Prayer Works Morning Devotion: June 6, 2025

"Waiting On The Holy Spirit - Getting Our Hearts Ready for Pentecost"

"Acts 2:40-47 A Vital Church Grows"

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Good morning, good morning, good morning, everybody. I hope you had a wonderful night, well-rested, ready for another day in the Lord. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you this morning for your grace.  

We thank you Lord for all that you have done, what you're still going to do. We thank you for the privilege of being called your children, and you being our Father. So Father, this morning as we come together in fellowship, thank you for the new mercies that you have provided for us this morning. 

We claim them knowing Lord that in this particular day you have given us the portion for the day, the day-liberate for the day. So Father, as we look ahead in anticipation, we thank you for all that you have been still for us today.  

Now as we fellowship with one another, and with the communion of the Holy Spirit, we pray Lord that you enlighten our minds and our hearts, so that our journey in faith continue to be made easy, not because they are no challenges, but because your sovereign authority has been bestowed on us.  

So we thank you and we honor you in Jesus' name, Amen. Well brothers and sisters, today I woke up really early, probably I was up by 3:30, then I left a bed at 4, and I came to walk in this empty stadium to say. 

And I've just been praying about this weekend, and I've just been praying for you guys and different ones, and it's been incredibly awesome and humbling to know that when we pray, God hears us. 

That He's attentive to our prayer and our needs, and that anytime we sit in appointments with Him, whether be it spontaneous, whether be it in advance, that He never fails to show to enlighten us, to educate us, to grow us, to show us that we are standing on solid rock, such is our faith.  

So as I was walking in this place, so quiet, yet it can be extremely noisy, because when people are gathered here, it gets extremely noisy, and yet it can be extremely peaceful when there is nobody.  

So I was just thinking about how our lives can be like that sometimes, that we are living in this chaotic world where we hear so many things in the day, but yet in the midst of all this, Jesus says, my peace, I give you.  

So today as we conclude the preparation for our hearts and our minds for Pentecost Sunday.

Let me quickly remind everybody that we're not going to have Bible study this Sunday because of Pentecost Sunday, so we will resume that the week after Pentecost Sunday, which is next week, next Sunday, not this one, next Sunday coming up.  

But for today, we are in Acts 2, and we're going to read from verse 40 all the way to the end of this chapter. So at this juncture now, the Holy Spirit has come, they have experienced the art pouring of the Holy Spirit.  

And things are happening, the churches begun, and when we get to 40, Peter is preaching, he preaching his first sermon, and now in verse 40, he gives the warning, and then right after the warning, he goes into what will transpire or take place, now that the Holy Spirit has come.  

So verse 40 says this, with many other words, he warned them. So in other words, he spoke at different times, with using different methodologies in order to push this message here. 

He warned them, and he pleaded with them, who everybody who was listening, save yourselves from this corrupt generation.  

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about 3,000 were added to their number that day. 3,000 people were added to the church after one preaching, incredibly powerful. 

Now we are seeing God's authority when it's bestowed on people. This is the same Peter who a few weeks ago was denying Jesus.

He stands up, and he preaches the message, and he warns everybody to save themselves from the corrupt generation, and on that particular day 3,000 people are added.  

Now this is interesting to me when we get to verse 42, because it lays out what takes place when things are done the right way. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  

So teaching, fellowship, eating together, and prayer. Everyone was filled with all the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common.  

We are seeing what the church should look like. Together and everything in common, what brings us to common is the Holy Spirit, communion with the Father. This is where the word communion comes from.  

We have a common union. They saw the property and possessions to give to anyone who had a need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. 

They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people.  

And the Lord, and the Lord, not people, and the Lord, added to their number daily those who were being saved. Brothers and sisters, we are seeing how things are supposed to work. 

There is a job that comes for believers and that job entails that there is fellowship, breaking of bread, coming together with sincerity in our hearts.

Then giving to those who are in need, giving to those who are in need, not people who are not who are who don't need it, people who are in need, giving to those who are in need.  

And coming together, when we do that, the Lord in return, then adds to, we don't add to, he adds to, when we do what was done here.

So we are seeing the foundation of the church, what things should look like and how they are supposed to go. And brothers and sisters, this is God's method of doing things. That's how he designed it.  

That's how he wanted to be. Now, I want you to think about this. Why do we have scripture in the first place? We have scripture because it was written to us, for us, to give us reference points of how things should go.  

So it's a manual for living, for believers and we are seeing in the book of Acts that after the Holy Spirit had come and everybody was filled and working in common union. They broke bread, they came together in prayer.  

This is essentially what we do every morning. We come together in prayer. And once in a while, we get together and eat. Once in a while, we give to causes and this is the methodology.  

This is how the church is supposed to function. And when we do what is entailed in these scriptures, then the Lord adds to the number. Brothers and sisters, there is something attractive about watching people who are in love with one another. 

Who are eating together, who are communing together, who are praying together, who have a common union with something attractive above that, that stimulates God to add to , not us, he adds to the number.  

That's the methodology. That's how it will always be. That's why it's put in the scripture for us to identify with it and to recognize that God has methods. But again, this is taking place after the Holy Spirit was pulled out.  

So in other words, all these stuff they are doing right now in this particular scripture. We are doing it because the Holy Spirit is now the common denominator amongst them. Why couldn't they do this before the day of Pentecost? 

They had an opportunity to do it. In fact, when Jesus was troubling with them and he was preaching, people were coming together. They were all coming and following him But they had a different mindset then.  

But it was only after the Holy Spirit was given and he started giving direction and giving people an idea of what the Lord wants to do. Only then did they start coming together in the spirit of unity, breaking bread, communing, praying together, worshipping together and the scripture says they were doing this daily, daily.  

This is why I always believe Bible study and prayer meetings should always be a constant factor in our life. They should never be seasonal because it was never designed to be seasonal. It was designed for us to do daily. That's how God designed it.  

So brothers and sisters, as we gather on Sunday, we are all believing God for what He wants to do. We just so happen to be subjects that He is using in this hour and we are grateful and privileged that God chooses us in some of our hearts who inclines to follow in what the Lord is telling us to do.  

So we look in anticipation and we wait with a great expectation knowing fully well that the Lord is with us and that we are playing our parts in as much as these people we're playing their parts.  

And the Lord, as He sees fit, He then does what He chooses to do at the back end of it. But our job as believers is to devote ourselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship and to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  

Everybody will be filled with all and wonder and all the believers went together and had everything, not some, everything in common. That's unbelievable. That you can gather thousands of people and they can have everything in common, such as the power of the Holy Spirit.  

That you can gather thousands, can you imagine a thousand people having everything, not some, everything in common? That's remarkable. And every day they continued to meet together in the temple halls.  

They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.  

Brothers and sisters, let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, our blessed Redeemer, words cannot express the magnitude of who you are. You have chosen us in the midst of this dying world.  

You have placed in our hearts a desire to serve you, to worship you, to congregate, to fellowship with one another. If it was left to us, we wouldn't write such a story. People of different backgrounds, different ideas, different ways of thinking, different cultures. 

Yet we find ourselves in common union because of what you did on the cross and the great exchange that to give us, which was the Holy Spirit, to guide and to continue to bring us into fellowship with Him and with each other.  

So Father, I pray that may everything that you have in store for us, may we see it, receive it, accept it and walk in it. We pray for divine revelation on how to execute any idea that you place in our hearts and in our minds to do.  

We know Lord that in our effort to do what is right, sometimes we get it wrong because it's such a human nature, but we believe that as we walk closely in step with the Holy Spirit, that He will guide us in all things true and in all things right.  

I pray Lord that may we be sensitive to His voice, may we be sensitive to His leading, I pray Lord that may His intelligence continue to guide us in the things that you ought for us to do. I pray Lord that may our expectations fall on holy ground.  

May you do exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ever expect. We know that our efforts have no meaning if your presence is not there, so Father as we look forward to Sunday. We're placing this day before you with greater level of understanding that we are commemorating what took place two thousand years ago  

And the fact that this is happening during the Jubilee year, we pray Lord that whatever that was stolen, whatever the devil took from us, that it will be returned. So I pray Lord for great ideas to flow out of this meeting for families, for our children, for all that you have been still for us to do.  

May we our fellowship and our communion with one another and with the Holy Spirit brings you glory in the name of Jesus. I pray Lord for all the planning that is going ahead. We have done what we know to do as human beings.  

So now we yield to you to now take over and do what you know to do best. We pray Lord for the spirit of healing. We pray Lord for the spirit of communion. We pray Lord for the many gifts that the Holy Spirit carries within him, that God as he indulges on this particular day that we have set aside so that you could come and have your way. 

I pray Lord that every needs, every needs will be met according to your riches in glory. Search our hearts and search our minds, direct our path and direct our footsteps as we continue to march toward heaven. Father I pray for every family represented that God in your infinite wisdom. 

May what we experience be part of our portion that it will spread to those who are in desperate need of this spirit in the mighty name of Jesus. I pray for strength, courage, determination, boredness that may your spirits govern every little thing that we would do on Sunday in the name of Jesus.  

Thank you for provision. Thank you Lord for what is gone into this day. Thank you Lord that what started as a little flame has continued to grow and it will continue to grow in the name of Jesus. 

Above all else, Father give us wisdom who we want to have greater understanding and knowledge of how this kingdom functions and work so that we walk instead with the counsel of the Holy Spirit.  

Father I pray may you bless all of us, may you bless our children, may you bless the works of our hands, may you bless our thoughts, our ideas. We pray Lord that may we align ourselves to what you are doing 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 20 years from now. 

So that as we play our part we know Lord there are others who come and stand on our shoulders because we have filled the ground according to specifications for I know you desire to impact all of human hearts.  

So Father we now ask that you be with us. We now ask that you bring as many gifts as you can to meet the needs of those who congregate and those who are part of us. We thank you that our hearts have been drawn to you. 

Because we know there are many we have heard this gospel in the message of truth and their hearts straight away but Father I pray Lord as you continue Lord to knock on our hearts daily that will continue to open the door to our hearts for you to enter and to do only what you desire to do in us and to us. 

Bless every family, bless this weekend, bless this day and Father we pray for all those who are gathering around this world on this Pentecost Sunday, those whose eyes attentive to what you are doing in the earth.  

May you bless every meeting and every gathering that will take place this Sunday all around this world. Let your Holy Spirit be poured out to believers all across this world so that we can be in common union working in step together for we know this kingdom belongs to you and is about you and is about what you desire to do.  

May every single planning and every single idea that is going ahead for every meeting across this whole entire world. May it go according to plan and above all else may you bless may you bless in ways it has never been done in this world. 

May you bless so that it will be known that the kingdom of God is alive and is a force to be reckoned with in this dying world. So bless all of us this Sunday, bless every family, every need met and we pray this prayer and we seal it with the Holy Spirit. 

We thank you that you hear us when we pray and that you have quick to come to our aid. Now and forevermore in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we pray.  

Now lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen. Brothers and sisters may the Lord bless you in everything that you do, the works of your hands, the works of the one who sends you. 

May the Lord bless your families, your children and everything that is connected to you and we will see you on Sunday and those who are not able to attend our hearts will be with you. 

We pray that what we experience will be also extended to you even in your absence that may you feel the Holy Spirit wherever you are in the name of Jesus. So this Sunday no Bible study will resume Bible study next week, next Sunday, Amen.

And if you need us you can email us or text or call and every encouraging word is necessary and needed and we always love to hear from you. So may the Lord bless you and we'll see you this coming Sunday.