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Week of May 24, 2026
Today is Pentecost Sunday. In reading in Luke 24:49, Jesus told His followers, “I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.” Then in Acts 1:8 Jesus told them part of the reason they needed the Holy Spirit. He said, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
We need a real revival today that begins with a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit - not just an emotional experience and not just some cold chills. We need to see God work, because our nation needs it as never before. We don’t need some new thing. I will be so bold as to say that we need to get back to the old things, to the very standards that God gave us, and we need to put them into practice on a daily basis. Charles Finney, who was part of a great revival, said, “The experience of revival is nothing more than a new beginning of obedience to God.” Any real revival has brought repentance in the lives of people, a change in the community, and evangelism.
The early church, the one that started on the Day of Pentecost, turned their world upside down. They set the world on fire. The church of today is much larger than the early church and has a lot more resources to use, but it seems like the world is turning us upside down. The reason is because we need a revival - a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We need revival in our country. On this Pentecost Sunday I challenge us all to ask ourselves if we are personally revived. And are we living as a committed, on-fire follower of Jesus Christ? I encourage us all to be determined to receive everything the Holy Spirit was sent to bring. He will empower you to be an effective witness for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Romans 8:11 tells us, “If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Real revival starts with each of us individually and it all starts with having a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Pastor Dave
