Pentecost Sunday

It's Pentecost Sunday and the Bible readings for today are about the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in the early church. When the apostles who were closeted in a room suddenly spoke in different languages, it caused an uproar with the people who heard them who came from different countries.

Speaking a foreign language that is different from the Galilean language was miraculous for these simple apostles and it amazed everyone who heard them. But the real miracle according to the Bible commentary was not the apostles' gift of tongues but how the Good News was spread to the foreigners who heard the apostles speak in their own native tongues.

Clearly God wanted everyone to know the Good News, it was not only for the apostles and the Jews. Salvation is for everyone who believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God made man.

Message for June 12, 2011.
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Pentecost Sunday is a remembrance of how the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles. A breath of life, fire from heaven, tongues of fire, these are just a few manifestations of how the Holy Spirit becomes visible to all human kind.

The Spirit of God is everywhere, it rides with the wind, floats like the clouds, a particle smaller than an atom that fits itself in every crevice of the world. My spirit is the magic that holds all things together in its place.

Give thanks then to the Holy Spirit, who keeps you whole. It is sad that the Holy Spirit is not given much importance in My church by My people. Plenty still forget or don't know how the Holy Spirit works within them, in them and for them.

The Holy Spirit brings cohesion, renewal and dynamism to My church. Nothing can be done without the Holy Spirit in your midst. Give glory and praise then to the third divine person in Me, the Holy Spirit.