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Another Pentecost

By now readers will have realised that this writer believes the world needs the Holy Spirit – an idea and an experience that goes back to that very first Pentecost.

Perhaps it’s The Salvation Army in me whose Founder once said we need ‘another Pentecost’. Or perhaps it’s the words of the late Billy Graham resonating in me from his book The Holy Spirit: Activating God’s Power in Your Life which I read in my twenties; or the challenge of the late General John Gowans’s words, ‘Holy Spirit! Promised presence fall on me’ that have become a permanent fixture in my morning devotions.

There have been other influences upon me when it comes to this notion but whatever they are, past or present, there is no question it has become my personal conviction: We need the Holy Spirit! I’m talking about a day-by-day journey with the Spirit of God.

There is a void or a lack in the human soul that most of us are aware of, like a hole in our lives that we don’t often talk about. This is a God-breathed space that only the Spirit of God can fill. It is a space for relationship, a spiritual space for people and the Holy Spirit to do life together. It’s a space of nurture and companionship, but also preparation and equipping for your personal contribution to the world.

Peter Marshall, the former United States Senate Chaplain, put it this way: ‘The Holy Spirit is the only force that can change people for good… and to want most of all to be a part of the answer to the world’s ills, and not part of the problem.’

How does this journey begin? Or how does it continue if it has been interrupted? It was Jesus who gave us the answer to this question. It’s a focus of our faith and our prayer. ‘Ask and you will receive,’ he said, ‘search and you will find, knock and the door will be opened for you’.

Prayer:

Dear Lord, I need another Pentecost in my life and I want it to be a daily experience. In this season of Pentecost, please do something extraordinary in me that generates such a positive change in my life, that I know it could only have come from you. Amen