Day 36 of 40 day fast

Step 11: (1 day) Confession and repentance.
A repentant church honestly confessing the sins of the nation before God is New Zealand’s only hope. You might like to kneel before the Lord.

Let’s pray together. Lord as we have prayed and sought Your face for nearly 40 days we have begun to understand a little more the devastating effects abortion has had, and continues to have, upon our nation. Both the people and the land are defiled. We can see that ‘You let us become defiled through the sacrifice of the firstborn, our babies, that You might fill us with horror so we would know that You are the Lord and that we would loathe ourselves for all the evil we have done.’ (Ezek 20:26, 43)

Lord, have mercy.

Today we bring together all the threads of the sin of abortion - those we have prayed about and those which we have not covered, even those known only to You. We bring the bloodshed, the immorality, the idolatry and the broken covenants, (agreements made between a man and a woman). We bring the national grief and pain. We acknowledge the fullness of the ‘destruction and violence that are before us; that there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralysed, and justice never prevails. The wicked in NZ hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.’ (Hab 1:3-4)

We loose these wicked ones involved in the abortion industry, and their need for conviction of their sin and for repentance, to You Heavenly Father and we pray as Jesus did as He hung on the cross, ‘Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.’ (Luke 23:34)

We confess all the sins and iniquities of our nation regarding abortion. We have identified with those sins and we now repent; we turn away from these sins and choose to go in the opposite direction.

We stand in the gap for our nation and ask that in Your great mercy You ‘would hear from heaven, You would forgive us our sins, turn our nation around, and heal our land. May Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to our prayer offered in this place’. (2 Chron 7:14-15)

Today we cry out on behalf of our nation; ‘It is time for You to act, O Lord; Your law is being broken.’ (Ps 119:126) (Cry out, aloud to the Lord)