Repentance ...the Key to Revival

We all pray for it, get glimpses of it, talk about it, shout about, bring in an evangelist to bring one on……….But are we really experiencing revival ?

In my quiet time with the Lord this morning I felt like the He was telling me something the bible states over and over, the key to revival is repentance.

One of the greatest examples we have of this in God’s word , is the story of the reluctant prophet Jonah called by God to speak to the city of Nineveh.

Nineveh was a great city the word of God declares. But, their wicked ways had come up before the Lord and He was going to destroy it.

Jonah…… did not want to go and proclaim the Word of God to Nineveh …..An entire people could have been lost for his disobedience……

One of the most amazing portions of scripture relating to this subject , to me, is this ……..
Jon:3:4: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jon:3:5: So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jon:3:6: For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jon:3:7: And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Jon:3:8: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Jon:3:9: Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Jon:3:10: And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.


This is such an awesome example to us today……
Jonah enters the city with the word of God, proclaims it, the people believe God, they call a solemn fast, cover themselves in sackcloth and ashes at the decree of the King and hope for God’s mercy…….

What would happen if the proclamation to repent was made today to this nation? Would we believe it ?
Would we call a fast, cover-ourselves and turn from our evil ways and hope and pray for God’s mercy ? Would revival come?

God’s Word gives us the answer: 2Ch:7:14: 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.
　

Hugs & Prayers, GG

Today reading : Genesis chapters 9-12