PRAYER FOR CRITICAL EVENT IN OUR NATION: COVID-19
CALL TO REPENTANCE
RETURNING TO COVENANT WITH GOD
2 Chronicles 7:12-16 (NIV)
12 the Lord appeared to him at night and said: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices. 13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 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 I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
IN A TIME OF CRISIS, IT IS ALSO A TIME FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO STAND IN REPENTANCE.
Covenants have been broken and we, as God’s Covenant people, must now come before God to ask for His mercy. His mercy is based on the Covenant we have through the blood of Jesus, whose blood alone is able to cleanse us of all our iniquities.
Broken Covenant with God
Almighty God, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth—You who keep Your covenant of love with Your servants who continue wholeheartedly in Your ways. In all these years, You have blessed us and have faithfully kept us from great disasters, diseases and tsunamis, more than we have realised.
- But we have run after worthless gods – the gods of comfort, ease and pleasure.
- We have not held on to Your Word – to obey You in everything. We only come to You when we are in trouble and expect You to save us without realising that it is us who have defiled the land with our idolatry. (Jeremiah 2:27)
- Forgive us for this dreadful sin of entitlement, and we do not see how we have appeared in Your eyes.
- Open our eyes O merciful God, so that we can see how far we have fallen away from You and how much we have rebelled against Your ways and Your laws. (Deuteronomy 5:1-29)
Help us Lord, to return to Your Covenant, to fear You, serve You only and not follow the gods of the people around us. (Deuteronomy 6: 13-15)
Almighty God, we thank You for the Blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God to cleanse us from our guilty conscience from acts that lead to death, that we may now serve You.
We now plead the blood of Jesus over our sins, and the sins of our land, and together with one voice we ask for Your mercy to deliver us from Covid 19, heal our land and send revival.
Let us now Declare the Covenant we have through the Blood of Christ
| BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST DECLARATIONS |
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1. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, I AM REDEEMED OUT OF THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS INTO THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT. Colossians 1:12-14 (Personalized) I give joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified me to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the kingdom of light. For He has rescued me from the dominion of darkness and brought me into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom I have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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2. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, ALL MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN. Ephesians 1:7 (Personalized) In Him I have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
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| 3. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, MY CONSCIENCES ARE CLEANSED.
Hebrews 9:14 (Personalized) How much more, then, will the Blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse my consciences from acts that lead to death, so that I may serve the living God!
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4. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, I AM JUSTIFIED AND MADE RIGHTEOUS. Romans 5:9 (Personalized) Since I have now been justified by Jesus’ Blood, how much more shall I be saved from God’s wrath through Him! 2 Corinthians 5:21 (Personalized) God made Jesus who had no sin to be sin for me, so that in Christ I may become the righteousness of God.
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5. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, I AM SANCTIFIED MADE HOLY SET APART TO GOD. 1 Peter 2:9 (Personalized) I am a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, thatI may declare the praises of Him who called me out of darkness into His wonderful light.
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6. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, I CAN COME INTO GOD’S PRESENCE WITH BOLDNESS. Hebrew 4:16 (Personalized) Let me then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that I might receive mercy and find grace to help me in my time of need.
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7. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, I AM PRECIOUS TO GOD AND I HAVE DIGNITY. John 15:16 (Personalized) I did not choose Jesus, but He chose me and appointed me so that I might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever I ask in Jesus’ Name the Father will giveme.
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8. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, I AM IN COVENANT WITH GOD. Galatians 3:13-14 (Personalized) Christ redeemed me from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for me, for It is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”14 He redeemed me in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith I might receive the promise of the Spirit.
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9. MY BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, REDEEMED, CLEANSED, SANCTIFIED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (Personalized) I know that my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in me, whom I have received from God? I am not my own; I was bought at a price. Therefore I honour God with my body.
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10. THEREFORE, SATAN HAS NO PLACE IN ME, NO POWER OVER ME. Revelation 12:11 (Personalized) I triumphed over the accuser by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of my testimony; I do not love my life so much as to shrink from death.
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| 11. THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, I HAVE VICTORY OVER THE DEVIL.
James 4:7 (Personalized) I submit myself, then, to God. I resist the devil, and he will flee from me. I renounce the devil, loose myself completely from the devil and command the devil to leave me in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen!
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12. JESUS, YOU ARE MY SAVIOR AND YOU ARE LORD OVER MY LIFE. Thank you Jesus for the victory You have won for me at the Cross!
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