CALL TO REPENTANCE and Prayer

 

Matthew 4:17 – From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

 

Joel 2:12 – “Now therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart.”

 

Lamentations 5:21 – Turn us back to You O Lord, and we will be restored. Renew our days as of old.

 

Joel 2:15 – Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly

 

1.         REPENTANCE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST

 

Revelation 2:4 – Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

 

Revelation 2:20 – Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

 

Revelation 3:16-17 – So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, “I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing” – and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

 

2.         REVIVAL IN THE BODY OF CHRIST

 

Acts 3:19 – Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the Presence of the Lord.

 

Acts 4:31 – And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

 

Matthew 3:11 – I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

 

Romans 12:11(AMP) – Never lagging behind in diligence, aglow in the Spirit, enthusiastically serving the Lord

 

3.         REPENTANCE ON BEHALF OF OUR NATION

 

Daniel 9:5 – We have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

 

Nehemiah 1:6 – Both my father’s house and I have sinned.

 

Deuteronomy 5:7 – You shall have no other gods before Me.

 

Psalm 139:13(NIV) – For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

 

Acts 17:26 – And he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth.

 

Matthew 19:4 – Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

 

Matthew 19:5 – And said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?”

 

4.         AWAKENING IN AMERICA

 

Psalm 85:6 – Will you not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

 

Habakkuk 3:2 – O Lord revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

 

James 2:13 – Mercy triumphs over judgment.

 

Discussion Questions

 

1.         What is one area in your own life in which the Lord is calling you to repent?

 

2.         What are some of the things in the Body of Christ in America that Jesus is not pleased with?

 

3.         What gives you hope for revival in the Body of Christ in America?

 

4.         What are some of the things happening in America that grieve the heart of God?

 

5.         Do you believe a Great Awakening is possible for America? Why or why not?