A Prayer of Repentance for Australia coming into her God ordained Identity and Destiny
Prior to the voyages leading to the European Discovery of Australia, people such as Christopher Columbus said ….Lord “you put into my mind — I could feel your hand upon me — the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies- All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me… There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because you comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures… For the execution of the journey to the Indies I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or maps. It is simply the fulfilment of what Isaiah had prophesied… No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His Holy service… the fact that the Gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time — this is what convinces me”.
And Lord we know South America become mainly Catholic because of the Spanish influence and as we know the Protestant English later settled North America at Jamestown and placed a cross at Cape Henry, Virginia Beach on April 29, 1607, claiming America for God as your vehicle for spreading the gospel to every nation.
Also we are thankful for the Portuguese Catholic, Magellan who opened up the South Seas to the Europeans and helped found the Catholic nation of the Philippines as his purpose was to convert the barbarous nations to Christ. It was his faith that sustained him through terrible deprivations after he found a strait into the Pacific. We thank you for Magellan’s miracle of having noticed in the Chief’s house a sick person, the chief’s grandson, and that he had been suffering for two years from a violent fever and exhorted him to be of good courage, that if he would devote himself to Christ he would immediately recover his former strength and the Indian consented, and adored the cross, and received baptism, and the next day declared that he was well again, rose from his bed and walked about, consequently the Chief and over 2200 natives were baptized and professed the name and faith of Christ.
Lord, we thank you too for the sailor Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, another Portuguese Catholic, in 1606 was also seeking to convert the Inhabitants of the south seas to Christianity and believed he finally had discovered what he named “Australia Del Espiritu Santo” in honour of the Spanish King Philip the third of the House of Austria – a land Quiros dedicated to the Holy Spirit and described as being the region of the south as far as the pole.
We thank you for others such as Tasman and Dampier and finally Cook who realized there was a large ocean between Vanuatu and the Eastern Coast of Australia giving good reports back to the British government.
Thank you Father for the Evangelical awakening in England which influenced Australia and the South Pacific and for people such as William Carey who was awakened to the need for evangelism of heathen lands through reading “Captain Cooks Voyages”.
We thank you for bringing Indigenous migrations here and we know Lord that other nations could have settled Australia but it was their beliefs that prevented them from doing so, and that the Hindus prevented sea voyages and contact with foreigners, the Chinese in 1433 the voyages were ended by an internal revolution, besides there was a kingdom of terrifying women down here and the Muslim sailors before the 1400’s believed this Southland was Dedjdal or the kingdom of Antichrist.
We thank you Lord that the European expansion that begun in the East Indies and Pacific and for the many, governors, settlers and pioneers like John Flynn, explorers such as Charles Sturt: Pioneering women such as Elizabeth Macarthur and Caroline Chisholm: Clergymen such as Richard Johnson and of Samuel Marsden who said:
” I can say this that I do not eat the bread of idleness. It is my opinion that God will ere long visit New South Wales with his heavenly grace. Out of these stones he will raise up children unto Abraham. There has not been any shaking yet among the dry bones, but the Son of Man is commanded to prophecy and I hope by and by the Lord will command the wind to blow.
Stir up thy strength 0 God & come amongst us.” and also he prophetically stated in 1796: “By the Admiral Gambier I have sent to England 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of wool. This will be the beginning of the commerce of this new world. Many think nothing of these things now. They cannot see any advantage to be derived to them, their children, or this settlement by improving the fleeces of our Sheep. But I anticipate immense National wealth to spring from this source of Commerce in time and then he continued saying ‘Certainly the hand of God is evident in the commencement of a Christian nation in the Pacific within reach of the great Asian nations.”
It was Alfred Deakin, the major influence on Federation and our second Prime Minister who said in June 1898 after their state voted for their Colony to join the proposed Commonwealth:
“Thy blessing has rested on us yesterday and we pray that it may be the means of creating and fostering throughout all Australia a Christlike citizenship.”
And Robert Torrens a man influential in the formation of the non-convict settlement of South Australia stated in a speech in the UK House of Commons in 1827 that ”we are co-operating in the scheme of Providence and are the favoured instruments in causing Christian civilisation to ‘cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.’” Hab 2:14
As we reflect on our many Christian founders (https://www.chr.org.au/books/southland-of-holy-spirit/) we ask for a new generation of Christian pioneers, adventurers and disciples who are consecrated to you. Please forgive us Lord for not passing on this rich Christian heritage as described in Psalm 78: 1-8 for the enemy knows that a people who don’t know their history can be easily persuaded. If the Foundations are destroyed what can the Righteous do?
Finally we pray that your Kingdom will come and that your will be done in our nation for Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue confess to the glory of God the Father. Amen
A PROCLAMATION of REPENTANCE OVER OUR LANDS and PEOPLES. It is the duty of our nation and its peoples, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God to confess our sins in prayer and fasting in the hope that authentic repentance will lead to genuine restoration of our nation that manifests in God’s people desiring the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ lifted up and given glory in the earth from Australia and the nations of the South Pacific Mal 1:11 & Isa 24:14-16
We have regarded you Lord as irrelevant in our daily lives, pursuing personal peace and affluence, disregarding your commandments so that we now live in a land filled with evil and idols.
We have failed to be genuine salt and light and appeal to your Divine Mercy to forgive us our trespasses. We have forgotten you and your gracious hand over our nation and pray your sovereignty will especially reign over our families, fellowships, government, education, media, work, recreation and that we act responsibly in all our endeavours.
We pray that our country will no longer be defiled with our sin as we repent and come to honour and acknowledge you as our Lord and Saviour in all things through Your Victory at the Cross. We come before you with thankful hearts to bow to you in reverence with the fear of the Lord relying on Your Word & wisdom.
Your Holy Scriptures reminds us that in previous times you were so patient and overlooked our transgressions but now you call on all of us to repent.
In Jesus name, the name above all names we proclaim your Lordship over our nation and lives for Your Glory.
Devotion presented by Dr Graham McLennan
Australia Kneels: Repentance Proclamation and Prayer
Palm Sunday 12:30 to 3:30PM Eastern Daylight Saving Time
Save the date 24th March 2024.
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Australia Kneels | Canberra House of Prayer for All Nations (c-hop.org.au)
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Time: Mar 24, 2024 12:30-3:30 PM Daylight Saving Time
Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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Part of the Global Day of Repentance with 47 nations participating including:
Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Canada, Czech Republic of Czechia, China (Hong Kong), Costa Rica, Curacao, Cyprus, DR Congo, Ecuador, Finland, France, Ghana, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Scotland, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Global Day of Repentance is 24 March 2024
– Purim, Palm Sunday and pray for the Muslim world during Ramadan
It is strategic that the Global Day of Repentance is 24 March 2024
– Purim, Palm Sunday and pray for the Muslim world during Ramadan
24 March 2024 is a strategic TIME gate – It is a Lunar Eclipse also.
Purim is a day of Breakthrough that the Jews celebrate as the death sentence of Haman against them was broken -it was the day God intervened as a result of Mordecai and Esther’s new decree and time of fasting; Esther 9:1 – the tables were turned over, and the Governors of Provinces rose up and allowed the Jews to fight and defend themselves.so they were not annihilated or utterly destroyed. They lived!! We are praying for the Refuge of lies and covenant of death to be broken over Canberra and Australia according to Isaiah 28.
