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40-Days-Compressed.Pdf These devotions along with prayer points and videos are intended to assist believers and churches as they seek Christ personally and corporately for revival and spiritual awakening. Joel 2:1-16 provide the biblical basis for the first section while Zechariah 1:3 provides the biblical basis for the title of this year’s devotional — “Return to Me.” Zechariah 1:1-6 also provides the biblical backdrop for each of the remaining devotional sections. Each section focuses on one principle related to God’s call to return to Him through revival and spiritual awakening from Zechariah 1:1-6. As we unite in the following Scripture texts, devotional thoughts and prayer points, may our prayer be “Oh Lord, will you begin a work of revival in my heart, my family, my church, my state and my nation!” God’s people will continue to struggle with compelling the lost to come to life until revival comes. PRAYER Use this prayer horizontal guide to focus your heart on revival vertical PRAYER Use this prayer guide to focus your heart on revival Section 1 SECTION 1 “BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION ...LET ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND TREMBLE; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING, FOR IT IS AT HAND... WHO CAN ENDURE IT?” JOEL 2:1&11 IMPACT & God’s Discipline God’s Word is clear — “whom the Lord loves He corrects” (Proverbs 3:12). The prophet Joel is God’s mouthpiece to reveal His hand of discipline upon His people. God sent locusts to devour the land (Joel 1:1-20) with the intention that adversity and discipline would cause His people to return to Him. However, they did not repent, so Joel once again delivers God’s message that hardship and devastation is headed their way. This time an invading army from the north (most likely the Assyrians) approaches as God’s discipline intensifies. His message is simple yet profound — they should sound the alarm, tremble before His discipline, understand the imminent danger, and realize it is so great that no one can endure it. The Church in the United States is in the same predicament. We have departed from God and are sin-stained, arrogant and apathetic. Despite many warnings, we continue to ignore the Lord’s call to return to Him in godliness and holiness. For the most part, we do not recognize that His hand of discipline is already upon us. If the American Church is ever again to significantly impact lostness, it must first awaken to the reality of God’s discipline. We must pray toward that end. DAY 1 Sound the Alarm In Joel 1:2-20, the prophet Joel describes the onslaught and a scattering of God’s people in exile. This devastation a plague of locusts brings upon the inhabitants of calamity was truly Jerusalem. The devastation was horrific, resulting in starvation, and something to sound an alarm about, don’t God was the originator. you think? The plague of locusts represented God’s attempt to draw Who is sounding the alarm today? His people back to Himself through relationship. He judged and Are God’s people even listening? Clearly, disciplined them because of their sin. This was the “day of the Lord,” the Church in America is being disciplined and God desired His people to recognize their sin and return to and judged by God. The waning of the Him. manifest presence and favor of God upon Despite the locusts, they continued in their sin and God His church, rampant apathy, complacency, tightened the screws on His people. It seems reasonable to think sin among believers, unhindered that the devastation described in Joel 1 would cause God’s people wickedness and evil in the culture, and the to humble themselves before Him in repentance — yet it did not. intensification of natural phenomena all Proverbs 16:18 reminds us that “Pride goes before destruction, and point to this reality. a haughty spirit before a fall.” God has been trying to get our In Joel’s day, the trumpet, also known as the “shofar,” was attention for quite some time. Yet, like the used to call God’s people to worship or sound an alarm. In Joel 2:1, people of God in Joel’s day, we continue in it was used to sound the alarm that a “strong and mighty” our sin, doing our own thing, keeping our northern army, probably the Assyrians, was approaching. same misplaced priorities. Who will blow Regardless, it referred to an army that would bring greater the trumpet? Who will listen? devastation and misery upon God’s people. This was a new level of judgment that would result in cessation of life in Jerusalem and PRAYER PROMPTS TAKE ACTION Father, raise up instruments in Your hand to sound the alarm. VISIT PRAYFOR30DAYS.ORG AND Begin to work in my heart, Lord. Use me to blow the trumpet WATCH THE COORDINATING VIDEO among Your people. Pray that the Church in America will have ears to hear the alarm. “Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain!” Joel 2:1 DAY 2 Do You Fear God? In 723 A.D., the inhabitants of eastern Germany had no fear of God, and sin-stained, and as it embraces the but they feared Thor, the god of thunder. That year, Boniface of values, beliefs and practices of the England was on a mission to take the message of Christ to the surrounding pagan society, the holy pagans who worshipped and feared Thor. presence of God will be seen less and less At a place called Geismar, Boniface confronted the among and with God’s people. superstitious excesses of the pagans by chopping down a huge oak As a result, the Church’s influence tree that was supposedly Thor’s sacred tree. As the superstition and appeal with a lost society wanes, went, anyone who touched it with an axe would be cursed with resulting in an increase of pagan and a fatal illness. When the tree came crashing down and nothing godless people who see Christ and His happened to Boniface, the pagan people became convinced of their Church as a nonfactor in their lives and need to fear and follow Boniface’s God — the one and only true communities. Accordingly, if believers do God who was more powerful than Thor. Boniface’s actions illustrate not believe a day of reckoning is coming that he feared God more than men and false deities like Thor. due to their sinful lifestyles, why should In Joel 2:1, the people of God are told to tremble before the lost world think otherwise? Until the God’s approaching judgment upon their sin. They know it is God’s Church begins to tremble over its sin and judgement by the reference to the quaking earth and trembling fear God’s judgment, the culture will never heavens in verse 10. God is Holy, and He calls His people to live in understand its need for Jesus and His holiness, fearing His wrath and judgment on unconfessed sin. forgiveness. Do you fear God? Sadly, like the people of Joel’s day, the present-day Church in America has, for the most part, lost its fear of God. This is evident because the culture at large has no respect or fear of God. As the American Church continues to become more apathetic, complacent PRAYER PROMPTS TAKE ACTION Father, help me become fearful and broken over my sin and lack of DISCUSS THE TOPIC OF SIN WITH A holiness. FELLOW CHRISTIAN Pray for the Church in America to fear God’s judgment on its sin and become holy vessels for God’s blessings. “Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble.” Joel 2:1, 10 DAY 3 Imminent Danger When I was a boy, I rarely missed an episode of the TV science- sight. It approached so rapidly that no fiction/comedy series Lost in Space. It depicted a pioneering space honest person could deny what was family, the Robinsons, and colonists whose spaceship entered a happening. meteor field that sent the ship way off course. The series ran for The question was obvious — would three seasons and featured great characters and adventures. God’s people believe and heed the warning The Robinson family endured the antics of a nutty, semi- or simply ignore it? That’s a great question evil scientist named Dr. Smith, while seeking to get back to planet for believers and churches to ponder today. earth. My favorite character was the Robot. He was infamous for his Warning! Imminent danger is “at hand.” one-line catch-phrases. Oftentimes, he was used as a watch-dog and God’s judgement is “at hand!” What will we family friend of the son Will Robinson, whose adventures would do? ultimately place him in harm’s way. The Robot would sound the alarm of imminent danger when aliens or unexpected danger were approaching. In one episode, the Robot shouted, “Danger, danger, Will Robinson!” For the most part, though, he would simply shout out the phrase, “Warning, warning.” His warnings, when heeded, often allowed Will and other characters to escape imminent danger. In today’s text, God uses the prophet Joel to shout the warning of imminent danger. The term “at hand” describes how seriously this warning should be taken. “At hand” indicates danger so close that it can be heard, felt, smelled and possibly even seen in the dust from the approaching army. It was close, certain and within PRAYER PROMPTS TAKE ACTION Father, thank You that You are gracious and kind, warning us of THINK ABOUT HOW GOD MAY BE impending judgment.
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