Joel 2: 29-31…
“And also on My menservants and on My maidservants, I will pour out MY Spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the Heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.”
These scriptures emphasize that the Spirit of the Lord will be poured out on all flesh meaning no one is excluded from God’s Grace and His Power. This includes servants, both male and female (female, especially), who were previously considered less privileged.
Breaking Barriers
Prior to Joel and his statements in Chapter Two, prophetic gifts and Divine Revelation was limited to specific individuals like priests and prophets.
Joel 2:29 promises a time when all barriers to receiving the Spirit’s empowerment are removed.
The pouring out of God’s Spirit signifies a time of abundant grace and spiritual renewal, transforming individuals and communities.
Specifically, for those who read this in 2025.
I have already seen His Glory fall in prisons I preach in. I have seen His Creative Miracles and many Salvations in the last 40 years. The best is yet to come in the days we are in today.
In fact, today, June 13, 2025, Israel has launched an attack on Iran.
This is not to fear over, but to realize that prophetically, this must happen.
I will let you figure this out on your own.
The end is not as near as you might be hoping. Meaning, do not just root for the Rapture of the Church, but get busy doing what you and I are supposed to be doing in the work of the ministry that He has entrusted us to.
Amen.
Barriers in the Spirit realm are breaking all around the world. America is primed, ripe and ready for a full onslaught of His Spirit and His Power to save and revive this once God-fearing nation.
We are on the cusp of true revival.
Hope and Salvation
The promise of the Spirit is interwoven with a call to repentance and salvation, offering hope to all who turn to God.
Not just any repentance.
We should never try and conjure up the Spirit, based on the past revivals seen in America and around the world.
God is doing a new thing.
Repentance without tears is not repentance. Only regret.
Feeling sorry for being caught in our sin is not repentance. It is when we are sorry, deeply regretful and in despair, for doing whatever we did to get caught that counts.
A Godly sorrow leading to repentance unto Salvation in Christ.
Paul made this clear.
2nd Corinthians 7:10.
Find a kneeling bench and plenty of tissue to wipe your tears. America should get ready for His Outpouring.
Your tears.
Not of God’s tears, but of His Mercy on a sinful nation.
It is the turning to God that matters.
Repent alone. Then repent publicly.
Do both if you want to see His Presence in your life.
Joel follows up with the detailing of God’s judgment and this need for repentance. It offers a message of Hope and Restoration, contrasting the previous warnings.
What about these Maidservants?
Let us go back in time to the past.
The Bible.
Tabitha also known as Dorcas, was a devoted disciple and charitable woman who lived in Joppa. She was known for her good works, and her acts of mercy, particularly serving the widows and poor by making garments for them. Tabitha’s story is found in the Book of Acts, where, when she dies, and is later raised from the dead by the Apostle Peter, brought revival to the area.
{Acts 9: 36-42).
Mary Magdalene, a devoted follower of Jesus who witnessed His crucifixion and burial and was the first person to see the Resurrected Christ. Her experience solidified her as a key figure in the early Christian movement.
The woman at the well. Esther, Deborah, Hanna, and beyond.
Catherine Booth and Eliza Shirley both became revivalists by providing hope and a sense of belonging to the slums.
The people who lived in this horrible condition found Christ and a community because of the sacrifice of these two women.
Catherine was the co-founder of the Salvation Army. She died from breast cancer in 1890 in Essex, United Kingdom, and was known as the MOTHER of the Salvation Army. She was also a missionary and a writer.
Eliza Shirley, also a Salvation Army worker, was known for feeding, clothing, comforting and caring for the homeless. She did it in the name of Jesus.
She walked with the homeless and the addicted. She felt their pain. She fed and she let her light in Christ show through to those no one wanted.
Modern times:
Aimee Semple McPherson, a Pentecostal evangelist.
Jessie Penn-Lewis was a key figure in the Welsh and Keswick revivals advocating for women’s public ministry.
Lucy Farrow arrived at the Azusa Street Revival, where she taught Glossolalia, (speaking in tongues).
Amy Carmichael was a missionary to India, rescuing children from ritual prostitution.
The list goes on.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, Corrie Ten Boom, Rosa Parks.
“I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”
Joel 2: 28
While throughout history, Maidservants have often been overlooked, The Most High has a radically different view of their importance. They are catalysts and timebombs, igniting the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ.
