“Fasting: Faith for Complete Victory, pt. 4: Dinner is Served”: By Rev. Troy Benton

Sunday, 

August 28, 2016 

Joel 2:12-17 (CEB)

“Change Your Hearts”

12Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your hearts, with fasting, with weeping, and with sorrow; 13tear your

hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, very patient, full of faithful

love, and ready to forgive. 14Who knows whether he will have a change of heart and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God? 15Blow the horn in Zion; demand a fast; request a special assembly. 16Gather the people; prepare a holy meeting; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the groom leave his room and the bride her chamber. 17Between the porch and the altar let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, weep. Let them say, “Have

mercy, Lord, on your people, and don’t make your inheritance a disgrace, an example of failure among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”