This is Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. If you're new, we're so glad you found us. And if you're a daily,

daily hoper, welcome back. Today we're going to continue with our series called 40 Days of Prayer.

Such a great series because Rick is going to help you cultivate a powerful prayer life so you can experience

breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in your relationships, breakthroughs and finances, health, and really

every area of your life. So don't miss a day of this life-changing series. All right, let's join Pastor

Rick for part one of a message called How to Pray for Healing and Restoration.

I was reading an article the other day and one of the columnists said, America needs a national

healing. I agree with that. But we do need healing in our nation and we need healing in the world but we need more than that we need

healing in our schools we need healing in our businesses we need healing in our government we need

healing in our neighborhoods and our communities we need healing in our families we need healing in in our lives, in our minds, in our hearts, in our bodies.

And I just thought and felt led by the Lord to this week for us in the 40 days of prayer,

to be looking at how do you pray for healing and restoration?

I'm talking about physical healing, but I'm talking about more than that too.

Healing of minds, healings of relationships, healings of finances, and so many different areas

where there needs to be a restoration, there needs to be

a healing. About 3,000 years ago, God made a promise to King Solomon. And that promise still

stands today because it's a promise made to all his people. If you'll look at your message notes

at the top of the outline,

Second Chronicles, chapter 7, verse 14,

one of the very most important

and well-known promises in the entire Bible,

2 Chronicle 714,

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