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Joel 2:15-19 (NIV) 15) Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. 16) Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. 17) Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say, Spare your people, O LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God? 18) Then the LORD will be jealous for his land and take pity on his people. 19) The LORD will reply to them: I am sending you grain, new wine and oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations. Lamentations 2:18-19a (NLT) 18) Cry aloud before the Lord, O walls of Jerusalem! Let your tears flow like a river. Give yourselves no rest from weeping day or night. Jeremiah 9:1, 3 (NLT) 1) Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears; I would weep forever! I would sob day and night for all my people who have been slaughtered 3) My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. And they only go from bad to worse! They care nothing for me, says the LORD. Jeremiah 14:17-18 (NLT) 17) Now, Jeremiah, say this to them: Night and day my eyes overflow with tears. I cannot stop weeping, for my virgin daughter my precious people has been run through with a sword and lies mortally wounded on the ground. 18) If I go out into the fields, I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk the city streets, there I see people who have died of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work, but they do not know what they are doing. 19) Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer... 4 www.ehc.org 5
NOTES CONFESSING WITH OUR CULTURE THE DANIEL MODEL (Daniel 9:1-19)
THE DANIEL BURDEN Daniel 9:1-3 (NIV) 1) In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom 2) in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. 3) So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. THE DANIEL PRAYER Daniel 9:4-19 (NIV) Applying Daniel s prayer of confession and repentance to our culture in this present hour of urgency. REPENTANCE PRAYING Daniel 9:4-5 4) I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands, 5) we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. Daniel 9:6-7 6) We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7) Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame the men of Judah and people of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you. Daniel 9:8-9 8) O LORD, we and our kings, our princes and our fathers are covered with shame because we have sinned against you. 9) The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him; 8 www.ehc.org 9
Daniel 9:10-11 10) we have not obeyed the LORD our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets. 11) All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you. Daniel 9:12-13 12) You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem. 13) Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth. Daniel 9:16-17 16) O Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our fathers have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us. 17) Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, O Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary. Daniel 9:18-19 18) Give ear, O God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. 19) O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For your sake, O my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name. Daniel 9:14-15 14) The LORD did not hesitate to bring the disaster upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything he does; yet we have not obeyed him. 15) Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong. 10 www.ehc.org 11
NOTES THE RESULTS OF REPENTANCE PRAYING NINE CHARACTERISTICS OF REVIVAL AND AWAKENING by A. Skevington Wood (British Methodist Scholar)
Characteristic One AN INTENSIFIED AWARENESS OF! Characteristic Six A STRENGTHENED LOYALTY TO THE! Characteristic Two AN ACUTE SENSITIVITY TO! Characteristic Three A JEALOUS CONCERN FOR THE! Characteristic Four AN ABSORBING CONCENTRATION ON! Characteristic Seven AN EXCITING REALIZATION OF! Characteristic Eight AN AUGMENTED ZEAL IN! Characteristic Nine A PASSION FOR SOCIAL! Characteristic Five AN ENHANCED STANDARD OF! 14 www.ehc.org 15
Psalm 74:3, 18-22a (NIV) NOTES 3) Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary 18) Remember how the enemy has mocked you, O LORD, how foolish people have reviled your name. 19) Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever. 20) Have regard for your covenant, because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land. 21) Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace; may the poor and needy praise your name. 22) Rise up, O God, and defend your cause 16 www.ehc.org 17
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