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,
The Risen Christ is our soon-returning Bridegroom. He sees us as His Bride. We all fall short of the glory of God, and yet He loves us and wishes us to follow Him up His narrow path to holiness. He wishes us to be holy as He is holy.
To support this process, National Day of Repentance is continuing a 40 day repentance cleanse, leading up to a Global Day of Repentance in many nations on Sunday, April 30, 2023. God willing, using the model of Nehemiah, many of us also will sign a new Covenant, confessing where we have failed to honor His Word and Authority. We will pledge to humble ourselves, pray, seek His face and turn from our wicked ways to follow His Word. Using His solution in 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, the Covenant calls upon the Lord, in His Mercy, to hear from heaven, forgive our sins, and heal our lands.
In this forty day time of purification we are focusing not just on removing old sin patterns, but above all knowing Who our Bridegroom is. Jesus IS God; He is the Name above ALL Names. By each day becoming open to knowing His Name, ending with the Name above all Names, we will begin to grasp Who Jesus is, and will thus begin to see ourselves properly as His Bride.
Join in the 40 day repentance cleanse at any point. Begin today. To register please go here: www.globalrepent.com
-- and please sign the Covenant ! Our sister Kathleen in California wrote: "May this new covenant advance God's Holy Kingdom on earth as we all repent and cleanse ourselves from sin patterns and all unrighteousness while we await the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. AMEN".
And our sister Cecilia in Michigan wrote: I want no thing between my God and myself that would offend Him. I pray for Him to lead me. To pray for His people Israel and for His complete and perfect bride in all nations, as we are grafted in by His most capable hands. I am blessed to declare that I am a part of this covenant, this new covenant between Him and me, between God and us, His bride.
Day Fifteen of the 40 days will begin on Wednesday, April 5.
Day Fifteen: Honor His Word
Name of God: El Elyon--God Most High (Psalm 7:17)
" I will praise the LORD according to His righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High."
We honor His Holy Word by trusting in Him, the LORD Most High. He is worthy of ALL praise!
Spend time alone with the Holy Spirit as you spiritually"dine" with Him, your Teacher, today (Revelation 3:20). He wishes you to become an overcomer. (Revelation 3:21).
Is there any hesitancy or doubt in you holding El Elyon--God Most High in healthy fear, with reverence and profound respect? Take time with Him now and ask Him where this hesitancy or doubt began.
Do you believe in Him fully? We are to rely upon El Elyon--God Most High. He is worthy of our honoring His Holy Name and Word continually! We know this Word in John 1: 1-5: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
And this Word in John 1:14-18: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ ”And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Ask the Holy Spirit what more He can teach you as to where you may have doubted Him as El Elyon--God Most High. To believe in Him fully is central to our faith. When you sincerely repent, convert from your old ways, and come into His Kingdom you receive His holiness, His Holy Spirit, indwelling in you! Greater is the Holy Spirit in you than any spirit in the world. ~1 John 4:4.
As your Holy Spirit Teacher reveals any of this hesitancy or doubt, if you are moved, take the opportunity to confess any sin. If you do, He will be faithful and just to forgive that sin and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9. And then you can take the next step, and freely decide forever to remove that hesitancy by changing your mind, repenting, and replacing it with His Word, such as this one: And Jesus Himself said: " I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14: 6).
Or these verses: " I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind." (Philippians 3:14-16)
And let this be another guide for seeing El Elyon--God Most High as Jesus prophetically in His Word, when His Word was in Jeremiah's heart: " Then I said, ' I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name.' But His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not." ~Jeremiah 20: 9
And Deuteronomy 8: 3: " So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD."
And 1 John 5: 7: " For there are three that bear witness in heaven: The Father, The Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one."
Submitted to our El Elyon, God Most High, Jesus, we are blessed to honor His Holy Eternal Word continually.
Let those Words be your guide today, and all days forward, as you walk on His path as a member of His Bride. May the joy of the Lord be your strength. By each day knowing His Name, ending with the Name above all Names, we will begin to grasp Who He is, and will thus begin to see ourselves properly as His Bride. Yeshua/ Jesus is our soon-coming Bridegroom.
Here is a simple prayer which you can use as a model: "Heavenly Father, in Yeshua/Jesus/ Name, help me to remove all that is old and inaccurate, a filter of Who You are. Help me to grow in Christ to know You as You are, to believe in You fully. Please fill me afresh with Your Word and Your loving Holy Spirit so that I may walk in Your fruits of the Holy Spirit, bringing salt and light to others, being a light so shining before men, that they may see good works and glorify You, Almighty God, in heaven."
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Thank you to all who have given funds into the disaster in Malawi. Close to one thousand five hundred dollars has been received. With those funds the OUT youth are handing out blankets and food, and are preaching the gospel!
With any donation you will receive" fruit that will abound to your account." Philippians 4:17
God bless you,
Pastor Jeff Daly
National Day of Repentance
pastorjeff@repentday.com
A recent Capitol Hill Prayer Partners conference call has been recorded. It gives an overview of our NDR projects and key prayers. You can listen by going here.
Each Wednesday we hold a 90 minute zoom "Cleansing the Bride" call which includes several private times with the Holy Spirit to see if there is any residue of an old sin pattern. Love grows as anyone later voluntarily shares what she or he may have confessed and repented of; there's no condemnation; we can all relate! Please join us: 10:30 AM Pacific, 1: 30 PM Eastern USA
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