Pentecost Sunday

Having celebrated Ascension Week, last week, we are now into Pentecost Week. Today is Pentecost Sunday, or Whit Sunday as many refer to it. Regardless of the difference in names, the meaning for commemorating this day is one and the same. Pentecost or Whit Sunday tells of the outpouring of Jesus’ Baptism on His disciples - male and female – no distinctions whatsoever. This is so, precisely because the Spirit is no respecter of people - Jew or Gentile, bond or free, male or female - as all are one in His sight. 

We celebrate today, as living, unhidden realities, with convincing proofs in our submissive lives, and in the surrendered lives of other disciples of Jesus, the power works wrought by the Pentecostal Spirit in us. We celebrate the Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit and fire, on a multitude of people who belong to Jesus.

We are also celebrating prophecy fulfilled, knowing, as categorically stated in 2 Peter 1: 20b – 21, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy  never came by the will of man, but holy men of God who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. May the same Holy Spirit move us into fulfilled Spirit and Truth living, even now, as prophecy is brought to our remembrance, about our Heavenly Father’s promised earthly outpouring.    

We listen as prophet Isaiah speaks of the devastating consequences of God’s wrath upon His complacent people, Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted as a forest. Isaiah 32: 15. Is this not what was fulfilled on Pentecost Day, when the Holy Spirit was poured out on all the disciples present? Did not the fiery outpouring grow, as people in the hundreds, of all walks of life, believed and received the Spirit’s full outpouring? A forest, in all sense of the word? 

Fill and refill us Lord Jesus, with Your Baptism that Pentecostal minds may flourish and flood our Churches again. Amen! 

When prophet Ezekiel spoke of God’s restoration of His people Israel, who had returned to Him, this is just one bit of promise which he prophesied about God setting His glory among all the people. And I will not hide My face from them anymore, for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 39: 29. Is this not what was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, when God the Holy Spirit, lavishly and powerfully made Himself real and present in and among the New Israel? Did not the fiery outpouring testify to the revealed face of God, in personal seeing and hearing?

Fill and refill us Lord Jesus, with Your Baptism that Pentecostal miracles may flourish and flood our Churches again. Amen! 

When Prophet Joel prophesied about God’s pardoning and refreshing, this is what he said. And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. Joel 2: 28a. Is this not exactly what took place on Pentecost, when some who witnessed the miracle works wrought by the Holy Spirit in ordinary believers, explained it as drunkenness? Peter corrected such diabolically errant behaviour and talk, by referencing Joel’s prophecy. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. Acts 2: 15 – 16.

Is this not what has been completely fulfilled on Pentecost Day, when the Holy Spirit was freely poured out on all the disciples present? Did not the fiery outpouring enable men and women to speak as they had never spoken before?

Fill and refill us Lord Jesus, with Your Baptism that Pentecostal mandates may flourish and flood our Churches again. Amen! 

On this Lord’s Day Pentecost Sunday, we leave our time together, ready to receive by faith, through surrendered and submissive lives, a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit that we, Jesus’ Bride, the Church, may once again know the works of the Holy Spirit, wrought in us.