Call for repentance









One day the Lord spoke to me and my wife that we should pray and fast and seek His face. While we were worshipping the Lord, the Lord said “I have a word”. And I said to the Lord, “Lord speak your word” and the Lord spoke in my heart saying, “I gave my word to your wife, so lay your hand upon her and she will prophesy”. To make story long short I laid my hand to her head and my wife prophesied, saying, “Prepare the Church, Call for repentance”. Oh what a message! It is the confirmation of the message I received from the Lord early in the morning. The Lord told me to read 2 Chronicles 7:13-16, it is a familiar verse to me and still I obeyed God and read the verse because deep in my heart I know God is trying to tell what is in His heart. And in verse 14 the Lord highlight this word “stop their evil ways” I believe in my heart that this is the call of God ‘a call for repentance’ I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to start it but, we need to obey the Lord. So I sent a text message to all of our church workers and declared ‘prayer and fasting’ as a sign of repentance. And we had an overnight prayer meeting. On the prayer meeting we humbled ourselves before God and asked Him to reveal our sins. And God in His grace revealed to every individual the sins that had been committed and we repented. After each individual asked forgiveness to God, we asked God “So now Lord reveal the sin of the church” Again the Lord spoke to me and to my wife, saying, “Hypocrite”. Yes, that’s true many Christian today are “hypocrites”. Jesus said, “They are like tombs that are painted white. Outside, those tombs look fine, but inside, they are full of the bones of dead people and all kinds of unclean things. It is the same with to us. People look at us and think we are good, but on the inside we are full of hypocrisy and evil’ (Matt.23:27ff, 28). This is the sin of the Church today and we need to REPENT.
Many times we ask God to send revival and claim the prophecy of Prophet Joel 2: 28-32 but, before God send revival and pour out His Spirit among all flesh he said in Joel 2:12,13 ‘…turn ye even to me with all your, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.’ My dear brethren (leaders and members) it’s time for us to repent and humble ourselves before God. We should rend our hearts so that God will look upon us in His mercy and He will send revival. Church wake up! The Lord is waiting for us so that He could pour out the new wine of the Holy Spirit. Be prepared!

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