Prayer of Repentance and Deliverance

Troy Husted

December 2, 2021

"Nations covered in fear, violence and despair. The church is divided and grumbles among each other in times that hearts should be transform. O' Father I shall raise my voice to pray!" - Troy Husted

Prayer of Repentance and Deliverance

Justice is on the side of the Lord our God, but public shame is upon us and upon our ancestors to this very day. All these horrible things that the Lord had spoken came on us.

But we didn’t plead with the Lord so as to turn each one of us from the designs of our wicked hearts.

Thus has the Lord kept watch over our wicked deeds and brought this upon us. The Lord is just in every action that he commanded us to do, but we didn’t listen to the Lord’s voice to walk by the commandments that the Lord gave to us.

Lord our God, we have sinned. We were ungodly. We have broken all of your commandments. Turn your anger away from us, for only a few of us remain among the nations where you have scattered us.

Lord, listen to our prayer and our pleading. For your own sake, set us free and give us favor with those who have brought us into exile so that all the earth might know that you are the Lord our God, since Israel and her children carry your name.

Lord, look down on us from your holy house and think of us.

Lord, bend your ear and listen.

Lord, open your eyes and look upon us.

Surely the dead who are in the grave, whose spirit has been taken from their bodies, won’t acknowledge the Lord’s glory and justice!

But Lord, the one who is grieved, who goes about weak and bent over, whose eyes are failing and whose spirit is hungering—that one will acknowledge your glory and righteousness.

Lord our God, we are not basing our prayer for mercy on any righteous actions of our ancestors and rulers.

Lord our God, you have acted toward us in line with your great kindness and your great compassion, just as you spoke through your servant Moses on the day when you commanded him to write your Law in the presence of the Israelites.

You said: If you don’t listen to my voice, this great buzzing crowd will certainly turn into a small one among the nations where I’ll scatter them. I knew that they wouldn’t listen to me, because they are stubborn. But they will change their hearts while in the land of captivity.

They will know that I am the Lord their God, and I’ll give them a heart and ears that listen.

They will praise me in the land of their captivity, and they will remember my name.

They will turn away from their

stubborn side and their wicked actions, because they will remember what happened to their ancestors who sinned in the Lord’s presence. I’ll make an eternal covenant with them that I will be their God and they will be my people. I’ll never again remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them. (Baruch 2:6-10, 12-19, 27-33, 35 CEB)

In the same way, Christ was also offered once to take on himself the sins of many people. He will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. (Hebrews 9:28 CEB)

Don’t let it escape your notice, dear friends, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day.

The Lord isn’t slow to keep his promise, as some think of slowness, but he is patient toward you, not wanting anyone to perish but all to change their hearts and lives.

But the day of the Lord will come like a

thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a dreadful noise, the elements will be consumed by fire, and the earth and all the works done on it will be exposed.

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be? You must live holy and godly lives, waiting for and hastening the coming day of God.

Because of that day, the heavens will

be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt away in the flames. But according to his promise we are waiting for a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

Therefore, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found by him in peace—pure and faultless.

Therefore, dear friends, since you have been warned in advancebe on guard so that you aren’t led off course into the error of sinful people, and lose your own safe position.

Instead, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. To him belongs glory now and forever. Amen.

(2 Peter 3:8-14, 17-18 CEB)