Prayer Points We Can All Use for the Day of Repentance USA: April 30 - May 6
Day of Repentance Staff (Apr 29, 2015)
The Messiah wants everyone to come into the
Kingdom of Heaven through repentance and then to
use that repentance process to take on His holiness.
Thank you brothers and sisters-in-Christ in
Australia, in other nations, and here in the USA
for joining with us on the National Day of
Repentance, April 30, 2015, and for continuing to
pray and fast during the days leading up to the
National Day of Prayer on May 7.
We Believers in Christ in the USA deeply
appreciate your prayers and fasting for our
nation at this perilous time, where we are at a
real tipping point, a real spiritual battle
whether this nation will honor and return to its
Godly roots. Our hearts are touched by your Godly
support, praying and fasting. To continue to
build unity in His Body, we stand ready at all
times to pray, fast and repent with you on any
such days in your nations. God bless you!
In addition to prayer and fasting we encourage
you to add repentance to your prayers,
individually or with others. Real joy and great
fellowship blossoms when we repent together.
Repentance is the "turning from our wicked ways"
that allows the Lord to hear from Heaven, forgive
our sin and heal our land. He calls us to:
"‘Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting,
with weeping, and with mourning.' So rend your
hearts, not your garments; Return to the Lord
your God...." Joel 2:12-13. When He sees real
repentance among His people who are called by His
name blessings begin and the battle becomes His.
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Having defeated the devil in the wilderness by
the Word of God Yeshua/ Jesus came out and began
His ministry, and His first word was: "Repent...
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" Matthew
4:17. Years later, as the Risen Christ, virtually
His last word to Believers was also repent: "As
many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore
be zealous and repent." Revelation 3:19. The
Messiah wants everyone to come into the Kingdom
of Heaven through repentance and then to use that
repentance process to take on His holiness.
There is a most remarkable verse of Scripture,
Revelation 3:20, where the Risen Christ invites
Believers in Him to "dine" with Him. The Risen
Christ says to us, Revelation 3:20 [NKJV]:
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone
hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in
to him and dine with him and he with Me." In the
Living Bible translation, the Risen Christ is
even more insistent: "Look! I have been standing
at the door, and I am constantly knocking. If
anyone hears me calling him and opens the door, I
will come in and fellowship with him and he with me."
This "dining" and "fellowship" with the Risen
Christ is an extraordinary privilege. He's
inviting us to share with Him the type of
spiritual food He ate during His ministry, not
known then even to His disciples: "I have food to
eat of which you do not know." (John 4:32).
Think about it: the Risen Christ is inviting you
and me to have communion with Him! And then
fellowship! Did you ever wish you were present at
the Last Supper? That you could have placed your
head on His heart as John did? In the Holy Spirit
we can do thatthe Risen Christ invites daily
communion and fellowship with Him as often as we
wish! We simply have to remove the distractions
of the world and flesh and open the door of our
hearts to Him to spend quality time with Him.
In addition to the pure joy in fellowship He has
a purpose: He wants to lead us in His path of
righteousness for His name's sake. He calls us
out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter
2:9). He wants to sanctify and cleanse us to grow
in His holiness. He's coming soon as the
Bridegroom. We Believers are His Bride and need
to be without spot and wrinkle, holy, without blemish (Ephesians 5:25-27).
We could have no better mentor in this process
than the Risen Christ Himself. In the presence of
His awesome love as the Risen Christ He coaches
us to be zealous to repent: "As many as I love, I
rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent." (Revelation 3:19)
Under His Blood and under His name He helps us
uncover places in our hearts blocked by betrayal
and pain, generational curses, vows made in the
past, or unforgiveness. He helps us uncover every
stronghold blocking us from manifesting the
fullness of His Holy Spirit miraculously given to
each of us upon becoming a Believer in Him. He
then helps us stand to rebuild the walls of
righteousness that have guarded our land. Hallelujah!
The individual and national repentance prayer
points below are offered to encourage you to take
the opportunity to repent with the Lord, to
refocus your life upon Him, during this critical time.
Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Thursday, April 30
Individual repentance
Lord I repent of my apathy and cowardice. I have
been too often afraid of what others may think of
me more than I fear You. Oh lead me to the cross,
I belong to You, rid me of my focus on myself.
National repentance
Lord I repent that we believers in You in the USA
have not bent our knees to You as did our
forefathers in earlier centuries during the
previous 3 Great Awakenings. In apathy we have
confirmed one man's observation that "The reason
we don't have revival is because we are willing
to live without it." The Church stood for You
publicly in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and
the fruit was a new nation conceived in both
faith and liberty, the abolition of slavery, and
a new character based on sharing what we have
with those who do not, and authentic racial
reconciliation coupled with authentic respect for
the other person. I repent that we rarely stand publicly for You today.
Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Friday, May 1
Individual repentance
Lord I repent of my idolatry. I too often have
replaced You with other false gods of this world.
(Colossians 3:5, Ephesians 5:5)
National repentance
Lord I repent that we Believers in You in the USA
have allowed ground to the enemy's false
teachings and failed to object when Your Word was
almost entirely removed from our children. The
Bible is no longer in our schools and less and
less in our homes. As a result the tree with Your
Godly roots has dead branches and is filled with
rot. Forgive us, in Jesus' Name, for allowing
this nation to take on false idols and the false spirit of the world.
Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Saturday, May 2
Individual repentance
Lord I repent that although You have kept Your
pledge to keep Your covenant with me, I have not
sought or have too often disregarded my part of
this eternally-precious Blood-bought covenant. I
have not fully aligned my will with Yours. I have
broken my covenant with You. Forgive me, Lord.
You don't want insincere offerings but a broken and contrite spirit in me.
National repentance
Lord I repent that we Believers in You in the USA
have broken our covenant with You to be a Godly
nation, a light of Your Liberty to others, a city
on a hill. Forgive us for not standing with the
apple of Your eye, Israel. Forgive us for
trusting in Babylon's thinking. Oh for a national
leader today who would echo John Hancock's
statement at the signing of the Declaration of
Independence: "Let us humbly commit our righteous
cause to the great Lord of the Universe... Let us
joyfully leave our concerns in the hand of Him
who raises up and puts down the empires and
kingdoms of the earth as He pleases." Forgive us,
Lord, for allowing this nation to look to the
secular thinking of men and women and not to You and Your Word.
Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Sunday, May 3
Individual repentance
Lord I repent of any sexual sins which have
distanced me from You. Forgive me for not walking
more in the Spirit so as to remove the lust of
the flesh. Forgive me for not taking seriously
and telling others about Your instruction twice
in Revelation 21:27 and 22:15 that the sexually
immoralby Your standards not today's politically
correct oneswill not enter Your New Jerusalem.
National repentance
Lord I repent that we Believers in You in the USA
have drunk from the spiritually poisonous waters
of sexual immorality, the well of the enemy. We
now rarely seek in our culture Your pure water of
Life. Our national media too often support sexual
immorality, and we rarely speak up; many watch it
instead of spending time with You. Pornography is
rampant and is found among Believers in You. And
at the house of Godwhere judgment beginsseveral
Christian denominations now support same sex
marriage despite Your exact Words to the
contrary. You said, Lord Jesus, "from the
beginning of the creation God made them male and
female. For this reason a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh, so then they are
no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God
has joined together, let not man separate." Mark
10: 6-9. Oh forgive us, Lord, that we fail to
spread the Truth that every day Your Holy Spirit
delivers people from same sex attractions, from
worshiping themselves instead of You. Let us no
longer sanctify a spirit of perversion but
instead lovingly support Your liberation from
that spirit. May God prevail; may our Supreme
Court now stand for the sacred union of Biblical marriage.
Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Monday, May 4
Individual repentance
Lord I repent of my apathy, if not participation,
in the shedding of innocent blood. Forgive me for
failing to intercede when I could have saved a
baby in the womb, each one Your child, eternally
precious to You. Forgive me for failing to team
up with other pro-life ministries and legislators
to bring about a culture of Life in this nation.
National repentance
Lord I repent that we Believers in You in the USA
have shed innocent blood by our national taxpayer
support of abortion and other policies by which
innocent blood is shed. We repent for laws
allowing non-physicians to perform abortions. We
repent for laws permitting abortions even when we
know the baby experiences pain. We repent for our
laws permitting death by assisted suicide because
of some "emergency." Forgive us for not
countering the lies of the spirit of death with
Your Truth that You are the giver of Life and You
are a miracle healer, even raising people from the grave.
Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Tuesday, May 5
Individual repentance
Lord I repent of my luke-warmness, my lethargy in
picking up my cross to follow You. Forgive me for
failing often to seek Your Godly plan for my
life. Forgive me for being a coward. Forgive me
for holding on to my sin patterns, my hurts, my
vows inconsistent with who You are, my
strongholds, instead of being zealous to follow You.
National repentance
Lord I repent that we Believers in You in the USA
in Your Church have been complacent about the
state of Your Church and our nation. Many
shepherds have hidden in fear from the public
instead of being bold for Christ. Half of those
calling themselves Christians don't even vote,
let alone run for public office. Forgive us for
not depending upon You, Lord, and publicly
announcing your Goodness. When there have been
disasters, key signs from You to return to You,
forgive us for our pride, our arrogance to
support the rebuilding when there has been no
reflection, no repentance, no refocusing on You.
(2 Chronicles 7:13-15; Isaiah 9: 10-11).
Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Wednesday, May 6
Personal repentance
Lord I repent that I'm not awake spiritually as
were Your Believers at Pentecost. Give me Your
courage to come out from the apostasy all around
me. In these globally tumultuous times I need
Your Divine assistance. I need to hear Your
voice. Forgive me for not listening to You. I
know You are standing at the door of my heart to
mentor me to clean up my soul to be more like
You. Forgive me for not letting You in. Make me
part of a new Pentecost so that I can be fully
filled with Your Holy Spirit to advance Your Kingdom.
National repentance
Lord I repent that we Believers in You in the USA
have often chosen legalism over the Spirit of
Jesus. We have placed creeds over Christ. We have
been divided as Your Body. We are too often
offended with each other and have too often
avoided leadership positions in the nation where
we could preach You to our people and produce
Godly policies. In a dying culture we have rarely
been the salt and light You called us to be.
Lord, in this place of desperation as a nation,
seeing Your Light dim rapidly, we cry out for You
to awaken us, to make in us a new Pentecost. I
know there can't be revival without repentance,
Lord. Restore our Divine destiny. May there now
be an avalanche of repentance among Believers in this nation, starting with me.
FWD
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.
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