““1 Come and let us return [in repentance] to the LORD, For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.2 After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up That we may live before Him.””
God is calling on all his ministers in all capacity to return to him in repentance and humility. It is time to seek God; Psalm 24:6 “Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob.” We cannot seek him without repentance.
Pray that we will return to him in repentance and humility so that we may obtain mercy and grace to seek his face.
Ephesians 4:22-24 “To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Pray that everything that belongs to the old self will be put away. Pray that we will be renewed in the spirit of our minds and put on the new man in true righteousness and holiness in Christ.
Joel 2:13 “And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.”
Our heart is the place that matters, not the external stuff that people get attracted to. Pray that as we return to the Lord, we will come with a surrendered heart willing to accept the word of truth.
1Samuel 7:3 “Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."
Pray that as we return, we will also remember to put away any “god” and/or its associates.
Isaiah 2:3 “And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”
The Lord is calling on all to come to the Lord’s Holy mountain where he will teach us his ways and we will walk in his path.
Psalm 27:4 “One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.”
Pray for the grace to dwell in his presence and to gaze upon his beauty.
Thank the Lord for hearing our prayers