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What God Prefers to Do, His will be done
JULY 8
The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. Jeremiah 18:7-8
God is not just talking about the nation Israel, but also nations in general.
God's Word continues, “And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.”Jeremiah 18:9-10
We must understand what the Bible makes clear concerning this about the great heart of our God:
He is a God of justice, righteousness, and judgment, yet also God would rather show mercy than send judgment.
America is ripe for judgment. God will turn from judgment if a nation will repent. We are in the eleventh hour, the clock is about to strike midnight if it hasn't already, yet we still need to pray,
“Oh God, hold back Your hand of judgment upon America for the heritage sake. That cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand”
This is not a time for finger-pointing in America. This is a time for repentance of personal sin.
I’m talking about the people in the Body of Christ.
" In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."Ephesians 2:21-22
The Bible says the time has come that judgment begin at this house of our LORD God.
"For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"1 Peter 4:17
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Yes, God Is Holding Us Accountable
JULY 7
We have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Daniel 9:5
When Daniel sought God in this golden chapter on prayer, Daniel prayed with passion and repentance: “We have rebelled, departing from Thy precepts and Thy judgments.” You ask, “Did Daniel do all that?” No, Daniel simply included himself in his prayer for his nation.
Does God hold me accountable for the abortion in America? Yes!
Does God hold me accountable for the pornography? Yes!
For the drug addiction, alcoholism, materialism, humanism? Yes, He does.
Friend, if the church had done what she ought to have done, and if we would do what we ought to do, these problems would be healed. And while we may not commit these sins, they are still our sins. Verse 20 of this same chapter makes that so clear: Daniel says, “While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel….”
Now, people who don’t know God aren’t going to confess the sins of this nation. Like Daniel, we must set our face and pray with resolve and repentance, confessing our sin and the sin of America. Only sin that is confessed is forgiven.
Have you ever “set your face” to pray? So much of our prayer, I hate to say, is casual prayer, prayer that comes with almost a take-it-or-leave-it attitude. Set your face before God today to pray as Daniel did. Pray with fasting and determination.
For more from Love Worth Finding and Pastor Adrian Rogers, please visit www.lwf.org.
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men:
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed, against Thy Divine Majesty, provoking most justly Thy wrath and indignation against us. (For even the Land does spew us out.)
We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings. The remembrance of them is very grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable. We are weary with our groanings; (all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with much sorrow for our corrupted heritage.)
Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; for Thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake. Forgive us all that is past; and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please Thee In newness of life, to the honor and glory of Thy name.
(Through and by the Shed Blood of Christ our Lord.)
Amen.
(revived and tweaked from, The General Confession from the Book of Common Prayer, 1662.)
For you know how that afterword, when (Esau, who, for one morsel of meat, sold his birthright) would have inherited the blessing he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully, with tears. Hebrews 12:17
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