Good morning!!!!
As we enter into 2 Chronicles 7 I pray you will stop and ask God to
speak to your heart. Our topic this morning is: what if I?

This passage is filled with IF!!!!
If my people do this and if my people do that and we must consider the
“if” in our day.

Alot of things happen in this life as we know and we look at options and
how to get around things and we say “if” I do this or “if” I do that
then this will happen or that will happen.

When it comes to God he sometimes does things based on the IF!!!
For example “if” you do wrong then he has no choice but to punish you as
his child. On the other hand “if” you do right then God will bless you!!!!

America has been in the “if’s” of this life. We like to weigh out our
troubles and trials to see our pros and our cons but the truth is if we
disobey God then we are due for punishment and if we obey him than we
are in for a blessing. Sadly our IF’S come after we made the wrong
choices what if I had of done this or that or what if I had not of done
this or that how much simpler our life would be.
This morning what kind of IF’S Is God given you?

1 John 1:9 is an IF we must consider.
Please, look up the if’s of the Bible and see the condition of our
country and line it up with the Word of God.

I hope you have a wonderful day and please share this Fire-starter with
Family and friends!

2 Chronicles 7:1-22 KJV
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from
heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the
glory of the Lord filled the house. [2] And the priests could not enter
into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the
Lord’s house. [3] And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire
came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed
themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and
worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy
endureth for ever. [4] Then the king and all the people offered
sacrifices before the Lord. [5] And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of
twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep:
so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. [6] And the
priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of
musick of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord,
because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their
ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel
stood. [7] Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was
before the house of the Lord : for there he offered burnt offerings, and
the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon
had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat
offerings, and the fat. [8] Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast
seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt. [9] And in the eighth day
they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar
seven days, and the feast seven days. [10] And on the three and
twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their
tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the Lord had shewed
unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people. [11] Thus Solomon
finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s house: and all that came
into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own
house, he prosperously effected. [12] And the Lord appeared to Solomon
by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen
this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. [13] 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.
[16] For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may
be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually. [17] And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David
thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee,
and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; [18] Then will I
stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with
David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in
Israel. [19] But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other
gods, and worship them; [20] Then will I pluck them up by the roots out
of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have
sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to
be a proverb and a byword among all nations. [21] And this house, which
is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so
that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto
this house? [22] And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord
God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.