A Prayer Asking God to Deliver Repentance to Our Nation
By Lynette Kittle
“Humble yourselves earlier than the Lord, and He’ll carry you up” – James 4:10
When Windfall Discussion board Govt Director, Dr. Jerry Newcombe, was requested what America as a nation must carry our nation to repentance, he mentioned, “Humility. All of us have to humble ourselves. In our prosperity, we have now forgotten God.” Nowadays, humility appears to be virtually a forgotten phrase. Amid America’s prosperity has emerged prideful worldliness, set on dragging even probably the most religious Christians down with it.
Nonetheless, it isn’t a modern-world drawback, because the Apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 5:13: “You, my brothers and sisters, had been known as to be free. However don’t use your freedom to indulge the flesh; moderately, serve each other humbly in love.”
Pleasure has been rampant all through historical past, even the historical past of the Church, because the Apostle Peter wrote, “Humble yourselves, due to this fact, below God’s mighty hand, that He might carry you up in due time” (1 Peter 5:6).
How Does Nationwide Repentance Come?
In wanting again to what led to the American Revolution and the beginning of America, we have now to take a look at what occurred on July 8, 1741, within the small city of Enfield, Connecticut. The Rev. Jonathan Edwards helped to result in “The Nice Awakening” by preaching his well-known sermon “Sinners within the Fingers of an Indignant God,” taken from Deuteronomy 32:35, “It’s mine to avenge; I’ll repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of catastrophe is close to and their doom rushes upon them.”
In his sermon, Edwards defined, “The usage of this terrible topic could also be for awakening unconverted individuals on this congregation. This that you’ve heard is the case of each one among you which are out of Christ.”
As Edwards spoke, listeners started shrieking and crying out, and the weeping grew to become so loud, he was pressured to finish his sermon. In response to his message, ministers began to go among the many people, praying with them in teams, the place many had been led to Salvation in Jesus Christ. His sermon was the start of the revival often called “The Nice Awakening,” main an estimated one-half of all dwelling within the South and one-third of everybody dwelling within the North to Salvation. It modified all the ethical tone of New England for the higher with roughly 25,000-30,000 new converts becoming a member of the church.
Religious Awakening Is Key to Nationwide Repentance
Together with Edwards, Rev. George Whitefield, a well-known Calvinist, helped to unfold it. Being the primary man to go to all 13 of the colonies, Whitefield helped to unfold “The Nice Awakening” up and down the Atlantic Coast, reportedly masking roughly 5,000 miles in America and preaching greater than 350 occasions as he toured the colonies. Whitefield answered the Apostle Paul’s name in Romans 10:14. “How, then, can they name on the one they haven’t believed in? And the way can they imagine within the one among whom they haven’t heard? And the way can they hear with out somebody preaching to them?”
What Leads a Nation to Repentance?
The late Dr. D. James Kennedy, former pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, as soon as mentioned, “I imagine that if America is to ever be a Christian nation once more, then we have to return to our roots. Too usually we neglect that America grew to become a nation quickly after a non secular revival, the First Nice Awakening. Then, within the 1800s, America skilled a Second Nice Awakening, which helped carry a couple of ethical revolution—notably in addressing the evil of slavery. However now we’re in want of a Third Nice Awakening.”
Kennedy clarified what this seems to be like. “Many individuals are below the misperception that the federal government will remedy all our issues. However I imagine that true change goes to happen when individuals all through the nation start to belief in Christ and within the God that made this nation nice. And that may carry a couple of real revival. A revival that finally strikes to the halls of presidency. Not from the federal government down, however from the individuals up. God as soon as declared, ‘If My individuals, that are known as by My title, shall humble themselves, and pray, and search My face, and switch from their depraved methods: then will I hear from heaven, and can forgive their sin, and can heal their land!’ (2 Chronicles 7:14). Could it’s in our day.”
Let’s pray:
Expensive Father,
We reward You that Your need is for all individuals to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4). In humbleness, as a nation, we flip away from sinfulness and switch in the direction of You. Forgive our nation for the methods it has drifted and turned away from You. Transfer hearts in America to repent from all types of evil. Free our land from rebellious actions and attitudes geared toward You and our nation’s godly heritage. Ship Your Holy Spirit, to maneuver throughout our land, softening and reworking hearts to imagine and obtain the forgiveness You so generously and freely supply to all by means of Your Son Jesus Christ. Throughout the USA of America, exchange hearts of stone with new hearts of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26). Trigger our biblical basis to be restored and our leaders’ hearts to be turned in the direction of You. Deliver our nation to its knees, seeking to You alone as our hope and Salvation.
In Jesus’ title, amen
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Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been revealed by Deal with the Household, Choice, At present’s Christian Girl, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Examine TV.
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