Recently 2 Chronicles 7:14 has became the central verse for mobilizing the Religious Right … and it happened not long after President Obama won the White House:

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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Ever since Obama and the Democrats took over, the Religious Right has become convinced that the election was the result of our nation’s wickedness and the only way to cast off this curse is for its people to humble themselves and plead with God to heal our land.

Thus, this passage has been the foundation of Janet Porter’s May Day 2010 Prayer Rally, the Global Day of Prayer, the National Day of Prayer, and the FRC’s upcoming Call 2 Fall event. And it was also the central theme of Richard Land’s recent address to FRC’s Watchmen on the Wall conference, where he warned that without revival, this country was on its way to becoming fundamentally unrecognizable: