Dear sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus, part of a growing repentance remnant globally,
Repentance is not a punishment. It's His Gift ! It's opens your heart to know Him! The more you and I remove the old sin strongholds which filter and cover up His Truths into our hearts, the more our hearts can be free in the fullness of the Holy Spirit to love Him and all others. With an open heart we can even love our enemies!
Practicing repentance regularly, honoring His Holy Spirit conviction, our hearts can open up to begin to love Him as He first loved, and will always love, us.
The HEART is vital to the Lord Jesus. In the relatively short gospel of Mark there are fourteen scriptures with the word "heart." Taken together they show us how vital it is to cleanse our hardened hearts and get our hearts right with Him, using His Gift of Repentance:
And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, Mark 2:6
But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Mark 2:8
And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other. Mark 3:5
And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. Mark 4:15
For they had not understood about the loaves, because their heart was hardened. Mark 6:52
He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. Mark 7:6
because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods? Mark 7:19
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Mark 7:21
But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? Mark 8: 17
And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. Mark 10:5
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Mark 11:23
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. Mark 12:30
And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Mark 12:33
Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. Mark 16:14
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Do you see God's Gift of repentance as vital in our personal lives? In our nations? If so, you're part of the repentance remnant, purifying to be ready for the soon-coming Bridegroom. Encouraging repentance is NDR's sole purpose for ministry. No church or foundation supports us; only saints like you. The Lord told us that those who believe in Him would do greater works. Cleansing His Bride through repentance is such a work, pleasing to Him. In Luke 8:3 two women are mentioned who "provided for Him from their substance." Would you please pray to see if the Lord would have you be a provider to help cleanse His Bride?
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God bless you,
Pastor Jeff Daly
National Day of Repentance
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