Dear sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus, part of a growing repentance remnant globally,
This week, holy for Christians and Jews, includes removing leaven, sin in ourselves and our habitations. Exodus 12: 25 states: " Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel."
And the Holy Spirit, speaking through Paul in 1 Corinthians 5: 6-8, tells us: " Your glorifying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Question: does the global Body of Christ need to repent and renounce the leaven of SLEEPING? In the Garden of Gethsemane, the Lord took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and said to them, " ' My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.' He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, ' O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.' Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, 'What? Could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing , but the flesh is weak." Matthew 26: 36-41
Isn't that SLEEPING a picture of much of His Church today, His Body of Christ? Where is sincere repentance, modeled and taught by today's Pastors? Where is repentance to remove apostasy and idolatry and sexual perversions and failure to stand with Israel in virtually all denominations?
Instead of sleeping, we are called to be zealous to repent. We are called to press into the Kingdom. Jesus tells us: " The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it." Luke 16:16.
Advancing His Kingdom, following Him, the gospel must be proclaimed with spiritual PASSION. Press in to remove all apathy!!!!!!!
Let's start with you and me. Is there any residue of this apathy/ procrastination, passivity/ or sleeping in your walk with Christ? Is it a generational curse? Did you pick it up as a child? How does it show up in your character today?
TODAY--- perfect timing this holy week--- is the day to confess that old sin pattern, that false filter, that stronghold, to the indwelling Holy Spirit. He will forgive you. You can then take the next step and repent, renouncing that pattern and instead following His Path of Purity. He is our Helper, our Teacher, One Who wishes each of us to come PASSIONATELY into the abundance of ALL His Fruits and Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
That will require removing all the old sin pattern of apathy and sleep. The hour is late!!!!!
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Thank you ! He will bless you!
God bless you,
Pastor Jeff Daly
National Day of Repentance
Is it in your heart to share repentance with others? This eleven minute video on our NDR You Tube channel is one way to do that: https://youtu.be/0z4gf4TQejQ
