Joel 2

The Day of the LORD

Anyone read Joel 2 lately? Anyone noticed the increase in visions and dreams? Anyone noticed an increase of Holy Spirit activity lately. I’m not looking at all the shaking and storms and earthquakes. Not at all. I am looking at the signs and wonders in our meetings. Anyone noticed a shift from surprise to expectancy when anything happens?

Joel 2:28-32 “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. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.”

An outpouring on everyone – young, old, male, female, black, white, American, British, Asian – everyone. Joel says all people. Prophecies, dreams, visions, signs and wonders, Sun turned to darkness, Moon to blood (did you see what happens when a volcano erupts or the resulting ash cloud drifts?)

Have you seen this happening anywhere near you? I don’t know about too many places but I do know that the young people are on fire for Jesus in our and other churches locally. We are seeing the Holy Spirit move as per Joel 2. We cannot be alone – there must be many others all over the world.

Could we be seeing the start of a revival un-paralleled in modern history? Could it just be that we are not only in the end time but that the much prophesied revival is starting? Do you see the signs? Is there any better measure than that “everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” We are seeing it among young and old alike. We are not and we cannot be alone in this exciting move of God in our midst. Those once referred to as ‘the lost’ are turning to the Lord in their millions all over the world.

Is this, or is it not, an exciting time to be a Christian? Sure, in some places, it is a dangerous thing to admit to being Christian, but surely it is nevertheless exciting too? Can you see the trend; the rising tide of faith among all sectors of the communities in which we live?

Jesus is coming soon – all the signs point to it right NOW.