Yet Even Now | Mary Thomas {S10 E2}

The following episode is the second session of “Yet Even Now,” a conference centered on the book of Joel that Dayton Women in the Word had planned to host in March 2020.

These audio sessions may be used along with the “Yet Even Now Podcast Companion Guide” and function as a 5-week personal or group study in the book of Joel. The Companion Guide offers a Read/Study/Listen plan to lead you through the content, and encourages you to learn about and use helpful study tools each week.

Although we could not meet in person for this conference as planned, we pray these sessions prepared for the weekend will bless all the podcast listeners.

Mary Thomas wants to live in a world where the church is undivided, so that we can be a light to the world. When she’s not praying and studying her Bible, you can find her in her garden. She loves flowers, various leaf texture and color changes and how intricate they are! She’s taught Precept International curriculum for over 20 years, serves in her church missions field in Africa, and intercedes for many.

Her favorite Scripture is Philippians 2:1-7: "Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.”

Podcast Navigation:

00:00 Introduction
01:30 Joel 1:4-20
05:00 Why Study the Old Testament?
07:00 Curses for Disobedience
11:00 What is God saying to us today?
12:00 Joel’s Instructions
14:50 Who/what caused the plague?
17:12 Locust Description
19:15 The Wrath of God
20:30 The Locust Plague in Egypt
22:45 The Life Stages of a Locust
25:07 First Instruction: Awake
27:16 How is sin like a locust?
30:35 What can we do about sin?
42:00 Lamenting with Sackcloth
43:15 The Locusts’ Impact on Worship
47:00 How fresh is your oil?
49:22 Second Instruction: Repent
52:04 Ways to Fast
52:30 Why fast?
56:57 Joel’s One Line Prayer
58:00 Benediction