Prayer based on Joel 2

Father, help us to get the point of personal and societal disaster. Is not the Day of Your Judgment coming upon the whole earth in due time? Will we be ready for that Day? Locusts destroy the produce of the land. Invading armies take Your people captive and destroy life as we know it. Yet even in difficult days of trouble, the call goes out to Your people. We can repent today. We can return to You. We can gather together in solemn assembly. Spare Your people! Hear us, O Lord, and be jealous for Your children, for You love us. You can remove invading armies in a moment. You can give health to the land again, and restore what the locust has consumed. You can bring about a day of blessing that is beyond anything that we ask for or imagine. You are the Lord God. The Day is surely coming when we will all be full of the spirit like the prophets of old. On that same Day there will be frightening signs of Your judgment in the heavens and upon the earth. Yet all who call upon Your name shall be saved. We call upon Your Name now, O Lord, for You have provided Your perfect Son, through whom we have bold access to Your heavenly sanctuary. You have called us to Yourself. You will bless us forever.