Many people today try to use 2 Chronicles 7:14 to say that if we as a country humble ourselves, pray, seek God, and turn from our wicked ways that our country will turn around. Maybe we'll have less natural disasters, less violence, and less immorality. The political landscape will get better, our economy will get better, and we will begin to prosper again.

It’s become a verse that we use as our strategy to get moral, political, and economic healing for our country.

But is this really what this verse means? No, that's not what this verse means. What is the real meaning of 2 Chronicles 7:14? That's what we dive into in today's video.

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1 John 1:9 is often taught to be a verse about believers and their need for ongoing confession of sin to be forgiven or to regain fellowship with Jesus. But that is not what that verse means. John is writing to confront Gnostic unbelievers and is saying that if they confess that they are sinners then they will be forgiven have fellowship with God and other believers.

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What is the real meaning of Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me? Many have taken this verse out of context and used it as an inspirational slogan for motivation to accomplish all of their hopes and dreams. In it's proper context, Philippians 4:13 is about contentment. Paul is saying that Jesus gives him strength to be content in whatever situation or circumstance he faces.

Philippians 4:10-13... 10 I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. 11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength

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