God's word is true! God said, "If my people ... will pray and seek
my face... I will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14). When God's people
do his word, he fulfills it. On those rare occasions when God's people have
done what 2 Chronicles 7:14 calls them to do, God had shown the extent of
his healing. Individuals are healed of physical infirmity, but also economies
are healed, relationships are healed, attitudes are healed and governments
are healed. When God heals the land he does not leave anything out. -- Jesus
prayed for those who would believe in him that they all would be one even
as he and God the Father are one; then, he said, the world will believe
that God's Messiah has come. (John 17:20-21). The Church has yet to experience
this oneness for which Jesus prayed.
My hope for The Better Place is that God will use it mightily to
wake up faith in God's people and, thus, in the Church to the end that the
promises expressed in these two scriptures will be realized. The first promise
will initially be realized in the immediate area where The Better Place
campus is located and then throughout the states it serves (New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, Ontario). The promise of the second scripture is literally
a promise for the entire world. I hope The Better Place will be a big part
of its being realized.