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Dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus, part of the growing repentance remnant:
Whatever our chronological age, the Lord rightfully sees us as children. His first Word as a preacher we find in Matthew 4:17 and in Mark 1: 15: " Repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Repentance is turning to Him. And that really needs to be a deep, almost broken cry of apology for not turning to Him earlier, for being lost on the wrong path. It's not a mere call for some small transgression; it's a spiritually mature realization that your life needs refocusing on Him, your Creator who loves you. He needs to be #1 .
I love how Paul teaches in Acts 20:21 how he preached to jews and greeks, first preaching repentance and then trust in our Lord Jesus. This is the Message version:
I taught you out in public and I taught you in your homes, urging Jews and Greeks alike to a radical life-change before God and an equally radical trust in our Master Jesus.
Have you made a "radical life change?" Or, are you still playing "church?" Jesus wishes ALL to turn to Him; to join His Kingdom to become true disciples; to find out his or her unique calling, and to bring others in His Kingdom, doing "greater works" because He went to His Father. (John 14:12)
As one of His children, facing eternity either with or without Him, turn to Him today!
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National Day of Repentance is a Christian ministry founded in 2011 with the sole focus of encouraging God's gift of repentance. While the focus was initially on the USA and days of national repentance, today National Day of Repentance also encourages personal repentance and days of repentance in Africa and Australia, supporting 17 repentance-preaching pastors in ten nations. Each of the seventeen needs ongoing support, even as they often go forward with a zeal to preach repentance without food.
Here is an earlier call for pastors to repent: : https://youtu.be/8tpLCgW9prE
And here is a powerful message given by Speaker Mike Johnson including the need to repent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPALTt7SIQo
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