WHAT IS CORPORATE REPENTANCE?
(sometimes
called identificational repentance)
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Prayer projects using corporate repentance:
2001:
Amistad Prayer Journey
| 1999-2000:
Cherokee Prayer Initiative | 1996:
Operation Restoration | Documented
Answers to O.R. Prayer
Resources
to have
on Corporate Repentance
When we
mention
corporate repentance, we sometimes immediately get questions like these:
"Why dig up those old bones?"
Answer: Leviticus 26:40-42, 45
"Why should I
repent for
something that happened long ago?"
Answer: Proverbs 18:19
"I am not
responsible
for those terrible events of history."
Answer: Numbers 35:33-34
"There's no way we can
change
history anyway. Those old things are too painful."
Answer: Isaiah 49:8-9; 2
"What's the point?
We're
in the New Testament. All of that is now under the Blood. Everything is
under
the Blood and taken care of."
Answer:
IDENTIFICATIONAL REPENTANCE
Whether
it is Sin Between Individuals that
is not dealt
with through forgiveness or repentance for
A Day . . . A Month . . .
A Year . .
. 30 Years
or
whether it is Sin
Between Groups which is not dealt with through forgiveness or
repentance
for A Day . . . 50 Years
. . . 8
Generations
It is still sin.
SIN IS SIN. TIME IS IRRELEVANT.
When sin gets involved in groups over time, the result is iniquity, the
effect
of sin over time on groups of people.
NEHEMIAH
1
& 9;
It Is
Excellent
Strategic-level Spiritual Warfare: Cutting The
Enemy's Supply Lines
IDENTIFICATIONAL REPENTANCE
Responsible spiritual mapping
will
frequently uncover sins of a nation or city which have been committed
in the
past, sometimes generations ago, and which have become strongholds of
the
forces of darkness, allowing them to keep multitudes in physical misery
and
spiritual captivity. When we corporately confess those sins of our
nation
through what many are calling "identificational
repentance, they can be remitted through
--
Corporate
Repentance Involves:
REMEMBERING (
REPENTING and confession (
RELATIONSHIP Intimacy with
RECONCILIATION (to God, with others)
REVIVAL
- Vision
of the Future (
- End
of Exile 536BC (
- Revival/Reform
under Ezra 486BC (Nehemiah 8-13; Ezra 9-10)
- Wall
Rebuilt (Infrastructure) under Nehemiah 445BC
(
RELEASE
- of
Vision (
- of
the Captives (50,000--Ezra 2; 2,000--Ezra 7-8)
- of
Holiness (Nehemiah 8-10; Ezra 9:4; 10:3)
- of
Societal Improvement (Nehemiah 11-13; Ezra 1, 3, 5-6, 9-10)
- of
Financial Resources (Nehemiah 6:8-10)
NUCLEAR
SPIRITUAL WARFARE Jeremiah 50:25
The following ways of
spiritual
warfare are nuclear in a sense in the spirit realm. Similar to an
enemy's
inability to retaliate after a nuclear detonation, the enemy of our
souls is
not able to retaliate when we use these weapons.
- Thanksgiving
& Praise (Psalm 100:4)
- Confession
(1
- Repentance
(
- Forgiveness
(
- Blessing
(Deuteronomy 28:3-6; Romans
How to Wage Spiritual War through Corporate Repentance
- Thank & Praise the Lord for His faithfulness, love,
mercy, and grace. Thanksgiving and praise mobilize God's forces and
signal a warning to the enemy of impending military disaster.
- Confess your sin and the sin of your family or
people. Confession opens up the enemy for a full onslaught attack.
- Repent for generational iniquities in yours
and your people's lives. Commit to turn from those sinful ways for
good. Repentance gouges deep into the enemy's authority greatly
wounding his ability to hold back truth.
- Forgive those whose people have harmed you or
your family in the past. Say it aloud, "I forgive..." Forgiveness tears
the rug out from under the enemy.
- Bless the relationships of our peoples with
trust which builds relationships in
EXAMPLE:
STATEMENT OF APOLOGY TO KANSAS
|
I
confess my own responsibility and that of the state of |
1-
State my connection, therefore my authority to confess (Neh 9:2.) |
|
I
confess that my native state of |
2-
Confess plainly the sin committed by my people. (Neh
1:7) |
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I
confess that Laurens County, SC, in which I reside, formed the Laurens
District Kansas Association in 1854, and under command of General A.
Crane Jones sent a group of |
3-
Confess from researched facts & not hearsay or sentimentalism. |
|
I
confess my own family's responsibility in regard to |
4-
Drawing the concentric circle of repentance as small as possible brings
freedom to my family, self, & hearers. |
|
I
confess the sins of influence peddling and political manipulation; our
hatred and fear of the North and of Republicans; the desire to use |
5-
Confess iniquitous sin and patterns including innocent bloodshed which
defiles the land. (Lev |
|
These
sins rise as a great stench before the Lord, and I apologize for them,
renounce them, and turn away from them. I ask your forgiveness
and for the Lord's for these sins and further ask His removal by His
Blood of the iniquities and curses connected with them, bringing
cleansing, purity, wholeness, and life everlasting in their place. |
6-
Repent & ask forgiveness of Kansans & the Lord. Only
Christians can effectively apply the blood of |
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7-
Quoting to the Lord His Word is powerful and effective, reminding
everyone in the spirit realm of the permanence of the Word. (1 Pet |
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8-
State identity & authority. ( |
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