Break down
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Joel 2:12: key verse
12 That is why the Lord says, “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
Break down before the breakthrough.
Something is not right? Isreal has sinned yet again.
God allows enemies to attack
God allows locust to come into the land and devastate it.
13 Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish.
We need to break down before the breakthrough.
What was the symbol of tearing clothing in Jewish custom?
Kriah is a Hebrew word meaning "tearing." It refers to the act of tearing one's clothes or cutting a black ribbon worn on one's clothes. This rending is a striking expression of grief and anger at the loss of a loved one.
Kriah is an ancient tradition. When our patriarch Jacob believed his son Joseph was dead, he tore his garments (Genesis 37:34). Likewise, in II Samuel 1:11 we are told that King David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them upon hearing of the death of Saul and Jonathan. Job, too, in grieving for his children, stood up and tore his clothes (Job 1:20).
So tearing ones clothes was an outward expression of what was happening inside. God is saying stop the outward show. I see you. Tear your hearts instead. Breakdown and get right with me. Then you will see your breakthrough.
18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Return to the Lord. Tear your hearts instead. Breakdown and get right with me. Why?
13 Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish.
For He is - merciful
For He is - compassionate
For He is- slow to anger
For He is - filled with unfailing love.
He is eager to relent and not punish.
Isreal don’t forget who your God is. Christian don’t forget who your God is. - Return to God.
14 Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve, sending you a blessing instead of this curse. Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine to the Lord your God as before.
Possible tangent: Is one of the reason God allowed covid to hit the world to get “His Churches attention”?
What blessing did God send His church? Got us focused back on Him. Focused back on the gospel. Focused back on reaching those far from God.
Then you will see your breakthrough.
15 Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. 16 Gather all the people— the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room.
Call the church to fast. Oldest to the youngest. Senior saints and children. Oh and those that are planning on getting married. Stop. It will have to wait.
17 Let the priests, who minister in the Lord’s presence, stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar. Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord! Don’t let your special possession become an object of mockery. Don’t let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say, ‘Has the God of Israel left them?’ ”
18 Then the Lord will pity his people and jealously guard the honor of his land. 19 The Lord will reply, “Look! I am sending you grain and new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy your needs. You will no longer be an object of mockery among the surrounding nations. 20 I will drive away these armies from the north. I will send them into the parched wastelands. Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea, and those at the rear into the Mediterranean. The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land.” Surely the Lord has done great things! 21 Don’t be afraid, O land. Be glad now and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things. 22 Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field, for the wilderness pastures will soon be green. The trees will again be filled with fruit; fig trees and grapevines will be loaded down once more. 23 Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the Lord your God! For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring. 24 The threshing floors will again be piled high with grain, and the presses will overflow with new wine and olive oil.
Returning to God, Honoring God, Seeking God, God moves.
25 The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.
26 Once again you will have all the food you want, and you will praise the Lord your God, who does these miracles for you. Never again will my people be disgraced.
Does God want to answer our prayers. Yes! But we must breakdown before the Lord before the breakthrough.
27 Then you will know that I am among my people Israel, that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other. Never again will my people be disgraced.
When God breaks through it will be evident it was His doing. He will and should get all the praise.
It will be evident “Church on The Hill” that God is moving yet again in Riverside and using us again.
2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? 3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.