Repentance Ready

Repentance Ready
Sunday, January 5, 2025 by Paul D. Norcross

One day, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah and told him to go to the potter’s house. What a lesson he learned!

Jeremiah watched as the potter made a vessel that had defects. Stopping the project, he reused the same clay to start over again. Then God began to teach Jeremiah how He supernaturally works with nations.

We pick up the story in Jeremiah 18:6-10 followed by a lesson that is global and breathtaking:

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

The world is at such a turning point in exposing evil. Nations have done wickedly in the sight of the Lord. America, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, China - these and more have prevailed in wickedness. Pedophilia, human trafficking, corporate medical greed, satanic ritual abuse, land-grabbing weather warfare, corrupt politicians, wars and rumors of wars, sodomy and moral gender dysfunction… Can wickedness be any more center stage? Yet much of this evil abhorrence is coming to light, and whole nations are beginning to seek change from wickedness.

God is saying to Jeremiah that if the nation repents of their evil, He will repent of His thought to destroy them. He is so willing to change His heart when He sees such change. He so looks for righteousness that even for ten righteous residents God would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18:32).

Christians everywhere are yearning for righteousness to overcome evil. We touch the heart of God with our prayers and worship, even in the midst of wickedness all around us. Intercessors play a vital frontline roll in repentance that staves off what God could easily do to destroy nations.

Our loving Heavenly Father looks for those who will stand in the gap and pray. He looks for reasons to heal and deliver. Despite the overwhelming magnitude of sin in our land, there is hope as we pray. God is willing to change His mind to deliver those who repent. While idolatry corrupts nations and ties God’s hands from protecting nations, prayer and supplication unties them.

Will you be one of those who touch the heart God as Solomon did when God told him how to heal the land?

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. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

God is ready to heal our land, and BRING REVIVAL as He sees the heart of nations change. He wants to love and prosper nations whose God is the Lord.

In this new year as we praise and worship our Lord Jesus Christ, pray for more intercessors to arise, for more laborers in the harvest, and for more righteous leaders to rise up with ears to hear and obey the Lord’s still small voice!

Like the potter in Jeremiah, God is ready to remake our nation as we arise in repentance and prayer. Let God arise as we daily minister to His heart in prayer!

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