Joel 1:11 "wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field is destroyed." (NAS)
In the book of Joel they were under siege by a plague of locusts who were destroying the crops. Joel was speaking of a literal destruction of a harvest but with a divine interpretation. Joel called for wailing and howling because the harvest was being destroyed. How much more should we be wailing and howling in prayer for a spiritual harvest of souls being destroyed by the devil. Is not the enemy already destroying our youth and young adults with addictions to drugs,alcohol,porn,immorality and violent video games? Is a harvest of souls being destroyed because we are not weeping and wailing for them. Does the Church even see the "locust" destroying the souls of people and carrying them off to eternal death?
In Joel 1: 13 & 14 we see Joel telling us that both the priests and the people are to cry out to God. This is also repeated Joel 2:12-17. He calls for the priests and the people to return to God and to weep and wail. An awakening for souls must start in the pulpits across this nation. When the pastors begin to hunger for more of God and His Presence and begin to weep for souls and call for revival then the people in the pews will awaken and hunger for these same things. Then they will take revival to the streets of America and Living Waters will flow down the streets of our cities.
Joel 2:1 calls for the blowing of the trumpet and the sounding of the alarm. This is for one purpose: to awaken the people, arouse them,and call them to duty.It is time to wake up and cry to God for revival. Not a revival that stays within the four walls of the church but a revival that pours out into our cities,businesses,market place, schools,and government.
Jeremiah 23:29 "Is not My word like fire? declares the Lord, and like a hammer which shatters rock?" (NAS)
We need the Word of God to set our hearts on fire and allow His Word to shatter the rock hardness of our hearts. Weep and wail for the harvest of souls!
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This is so powerful, Marie. Amen to all of it. My concern is that the very thing needed, pastors with God's heart, calling out to a listening God, are also difficult to find. It seems at a time when the Lord is calling to us in the very words you are posting, so many of the pastors and churches I know and work with personally still seem to be in a "build my kingdom at all costs" mode. If THOSE are the people we need to turn this around, we desperately need God to reach their hearts. Have they become callous to the Word? If so, then we need to pray for a circumcision of hearts, but who does the circumcising?
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