Will you join me in fasting and prayer?

As I have watched the events of the past year play out, I have spent much time in prayer. I have spent a few days in fasting and prayer, but I am wondering if we could all get together and spend this next week in fasting and prayer. Would you join me as we humble ourselves and confess our sin – both individual and the collective sins of this nation – and seek God’s face?

Psalm 66.18:

“If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.”

We all must recognize the fact that we are all in bondage to sin and that sin blocks revival. We must be aware of the basis for our sin – whether it is sinful habits, demonic influences, or being enslaved by our past sins and mistakes. We must recognize it and repent of it. We must recognize, confess and stand in the gap, repenting for the sins committed in this nation while the church has been asleep at the wheel.

I place myself at the top of this list because of my blindness and my self-centered living that has stopped me from seeing and acknowledging just where this country has been heading. I was so focused on the problems in my life that I was completely unaware of what was happening around me.

What I have learned recently is that there is sin that is unseen, unfelt, unacknowledged in me. The Lord has been merciful and gracious in leading me in a journey of discovery that has shown me I had been sinning in things that I did not realize was sin. I have discovered that I have been mislead, deceived, manipulated by the enemy to not see, to not realize where this nation is heading.

God has ‘taken me to school’ where my own sin is concerned and has shown me where I have failed in my responsibility to pray and seek God’s intervention where this nation is concerned. And now I have been feeling a deep need, a deep Spirit-led weight to seek out God’s forgiveness, His will and His desire for the future of this nation.

I am going to fast Monday November 9, Wednesday November 11 and
Friday November 13. I have discovered on previous fasts that it is not a hardship for me to not eat breakfast and lunch if I have a couple cups of coffee throughout the day, but it is much more difficult for me to give up my coffee. So, I am going to refrain from the things that will be hardest for me to give up – coffee and most foods – only eating enough to keep my blood sugar at a healthy level. I will eat normally (which for me recently has been mostly vegetarian) on Tuesday and Thursday.

2 Chronicles 7.13-14:

“13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;  14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

I don’t know if our prayers are too little, too late, but Micah 7 says :

“17 … They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”

Will you join me in seeking His face and seeking forgiveness for this great country of ours?

© Drusilla Mott and https://drusillamott.wordpress.com, 2020

JOEL ROSENBERG’S INTERVIEW ON MOODY RADIO

Joel Rosenberg’s blog post September 6th was about his new book and about calling the church to make disciples.  His post September 7th was about an interview he had with Janet Parshall on Moody Radio.

These are a few notes that I took as I listened to that interview:

We go through seasons in our lives, but Christian men and women need to be sure what the Lord wants them to be doing. We really have to know what the Lord is telling us to do during each season in our lives.

For politics:

1. Christians need to pray faithfully and consistently for national leaders. We are told to in scripture.

2. Christians need to exercise their right to vote and mobilize others to do so as well

3. SOME Christians need to run for elected office or serve others in some governmental capacity

4. SOME Christians need to stay completely away from the political arena

5. Christians must not become addicted to partisanship

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Where is America? Something is wrong – we are going in the wrong direction.

1. Many countries are mentioned in the Bible as key players in the end times. Israel, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Egypt. US has no specific defined role in end time prophecy.

2. That means the United States is going to have to be neutralized or paralyzed to keep us from playing a clearly defined role in the end times.

3. There is nothing we can do about changing God’s mind, but we can plead with the Lord to give us an awakening, a revival.

4. What are we supposed to do differently? Matthew 28:18-20

5. The church in the United States is weak because of an epic failure of discipleship. We are not transmitting our faith to the younger generations.

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What is the Great Commission and how do we live it in our age?

What Jesus said in Matt. 28. to the men that He had invested in.

Invest in individuals, go and make disciples of all nations. Disciples follow another’s way of life.

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Joel’s book Implosion diagnoses the spiritual sickness in this country.

His follow-up book The Invested Life describes the cure.

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We bring people to be saved, they are in spiritual infancy. Then we teach them to grow to spiritual adulthood. But we stop there. We need to be spiritual parents – reproduce what you have become as a fully devoted follower of Christ. So then those that we led into the kingdom can grow to the point that they are truly faithful to the Lord and can lead others to faith and help them grow.

Every Christian needs to answer:

Who is investing in you?

Who are you investing in?

When we have an “Apostle Paul” investing in us and teaching us, then we need to follow their example and do the same for someone else.

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Toward the end of the interview, Joel brings up a good point:

What will happen when we stand before Jesus if He asks us where our disciples are? How are we going to feel if we have to admit we didn’t make any.

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We need to pray, fast and repent. It is the only way to bring revival to this country.

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These are only a few notes on Joel’s interview. The interview is 46 minutes long. When you have the time, go listen to the interview. If you are serious about bringing revival to this country, it is well worth the time.  This is the link.

© Drusilla Mott and https://drusillamott.wordpress.com, 2012