4月30日至5月6日 全球為美國禁食禱告
Global Call: Prayer and Fasting For America - 30 April to 6 May 2015
4月30日是美國的國家悔改日 April 30 is America's National Day of Repentance,
5月7日則是美國第64屆全國禱告日 May 7 is the 64th AnnualNational Day of Prayer.
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最高法院和獸的印記/雷克喬納 2015年4月30日
澳大利亞為美國 –一位老朋友–禱告
"Australia Calls World to Pray & Fast for 7 Days for USA"
我們祝福美國！
澳大利亞的國家禁食禱告日的團隊，以及其他國家的領袖，呼籲世界各國為美國禱告和禁食七天，從2015年4月30日至5月6日，這是已經在進行中的事項。
在澳大利亞的我們，相信這次是輪到我們來祝福美國這個國家，並根據代下7：14的經文藉由禱告和禁食為美國帶來醫治。我們感謝美國在第二次世界大戰期間為澳大利亞和自由世界各國提供保護。在1942年由美國轉戰的珊瑚海戰役，對澳大利亞而言是在第二次世界大戰中的一個轉折點。為美國感謝神！
（照片源自Warwick Marsh）
如果沒有美國的軍事干預，希特勒和他的邪惡勢力會在第二次世界大戰擊敗盟軍。如果沒有美國的積極抗戰，共產主義會在二十世紀贏得勝利。這兩個無神論的意識形態需要為在二十世紀超過100萬人的死亡負責。因為美國挺身反對邪惡，有多少的生命倖免於難？為美國感謝神！
據估計，每年美國從政府，私人和宗教機構提供外援資助了全世界數十億美元。幾乎世界上所有國家的人民，在某種形式上每年都從美國的慷慨和善良中受益。為美國感謝神。
在2015年4月30日舉行的國家悔改日，是喬治·華盛頓以一個虔誠的基督徒身份當選總統，其就職典禮的第226週年。國家悔改日是源自於亞伯拉罕·林肯在災難的內戰期間舉辦的”謙卑，禱告和禁食日“的靈感。這7天的禱告和禁食從國家悔改日開始，於5月6日，美國全國禱告日的前夕結束。神過去回應亞伯拉罕·林肯在國家危機出現時的禁食禱告，祂今天也同樣可以做到。
欲觀看為美國禱告的邀請視頻，請點擊這裡，或是下方的圖片：
家庭的危機
讓我告訴你一個關於四個人的故事。他們的名字是『每個人』(Everybody)，『某個人』(Somebody)，『任何人』(Anybody)，和『沒有人』(Nobody)。有一項重要的工作需要完成而『每個人』很確信『某個人』會做。雖然是『任何人』都可以做的，但『沒有人』來做。『某個人』對此很生氣，因為它是『每個人』的工作。『每個人』都認為『任何人』都可以來做，但『沒有人』意識到，『每個人』都不會去做。結果就是，當『沒有人』來做『任何人』都可以來做的事情時，『每個人』都指責『某個人』。
今天，我們各自國家的房子都著火了，警鐘響噹噹地響著，『每個人』都認為『某個人』應該來做些什麼將火撲滅。在澳大利亞和美國，大約三分之一到一半的婚姻以失敗收場。我們已經集體地拒絕聖經的道德，這意味著越來越多的人們甚至懶得結婚，而同居的伴侶遭受家庭破裂是已婚夫婦的五倍。婚姻正陷在危機當中！
通姦不斷提高的發生比例引發的無過錯離婚，動搖了婚姻的根基和引爆使下一代被削弱的”無父疫情”的擴散，並導致更高比例的犯罪入監，更高層次的犯罪行為，吸毒，家庭暴力，墮胎增加和其它形式的謀殺，貧困，心理問題，黃色書刊大流行，兒童性虐待增加，公共健康問題日驅嚴重，以及無數的教育和政府方面的問題。
更糟糕的是，有一些來自我們各自國家內部的力量要重新定義婚姻。婚姻的重新定義會完全破壞婚姻並導致“無父“，家庭破裂和性別混亂更加增多。每個人都同意，我們各自的國家正處於危機當中，並且某個人應該要做點什麼。
代下7：14提到，『這稱為我名下的子民，若是自卑、禱告，尋求我的面，轉離他們的惡行，我必從天上垂聽，赦免他們的罪，醫治他們的地』。
『自卑』在希伯來文是『KANA』，在經文中也意指禁食。我們各自的國家需要有良好的一劑，就是從禱告，禁食和生命活水的消防栓而來的悔改。只有協調一致和聯合的禱告，禁食和悔改可以恢復教會，之後為國家帶來屬靈的健康。我們需要復興和改革。
美國正處於危機之中，因為它已經忘了自己是從磐石所鑿成的，而正陷入道德和屬靈的破產裡。道德和屬靈的破產導致金融和政府的破產。美國是陷於內外交攻巨大的危險中。來自澳大利亞的先知性作家和傳道人Lana Vawser說，“美國現在正為自己的命定爭戰，美國的命定難料。主正在呼召祂的子民出現，為美國禱告。爭戰的時刻到了“。
（照片源自Warwick Marsh）
我們呼籲世界各國加入我們在基督中的兄弟姐妹們為美國的復興和改革來禱告和禁食。去年我們有來自40個國家的人加入我們。今年，我們相信會有超過100個國家與我們一起為美國禱告和禁食。
神祝福美國！
讓我們禱告：
我們在天上的父，
為美國感謝袮，勇敢者的家園，自由的土地。這個國家一直都是世界各國的大祝福。她資助福音的傳講到地的四極；差派宣教士幾乎到世界上所有的國家。我們感謝袮在全球給予窮人巨大的援助。我們感謝袮的保護將美國武裝部隊白白賜給地上的人民。
今天，我們代表美國站在破口，呼求袮的憐憫。我們為『憐憫原是向審判誇勝』感謝袮。我們感謝袮要祝福我們，醫治我們。耶穌已經在十字架開闢了道路，而祂的寶血大聲呼喊恩典和更多的恩典。
主饒恕我們，主潔淨我們，主醫治我們。
奉耶穌的名我們禱告。阿門。
Warwick Marsh
國家禱告日
(nationaldayofprayer.com.au)
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美國國家悔改日：為我們的國家來宣告，禱告和悔改的一天
National Day of Repentance for USA: A Day to Declare, Pray and Repent for Our Nation
Jeffrey Daly, Middletown, CA
Apr 30, 2015
The Elijah List編者按：Jeffrey Daly是每年在4月30日舉辦的“國家悔改日”這組織的創始人。紀念喬治·華盛頓於1789年4月30日敬虔的就職典禮，以及總統亞伯拉罕·林肯在1863年4月30日公布的“國家謙卑，禁食和禱告日“的宣言。在傑夫的文章中，他提供了為美國禱告的宣言以及在本週“為美國禁食和禱告”的每日悔改禱告之建議。我們鼓勵個人和團體遵循主的帶領來禁食和禱告。 -Julie A.Smith, The Elijah List
介紹
謝謝在澳大利亞的兄弟姐妹們，以及在其他國家，和在美國這裡，參與我們在2015年4月30日舉辦的國家悔改日，並繼續在接下來的日子禁食和禱告直到5月7日的全國禱告日。
（照片源自國家悔改日）
我們在美國的基督的信徒，深深地感謝在這個危機四伏的時候，您們來自全球為我們的國家擺上禱告和禁食。我們正處於一個真正的轉折點，一個真正的屬靈爭戰；是否這個國家將會來尊榮並且回轉歸到敬虔的根源。我們的心被你們敬虔的支持，禱告，禁食而感動。為了繼續在祂的身體裡團結合一，我們準備好隨時都來與您們在貴國任何這樣的日子裡，禱告，禁食，悔改。上帝祝福您們！
除了禱告和禁食，我們鼓勵您在您的禱告中添加悔改，個人性的或是與他人。當我們一起悔改，真正的快樂和偉大友誼就如花朵般綻放出來。悔改是“從我們的惡行轉離”，允許主從天上垂聽，赦免我們的罪，醫治我們的土地（注1）。祂呼召我們，『“你們應當禁食、哭泣、悲哀，一心歸向我”。你們要撕裂心腸，不撕裂衣服。歸向耶和華 - 你們的 神…』（珥2：12-13）。當祂看到呼求祂的子民真正的悔改，祝福便開始，爭戰就成為祂的。
當約書亞/耶穌（Yeshua/Jesus ）藉著神的話在曠野打敗魔鬼，祂便開始祂的事工，而祂的第一句話是：“天國近了，你們應當悔改！”（太4：17）。幾年後，復活的基督，對信徒幾乎是最後一句話也是說，“悔改”：“凡我所疼愛的，我就責備管教他；所以你要發熱心，也要悔改”（啟3：19）。彌賽亞要大家藉著悔改進入天國，然後使用這悔改的過程來擁有祂的聖潔。
與復活的基督同坐席以及悔改
有一個最值得注意的經文，啟示錄3:20（NKJV），其中提到復活的基督邀請信徒與祂同“坐席”。復活的基督對我們說：“看哪，我站在門外叩門，若有聽見我聲音就開門的，我要進到他那裡去，我與他，他與我一同坐席”。
（照片源自國家悔改日）
在生活版聖經中的翻譯，復活的基督更是堅持：“你看！我一直站在門口，我常常在叩門。如果有人聽到我叫他就開門，我就會進來與他相交，而他與我一起“（啟示錄3:20 生活版聖經）。
這種與復活的基督的“坐席“和“相交””是一個非比尋常的特權。祂邀請我們與祂共享在祂服事中所食的靈糧，甚至是祂的門徒所未曾得知的：“我有食物吃，是你們不知道的”。（約4：32）
來想想看：復活的基督邀請你和我與祂同享聖餐！然後相交！你是否曾經希望你能出席最後的晚餐？你可以像約翰那樣將你的頭放在祂的心臟那裡？在聖靈中，我們可以做到這一點 - 復活的基督邀請我們與祂每日共進聖餐和交流，只要我們願意！我們就只需要除去世界和肉體的干擾，並打開我們的心門與祂共度優質的時間。
除了在相交中所享受到的純淨的喜悅，祂是有一個目的：祂要為自己的名引導我們走義路（注2）。祂要來成聖潔淨我們，讓我們在祂的聖潔中增長。祂將如同新郎而來。我們身為信徒的人是祂的新娘，需要毫無玷污、皺紋等類的病，乃是聖潔沒有瑕疵的。（弗5：25-27）（注3）。
在這個過程中，我們沒有任何一位屬靈導師比復活的基督更好。在復活的基督這無比的愛的同在中，祂教導我們要熱心悔改：“凡我所疼愛的，我就責備管教他；所以你要發熱心，也要悔改”。（啟示錄3：19）
藉著祂的寶血和祂的聖名，祂幫助我們發現自己的心中，是被背叛，痛苦，世代的詛咒，過去的內在誓言，或不饒恕所蒙蔽。祂幫助我們揭開每一個阻擋我們的堅固營壘，經由聖靈豐滿的彰顯神蹟式地賜給我們每一個人使我們成為祂的信徒。
（圖片源自國家悔改日）
就像逾越節家宴的過程中也有苦菜。如同一位完美的導師，祂會指出在我們生命中殘餘的罪。我們都虧缺了神的榮耀（注4）。祂不能允許邪惡持續存留在我們的生命和國家而無審判。在祂公義的審判上，神的憐憫，恩惠和良善將會臨到。當祂的審判臨到地上，很多人就會呼求憐憫，轉向祂的救贖。而“地上的居民就學習公義”。（賽26：9）（注5）
在祂的審判臨到之前，今天就是悔改的時刻。要解決所有最深層的傷口，沒有比與復活的基督共度親密時刻為更佳之處。祂正站在我們的心門，敲門。讓祂進來，我們可以承認祂早已經知道的罪，經歷祂的饒恕，並選擇真誠的悔改。當我們悔改，所有的傷口都得以顯露並在祂的愛中得釋放 - 從世界轉身離開，從肉體（的情慾），從今生的驕傲 - 重新聚焦在祂的身上（注6）。
苦菜的對比，悔改之後靠耶和華而得的喜樂是我們的力量（注7）。喜樂緊隨悔改而來。當我們跟隨祂純淨的道路，開始敏感於他人的需要，愛祂所愛，我們成為祂敦促要加入祂的得勝者：“得勝的，我要賜他在我寶座上與我同坐，就如我得了勝，在我父的寶座上與他同坐一般“。（啟3：21）
與復活的基督同坐席！這是怎樣的特權！然後坐在祂的寶座上！榮耀歸於上帝！
2015年4月30日國家悔改日
為美國禱告宣言：
全能的上帝，我們的救贖主，力量和盾牌，我們的土地，所有聚集在這裡的人們都是袮的。我們請求袮饒恕我們的罪，傾聽我們的心，因為我們為我們的國家向袮呼求。
我們宣告聲明，並高舉袮的名，耶和華尼西，是我們唯一的旌旗，如同在我們之前來的人已經做的。（注8）
天父，奉袮兒子耶穌基督的名，我們對阻礙這個國家和“要被救贖的人們“的這些權勢說話。
我們奉耶穌基督的名，打破驕傲，謊言和情慾，瑪門和拜偶像，恐懼和疑慮，疾病和死亡，不信，和那些超自然的權勢。
使用在馬太福音18:18提到（注9），耶穌所賜予我們的國度的鑰匙，我們關閉和鎖起，封住和捆綁那些針對我們國家的敵基督的門。我們將他們鬆開，融化，並溶解在地上和在天上的界域。
我們請求袮，天父，透過我們的悔改和敬拜，奉耶穌/基督耶穌的名，和耶穌/基督耶穌的寶血（in the name and by the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua Messiah），天堂的閘門對美國打開…將悔改和救贖，真理和信心，整體性和生命全都豐豐盛盛地帶來。
我們請求袮，主，加速釋放出工人到袮豐收的禾場。我們禱告大能傳講主耶穌基督的福音橫跨這片土地，帶來袮聖靈的傾倒，和引領那些曾經知道袮的愛的浪子們歸來。
召集袮的大能，神啊，向我們展示袮的大能大力如同袮以前所做過的，因為袮的戰車是上萬的，成千上萬的。
興起，神啊，說出話來，擊散所有的敵人，袮的“保持聖潔的名”。
我們請求是奉耶穌榮耀的名。阿門。
為接下來這週，個人性和國家性悔改禱告重點：
以下所建議的個人性和國家性悔改禱告重點，乃為了鼓勵讀者在這個關鍵時刻把握機會，向主悔改，將生命重新對焦於祂。
4月30日，星期四，建議的悔改禱告重點
個人性悔改：
主啊，我為我的冷漠和怯懦來悔改。我太常害怕別人會怎麼評論我而多過於敬畏袮。噢，引領我到十字架，我屬於你，除掉我在自己身上的專注。
（圖片源自國家悔改日）
國家性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，我們在美國的信徒沒有在袮面前曲膝，如同幾個世紀前三個大覺醒時期的祖先一樣。在冷漠中我們已經證實了一個人的看法，就是“我們沒有復興是因為我們願意生活中沒有它”。教會在18，19和20世紀公開地代表袮；這果子就是一個以信仰和自由架構而成的新國家，奴隸制度廢除，和將自己有的與缺乏的人分享的一個新的特徵，以及對其他人確實的尊重而真實的種族和解。我悔改，我們今天很少公開代表袮。
5月1日，星期五，建議的悔改禱告重點：
個人性悔改：
主啊，我為自己的偶像崇拜悔改。我太常用這個世界的其他假神來取代你。（參考西3：5；弗5：5）（注10）。
國家性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，我們在美國的信徒已經允許敵人的假教導攻城佔地，以及當袮的話幾乎完全從我們的孩子中挪走時，我們沒有來抗爭。聖經不再存於我們的學校中，在我們的家中也越來越少出現。如此，原本具有袮的敬虔之根的樹有了枯枝並充滿腐爛。饒恕我們，奉耶穌的名，因著允許這個國家崇拜虛假的偶像和世界虛假的靈。
5月2日，星期六，建議的悔改禱告重點：
個人性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，雖然袮一直持守著袮的承諾保持袮與我所立的盟約，但我沒有尋求或已經常常在我這部分漠視這個珍貴永恆的，寶血買贖回來的契約。我沒有完全將我的意志與袮的對齊。我已經打破與袮的盟約。饒恕我，主。袮不想要言不由衷的獻祭，但要在我裡面憂傷痛悔的靈。（注11）。
（圖片源自國家悔改日）
國家性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，我們在美國的信徒已經打破與袮所立的盟約，就是要成為一個敬虔的國家，對別人而言是袮的自由的光，在山上的城市。饒恕我們不站在袮眼中的瞳仁，以色列那一邊。饒恕我們相信巴比倫的思想。噢，今天（興起）一個國家的領導者能回應John Hancock在獨立宣言上簽署時的聲明：“讓我們謙卑地將我們公義的目標承諾於這位宇宙的大主宰......讓我們喜樂地將我們的掛念交托給隨著自己的喜悅而用祂的手興起和壓制帝國和王國的那位”。饒恕我們，主啊，容許這個國家遵循男性和女性的世俗思想，而不是袮和袮的話。
5月3日，星期日，建議的悔改禱告重點：
個人性悔改：
主啊，我悔改讓我與袮漸行漸遠的任何性方面的罪。饒恕我，沒有更多地在聖靈中行走以除去肉體的情慾。饒恕我，沒有認真地對待，並傳述給他人袮在啟示錄21:27和22:15兩次提到關於淫亂的指令（注12） – 是用袮的標準，不是今天的政治修正版 – 將不會進入袮的新耶路撒冷。
國家性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，我們在美國的信徒已經從敵人的井中飲用淫亂的屬靈的毒水。現在，我們很少在我們的文化中尋求袮生命的純淨活水。我們國家的媒體也常常支持淫亂，然而我們很少大膽出聲；許多人去觀看卻不是花時間與袮共處。色情猖獗，這情形也存於袮的信徒中。而在神的家 – 審判於此開始（注13） - 幾個基督教教派現在竟支持同性婚姻，儘管袮的原話與此恰恰相反。
袮說，主耶穌，“但從起初創造的時候，神造人是造男造女。因此，人要離開父母，與妻子連合，二人成為一體。既然如此，夫妻不再是兩個人，乃是一體的了。所以， 神配合的，人不可分開“（可10：6-9）。
噢 原諒我們，主啊，我們沒能播散真理，使人們每天從同性相吸中，從崇拜他們自己而不是袮的當中被聖靈釋放。讓我們不再聖化這墮落的靈，而是親切地支持袮讓人們從那靈裡得釋放。願上帝得勝；願我們的最高法院現在主張聖經婚姻的神聖結盟。
5月4日，星期一，建議的悔改禱告重點：
個人性悔改：
主啊，我為我的冷漠悔改，如果沒有參與那流無辜人血的話。饒恕我沒有為可能拯救一個在子宮內的嬰兒而代禱，每一個袮的孩子，對袮而言都是永遠珍貴的。請饒恕我沒有與其他反墮胎事工和立法者連結而在這個國家中帶來生命的文化。
（圖片源自由elijahshopper.com，Jennifer Page的 “生命“）
國家性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，我們在美國的信徒流了無辜人的血，因著我們國家的納稅人支持墮胎和其他的政策所以無辜人的血被流。我們悔改法律允許非醫生進行墮胎。我們悔改法律允許墮胎，即使我們知道寶寶會經歷痛苦。我們悔改我們的法律許可因為一些“緊急情況”而允許協助自殺方式的死亡。饒恕我們沒有用袮的真理來對付死亡的靈的謊言，袮是生命的賜予者，袮是一個神蹟醫治者，甚至從死裡復活的真理。
5月5日，星期二，建議的悔改禱告重點：
個人性悔改：
主啊，我為自己的不冷不熱悔改，我在拿起我的十字架跟隨袮時昏睡。饒恕我沒有經常尋求袮對我的生命的神聖計劃。饒恕我是一個懦夫。饒恕我抓住自己罪的模式，我的受傷，我與袮不一致的內在誓言，我的堅固堡壘，而不是熱心跟隨袮。
國家性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，我們在美國教會中的信徒，一直沾沾自喜於袮的教會和我們國家的狀態。許多牧人隱藏在恐懼之中，而不是勇於為基督（做見證）。饒恕我們不依靠袮，主，和沒有公開宣稱袮的良善。當有災難時，從袮而來的關鍵記號歸還給袮，饒恕我們的驕傲，我們一直以來沒有反思，沒有悔改，對袮沒有重新對齊調整卻支持重建的傲慢。（參考見歷下7：13-15；賽9：10-11）（注14）
5月6日，星期三，建議的悔改禱告重點：
個人性悔改：
主啊，我悔改，我不是如同在五旬節的信徒般靈性覺醒。賜給我袮的勇氣，讓我從四週環繞的離經背道中走出來。在這全球性動盪的時代，我需要袮神聖的援助。我需要聽到袮的聲音。饒恕我不傾聽袮。我知道袮正站在我的心門外指導我，潔淨我的靈魂使我能更像你。饒恕我不讓你進來。讓我成為一個新的五旬節的一部分，使我能被袮的聖靈完全充滿在袮的國度中前進提升。
（圖片源自國家悔改日）
國家性悔改：
主啊，我悔改我們在美國的信徒，經常選擇律法而不是耶穌的靈。我們已經把信條放在基督之上。我們已將袮的身體劃分。我們常常得罪彼此，並往往避免在國家中擔當那些我們可以傳講袮給我們的人民，並產生敬虔政策的領導職務。在一個垂死的文化中，我們已經很少成為袮呼召我們該當的鹽和光。主啊，處於一個國家絕望的地步，看到袮的光芒迅速黯淡，我們對袮呼求請袮喚醒我們，賜給我們一個新的五旬節。我知道沒有悔改就不可能有復興的，主。恢復我們神聖的命定。願在這個國家的信徒中有雪崩般的悔改發生，就從我開始。
意欲得知更多關於國家悔改日的信息，請參閱網站：www.dayofrepentance1.org。
注1：代下7:14 這稱為我名下的子民，若是自卑、禱告，尋求我的面，轉離他們的惡行，我必從天上垂聽，赦免他們的罪，醫治他們的地。
代下7:15 我必睜眼看、側耳聽在此處所獻的禱告。
注2：詩23:3 他使我的靈魂甦醒，為自己的名引導我走義路。
注3：弗5:25 你們作丈夫的，要愛你們的妻子，正如基督愛教會，為教會捨己。
弗5:26 要用水藉著道把教會洗淨，成為聖潔，
弗5:27 可以獻給自己，作個榮耀的教會，毫無玷污、皺紋等類的病，乃是聖潔沒有瑕疵的。
注4：羅3:23 因為世人都犯了罪，虧缺了 神的榮耀。
注5：賽26:9 夜間，我心中羨慕你；我裡面的靈切切尋求你。因為你在世上行審判的時候，地上的居民就學習公義。
注6：約壹2:16 因為，凡世界上的事，就像肉體的情慾、眼目的情慾，並今生的驕傲，都不是從父來的，乃是從世界來的。
注7：尼8:10 又對他們說：「你們去吃肥美的，喝甘甜的，有不能預備的就分給他，因為今日是我們主的聖日。你們不要憂愁，因靠耶和華而得的喜樂是你們的力量。」
注8：出17:15 摩西築了一座壇，起名叫「耶和華尼西」（就是耶和華是我旌旗的意思）。
注9：太18:18 我實在告訴你們，凡你們在地上所捆綁的，在天上也要捆綁；凡你們在地上所釋放的，在天上也要釋放。
注10：西3:5 所以，要治死你們在地上的肢體，就如淫亂、污穢、邪情、惡慾，和貪婪（貪婪就與拜偶像一樣）。
弗5:5 因為你們確實地知道，無論是淫亂的，是污穢的，是有貪心的，在基督和 神的國裡都是無分的。有貪心的，就與拜偶像的一樣。
注11：詩51:17 神所要的祭就是憂傷的靈； 神啊，憂傷痛悔的心，你必不輕看。
注12：啟21：27 凡不潔淨的，並那行可憎與虛謊之事的，總不得進那城；只有名字寫在羔羊生命冊上的才得進去。
啟22：15 城外有那些犬類、行邪術的、淫亂的、殺人的、拜偶像的，並一切喜好說謊言、編造虛謊的。
注13：彼前4:17 因為時候到了，審判要從 神的家起首。若是先從我們起首，那不信從 神福音的人將有何等的結局呢？
注14：歷下7:13 我若使天閉塞不下雨，或使蝗蟲吃這地的出產，或使瘟疫流行在我民中，
歷下7:14 這稱為我名下的子民，若是自卑、禱告，尋求我的面，轉離他們的惡行，我必從天上垂聽，赦免他們的罪，醫治他們的地。
歷下7:15 我必睜眼看、側耳聽在此處所獻的禱告。
賽9:10 磚牆塌了，我們卻要鑿石頭建築；桑樹砍了，我們卻要換香柏樹。
賽9:11 因此，耶和華要高舉利汛的敵人來攻擊以色列，並要激動以色列的仇敵。
Jeffrey Daly: "National Day of Repentance for USA: A Day to Declare, Pray and Repent for Our Nation"
by Jeffrey Daly
Apr 30, 2015
Managing Editor's Note: Jeffrey Daly is founder of the organization "National Day of Repentance" which takes place annually on this day of April 30th, honoring George Washington's godly inauguration on April 30, 1789, as well as President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation "National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer" on April 30, 1863. In Jeff's article he offers a declaration prayer for America with suggested daily prayer points of repentance for this week of "Prayer and Fasting for the USA". We encourage individuals and groups to fast and pray as the Lord leads. –Julie A. Smith, The Elijah List
Introduction
Thank you brothers and sisters in Christ in Australia, in other nations, and here in the USA for joining with us on the National Day of Repentance, April 30, 2015, and for continuing to pray and fast during the days leading up to the National Day of Prayer on May 7. (Photo via National Day of Repentance)
We Believers in Christ in the USA deeply appreciate your global prayers and fasting for our nation at this perilous time, where we are at a real tipping point, a real spiritual battle; whether this nation will honor and return to its godly roots. Our hearts are touched by your godly support, praying, and fasting. To continue to build unity in His Body, we stand ready at all times to pray, fast, and repent with you on any such days in your nations. God bless you!
In addition to prayer and fasting, we encourage you to add repentance to your prayers, individually or with others. Real joy and great fellowship blossoms when we repent together. Repentance is the "turning from our wicked ways" that allows the Lord to hear from Heaven, forgive our sin, and heal our land. He calls us to: "'Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.' So rend your hearts, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God..." (Joel 2:12-13). When He sees real repentance among His people who are called by His name, blessings begin and the battle becomes His.
Having defeated the devil in the wilderness by the Word of God, Yeshua/Jesus came out and began His ministry, and His first word was: "Repent...for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17). Years later, as the Risen Christ, virtually His last word to Believers was also, "Repent": "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent" (Revelation 3:19). The Messiah wants everyone to come into the Kingdom of Heaven through repentance and then to use that repentance process to take on His holiness.
Dining With the Risen Christ and Repentance
There is a most remarkable verse of Scripture, Revelation 3:20 (NKJV), where the Risen Christ invites Believers in Him to "dine" with Him. The Risen Christ says to us: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me." (Photo via National Day of Repentance)
In The Living Bible translation, the Risen Christ is even more insistent: "Look! I have been standing at the door, and I am constantly knocking. If anyone hears Me calling him and opens the door, I will come in and fellowship with him and he with Me" (Revelation 3:20 TLB).
This "dining" and "fellowship" with the Risen Christ is an extraordinary privilege. He's inviting us to share with Him the type of spiritual food He ate during His ministry, not known then even to His disciples: "I have food to eat of which you do not know" (John 4:32).
Think about it: The Risen Christ is inviting you and me to have communion with Him! And then fellowship! Did you ever wish you were present at the Last Supper? That you could have placed your head on His heart as John did? In the Holy Spirit we can do that – the Risen Christ invites daily communion and fellowship with Him as often as we wish! We simply have to remove the distractions of the world and flesh and open the door of our hearts to Him to spend quality time with Him.
In addition to the pure joy in fellowship, He has a purpose: He wants to lead us in His path of righteousness for His name's sake. He wants to sanctify and cleanse us to grow in His holiness. He's coming soon as the Bridegroom. We Believers are His Bride and need to be without spot and wrinkle, holy and without blemish (see Ephesians 5:25-27).
We could have no better mentor in this process than the Risen Christ Himself. In the presence of His awesome love as the Risen Christ, He coaches us to be zealous to repent: "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent" (Revelation 3:19).
Under His Blood and under His name He helps us uncover places in our hearts blocked by betrayal and pain, or generational curses, or vows made in the past, or unforgiveness. He helps us uncover every stronghold blocking us from manifesting the fullness of His Holy Spirit miraculously given to each of us upon becoming a Believer in Him.(Photo via National Day of Repentance)
Like a Passover Seder there are bitter herbs in this process. Like the perfect mentor, He will point out the remaining sin in our lives. We all fall short of the glory of God. He can't let the evil in our lives and nations continue without judgment. Above His righteous judgments that will be coming will be the mercy, grace, and goodness of God. When His judgments are in the earth, many will cry out for mercy, will turn to Him for salvation, and "the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness" (Isaiah 26:9).
Prior to His judgments, today is the time to repent. There is no better place to address the deepest of all wounds than in this intimate time with the Risen Christ. He's standing at the door of our hearts, knocking. Letting Him in, we can confess sins that He already knows about, experience His forgiveness, and choose sincere repentance. All wounds can be uncovered and released in His love when we repent – turning away from the world, from the flesh, and the pride of life – refocusing on Him.
In contrast to bitter herbs, after repentance comes His joy as our strength.Joy follows repentance. As we follow His path of purity, beginning to be vulnerable to others, to love as He loves, we become the overcomers He urges to join Him: "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne" (Revelation 3:21).
Dining with the Risen Christ! What a privilege! And then to sit on His throne! Glory be to God.
National Day of Repentance, April 30, 2015,
Declaration Prayer for America:
Almighty God our Savior, Strength and Shield, our lands and all people gathered here are Yours. We ask You to forgive our sin and hear our hearts, as we cry out to You for our nation.(Photo via National Day of Repentance)
We declare, and raise Your name, Jehovah Nissi, as the only banner over us, just as those who came before us have done.
Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus Christ, we speak against the things holding back this nation and "those who are called to salvation."
We break the power of pride, lies and lust, mammon and idolatry, of fear and doubt, sickness and death, unbelief, and the occult in the name of Jesus Christ.
Using the keys to the Kingdom that Jesus gave us in Matthew 18:18, we close and lock, seal and bind these gates of the anti-Christ over our nation. We loose, melt, and dissolve them on the earth and in the heavenly realms.
We ask, Father, that through our repentance and worship, in the name and by the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua Messiah, for the flood gates of Heaven to open over America...to bring repentance and salvation, truth and faith, wholeness and life in all its abundance.
We ask You, Lord, to thrust out laborers into Your harvest field, and we pray for the powerful proclamation of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ across this land to bring an outpouring of Your Holy Spirit and the return of those who once knew Your love.
Summon Your power, O God, and show us Your strength as You have done before, for Your chariots are tens of thousands, and thousands upon thousands.
Arise, O God, and speak the word and scatter all Your enemies, that Your "name be kept holy."
We ask it in Jesus' glorious name. Amen.
Individual and National Repentance Prayer Points for the Next Week:
The suggested individual and national repentance prayer points below are offered to encourage you to take the opportunity to repent with the Lord, to refocus your life upon Him, during this critical time.
• Suggested Repentance Prayer Points for Thursday, April 30:
Individual repentance:
Lord, I repent of my apathy and cowardice. I have been too often afraid of what others may think of me more than I fear You. O, lead me to the Cross, I belong to You, rid me of my focus on myself. (Photo via National Day of Repentance)
National repentance:
Lord, I repent that we Believers in You in the USA have not bent our knees to You as did our forefathers in earlier centuries during the previous three Great Awakenings. In apathy we have confirmed one man's observation that "the reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it." The Church stood for You publicly in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and the fruit was a new nation conceived in both faith and liberty, the abolition of slavery, and a new character based on sharing what we have with those who do not, and authentic racial reconciliation coupled with authentic respect for the other person. I repent that we rarely stand publicly for You today.
• Suggested Repentance Prayer Points for Friday, May 1:
Individual repentance:
Lord, I repent of my idolatry. I too often have replaced You with other false gods of this world (see Colossians 3:5; Ephesians 5:5).
National repentance:
Lord, I repent that we Believers in You in the USA have allowed ground to the enemy's false teachings and failed to object when Your Word was almost entirely removed from our children. The Bible is no longer in our schools, and less and less in our homes. As a result, the tree with Your godly roots has dead branches and is filled with rot. Forgive us, in Jesus' name, for allowing this nation to take on false idols and the false spirit of the world.
• Suggested Repentance Prayer Points Saturday, May 2:
Individual repentance:
Lord, I repent that although You have kept Your pledge to keep Your covenant with me, I have not sought or have too often disregarded my part of this eternally-precious, blood-bought covenant. I have not fully aligned my will with Yours. I have broken my covenant with You. Forgive me, Lord. You don't want insincere offerings but a broken and contrite spirit in me.(Photo via National Day of Repentance)
National repentance:
Lord, I repent that we Believers in You in the USA have broken our covenant with You to be a godly nation, a light of Your liberty to others, a city on a hill. Forgive us for not standing with the apple of Your eye, Israel. Forgive us for trusting in Babylon's thinking. O, for a national leader today who would echo John Hancock's statement at the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "Let us humbly commit our righteous cause to the great Lord of the Universe...Let us joyfully leave our concerns in the hands of Him who raiseth up and putteth down the empires and kingdoms of the world as He pleases." Forgive us, Lord, for allowing this nation to look to the secular thinking of men and women and not to You and Your Word.
• Suggested Repentance Prayer Points for Sunday, May 3:
Individual repentance:
Lord, I repent of any sexual sins which have distanced me from You. Forgive me for not walking more in the Spirit so as to remove the lust of the flesh. Forgive me for not taking seriously and telling others about Your instruction twice given in Revelation 21:27 and 22:15 that the sexually immoral – by Your standards, not today's politically correct ones – will not enter Your New Jerusalem.
National repentance:
Lord, I repent that we Believers in You in the USA have drunk from the spiritually poisonous waters of sexual immorality, the well of the enemy. We now rarely seek in our culture Your pure water of Life. Our national media too often support sexual immorality, and we rarely speak up; many watch it instead of spending time with You. Pornography is rampant and is found among Believers in You. And at the house of God – where judgment begins – several Christian denominations now support same sex marriage despite Your exact Words to the contrary.
You said, Lord Jesus, "from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.' 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate" (Mark 10:6-9).
Oh forgive us, Lord, that we fail to spread the truth that every day Your Holy Spirit delivers people from same sex attractions, from worshiping themselves instead of You. Let us no longer sanctify a spirit of perversion, but instead lovingly support Your liberation from that spirit. May God prevail; may our Supreme Court now stand for the sacred union of Biblical marriage.
• Suggested Repentance Prayer Points for Monday, May 4:
Individual repentance:
Lord, I repent of my apathy, if not participation, in the shedding of innocent blood. Forgive me for failing to intercede when I could have saved a baby in the womb, each one Your child, eternally precious to You. Forgive me for failing to team up with other pro-life ministries and legislators to bring about a culture of Life in this nation. (Photo by Jennifer Page "LIFE" via elijahshopper.com)
National repentance:
Lord, I repent that we Believers in You in the USA have shed innocent blood by our national taxpayer support of abortion and other policies by which innocent blood is shed. We repent for laws allowing non-physicians to perform abortions. We repent for laws permitting abortions even when we know the baby experiences pain. We repent for our laws permitting death by assisted suicide because of some "emergency." Forgive us for not countering the lies of the spirit of death with Your truth that You are the giver of Life and You are a miracle healer, even raising people from the grave.
• Suggested Repentance Prayer Points for Tuesday, May 5:
Individual repentance:
Lord, I repent of my lukewarmness, my lethargy in picking up my cross to follow You. Forgive me for failing often to seek Your godly plan for my life. Forgive me for being a coward. Forgive me for holding on to my sin patterns, my hurts, my vows inconsistent with who You are, my strongholds, instead of being zealous to follow You.
National repentance:
Lord, I repent that we Believers in You in the USA in Your Church have been complacent about the state of Your Church and our nation. Many shepherds have hidden in fear from the public instead of being bold for Christ. Forgive us for not depending upon You, Lord, and for not publicly announcing your goodness. When there have been disasters, key signs from You to return to You, forgive us for our pride, our arrogance to support the rebuilding when there has been no reflection, no repentance, no refocusing on You (see 2 Chronicles 7:13-15; Isaiah 9:10-11).
• Suggested Repentance Prayer Points for Wednesday, May 6:
Personal repentance:
Lord, I repent that I'm not awake spiritually as were Your Believers at Pentecost. Give me Your courage to come out from the apostasy all around me. In these globally tumultuous times I need Your Divine assistance. I need to hear Your voice. Forgive me for not listening to You. I know You are standing at the door of my heart to mentor me, to clean up my soul to be more like You. Forgive me for not letting You in. Make me part of a new Pentecost so that I can be fully filled with Your Holy Spirit to advance Your Kingdom. (Photo via National Day of Repentance)
National repentance:
Lord, I repent that we Believers in You in the USA have often chosen legalism over the Spirit of Jesus. We have placed creeds over Christ. We have been divided as Your Body. We are too often offended with each other and have too often avoided leadership positions in the nation where we could preach You to our people and produce godly policies. In a dying culture we have rarely been the salt and light You called us to be. Lord, in this place of desperation as a nation, seeing Your Light dim rapidly, we cry out for You to awaken us, to make in us a new Pentecost. I know there can't be revival without repentance, Lord. Restore our divine destiny. May there now be an avalanche of repentance among Believers in this nation, starting with me.
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Pastor Jeffrey Daly
National Day of Repentance