Grace and peace on this Saturday! It’s good to be with you in prayer as we prepare for worship tomorrow.

This Sunday is Pentecost. We’ll celebrate God fulfilling God’s promise and pouring out the Holy Spirit.

Whenever we pray, we pray in light of that promise and its fulfillment. Prayer relies on the reality that God is present and at work in our world.

Our Scripture for Sunday is Acts 1:1-9. As the first followers found In this Scripture, when we say God is present and at work in our world - that happens in and through us. That ‘s what it means to be a “witness”. The Risen Christ says to his disciples (and us), “you shall be my witnesses”.

How does that impact your prayer? To know that even as you pray part of the way God answers your prayer is to empower you to be God’s answer. Part of what happens is that God would pour out the Holy Spirit of love so you could live out God’s love In the moment in the way it is needed.

The message on Sunday highlights how every day holds multiple opportunities to love those around us. The Spirit would awaken, call and strengthen us to engage life at that level. We are “witnesses”.

My prayer this Saturday is that not only would we hear and know the message of Pentecost. My prayer is that we would live the message of Pentecost. It is by the presence and power of the Spirit that the “Word becomes flesh” in and through us. In Jesus that miracle happens in all fulness and glory. In God’s grace it happens in us so we might have “life in Christ”.

That ‘s my prayer this Saturday. What’s yours? What are you praying when it comes to Pentecost? Know that you pray in light of God’s promise. Know that God hears and answers in love.

In that faith I’ll see you tomorrow in worship!

Prayer: Gracious God, thank you for your love for us. Thank you how you sent your love to save us in your Son, Jesus Christ. Thank you for how you send your love to fill us In your Holy Spirit so that we can be part of how your saving work continues in your world. In that blessing we lift our praise and our prayers this Pentecost in Jesus’ name. Amen