One of the pivotal passages in the Bible is Joel chapter 2. Peter quotes from it in his address to the early church as being relevant to us even today.

A formula for returning to God is cited here in verse 12: “therefore … says the Lord,
turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”

These disciplines are not popular and certainly don’t get much promotion in the ultra seeker-sensitive movement popular in today’s churches. Nevertheless, this is God’s Word instructing His people how to get His attention. What hinders us?

DAILY PRAYER: Lord, we humbly cry out to You to heal our hearts, heal our land, heal our churches, and bring revival. Let it begin in us.

DAILY READING: Joel 2