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All the inhabitants of the land and all the elders, all the leaders for a solemn assembly,

for a fast, for one purpose, to cry out to God.

You keep reading on in this chapter and you see the desperate situation that God's people

are in, summarized in Joel 119 to you, O Lord, I call.

As I read this, I'm reminded that it's good to find ourselves in a place of desperation for God.

I think about things in my own life right now where I am totally desperate for God.

I don't know what to do. I need God's help. I need God's wisdom. I need God's strength.

I'm guessing I'm not alone. I'm guessing others of you are at a point where you are desperate for

God's help, God's strength, God's peace, God's wisdom. And in a very real sense, this is the Christian life.

We live day by day in desperation on God for grace, for help, for mercy, for strength.

Remember John 15, the passage from Jesus around which even this whole podcast is based when he talks

about praying according to his word, but he says in verse five of that chapter,

I'm the vine, you're the branches. The man remains in me and I in him. He will bear much fruit,

but apart from me, you can do nothing. And so it's good to live day by day in desperation upon God.

God is honored, pleased, glorified when we humbly realize our dependence on him,

and he will prove faithful to all who trust in him, who look to him, who cry out to him.

And it's good, Joel 114, to periodically set aside time, even not just individually,

but with others to fast and to come aside before God and to cry out to him for help. Oh, God,

I cry out to you for help in my life. I cry out to you for help in others lives who are listening

to this right now together in our hearts right now. We say we can do nothing without you. We need

your wisdom today, your strength and our weakness. We need your peace that passes all

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