Joel 2
12 "Even now," declares the LORD,
"return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning."
13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
God is NOT the author of confusion. He "relents from sending calamity." Most of us started this 21 day journey prompted by the chaos in our lives. We started it with the purpose of hearing from God and gaining some direction and peace. He will not let us down. As we end this season of fasting, let us focus on the book of Joel. He was a prophet against the kingdom of Judah. He emphasized that God was in control over the people's economic situation and their armies and that God alone could grant mercy to them. The people of Judah were under a fierce attack by locusts. They were in grave danger. Read the whole book, it's only a 4 pages. It is intense. The Lord calls a fast in verse 12. Return to God with fasting and give Him your hearts, nothing else, and God will send salvation. And if the people will do this, God said,
28 "And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
29 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
30 I will show wonders in the heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
31 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
32 And everyone who calls
on the name of the LORD will be saved;
for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there will be deliverance,
as the LORD has said,
among the survivors
whom the LORD calls.
We have fasted. We have rendered our hearts. We are standing and waiting. Expect great things. Expects wonders, visions, dreams, and deliverance. God has promised. And don't get discouraged. For it will come "afterward." Only God knows when that is.
12 "Even now," declares the LORD,
"return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning."
13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
God is NOT the author of confusion. He "relents from sending calamity." Most of us started this 21 day journey prompted by the chaos in our lives. We started it with the purpose of hearing from God and gaining some direction and peace. He will not let us down. As we end this season of fasting, let us focus on the book of Joel. He was a prophet against the kingdom of Judah. He emphasized that God was in control over the people's economic situation and their armies and that God alone could grant mercy to them. The people of Judah were under a fierce attack by locusts. They were in grave danger. Read the whole book, it's only a 4 pages. It is intense. The Lord calls a fast in verse 12. Return to God with fasting and give Him your hearts, nothing else, and God will send salvation. And if the people will do this, God said,
28 "And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
29 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
30 I will show wonders in the heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
31 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
32 And everyone who calls
on the name of the LORD will be saved;
for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there will be deliverance,
as the LORD has said,
among the survivors
whom the LORD calls.
We have fasted. We have rendered our hearts. We are standing and waiting. Expect great things. Expects wonders, visions, dreams, and deliverance. God has promised. And don't get discouraged. For it will come "afterward." Only God knows when that is.
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