God Is Looking For Those Who Will Stand In The Gap

If we are going to love our neighbor as ourselves, 

how can we remain silent in face of the troubled times we live in.

God Is Looking For Those Who Will Stand In The Gap

 Matthew 22:36-40 - 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

If we are going to love our neighbor as ourselves, how can we remain silent in face of the troubled times we live in.

Jeremiah 5:1 - “Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem;
See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man,
If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth,
And I will pardon her.

God has a two edged sword.  On one side is judgment on the other side is justice  He was and still is interested in people who will stand in the gap, PRAY and call for justice and judgment upon the land.  He does not want JUDGMENT to come across the land.  People, someone, you and I must PRAY and INTERCEDE, calling upon the MERCY of God.

Ezekiel 22:30-31 - So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. ³¹ Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.

Will not God’s People HELP Him to HELP the souls so He can bring healing to the land?  He was looking for ONLY ONE, and nobody stepped up.

Isaiah 59:12-16 - For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us,
And as for our iniquities, we know them: ¹³ In transgressing and lying against the Lord, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. ¹⁴ Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.
¹⁵ So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice.

God was not interested in bringing judgment upon His people.  He wants His People to humble themselves, pray, SEEK HIS FACE, turn from their wicked ways, so He can hear their cry and HEAL THE LAND. 

II Chronicles 7:14, 15  - If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.  Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.

Ezekiel 13:5 -  You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the Lord.

Psalm 106:23 - Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

Moses interceded for his people, lest God’s wrath, and certain death come upon them all.

Genesis 18:23-27 - And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴ Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? ²⁵ Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

²⁶ So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”

²⁷ Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord

Abraham was willing to make a difference and interceded for Sodom – even though not even five could be found, Abraham witnessed that God was willing to listen to and agree to his petition.

Are there any “takers” today?  Any willing to come boldly before the throne of God on behalf of people that HE LOVES and that we are commanded to love?  I ask God, in Jesus’ Name to HELP US, to HAVE MERCY ON US, to HAVE MERCY ON OUR LAND and spare her from judgment.  Father strengthen our hearts and hands to be obedient and diligent to PRAY making the difference we all need. In Jesus’ Name.