Dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus, part of the growing repentance remnant, cleansing as His Bride, getting ready for His soon return as our Bridegroom,
June is "Celebrate Life Month," as set forth by pro life groups such as thejusticefoundation.org. It's also a month, as is every month, for Cleansing His Bride.
It's Cleansing the Bride month instead of man's pride month. The gay lifestyle proponents call for "pride." No; a "proud look" is an abomination, the first abomination to Almighty God, Proverbs 6:17. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18. It's pride that changed some angels into demons. We need to pray in love to have those caught in that lifestyle to remove that spirit; we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ~Ephesians 6:12. Every day people are conquering that lifestyle and are changed in Jesus Christ, repenting, truly converting from the fleshly lifestyle.
In diametric contrast to pride, moving in the Holy Spirit instead of the anti-Christ spirit, we who have come into His Eternal Kingdom, now, humbly submitted to Him, have to get ready, to cleanse as His Bride, with Holy Spirit oil in our lamps, as were those five wise virgins, Matthew 25: 1-13.
God willing, on Sunday, June 25, we will be encouraging shepherds in His ecclesia in church services in all nations to focus their preaching on cleansing the Bride. A portion of our website has been set up for that purpose. www.globalrepent.com.
We'll also, God willing, be doing a global zoom call.
Between now and then we hope to encourage you each day with a simple repentance process, an old sin pattern, a stronghold (2 Corinthians 10: 4) for you and your Holy Spirit Teacher to remove. Take time with Him ! He wants to "dine" with you (Revelation 3:20).
Are you praising Him continually? Have you praised Him even in difficult situations? Do you love the praise of men more than the praise of God? Deuteronomy 10:21 says: " He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen."
Even before looking at whether you have a residue of this sin pattern of failing to praise Him, take time to ensure that you've repented, that you've been actually converted into Jesus' Kingdom. Only then can you receive the Holy Spirit and begin to cleanse as His Bride. Yeshua/ Jesus was very clear: " ...unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." ~Luke 13: 3,5. We were all "by nature children of wrath." Ephesians 2:3. And Acts 3:19 is right on point: " Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord...."
That word "converted' was also spoken by our Yeshua Messiah, Lord Jesus: " Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, ' Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18: 2-4.
Take time now with your Teacher, the Holy Spirit, and ask Him if there's any residue in your heart of this practice of failing to praise Him. Is it fear of what others may say? Ask Him where the root of this sin pattern in your life was first planted. As He may reveal this to you, you can confess that sin. He will forgive you: " If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. " 1 John 1:9-10. At any point you may then choose to take the next step of your free will to repent, to turn fully from that stronghold in your mind, that lie where God's Word has been blocked by your confused belief or cultural idea earlier held to be true.
Turning away from the lie, then replace that lie with the Truth based on God's Word. Replace lies with Truth. Yeshua/ Jesus IS the Truth: " I am the way, the truth and the life." John 14:6. To withstand in the evil day, "gird your waist with truth....." Ephesians 6:14. And then, speaking truth, be a witness to others of your newly-changed Godly character; "bear fruit worthy of repentance. " Matthew 3:8
The more you and I praise Him, the more you and I will get closer to Him. And the closer we get to Him the more we want to repent. And the more we repent, the cleaner we become, and the more we want to praise Him. Praising Him in all things is a beautiful Way to cleanse spiritually!
Psalm 146 is on point: " Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! While I live I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being."
1 Peter 2:9 speaks to us today: " But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light."
And to praise Him publicly is to be bold for Christ. Jesus teaches us in John 12: 42-46 that we are to praise Him publicly and to walk in His Light: " Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him , lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. Then Jesus cried out and said: ' He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me. And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.'"
"Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." 2 Corinthians 7:1
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Each Wednesday we also have a 90 minute "Cleansing the Bride" zoom call at 10:30 AM Pacific USA time. Recently we had on the zoom brothers and sisters in Christ from Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Kansas and California. The Lord was giving us a glimpse of the global Bride and giving us simple prayer exercises in private to remove old sin patterns to cleanse as His Bride! Please join us: Direct Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87050808691?pwd=ZkMvM3VtTDF6TUFCKytDdE9vZ0V0UT09
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Thanks to the Lord, and thanks to you, in the last thirty days NDR has made a number of donations to repentance-based ministries. Just the other day we were able to send $300 to Pastor Isaac in Uganda who, with his flock, runs a health clinic. The clinic had run out of medicine in the face of a malaria outbreak; it can now begin to address that critical situation. In the last thirty days NDR was able to make seventy one (71) donations to fourteen different pastors/ ministries following our repentance guidelines in nine nations: Algeria, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Do you see yourself as part of the growing repentance remnant? A "Pathway of His Miracles" is now underway among the youth in Africa. With any donation, of even a small amount, you will receive" fruit that will abound to your account." Philippians 4:17.
God bless you,
Pastor Jeff Daly
National Day of Repentance
www.repentday.com
www.globalrepent.com
pastorjeff@repentday.com
Are you called to bring His Flame of repentance to your city or state or nation? The LORD lit the flame among youth in Africa, and it's now burning among youth in several nations, but He wishes it to spread all over His Planet. We'll join you to pray for His Wisdom to make it happen where He's planted you for such a time as this (Acts 17:26). Repentance is His Gift, not a punishment.
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