Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/2_21_2018_Three_Characteristics.mp3</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><br> <a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/2_21_2018_Three_Characteristics.mp3</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> 3 Characteristics Of A Sacred Assembly<br><br> <br><br> <br> Opposite of Las Vegas – what happens here does not stay here!<br> Joel 1:14 – Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.<br> <br> <br> Sunday we talked about the cure for judgment.<br> <br> <br> <br> 3 Characteristics Of Calling A Sacred Assembly<br> <br> 1. Fasting preceded the assembly: like soil, we must prepare the heart.<br> 2. The call is to all believers.<br> 3. Go to the place of anointing: take action – “I’ve had enough.”<br> ________________________________<br> 3 Characteristics Of A Sacred Assembly<br> <br> Joel 2:12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” 13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. 14 Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him—<br> <br> <br> 1. “Turn to Me with all your heart?” There can’t be hidden areas of rebellion, ulterior motives, or Plan B’s.<br> <br> It must start with a complete turning, a heart breaking, and a prideful man repenting.<br> <br> <br> Zechariah 7:5, “When you fasted and mourned did you really fast for me – for me?”<br> <br> <br> <br> 2. Position yourself to receive from God – fast, weep, and mourn<br> <br> WHY SHOULD WE WEEP AND BE SAD?<br> <br> <br> The most popular pornography site draws 80 million visitors a day—more traffic than Pinterest, Tumblr, or PayPal.<br> <br> <br> Mass shootings.<br> <br> <br> Children, teens, and young adults are lost – our future leaders. [Tide Pods]<br> <br> <br> Marriage is being mocked, abortion is taking nearly 3000 lives a day – 56,993,299.<br> <br> <br> <br> Would the blind beggar have been healed? Would Rachael have conceived?<br> <br> GOD says, “I HEAR THE GROANS AND THE CRIES” – No parent goes to the room of a newborn if they’re content.<br> <br> <br> Real prayer is travail – BUT it can’t be fake.<br> <br> <br> <br> 3. “Rend your hearts – not your garments.” A Hard Heart Will Prevent Revival<br> <a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Jonah%204.2" target="_blank">Jonah 4:2</a>, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.”<br> <br> <br> Jonah was mad – critical, judgmental, and negative: “Negativity is a tendency to be downbeat, disagreeable, and skeptical. It’s a pessimistic attitude that always expects the worst.”<br> <br> <br> Stop the criticism – the complaining – and the polarization of politics!<br> A complainer will not experience renewal.
