The Church - A Call to Repentance

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2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

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.

Joel 2:1-17, Revelations 2 and 3

When the Lord calls for repentance, it’s because there is forgiveness. God is always looking for a way to forgive!

When the Lord’s call to repentance is ignored, there are consequences.

Jesus Himself called the church to repentance on several accounts

Rev 2:5 - The church of Ephesus: carrying on without their first love

•  Lord, in Your mercy bring Your church to true repentance. Open the eyes of the church to her lack of love for You and the danger of carrying on with activities, services and other labour without Your love burning in the heart.
• Lord, baptise the church with the spirit of repentance – let her have sight of her sins so that repentance can be deep and genuine.
• Lord, help the church to see where she has fallen from, so that there will be sorrow and mourning and true repentance.

Rev 2:16 – The church of Pergamos: the compromising church, adopting and making allowances / excuses for doctrines of demons. Strange practices arising inside the house of God.

•  Lord, have mercy on Your church for every compromise. Pour out Your Spirit to convict the church of compromise with strange doctrines, non-biblical doctrines, immorality. Lord, have mercy!
• Lord, cause there to be repentance that results in a turning from every wickedness in the church.
• Lord, let there be repentance with mourning for every evil perpetuated in church leadership that has led many people astray.

Rev 2: 21- The church of Thyatira:  corrupted by false prophets and prophetesses.

•  Lord, have mercy on the church for every evil that has brought corruption, pollution and contamination. Have mercy on the church for allowing strange spirits to perform miracles in Your name.
• Lord, bring the church to repentance for allowing the spirit of Jezebel to parade itself as Your prophet. Lord, have mercy!

Rev 3:3 – The church of Sardis: the dead church that is carrying on as if it’s alive.

•  Lord, have mercy on the church for carrying on with dead works, works tarnished by the flesh and the world. Have mercy on the church for forsaking the complete gospel, the gospel of the cross that deals with the old nature and its dead works.
• Bring the church to repentance for embracing a gospel that celebrates dead works.

Rev 3:19 – The church of the Laodiceans: the lukewarm church, blind to its real condition and its need of the Lord- the breeding ground for much evil.

• Lord, have mercy on the church for its lukewarmness – not cold, not hot, not here, not there!
• Have mercy on the church for its self-sufficiency and lack of insight to the real condition.
• Lord, bring the church to the point of genuine repentance for every sin, every evil work and wickedness that has been breeding because of lukewarmness.

Revive Thy Work O Lord

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Thy mighty arm make bare;

Speak with the voice that wakes the dead,

And make Thy people hear.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Disturb this sleep of death;

Quicken the smold’ring embers now

By Thine almighty breath.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Create soul-thirst for Thee;

And hungering for the bread of life

O may our spirits be.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Exalt Thy precious name;

And, by the Holy Ghost, our love

For Thee and Thine inflame.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Give Pentecostal showers;

The glory shall be all Thine own,

The blessing, Lord, be ours.

Albert Midlane

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