after a few days of rain the sun has come up and it is cooler here in auburn- the fall is here!!! and it's not a coincidence that the Lord has done the same in me. It is NEVER too late for Him to do a fresh work in you or me! The past several weeks have been somewhat dark, uncomfortable but He is always faithful to bring new life- isn't that just in his character to restore what the locusts have eaten, to bring life to a discouraged heart, to pour out victory in the midst of defeat. Wow. God is bigger than all our stuff. HE can come in and throw out the old just to replace it with the new: with Himself! And just like the rain it's nothing that I can manufacture but what He has to give- outside of ourselves- in His perfect timing. Just by looking to Him and allowing Him to have our problems- they are nothing to Him because He sees the big picture. And He knows what He is doing.

Joel 2:23"Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God,for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.

24"The threshing floors shall be full of grain; the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.

26"You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you.And my people shall never again be put to shame. 27You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else.And my people shall never again be put to shame.

The LORD Will Pour Out His Spirit 28[d] "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. 29Even 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. 31The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 32And 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