Put On Christ

Joel 2:14-17

"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?"

God is a good God, and wants to bless us tremendously.  Though, we must know and believe, there are demons in our midst.  Demons whose missions are to kill and destroy us.  Mind, body, and soul.  Verse 16 says, "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." We are to come together as a people.  Sanctify ourselves through the Word of God, and build our lands.  Then we'll give each other the strength to fight the devil.  (John 17:15-17)  "I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. (Sanctify) them by Your truth. (Your word is truth)."  A truth that will set us free and establish us as a family.  A conscience decision must be made to follow our Lord.  Then stand on every word and promise He said.  That we may be blessed and receive power and knowledge, to outwit the enemy and be given our inheritances.  Verse 17 says, " 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.'  Our world is not weeping correctly, by the attacks and trickery of the enemy.  We're looking at the things we can see.  Being pulverized by their outcomes.  God is here.  He will not come down and put an end to this madness.  We have been given dominion over our earth and we must use it.  (Psalms 8:6)  "You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet."(Colossians 2:15-23)  " Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths  which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.  Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,  and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the (world), why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, ” which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh." Put on Christ.


(1Corinthians 2:16)  "For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."


Blessings to all who uses Christ's power,


Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.