CONSECRATE THE PEOPLE - Southern Baptist Convention

and rejoicing. Any time we gather to meet with God is a sacred assem-bly. If we do the ongoing spiritual work required by the Lord, we will not need an emergency sacred assembly as the people did in Joel’s day. God wanted the people to prepare themselves to meet with Him in Joel’s day, so He commanded, “Consecrate the assembly” (Joel 2:16, ................
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