Can You Hear Me Now
Revival
Joel
Prophets
•Were forth-tellers, more than foretellers
•Were not simply a mouthpiece, but a person;
not just an instrument, but a partner with
God
•The prophet is to hear God’s voice and to feel
His heart in order to impart
the message with God’s
fullest sympathy.
Joel
Yahweh is God
Joel 2:12-17
12 “Yet
even now,” declares the Lord, “return to
me with all your heart, with fasting, with
weeping, and with mourning;
13 and rend your hearts and garments.” Return to
the Lord your God, for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in
steadfast love; and he relents
over disaster.
Joel 2:12-17
14 Who
knows whether he will not turn and
relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain
offering and a drink offering for the Lord your
God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
Joel 2:12-17
16 gather
the people. Consecrate the
congregation; assemble the elders; gather the
children, even nursing infants. Let the
bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her
chamber.
Joel 2:12-17
17 Between
the vestibule and the altar let the
priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say,
“Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your
heritage a reproach, a byword among the
nations. Why should they say among the
peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Joel 2:12-17
•When God’s people turn away from their sin
back to Him and He renews them and
restores them—that’s revival.
•Revival is when God’s people align their lives
with His ways.
•V. 13-God is more interested in your heart than
your actions
•The condition of our heart leads our
actions
Joel 2:12-17
•When our position changes, our status changes
Joel 2:18-19;24-27
18 Then
the Lord became jealous for his land and
had pity on his people.
19 The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, oil, and
you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you
a reproach among the nations.
Joel 2:18-19;24-27
24 “The
threshing floors shall be full of grain; the
vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 I will restore to you the years that the
swarming locusts has eaten, the hopper, the
destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I
sent among you
Joel 2:18-19;24-27
26 You
shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and
praise the name of the Lord your God, who has
dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall
never again be put to shame.
27 You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the Lord your God and there
is none else. And my people
shall never again be put to
shame.”
Joel 2:28-32
28 “And
it shall come to pass afterward, that I will
pour our 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
29 Even on the male and female servants in
those days I will pour out
my Spirit.
Joel 2:28-32
30 And
I will show wonders in the heavens and on
the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the
moon to blood, before the great and awesome
day of the Lord comes.
Joel 2:28-32
32 And
is shall come to pass that everyone who
calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For
in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be
those who escape, as the Lord has said, and
among the survivors shall be those whom the
Lord calls.”
Joel 2:28-32
•He makes the impossible possible!
Revival Here?
•Prayer is the preeminent activity for all personal
renewal.
•To sin is human business; to justify sin is a
devilish business; to repent of sin is Godly
business.
•Doing the will of God leaves you
no time to dispute the
plans of God.
•“To pray for revival while ignoring or
disregarding the precepts laid down in the Bible
is to waste a lot of words…Prayer will become
effective when we stop using it as a substitute for
obedience.”—A.W. Tozer