Call For Repentance
Call For Repentance
For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. Romans 8:7 (New Living Translation)
For 36 years I have been going to prayer meetings praying 2 Chronicles 7:14
"...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, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
But instead of healing, our land has gotten sicker.
Why? Because we have been repenting of "their" sins instead of our own. For example, abortion and sex outside of the biblical model. But what about our own sins?
People are always saying, "If the church had done... or not done...this would not have happened..."
Always blaming someone else.
Adam: "It was that woman you gave me, God."
Nothing has changed, really. We have simply lost our cultural support for our religion. God is not taken by surprise at all and it does no good to pout about it. Each one of us needs to look to God and settle the score with Him. Maybe when we all get better at doing that, God will be able to really move in this country.
OK, I'll start: I repent of caring more about my own comfort than about the needs of others. I repent of ingratitude. I repent of indifference to the fact of people all around me perishing without God. I repent for not slowing down enough in my hectic lifestyle to weep for the lost.
I repent of asking "How are you?" but not slowing down long enough to hear the person answer.
I repent of a Martha mentality instead of a Mary one. As long as I am busy I can feel good about "doing something," without spending the time to wait before God to find out what He wants from me.
I repent of worrying more about preaching to everybody than repenting in humility before God every day and letting Him change my own heart and get rid of the sin and rebellion in me.
I repent of giving more allegiance to the gifts of God rather than to God Himself and my relationship with Him.
Could I go on? Yes. How about you?
For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. Romans 8:7 (New Living Translation)
For 36 years I have been going to prayer meetings praying 2 Chronicles 7:14
"...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, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
But instead of healing, our land has gotten sicker.
Why? Because we have been repenting of "their" sins instead of our own. For example, abortion and sex outside of the biblical model. But what about our own sins?
People are always saying, "If the church had done... or not done...this would not have happened..."
Always blaming someone else.
Adam: "It was that woman you gave me, God."
Nothing has changed, really. We have simply lost our cultural support for our religion. God is not taken by surprise at all and it does no good to pout about it. Each one of us needs to look to God and settle the score with Him. Maybe when we all get better at doing that, God will be able to really move in this country.
OK, I'll start: I repent of caring more about my own comfort than about the needs of others. I repent of ingratitude. I repent of indifference to the fact of people all around me perishing without God. I repent for not slowing down enough in my hectic lifestyle to weep for the lost.
I repent of asking "How are you?" but not slowing down long enough to hear the person answer.
I repent of a Martha mentality instead of a Mary one. As long as I am busy I can feel good about "doing something," without spending the time to wait before God to find out what He wants from me.
I repent of worrying more about preaching to everybody than repenting in humility before God every day and letting Him change my own heart and get rid of the sin and rebellion in me.
I repent of giving more allegiance to the gifts of God rather than to God Himself and my relationship with Him.
Could I go on? Yes. How about you?
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