Oct 26, 2020 – A Call to “We, the People” to Repentance
A Call to “We, the People” to Repentance
October 26, 2020
To our dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
On November 11, 2016, our 24/7 family accepted the assignment to intercede hourly for the safety and security of our President, Donald John Trump, and to pray for that which pertains to our nation! We took our places on the wall… and have been standing “in the gap” 24 hours a day, ever since.
As we repented for the sin of our nation, we were instructed by the Holy Spirit to contact our President and urge him to call the people of the United States to a National Day of Repentance. We have been waiting for his call to be issued!
We desperately need God to intervene and heal the Body of Christ in the United States. This is made possible only through genuine repentance, brought about by recognizing and acknowledging our sin, and asking for His and one another’s forgiveness.
We are addressing this call for repentance to all in the Body of Christ, inviting your participation in a National Day of Repentance on November 1, 2020! On that day, we will be praying from 12 AM EDT until 12 Midnight EST. Since we switch over to Standard time at 2 AM and drop back an hour, there will be an extra hour of prayer following the 1 AM hour, giving us a total of 25 hours of repentance!
We trust that as we come in repentance before our HOLY GOD together, He will hear our prayer, forgive our sin and heal our land.
Thank you!
Pastor Ioan Peia and Maureen Bravo
Founders / Administrators
The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call
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A CALL FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF REPENTANCE
November 1, 2020
“When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
Our Vice President, Mike Pence, has frequently quoted 2 Chronicles 7:14 inviting the Body of Christ to come together, fall on our knees, and confess the sin of the nation, repenting corporately, with ONE VOICE before God. Once that is done, God says He will hear us, forgive us and heal our land! In order to do that, we must be convicted of our sin, and be willing to repent, not just give lip service.
“These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.”
Matthew 15:8
God is asking us if we are willing to receive the burden of “conviction of the sin of this nation” in our hearts. As we agree, we will be empowered to pray effectively in repentance for our nation!
We are engaged in a spiritual battle…a warfare of love! Many in the Body of Christ are deeply concerned about the extreme danger being posed by the anti-Christ spirit, which is operating against not only our President but the United States of America at this very hour, trying to undermine and destroy our very foundations. Americans are distracted by a never-ending stream of “urgent” matters, while the media floods the airwaves 24/7 with “fake news” in an attempt to control our minds and instill fear in our hearts! What is taking place is a battle, against not only our Government but against individuals, families, churches and communities. It is an all-out war against the American way of life. “We, The People” are under attack! Unless the Body of Christ repents and then rises up in prayer, the United States will have no future.
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate.
Joel 2:12-13
Nothing is too far out of reach that God cannot revive it. Repentance does not happen spontaneously. It first takes place in individual hearts, is nurtured by prayer and fasting, and is then birthed into the larger arena, often through solemn assemblies. In Scripture, these solemn assemblies were often called by priests, prophets or kings, for the entire nation. Prior to every national awakening in the United States, there was an emphasis on repentance, with fasting and prayer. Throughout our history, 788 solemn assemblies for national repentance took place!
The blessing of national repentance is not only that God heals and blesses the nation, but also that a passion for His Presence is stirred up in the Body of Christ.
During the Civil War, as President Abraham Lincoln struggled to mend a divided and war-torn nation and recenter Americans around God and prayer, he issued a proclamation on March 30, 1863, calling for a “Day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer.” The text of Lincoln’s proclamation has pointed lessons for today, as our nation is once again deeply divided. It repeatedly references God, calls on Americans to turn back to prayer and acknowledges the importance that God plays in human affairs. It was indeed a “call to repent before God” which is appropriate for us today.
“Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, maybe but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.”
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
Today, October 26, 2020, we, the undersigned, call the Body of Christ to a National Day of Repentance for the United States of America, to take place on Sunday, November 1, 2020.
Pastor Ioan Peia and Maureen Bravo
Founders / Administrators
The 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call