the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord In one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:1-4.
See what the unanimous prayers of believers here effected! Must not prayer always have the same result, when it is offered in the same confidence in the divine promises? Certainly; no prayer that comes from the heart, remains without its pentecostal blessing. No one prays in spirit and faith without being filled with the Holy Ghost and the fire of the love of God. One never returns empty from prayer, if his prayer is deserving of the name. You may have a day of Pentecost every day if you pray every day earnestly and ardently for the Holy Ghost. If you are not full of your own self, if you are empty of your own spirit, and your heart cries to heaven in the Spirit, as a dry land for rain, the Holy Ghost will certainly not allow your heart to remain empty. But where the heart is full of one’s own spirit, the Holy Ghost can not enter; for our own spirit is an unclean spirit, and what communion hath light with darkness?
Come, O come. Thou quickening Spirit,
Thou forever art divine:
Let Thy power never fail me,
Always fill this heart of mine;
Thus shall grace and truth and light
Chase away the gloom of night.
