May
Father, you chose Shavuot - the feast of weeks, the wheat harvest, the celebration of Torah - as the moment to pour out your Spirit. This wasn't random timing. You were fulfilling patterns, completing promises, revealing that what the Law began the Spirit would finish. At Sinai, you wrote
May
Pentecost (Greek name) is the same festival Jews call Shavuot (Hebrew name). It comes fifty days after Passover (hence "Pentecost" from the Greek word for "fifty"). This wasn't a Christian invention but an ancient Jewish festival that God chose as the moment to pour out his Spirit on Jesus
May
Wait for Me; be strong and take heart and wait for Me. Waiting isn't passive weakness - it's active courage. Trusting My timing when you want immediate answers requires strength. Keep waiting with expectant hope. I haven't forgotten you.
May
Father, seven days from now the Spirit will fall and everything will change. But the disciples don't know that yet. They're in their sixth day of waiting since Jesus ascended, still praying constantly, still trusting his promise, still not knowing when "in a few days" will arrive. I'm in m
May
Seven days from now (May 24, 2026), the Holy Spirit will fall on the disciples at Pentecost. But today they don't know that. They're in the upper room, still waiting, still praying, still trusting Jesus's promise that "in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:5). It
May
In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength. You keep striving when I'm inviting you to rest. You keep performing when I'm calling you to trust. Stop the frantic effort. Your strength comes from trusting Me, not from trying harder.
May
Father, Jesus ascended yesterday. Today the disciples are back in Jerusalem, waiting for the promised Spirit. They're in the gap between ascension and Pentecost, between promise and fulfillment, between command and empowerment. I'm in my own gap too - between what you've promised and what
May
Yesterday Jesus ascended to heaven. Today the disciples are back in Jerusalem, as commanded, waiting for the promised Spirit. The ascension changed everything and nothing simultaneously. Jesus was gone, but his presence through the Spirit was coming. The mission was commissioned but not ye
May
This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go. He went up visibly. He'll come down visibly. The ascension guarantees the return. What I've promised, I'll fulfill. He's coming back.
May
Jesus, today you ascended to the Father forty days after rising from the dead. You went up before the disciples' eyes, visibly and physically returning to claim your throne. You didn't disappear - you were exalted to the highest place, given the name above every name, crowned as Lord over
May
Today is Ascension Thursday, forty days after Easter Sunday. On this day in AD 30 (or possibly AD 33), Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, completing the sequence that began with incarnation. He came down at Christmas, lived among us for thirty-three years, died on Good Friday, rose on Easter
May
I exalted Jesus to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at His name every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord. He's enthroned. He's reigning. He's Lord over all.