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
In the Old Testament, the Spirit of God only fell upon special men and women. On one remarkable occasion, in Numbers 11, Moses gathered 70 of the elders of Israel in the tabernacle. The text says: “And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not do so again.”
But it turned out that in that moment, the Spirit also fell and rested upon two other men, Eldad and Medad, and they also prophesied in the camp. When Joshua heard about this, he asked Moses to stop them. Moses responds: “I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”
What Moses could only wish and long for in his era, God actually promised in Joel 2. In the last days, he says, “I will pour out my Spirit,” not on a special prophet or even on 72 prophets, but on “all people.” Moses would have been amazed.
What is even more amazing? What God promised in Joel 2, we have now inherited.
Since Pentecost, every class of people, young and old, men and women, slave and free, now have access to the Spirit of God. Because of Jesus’ perfect life, death on the cross, glorious resurrection, and ascension to the throne of heaven, any human being who surrenders and places their trust in Jesus becomes a resting place for God’s own Spirit.
PRAYER PROMPTS:
- Let’s claim God’s promises in Joel 2 – pray them into being. These are things God has promised and things God has wanted. He wants us to want these things too and ask him to honor his own word.
- For young people, especially our sons and daughters to be filled with the Spirit and to prophesy.
- For old men and women to dream dreams inspired by God’s Spirit. Even those who have been or should be disillusioned or exhausted or disappointed by life, pray that they would be refreshed by the Spirit, experiencing resurrected hope and faith.
- For God to reveal visions, purposes, divine strategies, assignments that bring hope and activation to the people of God.
- For God to give visions to young people, for their lives, for the church, for their school, city.
- For God to pour out his spirit on those who are not wealthy or privileged or powerful in society. To visit the poor, those of low status, those on the underside of the economy and society with the presence and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. That God would dignify them and bless them as his image bearers, giving them a redemptive role in his Kingdom.
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