Tuesday Prayer Room – 9am
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.
29 Even on the male and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 32 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
PRAYER GUIDE
We are living in a unique moment in human history. In this age, the age of the Church, the age of the last days, the age of the “afterward” of Joel 2, salvation is offered and promised to everyone who calls on the name of the Lord. It doesn’t matter if they are young, old, male, female, Jew, Gentile. It doesn’t matter their race, ethnicity, language, or culture. It doesn’t matter their station or status in society. It doesn’t matter if they are ‘righteous’ or ‘sinful.’ There is only one pre-requisite for salvation: they must call upon the name of the Lord.
And to call on his name requires two things. First, it requires us to know we are in need. We do not cry out or call out for help when we think we have everything figured out. It means we know we don’t have everything together. Our lives are not working. We are missing something. We need rescuing. This, on the one hand, is a terrifying thing to admit. Nobody wants to admit they can’t do it anymore. They can’t hold it all together. But on the other hand, finally admitting we need saving, rescuing, healing…it is deeply liberating.
Second, to call on the name of the LORD means we know about the LORD. It means we have been told about Him, or heard about Him from someone. This is Paul’s point when he quotes Joel 2 in Romans 10:12-13. Paul writes, “there is no difference between Jew and Gentile–the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, for, ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'”
But what is Paul’s next point? “How then,” he asks, “can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” If people don’t hear about the Lord they can’t call on Him. But who is going to tell them if we don’t?
Anyone who calls on the name will be saved. But in order to call on the Lord, one must first recognize their need for rescue, and then, one must know about the Lord enough to put their trust and faith in Him. This is what we are praying for today. In a season of history in which anyone can be saved…we are praying that many will be saved.
PRAYER PROMPTS
- For people to recognize their desperate need for God, for Jesus, for salvation.
- For Christians to get past their baggage about evangelism and be moved with compassion that people desperately need Jesus.
- That every single Christian would tell another person about Jesus.
- Start by asking God for the privilege of you telling someone about Jesus this year.
- That thousands, even millions of lost people would call on the name of the LORD, resulting in a Third Great Awakening in our nation.
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