Our daily bread april 5 202212/27/2023 ![]() ![]() While there’s no “formula” for revival, what do you think helps lead to it? How can you respond to God today to help revival come?ĭear Father, please bring revival to our land, starting with me. By: Sheridan Voysey Today’s Reflection & Prayer How our own cities need such transformation! Father, bring revival to us too. will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,” God told Solomon, “I will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).Īs the people of Aurukun found, revival brings joy and reconciliation to a town. While revival is God’s work, done in His time, history shows prayer precedes it. We see revivals like this in Scripture, as in Hezekiah’s day when crowds joyfully returned to God (2 Chronicles 30), and on the day of Pentecost when thousands repented (Acts 2:38–47). Soon 1,000 people were in church each Sunday-in a town of just 1,300! People were so joyful they danced in the streets, and instead of enacting payback, the family of the murdered man forgave the offending clan. Repentance followed, then mass baptisms, as revival began sweeping the town. The people of Aurukun started seeking God in prayer. He also had a growing desire to read the Bible. In 2015, clan tensions grew, and when a murder happened, payback required someone from the offender’s family to die in return.īut something remarkable happened in early 2016. He told God how sorry he was for all the evil he had caused and pleaded for His help. While the gospel came to Aurukun a century ago, eye-for-eye retribution sometimes remained. By: Alyson Kieda OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL MESSAGEĪurukun is a small town in northern Australia-its Aboriginal population drawn from seven clans. Hezekiah and the people repented, and God forgave and delayed His judgment. We see an example of this enacted in the story of Hezekiah (32:24–26). was providing for their eventual return, assuming that the human heart is prone to wander and cannot help but stray.” This if-then conditional statement makes it clear: If the people repent, then God will forgive. had contingencies in place for their lapses in obedience. As one commentator states, “God had plans to bless them from the very beginning, and. will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive” (v. ![]() God responded and reiterated His promises of blessing according to the covenant He made with their fathers: “If my people. In 2 Chronicles 7, during the dedication of the temple, King Solomon prayed for favor and blessing on his people. 2 Chronicles 7:14 INSIGHT – OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL 19TH FEBRUARY 2023: Read and Digest OUR DAILY BREAD Devotional written By Sheridan Voysey and was published to bless, inspire and uplift you every day as you benefit from the deep Insight of God’s infallible WORD.īible in a Year: Leviticus 25 Mark 1:23–45īible Verse: If my people. ODB MINISTRIES: OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL TODAY’S MESSAGE ![]()
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