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HOUSTON—Calling upon a common Scripture reference for national redemption, Richard Land told those gathered at a National Day of Prayer breakfast in Houston on May 3 that the United States will have a spiritual reformation when the saved get their lives right with God.
Using 2 Chronicles 7:14 as his text, Land asked, “Who are my people?” In the Old Testament it was those who by faith obeyed the sacrificial system and the promises it held. And since the time of Christ it is those who know Jesus as Lord.
For them, Land said, it is necessary to understand “my problems are bigger than myself.”
Land gave his remarks to an audience of about 120 at Nassau Bay Baptist Church.
When Franklin Roosevelt used his famous fireside radio addresses to speak to the nation he told them, in the midst of the Great Depression, that the nation’s troubles were rooted in the economy. Today, Land said, no one could dare make such a claim. He said our problems are ones of the heart, soul, and spirit, noting the social ills associated with sex outside of marriage, fatherless homes, the economic demise of single moms and their children, and abortion.
“But the good news that this verse tells us is,” Land added, “it doesn’t depend on what the lost people do. It depends on what the saved people do.”
When “my people” do all that is required of them in the first part of the passage in 2 Chronicles then, Land said, “there is a divine critical mass, there is a divine tipping point” when God pours out his blessings.
“But there has to be revival. When God’s people get right with God, lost people notice.”
When enough people get saved it’s called an awakening. And in the course of an awakening a nation will have reformation.
“In the end,” said Land, “that is what we must have—a reformation.”
In an election year, Land emphasized the necessity of all Christians putting aside allegiances to political party and loyalty to family when casting their votes for political candidates. He told of how his mother, a staunch Republican from Massachusetts, always canceled out the vote of his “yellow-dog Democrat” father.
“But they were both wrong,” he said. Each cast a vote out of habit and a sense of duty to someone or something other than their biblical ethics. But Christians should seek candidates who represent biblical principles.
Harkening back to a speech given by then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, Land said, “I don’t think we should be endorsing candidates. We should be looking for candidates who endorse us.”
In the saved getting right with God and also minding their civic duties from a biblical framework, Christians could began to stem the tide of destructive influences in American society and government, he said.
