SHAVUOT

Mike Evans has been to Israel more than 70 times, but he reports that next week, for the first time, he will have the privilege of celebrating the Feast of Shavuot—Pentecost, which is Sunday, May 24th—in Jerusalem.

It was on the day of Pentecost that the Ruach Hakodesh—the Holy Spirit of God—came on the followers of Jesus in the Holy City of Jerusalem.

The Bible says:
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:1-4)

Following that, the disciples who previously had been in seclusion and hiding went out into the streets in power and fulfilled the final command that Jesus gave them—to be witnesses to Him beginning in Jerusalem. On that Pentecost, three thousand people who had come to Jerusalem from all around the world believed the message of redemption that Peter preached.

Our Brother Evans is blessed to be in Jerusalem for the celebration of this feast that empowered the terrified disciples of the crucified Christ to become the emboldened witnesses of the risen, glorified Lord; but the reality is that Pentecost is a blessed gift that every believer in Jesus may appropriate to himself today, wherever he may be; for the Word says, “And the promise is for you and to your children and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call,” Acts 2:39.

If YOU believe Jesus and have accepted Him as YOUR SAVIOR and LORD, the Holy Spirit and Pentecostal power are yours to claim and yours to use to the honor and glory of the name of Jesus.