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Devotional for February 18, 2026

A CALL TO REPENTENCE [ASH WEDNESDAY]

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Joel 2:12-14

“Now, therefore, says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him—A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?”

Additional Verses

📖 Isaiah 58:1-14; Jonah 3:1-10; Joel 2:12-32

Today is Ash Wednesday and all children of God are called to come into the presence of the LORD with remorseful hearts. As a child of God, you are supposed repent and turn away from a life of sin and evil every day. No one is perfect. The devil is always after the children of God to tempt them twenty four hours a day. It does not matter your position, because no one is greater than God. When Jonah was sent to the city of Nineveh, to warn the king and all its inhabitants that soon God’s wrath was to fall on it and it would soon be destroyed unless both the king and all his subjects repented and turned to the LORD. According to Jonah 3:1-4, “Now the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you…. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” The message of Jonah touched the hearts of the people of Nineveh and both the king and the people of Nineveh all repented and turned to God. All the inhabitants of Nineveh including beasts, herds and flocks were not allowed to eat anything. The king and all the people of the land alike covered themselves with sackcloth, and cried to God. God saw that the people of Nineveh had listened to the message of Jonah and repented. The people had turned from their evil way and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it. The same message is coming to every person created in the image of God to repent and turn to God. We are living during these perilous times and everyone is called upon that we should turn to God. We must repent of our sins and ask for God’s mercy. Both men and women just like the people of Nineveh. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will l hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” If we truly rent our hearts and cry to Him, He will truly forgive us and heal our land. There are many things which are not right in our nation. We need to call upon the Lord God in humility and sincerity of heart and mind so that our nation is healed. Remember, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. He is the only Healer Who is able to remove all curses including cholera, malaria and cancer that has affected many people in our land. It is only when we cry to Him in faith that His grace, which is unlimited will heal us. It is never too late to repent and there is no sin that is too great for God to forgive. It is the responsibility of every one of us to turn to God in truth and to ask for the forgiveness of our sins. Just as He forgave the sins of the people of Nineveh, God is also able to forgive us of all our sins and heal our land. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You LORD Jesus Christ for Your Word which has reminded me that You are ready to forgive me of all my sins and the sins of the world. I therefore earnestly repent and confess of all my sins and ask that You take control of my life and of all Your people who earnestly call upon Your Son Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray, Amen.