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.
-- 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.
And, lastly, Sponsor a Nation! Add to the 47 nations now represented in our GDR team of intercessors. More information on "Sponsor a Nation" is on our website: www.globalrepent.com
Day Twenty Seven of the 40 days will begin on Monday, April 17.
Day 27 : Love your enemies
Name of God: Ishi-MyHusband
We see Ishi-My Husband, and God's extraordinary mercy on His people, and even those not His people, in these key verses in Hosea 2: 13-23:
" I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.
She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers;
But Me she forgot,” says the Lord.
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness,
And speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there,
And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there,
As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
“And it shall be, in that day,” Says the Lord,
“That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’ And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’
For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,
And they shall be remembered by their name no more.
In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field,
With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground.
Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth,
To make them lie down safely. “I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
And you shall know the Lord.
“It shall come to pass in that day That I will answer,” says the Lord;
“I will answer the heavens, And they shall answer the earth.
The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine, And with oil;
They shall answer Jezreel. Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth,
And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;
Then I will say to those who were not My people,
‘You are My people!’ And they shall say, ‘You are my God!’ ”
With this love and mercy from Ishi, My Husband, we can love our enemies.
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 Ishi, My Husband 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 God who is a Consuming Fire, a Jealous God. We are to be zealous to repent every day to be ready for Him when He returns as our Bridegroom.
Ask the Holy Spirit what more He can teach you as to where you may have doubted Him as Ishi, My Husband . To believe in Him fully is central to our faith. Jesus said in John 6: 27-29: " Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. Then they said to Him, ' What shall we do, that we may work the work of God?' Jesus answered and said to them, ' This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.'"
Have you opened the "door" of your heart and mind to have Him come in and "dine" with you to have communion with Him and to "chew" on any old sin issues? If you've not opened the "door" of your heart and mind to "dine" with the Risen Christ/ Holy Spirit, today is the day to confess that 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 sin pattern by changing your mind, repenting, and replacing it with His Word, such as this one, in 2 Corinthians 7:1: "Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."
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)
Loving our enemies is possible because of the Holy Spirit Love that He places in us when we have truly repented and joined His Kingdom.
God as our Husband and Redeemer appears also in Isaiah 54: 5-8:
"For your Maker is your husband. The LORD of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
For the Lord has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,” Says your God.
“For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.
With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says the Lord, your Redeemer."
Jesus can be seen as our Ishi, My Husband in Ephesians 5: 22-30:
"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones."
Let those Words be your guide today, and all days forward, as you walk on His path, loving our enemies, 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, every stronghold, every filter of Who You are. Help me to love my enemies, to love my neighbors, to forgive others, to not covet, to grow in Christ to know You as You are, to believe in You fully. Help me become an overcomer, as You overcame. Please fill me afresh with Your loving Holy Spirit so that I may walk in Your fruits of the Holy Spirit, bearing fruit worthy of repentance, bringing salt and light to others, being a light so shining before men, that they may see good works and glorify You above all else, Almighty God."
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Thank you to all who have given funds into the disaster in Malawi. Over two thousand two hundred dollars has been received. With those funds pastors are being supported to feed their neighbors, and the OUT youth are handing out blankets and food, and are preaching the gospel!
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
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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and just prior to the April 30 Global Day of Repentance there will be a key event on April 26, a Re-Covenanting of this land in the USA to God: www.FirstLanding1607.com.
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