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Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

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message can lighten the earth with glory. Says a<br />

recent Sabbath School Quarterly:<br />

At the 1990 General Conference session<br />

hundreds of people committed themselves to daily<br />

prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in both<br />

the former and latter rains. Since then thousands all<br />

over the world have been praying daily for the<br />

special blessing of the Lord. Such prayer is sure to<br />

result in changed hearts, spiritually revitalized<br />

churches, and more earnest outreach for those who<br />

do not believe. Moreover, in response to this united<br />

prayer, the Lord promises to grant the greatest<br />

outpouring of the Spirit in human history, the latter<br />

rain predicted by Joel and Peter (Teachers'<br />

Comments for March 9, 1992).<br />

To pray for the latter rain is good. But is there<br />

something we are leaving out? We have been<br />

earnestly praying for it for a hundred years, as the<br />

Jews have been praying for the coming of their<br />

Messiah for thousands of years. Would it not be a<br />

better plan for us to repent of rejecting "the<br />

beginning" of that same blessing which the Lord<br />

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