Posts with the tag “joel-2”

Uncle Ben made it famous: with great power comes great responsibility. But here is the problem for most believers. It is not that we fail to take responsibility seriously. It is that we have drastically underestimated the power we are actually carrying. The lessons of Scripture describe the gifts of the Holy Spirit as tokens of the Messianic Era — a down payment on the age to come, pressing the power of the future kingdom into the present moment. Every person in whom the Spirit dwells is walking around with a deposit of eternity inside them. You are not a reservoir. You are a riverbed. And the city around you needs what you are carrying. Read the full post.  Read More

Most of us have years we have quietly written off as the price of getting to where we are now. But Joel says repay. God is not just moving you past the lost years. He is moving you through them. The locust years are part of the material He is working with. Your story is not behind schedule. It is still being written.  Read More