instead of a VICTOR.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“WATCH and PRAY, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” Matthew 26:41.
“If I SHUT UP HEAVEN that there be NO RAIN, or if I command THE LOCUSTS to DEVOUR the land, or if I send PESTILENCE among my people; 14 if MY PEOPLE, which are CALLED by my name, shall HUMBLE themselves, and PRAY, and SEEK my face, and TURN FROM their WICKED ways; then will I HEAR from heaven, and will FORGIVE their sin, and will HEAL their land. 15 Now mine EYES shall be open, and mine EARS attent unto the PRAYER that is made in this place” 2 Chronicles 7:13-15.
“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, and not to FAINT (WEARY, GIVE UP, LOSE HEART) Luke 18:1(Emphasis Mine).
“PRAYING always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and WATCHING thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” Ephesians 6:18.
“But the END OF ALL THINGS IS AT HAND: be ye therefore sober, and WATCH UNTO PRAYER” 1 Peter 4:7.
“Continue in PRAYER, and WATCH in the same with THANKSGIVING” Colossians 4:2.
“And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2 and had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. 3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. 4 Then David and the people that were with him LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND WEPT, UNTIL THEY HAD NO MORE POWER TO WEEP. 5 And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 6 And David was GREATLY DISTRESSED; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. 7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8 And David ENQUIRED at the Lord, saying, Shall I PURSUE after this troop? shall I overtake them? And He ANSWERED him, PURSUE: for thou shalt surely OVERTAKE them, AND WITHOUT FAIL RECOVER ALL . . . 18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. 19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David RECOVERED ALL. 20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil . . .” 1 Samuel 301-31
SUMMARY:
This message is about responding to personal, family and national crises with persistent, sincere prayer instead of despair. It teaches that when we face economic hardship, disease, and war, the solution is to CONNECT to the HEAVENLY in order to resolve EARTHLY affairs.
- THE URGENT CALL: PRAY AND DO NOT FAINT
Luke 18:1 — “MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, and not to FAINT [WEARY, GIVE UP, LOSE HEART].”
The central theme is urgency. There is HEALING and AN ANSWER.
The instruction is clear: IT IS TIME TO GENUINELY PRAY AND NOT PLAY, AND NOT TO FAINT.
Matthew 26:41, Ephesians 6:18, 1 Peter 4:7, Colossians 4:2 all reinforce: WATCH and PRAY with perseverance and thanksgiving, especially because “the end of all things is at hand.”
- THE “WALLS” WE ARE FACING TODAY
The message identifies three modern manifestations of God’s warning in 2 Chronicles 7:13-15:
NO RAIN
Spiritual meaning: A lack of divine provision and refreshing.
Earthly effect: NO job, productivity, employment, opportunities, creativity, innovation.
Side effects: NO love, joy, peace, or happiness as there should be. Life becomes dry.
DEVOURING LOCUST
Spiritual meaning: That which consumes and wastes.
Earthly effect: Economic meltdown, business/company closure, financial indebtedness, and personal or national economic decline.
Social effect: The powerful eating up the poor; and with it — injustice, war, hunger, corruption and the like.
PESTILENCE / EPIDEMICS / PANDEMIC
Spiritual meaning: Judgement and affliction.
Earthly effect: Sickness and diseases of ALL sorts that can kill and ruin lives, leaving people stagnant and maimed with pain and suffering.
The message warns: THERE IS ALREADY AN ECONOMIC EFFECT GRADUALLY SEEING IN AS A RESULT OF PANDEMIC AND WAR EFFECTS ON NATIONS. You do not need a special vision or prophet to know — we must connect to heaven now.
- GOD’S PROMISE AND CONDITION: 2 CHRONICLES 7:13-15
When God shuts up heaven, sends locusts, or sends pestilence, the remedy is not politics or panic. It is:
HUMBLE themselves
PRAY
SEEK His face
TURN FROM their WICKED ways
Then: “I will HEAR from heaven, and will FORGIVE their sin, and will HEAL their land.”
God’s eyes and ears are attentive to prayer made in sincerity.
- THE BIBLICAL EXAMPLE: DAVID AT ZIKLAG — 1 SAMUEL 30:1-31
When David and his men returned to find Ziklag burned and their families taken captive, they wept until they had no strength left. David was greatly distressed.
What did he do?
He encouraged himself in the Lord his God, enquired of the Lord, and obeyed: “PURSUE: for thou shalt surely OVERTAKE them, AND WITHOUT FAIL RECOVER ALL.”
Result: “David RECOVERED ALL.” Nothing was lacking — sons, daughters, spoil, nothing.
This is the pattern: In crisis, weep, but then turn to God, enquire, obey, and recover all.
- KEY PRINCIPLES TO APPLY
There is ALWAYS AN ANSWER to human problems — and PRAYER MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
WATCH and PRAY before you BECOME a VICTIM instead of a VICTOR.
Our battle is spiritual. Prayer in the Spirit with perseverance is our weapon. Ephesians 6:18
We must not grow weary. The time to pray is now, before the crisis consumes us.
FINAL WORD
When economic crisis, pandemic, and war effects rise like walls against us, the answer is not fear. It is faith expressed through prayer.
God is still saying: “If My people… shall pray… I will heal their land.”
PRAY. SEEK. TURN. RECOVER ALL.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
Leave a Reply