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Ezra chapter 10, verse 1.

While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God,

a very great assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

I just want to read and pray, according to this verse, based on what we read and prayed

according to in Ezra chapter 9. So that scene in Ezra 9 was Ezra falling before the Lord on his face, just weeping over sin and conviction of sin in his life and the people of God around him.

But then to read Ezra chapter 10, verse 1, and to see that while Ezra did this while Ezra prayed and made confession

weeping and casting himself down before the house of God a very great assembly so not just a few

people but a lot of people of men women and children so all these other people join in this weeping and casting themselves down before the house of God,

praying and making confession.

It says, for the people wept bitterly.

I read this and I'm just provoked to lead us to pray for these realities in our own lives, like Ezra chapter 9, verse 4 and 5 and 6 showed us,

and then for this reality of confession and contrition and humility and brokenness over sin

to spread in our families and in our churches among more and more people that not just individual

ones alone with God might be broken over sin, but that we as the people of God would be broken

over sin. You look in the history of God's people biblically and since biblical times, just times of revival and

spiritual awakening in the church have come when God's spirit has brought about this kind of

conviction, not just upon a few people here or there, but across God's people. So can we just pray

for that together? God,

we pray, Ezra 10-1, not just over our lives, but over your church and our churches, our local

churches that we're a part of. God, we pray for a spirit of confession and brokenness over sin for weeping

over sin to mark our churches. God, help us not to be casual with sin as your people. God,

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