My spirit is heavy today...you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see what's going on. You don't have to be super spiritual to realize what the enemy is doing. I've had Joel chapter 1 in my spirit all day and I'm afraid we're losing out, losing out on the blessings of God because we've let the "locusts" take everything we hold dear. "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? Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten." (vss 2-4)
The prophet Joel says that our enemy has us like "the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness..." He goes on to say, "It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white." We need to WAKE UP! People in our churches are falling for the tricks of the enemy and the enemy is eating away at them and the church. People are falling away to gossip and convenience, lack of commitment and busyness. They're falling away to soothsayers and evil schemes the enemy has conjured up. Joel continues to say, "The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails (vs 10). It's time to quit wearing our feelings on our shoulders and to quit listening to the enemy!
I'm calling EMERGE CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY to a fast! WHO WILL JOIN WITH ME? "Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. 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. Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty." (vss 13-15)
