Make it Plain

This Is That

Habakkuk 2:2 “And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.”

Acts 2:16 “But This is That was uttered through the prophet Joel:”

Joel 1:4 “What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.”

Joel 2:1 “Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,”

Joel 2:2 “a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.”

Joel 2:4 “Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.”

Joel 2:28 ““And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.”

Joel 2:29 “Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.”

Joel 2:30 ““And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.”

INTRODUCTION :

I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU IGORANT,BUT PAUL HAD TROUBLE HE ENCOUNTER TROUBLE IN ASIA HE FELT POWERLESS TO WITHSTAND (HE FELT POWERLESS TO WITHSTAND.

I. AFFLICTION and HARDSHIP

2.There is an expectation of a progresive (good ,better,best ) trajectory in all of our experiences.

Trials in our life and ministry.