213. Mourning over the Locust Plague

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213.


The Devastation of Locust

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Today's Passage: Joel 1:1-20

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Thank You for meeting us, LORD.
We welcome you into this place.

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1. The LORD gave this message to Joel son of Pethuel.  
2. Hear this, you leaders of the people. Listen, all who live in the land. In all your history,  
has anything like this happened before?  
3. Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children.   
Pass the story down from generation to generation.    
4. After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left!    
After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!  
 5. Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine-drinkers! All the grapes are ruined,  
and all your sweet wine is gone.  
6. A vast army of locusts has invaded my land, a terrible army too numerous to count. 
Its teeth are like lions' teeth, its fangs like those of a lioness.  
7. It has destroyed my grapevines and ruined my fig trees, stripping their bark   
and destroying it, leaving the branches white and bare.  
8. Weep like a bride dressed in black, mourning the death of her husband.   
9. For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the LORD. So the priests are mourning.  
The ministers of the LORD are weeping.  
10. The fields are ruined, the land is stripped bare. The grain is destroyed,  
the grapes have shriveled, and the olive oil is gone.  
11. Despair, all you farmers! Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat   
and the barley  ⏤ all the crops of the field ⏤are ruined.   
12. The grapevines have dried up, and the fig trees have withered. The pomegranate trees, palm    trees, and apple trees ⏤all the fruit trees ⏤have dried up. And the people's joy has dried  
up with  them. 
13.Dress yourselves in burlap and weep, you priests! Wail, you who serve before the altar!   
Come, spend the night in burlap, you ministers of my God. For there is no grain or   
wine to offer at the Temple of your God.   
14. Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting.   
Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the LORD your God,   
and cry out to him there.  
15. The day of the LORD is near, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty.   
How terrible that day will be!   
16. Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held  
in the house of our God.  
17. The seeds die in the parched ground, and the grain crops fail.   
The barns stand empty, and granaries are abandoned.    
18. How the animals moan with hunger! The herds of cattle wander about confused, 
because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep and goats bleat in misery.  
19. LORD, help us! The fire has consumed the wilderness pastures,   
and flames have burned up all the trees.  
20. Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have dried up,   
and fire has consumed the wilderness pastures.  

Joel 1:1-20 NLT  

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19th strategy.
Prophesy and/or Warnings

• Stop and enter into God's presence by praying.
• Ask God to open your heart to hear His words to you.
• Read through the passage.
• The prophecy and/or warning can be very sad and possibly frightening.
• Ask God to reveal to you what He would have you learn from the prophecy/warning.
  
• Remember that some of the prophecies have already come true, and some have not.
• Remember that God is with you as you read these and that He is good.
• Pray through these hardship verses.
• Is there some sort of wisdom to take away from these warnings?
• Pray before you leave a page that is disturbing to your heart.
• Ask God to bring you peace about the scripture.
• Remember to thank Him for meeting you in your readings.
• Ask Him to surprise you with a deeper if not a full understanding of these verses in the future.
  

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3.
Abba,
You are God, we are not.
You have control over all.
We do not.
You are good.
We are only righteous through your Son.
Give us what you want us to know over the verses and passages that are confusing to us.
Help us see you and your wisdom in these passages.
In your name we pray,
Jehoshua,
Amen

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