As we enter the season of Lent, let us join together and seek the Lord:
Father, as we turn to you with particular focus over the next forty days, we pray that you would provide the vision and courage we will need to search our hearts for your leading and to respond.
May this season of self-examination restore to us the joy of our salvation, remind us of the freedom from our sin that is provided by grace, provide us with a renewed desire to align our will with yours, andfill us with a passion to share this good news with those who desperately need to hear.
Joel 2: 12 - 18
"Even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your heart and not your garments.
Return to the Lord, your God for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love,and He relents from sending calamity.
Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing - grain offerings and drink offerings for the Lord, your God.
Blow the trumpet in Zion declare a holy fast,call a sacred assembly. Gather the people, consecrate the assembly;gather the children, those nuring at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.
Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say, "Spare Your people, O Lord.
Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,a byword among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,'Where is their God?'
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