“In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit. 3 During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God. 4 Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. 5 John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.””
Acts 1:1-5 NLT
“On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place. 2 Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting. 3 Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.” Acts 2:1-3 NLT
Father of time,
Everything fits in Your plan. Even when we don’t always see it. Jesus died at the time of Passover. A time to remember when God’s people were saved from the angel of death, who passed over when he saw the blood of the sacrificial lamb on their doorposts. Jesus became our sacrificial Lamb (John 1:29). Fifty days later is the Jewish festival of Shavuot (Meaning weeks). The Festival for the wheat harvest and also a commemoration of the giving of the Law (Torah, 1st 5 books of our Bible) to Moses. on Mount Sinai. So 50 days after we were saved by the blood of the Lamb, Your Holy Spirit came and began the harvest of souls and the Law was written on hearts. As Jeremiah prophesied in 31:33.
Pentecost is the Greek word for 50 and so the day the Spirit came was named Pentecost in the Greek New Testament and after in other translations. It is reassuring to see how You plan unfolded, You were working out the present and the future, and therefore our time to come. Nothing is by chance even in the mess of this still sinful rebellious world You are still in control. Thank you for the birth of the church and the harvest of souls which continues to this day. Thank you that we are a part of the future eternity even if we cannot quite grasp the fulness of what that means. That we are in it together and with You. Help us to live now, in today. Making the most of our time and opportunities (Ephesians 5:16). Strengthened by Your Spirit in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9-11). Trusting in Your plan (Proverbs 3:5-6).
In Jesus name we pray, Amen
Worship Monday 17th November 2025
New hymn to me but I love the timeless prayer.
O Breath of life, come sweeping through us,
Revive Your church with life and power.
O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us,
And fit Your church to meet this hour.
O Wind of God, come bend us, break us,
Till humbly we confess our need;
Then in Your tenderness remake us,
Revive, restore, for this we plead.
O Breath of love, come breathe within,
Renewing thought and will and heart;
Come, Love of Christ, afresh to win us,
Revive Your church in every part.
Verse omitted in video
(O Heart of Christ, once broken for us,
’tis there we find our strength and rest;
our broken, contrite hearts now solace,
and let your waiting church be blest.)
Revive us, Lord! Is zeal abating
While harvest fields are vast and ripe?
Revive us, Lord, the world is waiting,
Equip Your church to spread the light
Lyrics: Bessie Porter Head.