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In Joel 2:13 (NKJV) it says, “So There are many church-going
rend your heart, and not your
garments; return to the Lord
your God, for He is gracious
and merciful, slow to anger, and
of great kindness; and He
relents from doing harm.” The
word “rend” actually means to
“tear apart forcibly; split; break,
to distress, as with grief or des-
pair; to press through violently
and noisily.” When you realize
what God is showing you, cry
out to God.
Rend your heart before Him.
Allow Him to heal those hurts
and pains that cause this “acting
out.” This is true deliverance.
It’s not only people that are in
prison or jail that are in
bondage.
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people that never commit
crimes against society but are
in their own real prisons. The
prisons of their past
experiences. The prisons of
their hatred towards others that
hurt them much more than the
objects of their hatred. The by the “renewing of our minds.”
book of Joel was written as a If our hearts are the center of
warning to the people of Judah our minds, then we have to go
of the need to turn humbly to to the center and remove the
the Lord with penitent hearts, root that is causing rotten
so that God could bless them growth, or fruit.
rather than chastise them. In
the time that Let me exhort you all today to
the book of make haste to clarify your heart.
Joel was writ-
ten, it was an Allow the Lord to dig out those
awesome judg- old behaviors and old sins, giv-
ment upon peo- ing you the freedom to receive
ple and nations everything He has for you in
that have re- this life and the life to come.
belled against You can have that peace that
God. But it is passes all understanding here
also a time of
future bless- and now. He promises us bless-
ings upon those ing upon blessing for obedience
who trusted in to His will for our lives. He
Him. Paul, in loves you; He died for you. Ex-
Ephesians 4:17 alt Him today and allow Him
-19, talks about putting off the into your heart. He is already
old man, and putting on the your Savior; allow Him to be
new man. That new man is the Lord of your life by turning
continually being transformed
by the grace of God. Paul also over every area of your heart to
wrote, in Romans 12, that we Him today!
can prove that “acceptable,
good, and perfect will of God”