“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord”- (Acts 3:19 NKJV)
Repentance brings refreshing. I was 19 years old when my mother received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I was very “turned off” with both her experience and her Spirit-filled friends. For four years she prayed for me and witnessed to me about the Holy Spirit baptism. Finally, I met my husband-to-be, who was Spirit-filled. God had begun to work on my heart.
I spent one entire night in repentance for rejecting such a wonderful gift of God, and I promised that I would participate in the next all-night prayer meeting that our church held. Within four days I had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. After my repentance came one of the greatest refreshings I had experienced.
The major things that we need in our lives often come only after we have truly repented. Then God can send a refreshing peace to us that truly “passes all understanding.”
Dear Heavenly Father,
Today let us repent of those areas where we have blocked Your flow of refreshing to our lives. Help us not to examine others, but to examine ourselves.
In Jesus’s Name,
Amen.
