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Dear Christian Warriors:
The LORD's words to King Solomon 3,000 years ago are still true today. From 1623 until 1918, they were used HUNDREDS of times PUBLICLY by our USA forefathers: "When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence [ including moral pestilence] among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land." ( 2 Chronicles 7:13,14 NKJV).
God willing, for the next 24 days, ending on January 20, 2025, the Presidential Inauguration, NDR will share each day a simple devotional, naming a national sin. Following the example of Nehemiah, Ezra, and Daniel, please join us, repenting yourself, for your family, for this USA. Join us each day in your own prayer closet, or in any group, confessing and repenting for that national sin. Then, starting at 11 AM Eastern time on January 19, NDR will encourage a 24 hour National Day of Repentance, concluding one hour prior to the Inauguration on January 20. Intercessors from other nations have been invited to join also. The final two hours of the twenty four will be a zoom call, to which you're invited, to acknowledge and repent of the sins and to declare our return to the Lord's Godly roots. It's ALL about giving honor to Almighty God and His process set forth in His Word, not to man. True healing of any nation comes from Him when He "hears from heaven" that His people called by His name have humbled themselves, prayed, sought His face, and turned back to Him, sincerely having repented. May this process restore the Godly roots of this nation.
The key national sin to focus on this day 24, during this holy-day season, is the national failure in His Church, by its leaders, and by you and me, to speak boldly --even publicly--- about PERISHING and ETERNITY. Not wanting to offend anyone, our leaders in the house of God, where judgment begins (1 Peter 4:17), speak too often on superficial issues omitting Scriptures on PERISHING and ETERNITY. As a result, few repent, few are baptized in the Holy Spirit; many become worldly, self-focused. We then fail to pray for people, give them the gospel, and lead them (Luke 24:47) to Him.
ETERNITY was, is, and always will be, God's focus. God made all humans in His image ("according to OUR likeness" Genesis 1:26), and thus we each have an eternal spirit; we have eternity in front of us, eternal life or eternal death, in one destination or another. During the Feast of Dedication, now celebrated as Hanukkah, Jesus said: " 'My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them ETERNAL life; and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one.'" (John 10:27-30). And the classic Scripture for the Gospel, John 3:14-16, covers eternity and perishing:" And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so MUST the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Jesus' beloved disciple John repeats this: " And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." (1 John 5: 11,12).
Eternity and perishing are also clearly tied to repentance. The first five verses of Luke, chapter 13, amplified version, could not be more clear: " Just at that time some people came who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate [the governor] had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus replied to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans because they have suffered in this way? I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish. Or do you assume that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed were worse sinners than all the others who live in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish.”
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This holy-day season, join us in celebrating His move of repentance, in nation after nation. Your support has made a REMARKABLE impact, lighting His Holy Spirit Flame! Your generosity reflects the spirit of the season. With any gift, as you donate below, you are helping us advance His Gift of repentance. You will receive "fruit that will abound to your account." May the joy and peace of our Savior fill your heart and home these holy days and throughout the new calendar year.
God bless you,
Pastor Jeff
Pastor Jeffrey Daly
National Day of Repentance
www.repentday.com
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pastorjeff@repentday.com
Box 246 Middletown CA USA. 95461
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