Day of Repentance and Prayer LIVESTREAM

A good day for deliverance

We believe the Lord Himself has called us to pray.  Please stand with us as we cry out to Him to deliver us from the Covid-19 pandemic.

For your assistance we shall tomorrow send out a Prayer Resource, with helpful Scriptures and suggestions for prayer.  On Saturday, from 10.25 am, we shall live stream a two hour event, led by a range of different people and ministries, which will then be put on rolling repeat throughout the day, so that people can access and join in as they wish (link to follow tomorrow).

Session 1:    Welcome and introduction: Revd Lynda Rose, CEO VfJUK.
Session 2:    A stiff-necked people – Repentance for our ungodly laws: Revd Dr Clifford Hill, Director of Issachar Ministries and editor-in-chief of Prophecy Today UK.
Session 3:    Mankind’s abuse of God’s creation: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, President of OXTRAD and former Bishop of Rochester.
Session 4:  Standing with Israel?  Why it matters to God: Des Starritt, Executive Director of CUFI UK.
Session 5: Our betrayal of family: David Lindsay, joint leader of Together for the Nation.
Session 6: The need for repentance in the public arena: Andrea Williams, CE Christian Concern.
Session 7:  Back to ‘normal’ … or something new and better? : Linda Stalley, Leader of the Maranatha Community
Prayer for Deliverance and close: Lynda Rose

Join with us.  Pray at home by yourself.  Or link up with others in your local fellowship or group – whatever works for you.  But pray!  As watchmen called by the Lord, let us stand on the ramparts and cry out in repentance for those in darkness in the city, that the Lord’s light may break through and shine on them, and that they may turn to Him and be blessed.  Let us pray for a mighty sign of deliverance that will shake this and every nation to the core in wonder and awe.

The Lord is near.  Let us open the gates that He may come in!

Deliver us good Lord, we pray.  And, in your mighty name, let your will be done upon earth.

Original Blog Post

 In 590 AD, Rome was suffering from a terrible plague that killed off vast swathes of the population.    Amongst the first to die was the Pope.    He was immediately replaced, by unanimous vote, by Gregory I, descended from one of Rome’s most eminent Patrician families, and himself a former urban prefect.  Rome, over the course of the previous century, had become a city marked by corruption, decadence and decline.  In every sense, Gregory was the new broom determined to sweep the city clean and restore the Church.  In his opening address to the crowds he proclaimed, “God is full of mercy and compassion, and it is His will that we should win His pardon through our prayers.”

He issued a call to repentance and prayer, to which the terrified, demoralised crowds rushed to respond.   For three days Gregory led the people in procession round the city, crying out to Lord for deliverance.

On 25^th April, the third day as they processed through the streets, as ever led in person by Gregory, the Archangel Michael was seen standing at the top of the castle of Crescentius – a short walk from the Vatican – wiping a bloody sword.  In response to the crowd’s prayer, he sheathed it at his side.  And from that moment the plague stopped.  In thanks for their deliverance, the castle was renamed the Castle of the Holy Angel – Castel Sant’Angelo.  As it is still known today.  And every year, on this date, the people of Rome commemorate their deliverance by a parade through the streets.  The deliverance marked a worldwide reformation of the Church, spearheaded by Gregory.

Some years later, in 1631, Mexico found itself similarly ravaged by plague.  Once again the people joined in prayer for deliverance, joining in procession through the streets on 25^th April.  In response, the Archangel Michael again appeared, this time to a 17 year-old boy, Diego de San Lázaro.  However Diego, fearful of how people would respond to the revelation, dragged his feet in passing on the Archangel’s commands, with the result that he was himself struck down with plague – which lifted a week later when Michael appeared to him again  – surrounded this time by blazing light and witnessed by all standing near.  This time Diego obeyed and passed on the Archangel’s commands.  And the plague was miraculously halted.

God’s will today is to save.

Once again our world is subject to a terrible pestilence.  So now, as then, let us cry out to the Lord in repentance and prayer for deliverance.

Throughout this week let people throughout the world join together  in repentance for our disobedience. 

And on 25^th April join us in prayer for deliverance.

Let us pray for a sign of that deliverance to all mankind, that they may honour Christ, and Christ alone.

VfJUK issues International call for prayer
on Saturday 25^th April.

Please pass this on to your fellowships, churches and spiritual leaders throughout the world, and ask them to join with us on Saturday, 25^th April to pray for deliverance.  And please let us know you are standing with us.

(If you would like to read more about Rome’s miraculous delivery from plague, that was estimated globally to have killed over 1,000,000 people, see Dominion, by Tom Holland pgs. 148-150, [Little Brown 2019].
See also, https://www.britannica.com/biography/St-Gregory-the-Great 
To read about the halting of the plague in Mexico, see
https://www.michaeljournal.org/articles/roman-catholic-church/item/miraculous-apparitions-of-st-michael-the-archangel-rome-and-mexico).