Joel 1 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Joel 1.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/joe/1/1/s_877001

Meditate on verses 2 and 15.

 

Hear this, O elders, and listen, all

 inhabitants of the land. 

Has anything like

this happened in your days or in your

 fathers' days?  Alas for the day!  For the

day of the LORD is near, and it will

 come as destruction from the Almighty.

 

Judah was in the midst of famine and plague when God said, “Wake-up!” (v. 5).  The gnawing, swarming, creeping, stripping locusts they experienced would be mild compared to the coming day of the LORD (vs. 4, 15). 

 

But the day of the LORD will come like a

 thief, in which the heavens

will pass away with a roar and

the elements will be destroyed

 with intense heat, and the earth

 and its works will be burned up.

—2 Peter 3:10

 

What is going on in the world right now?  As we write this devotional, a devastating virus is wreaking havoc around the world, causing much fear and concern.  God wants us to use these events—plagues, famines, wildfires, disease—to tell our children and grandchildren about the LORD, so they will tell the next generation because the day of the LORD is coming when it will be too late to receive the LORD’s salvation (2 Peter 3:14-15).

 

Pray Joel 1:2-3, 15, and 19 as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, has anything like this happened in my days

 or in my father’s days?  Let me tell

my children about it and let them tell their

 children and their children to the next

generation.  For the day of the LORD is near, and

 it will come as destruction from

You, the Almighty.  To You, O LORD, I cry! 

Please save ____________ before it is too late.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell