Tuesday Prayer Room – 9am
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.
29 Even on the male and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 32 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
PRAYER GUIDE
On the Day of Pentecost, when the Spirit fell upon the disciples in tongues of fire, enabling them to proclaim the gospel in other languages, and when the crowd gathered in amazement and confusion, and when Peter stood up to explain the meaning of it all, he quoted these verses from Joel 2.
The main point of Peter’s sermon on Pentecost was essentially this: Joel’s prophecy is now in effect. These are the “last days” of Joel 2; we are living in the “afterward.” How do we know? Because the Spirit of God, Who only rested on a select few in the Old Covenant, was just poured out on the 120 gathered in the upper room, on men, women, free, slave, young, and old.
Nothing has changed since Pentecost. We are still living in the last days, in the era of the Spirit. Which means that we can continue to expect to see the words of Joel 2 fulfilled in our time. The democratization of the Spirit among all people, signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, and salvation for all who call upon the name of the Lord.
PRAYER PROMPTS
- Praise and thank God for the gift of the Holy Spirit and these promises
- Thank God for his promise of fresh outpourings and fresh fillings of the Spirit
- Thank God for his promise to pour out the Spirit among all classes and kinds of people.
- Thank God for the universal availability of salvation for all who call on the name of the Lord.
- Let’s lay hold of these promises in prayer and apply them to our time and our moment in history.
- Ask God to do what He here promises to do.
In Our Time 