Today's Prayer Alert 05-18-2010

  • May 18, 2010
  • Bob Willhite
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

The Bible records that the day of Pentecost is seven weeks after the Passover! The law of Moses was written for a series of ‘feasts’ to occur and to celebrate together what the Lord our God has done for His People. Passover is to celebrate our deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Pentecost is to celebrate with the offering of our “first fruits” of the abundant provisions from the Lord.   Deuteronomy 16:9-12

We purpose to acknowledge that Almighty God, the Everlasting Father, has FIRST PRIORITY in our lives.

Heavenly Father, we know that You have given us Your Very Best! You gave Your only begotten Son Christ Jesus our Lord to willingly sacrifice His earthly life, so that we would have Life Everlasting! At this time of Pentecost 2010 we bring the first fruits of our labors and worship You in the congregations of our synagogues, temples, churches, houses of worship, and everywhere that people assemble together in Your Name! These are our ‘free will offerings’ that we bring into the House of the Lord.

Lord, we pray for a refreshing of the out pouring of Your Holy Spirit upon us! Revive us and empower us TO DO the work of Your Kingdom here on earth, just as it is in Heaven!  Amen and Amen!

The scriptural reference for Today’s Prayer Alert is  Acts 2:14-21

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, "Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 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:

'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.

I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor 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. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, we ARE the PEOPLE of GOD! We are called by His Name! We have been delivered from the bondage of our sins. We have been set FREE to worship Him in the sanctuary. We have been given glad tidings of great JOY! Our natural response is then to celebrate the Victory that we have in our relationship with Almighty God through Christ Jesus our Lord!

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by one man came death, by one Man also came the Resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive (Genesis 2:7). 1Corinthians 15:19-22

Thanks BE to GOD, who give us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

Amen and Amen!