21 days of prayer
National Day of Repentance: 21 April 2025
As a part of our Turn the Tide: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for the 2025 Federal Election, the Canberra Declaration is launching a new, one-time initiative on Easter Monday, 21 April.
The National Day of Repentance is a call to acknowledge that our nation has strayed significantly from its Christian founding. If we are to continue to humbly rely on “the blessings of Almighty God”, as our Constitution so aptly puts it, then the Church and the nation must repent.
As Billy Graham once said, “To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.”
That is why the Canberra Declaration, in conjunction with many other key Christian leaders, are excited to announce the National Day of Repentance on Easter Monday, 21 April. Watch Warwick introduce this nationwide call to prayer in the video below!
The National Day of Repentance will run from 9 AM – 5 PM AEST.
There will be a physical gathering in our nation’s capital, outside Parliament House in Canberra.
The day will also run online on Zoom for anybody nationwide to join. You could even run an event in your local area.
Join Us in Canberra
There is no more appropriate place to hold the National Day of Repentance than in our nation’s capital, Canberra.
You are invited to come to Canberra to join other like-minded believers interceding for Australia.
We will set up a marquee on the lawns outside Parliament House to provide shelter and a physical gathering space.
Please register below.
For those travelling to Canberra, a limited amount of low-cost accommodation is available through the Canberra House of Prayer. You can enquire about this accommodation on the Canberra House of Prayer website.
Join Us on Zoom
For those who cannot physically gather in Canberra on 21 April, you are invited to join our online Zoom prayer call.
The Zoom prayer call will run concurrently with the gathering in Canberra.
It will operate separately from the Canberra gathering. However, there will be regular broadcasts and interactions from Canberra every 1.5 hours on the Zoom call.
Please register as a Zoom attendee using the signup form below.
Register for National Day of Repentance
Receive all the information you need for the National Day of Repentance.
*IMPORTANT: Please select whether you will attend:
(1) Online on Zoom (or run your own local event)
or
(2) In person outside Parliament House, Canberra.
Seeking a Joint Outpouring of God’s Word and Spirit
The National Day of Repentance will be a time of “fighting in the Spirit on our knees as we contend for the sick heart of our nation”, as Canberra House of Prayer leader Hilary Moroney put it.
Watch Hilary explain how we will seek a joint outpouring of God’s Word and Spirit as we contend for revival in Australia in the video below!
Importance of Repentance
Repentance is not only vital for individuals. It is also critical for nations.
God has and does bring judgment upon unrighteous nations. Examples, such as Babylon (Jeremiah 50:1–3) and Ninevah (Jonah 3:4), abound in Scripture.
The answer for nations to avoid God’s judgment? Repentance.
The King of Ninevah rightly perceived, “Everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing. Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish” (Jonah 3:8–9).
In the case of Ninevah, God did relent. The Ninevites were saved from destruction (Jonah 3:10).
This was a national response. But we must not underestimate the effect of individuals within a nation interceding and changing the course of history.
In Exodus 32, the Israelites make a golden calf to worship – an idolatrous event that evokes God’s anger. As a result, God threatens to wipe the Israelites out and start over again with Moses (Exodus 32:10).
Moses intercedes for the people (Exodus 32:31–32), God responds, and the nation is spared.
In the example of Ezekiel 22:30 where God “searched for a man among them who would… stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it”, He tragically “found no one”.
Just one person could have changed the course of history.
It is for these reasons that Walter Wink said,
“Intercessory prayer is spiritual defiance of what is in the way of what God has promised. Intercession visualises an alternative future to the one apparently fated by the momentum of current forces.”
“Even a small number of people, firmly committed to the new inevitability on which they have fixed their imaginations, can decisively affect the shape the future takes.”
“History belongs to the intercessors.”
We invite you to be a person that changes history this National Day of Repentance.
Download National Day of Repentance Resources
Download sharable and printable resources below in both PDF and JPEG formats.
We recommend sending the PDF poster electronically to your friends, family, networks and churches because it contains a clickable link to this campaign page. (Both the PDF and JPEG posters are easy to print.)
Please share, print and distribute the poster far and wide!
