It's Halftime

Day 20
Joel 2
“ Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
13 So 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.
14 Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him— A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly;
16 Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room.
17 Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, “Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?’”
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This . . .
Today ends the first half of this forty day season of fasting and prayer. Three weeks from today marks "The Call" in Nashville where 100,000 are expected to gather together at the football stadium where the Titan's play. It is called LP Field and seats approximately 68,798. Add to that the space on the field and it still comes up short of seating 100,000. Never the less, I believe that there will be more than 100,000 who attend, filling the stadium inside and out.
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That . . .
I have always wished that I had been at the Woodstock festival back in 1969. Even though I wasn't there, I embraced the "spirit of Woodstock" as a young 20 year old during the 70's.
It seemed harmless. It seemed good. It seemed right.
It wasn't.
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Now I want to make a much wiser choice of embracing God in this season and being present at "The Call".
It seems to be God's heart. It seems good. It seems right.
It is.

This is That . . .
It's halftime. Time to re-group. Time to make adjustments and change whatever strategies need to be changed and make plans to finish strong. I am ready to sign up again to press in and pray. To turn to God with all of my heart with weeping, fasting and mourning. To rend my heart, to weep between the porch and the altar.
To blow the trumpet in Zion and say,
“Spare Your people, O LORD."
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Joel 2
32 And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said,
Among the remnant whom the LORD calls.