Day 2 -Monday- August 7, 2023-- Prayer Focus - Return to the Lord
Joel 1:14 (NIV)
Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the
Land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
Joel 2:12-13 (NIV)
“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.
Don’t tear your clothes, tear your heart.
Joel 2:28-29 (NIV)
“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.
Joel 3:13-14 (NIV)
Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress
is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!” 14 Multitudes, multitudes
in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
There are people ready to make a decision. It is harvest time.
Declare our dependence on God.
Return with your hearts. I need God.
Reignite the Spirit’s fire in me.
Put the fire of God back in me (dreams, visions, prophecy, revival)
Pray for the lost.
Jude verses 20-22
20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. 22 Be merciful to those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
Be merciful to those who doubt. (Jude). Snatch them from the fire.
Go find people heading toward hell and snatch them from it. Point them to Jesus.
Either through personal story/testimony or by inviting to a church service.
Pray over fall and upcoming harvest and series of messages: What’s The Point?, At the
Movies and our Thanksgiving and Christmas services.
