Preparing for Pentecost

The Great day of Pentecost (May 24th) is nearing.Pentecost is a time of the gift of the Holy Spirit being "fanned into a flame ", "rekindled", "kept alive", so that we may bear witness to the Gospel with the strength that comes from God. It is He who saved us and calls us everyday to be his hands and voice in the home, neighborhood and world in which we live.

As Jesus said, “Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I am sending you.” Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you don’t forgive them, they aren’t forgiven.”.John 20:21-23

He is sending us too..

"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life" - John 6:63.

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.  For,

“All people are like grass,

    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is the word that was preached to you.(1 Peter 1:23-25)

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”-Mathew 28:19-20

“when God our savior’s kindness and love appeared,  he saved us because of his mercy, not because of righteous things we had done. He did it through the washing of new birth and the renewing by the Holy Spirit, which God poured out upon us generously through Jesus Christ our savior.  So, since we have been made righteous by his grace, we can inherit the hope for eternal life.”-Titus 3:5-7

You are saved by God’s grace because of your faith.This salvation is God’s gift. It’s not something you possessed. It’s not something you did that you can be proud of.  Instead, we are God’s accomplishment, created in Christ Jesus to do good things. God planned for these good things to be the way that we live our lives. -Ephesians 2:8-10

Christ is building you into a place where God lives through the Spirit.(-Ephesians 2:22), as living stones, being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ(1 Peter 2:5).your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19)

Let us renew the Holy Spirit and realize its fruits, as we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves (2 Corinthians 4:7).you are our father.We are the clay, and you are our potter.All of us are the work of your hand.( Isaiah 64:8)

Don’t neglect the spiritual gift in you that was given through prophecy when the elders laid hands on you.  Practice these things, and live by them so that your progress will be visible to all.  Focus on working on your own development and on what you teach. If you do this, you will save yourself and those who hear you.

-1Timothy 4:14

 Lets seek god with all our heart, all our strength and all our life."You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.I will be found by you"-'Jeremiah 29:13-14

 He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.(-Phillippians 1:6). For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life." (Phillippians 2:13-16)

The Novena of Holy Spirit begins on Friday the 15th of May. The Novena can be downloaded from the Jesus youth sites below.

http://jesusyouth.org/sites/default/files/Holy%20Spirit%20Novena%20(English).pdf

http://jesusyouth.org/sites/default/files/Holy%20Spirit%20Novena%20(Malayalam)_0.pdf

Let us renew the Holy Spirit in Pentecost.

Prayer

God, create a pure heart in me,

    and make my spirit strong again.

Don’t push me away

    or take your Holy Spirit from me.

Your help made me so happy.

    Give me that joy again.

    Make my spirit strong and ready to obey you.

 I will teach the guilty how you want them to live,

    and the sinners will come back to you.

-Psalms 51:10-13

Amen

Novena of Holy Spirit

http://uk.jesusyouth.org/events/novena-holy-spirit