“THE LORD APPEARED TO SOLOMON IN THE NIGHT!”

 2 Chronicles 7:11-18                    (ESV)

If MY People Pray

“[11] Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished. [12] Then “THE LORD APPEARED TO SOLOMON IN THE NIGHT” and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for MYSELF as a house of sacrifice. [13] When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, [14] if MY people who are called by MY name HUMBLE THEMSELVES, and PRAY and SEEK MY FACE and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR from heaven AMD WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN and heal their land. [15] Now MY EYES will be open and MY EARS attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. [16] For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that MY NAME may be there forever. MY EYES and MY HEART will be there for all time. [17] AND AS FOR YOU, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping MY statutes and MY rules, [18] then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’

One of the most beneficial things that came about from the Brain Hemorrhage of 2007 was my having to NOT HAVE background noise going on, like especially when I am driving!  I found this out when I was driving a few months after my hospitalization and everything felt like it was crashing in around me.  I turned the sound system off and things began to clear up and I started functioning again, as well as a Brain Damaged person should be able to!

King Solomon was GIFTED by THE ALMIGHTY with WISDOM. like no man previously nor since (1 Kings 3:28)!  With his wisdom though, King Solomon HAD to WAIT FOR THE LORD to speak him and give him direction!  GOD has HIS OWN timetable and even King Solomon was required to WAIT FOR THE LORD (Psalms 27:14), as written by King Solomon’s dad!!!  Even the CHOSEN King of Israel HAD to listen to his CREATOR!  

Even though King Solomon was the leader of Israel and wise beyond his peers, he was REQUIRED to WAIT FOR THE LORD before “THE LORD APPEARED TO SOLOMON IN THE NIGHT”!  The busyness of “this world” had to be silenced and his attention needed to be focused on things he had no ability to control or accomplish. His mind needed to be receptive to hear from HEAVEN!  Only then would “THE LORD APPEARED TO SOLOMON IN THE NIGHT”!!!