JOEL 2:28

“And afterward,  I will pour out my Spirit on all people.Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

TO PONDER:

You are a powerful person. There is no limit to what God can do through his Spirit at work in you today! That's essentially what Joel is telling us in the reading today. Joel was writing to a people whose land had been devastated by locusts. Their livelihood and indeed their very lives had been stripped away and the future was bleak. But the promise of God through the prophet Joel was that their greater need, to be restored to a relationship with God, would be met. God would give his Spirit to all people, a promise fulfilled at Pentecost. In the Old Testament, the Spirit had only empowered certain individuals and sometimes only for a specific period of time. At Pentecost, the power and the abiding presence of the Spirit were given to all who received the good news of the Gospel. God was deploying his people, his Church, to go out into the world to be his hands and feet, his voice in the world. You are his mobile base of operation in the world. Every resource you need today is at your disposal to continue his Operation Gospel in the world. You are a powerful person. There is no limit to what God can do through his Spirit at work in you today! Believe it and live it.

PRAYER:

Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me. Fill me with your presence and power and use me today to draw others into your saving presence. Amen.

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