Gospel News — Jan-Apr 2013

Ugandas National Repentance

Ugandan President dedicates the Nation to repentance and turning to Christ

This is the public prayer of the Ugandan President

"We want to dedicate this nation to you so that you will be our God and guide. We want Uganda to be known as a nation that fears God and as a nation whose foundations are firmly rooted in righteousness and justice to fulfil what the Bible says in Psalm 33:12: Blessed is the nation, whose God is the Lord. A people you have chosen as your own.

"I renounce all the evil foundations and covenants that were laid in idolatry and witchcraft. I renounce all the satanic influence on this nation. And I hereby covenant Uganda to you, to walk in your ways and experience all your blessings forever.

"I pray for all these in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen."

but perhaps a foretaste of what might happen when nations turn to Christ. One of the decisive

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events of the last war was the miraculous delivery of the British troops at Dunkirk. The British people as a nation earnestly prayed to God for deliverance and it was granted. God is able to bless nations that turn to Him and we pray that this repentance may be genuine.

Early in the 2nd World war the British Army where about to be destroyed. At Dunkirk in 1940. On 27th May the German High Command announced: "The British army is encircled and our troops are proceeding to its annihilation".

Churchill said "I thought...that perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 men might be re-embarked... the whole root and core and brain of the British army...seemed about to perish upon the field or be led into captivity."

The previous day Sunday 26th May at the request of His Majesty King George V1, was observed as a National Day of prayer, In a stirring broadcast, the King called the