That is why the LORD says, “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

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Joel 2:12

Love this! Old Testament and New Testament… same word.

• But everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved,
  Joel 2:32

• For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”
  Romans 10:13

Sincere repentance is:

• to turn to God, and therefore away from our sin.
• done with all your heart, giving everything, you can surrender to God.
• is marked by action (with fasting) and emotion (with weeping…mourning). Not every act of repentance will include fasting and weeping, but if action and emotion are absent, it isn’t real repentance.

Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
Joel 2:13b

G. Campbell Morgan wrote, “It’s always the day of the Lord.”

Great article on Repentance

There was a valley named after Jehoshaphat.

I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.  There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people among the nations, and for dividing up my land.
Joel 3:2