The Last Days

"I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions." Joel 2:28 (NIV)

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I read this as ancient promise, fulfilled once at Pentecost and then archived, something that happened to them, not something happening still, to me.

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But the pouring did not stop when the room in Jerusalem grew quiet again.

You are still pouring, on sons and daughters, on the young and the old, in every generation that will receive what You are still giving.

I have had dreams I could not explain, visions of hope I did not manufacture, a sense of what was coming before it arrived.

I called it intuition.

It was You, still pouring, even now, even on me.

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Forgive me for treating the promise as history instead of an offer still open today.

You are still pouring.

I only have to hold out an empty vessel.

Pouring Spirit, do not stop with the generations before me. Pour out on me too.

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A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Thank You, Holy Spirit, for a promise that did not expire with the first century.

Thank You for still pouring on ordinary lives like mine.

Pour out on me today. Amen.

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