Jeffrey Daly: "National Day of Repentance for USA: A Day to Declare, Pray and Repent for Our Nation"

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

Jeffrey Daly, founder of "National Day of Repentance for the USA" has about as much zeal and enthusiasm for his beloved country as a person can have.

Calling upon the LORD HIMSELF to come into this nation with POWER, upon the heels of a repentant Church Body, is basically what Jeff lives for.

This week as nations around the earth are joining with the USA for the restoration of this nation, let's zealously do our part. Derene and I will be part of the fasting and prayer for our nation this week.

And we want to thank each of you from the nations of the earth – who grab hold of this week of prayer and fasting assignment for America.

May God RICHLY multiply the blessings back to you.

By the way... we will be posting articles from national ministry leaders during this week of "Praying and Fasting for the USA". If you haven't done so already, it would be a great time to SUBSCRIBE to the Elijah List... so you will get these articles daily right in your inbox. You can subscribe right here: http://elijahlist.com/subscribe.

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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.

For more information about the National Day of Repentance visit their website at: www.dayofrepentance1.org

Pastor Jeffrey Daly
National Day of Repentance
Email: jdalylaw@aol.com
Website: dayofrepentance.org

Jeffrey Daly pastors Jesus Christ Fellowship in Middletown, Lake County, California and continues to practice law. Together, with two other pastors, he founded National Day of Repentance in 2011 as a nonprofit organization and has volunteered since that time as the communicator for the project. NDR, through its website, www.dayofrepentance.org, has now expanded to other Christians in other nations wishing to hold days of repentance in their nations. He welcomes comments at jdalylaw@aol.com, and he is currently writing a book, "Dining With the Risen Christ and Repentance," and planning soon to post it on the website as an e-book. Earlier e-books and other repentance resources are already on the NDR website at no charge.

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