1. Acts 1-2
Pg 1075
In Church Bibles

2. Happy Pentecost Whitsun Shavuot (in Hebrew= Weeks)
Pentecost = fiftieth day
Notice, Pentecost is not celebrated on a specific day each year (like July 4th)
Instead – always tied back to previous feasts – picturing Resurrection and Cross

3. God’s Holy-Days...Feasts}
Passover
Unleavened
Firstfruits
Pentecost
Trumpets
Atonement
Tabernacles
Jesus’
1st coming
Jesus’
work now }
Jesus’
2nd coming
Notice, Pentecost is not celebrated on a specific day each year (like July 4th)
Instead – always tied back to previous feasts – picturing Resurrection and Cross
Exodus 23:14-16

4. Leviticus 23:14-16 Three times you shall keep a feast to Me
in the year: You shall keep
the Feast of Unleavened Bread...
the Feast of Harvest,
the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and
the Feast of Ingathering
at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
Leviticus 23:14-16

5. Leviticus 23:14-16 Three times you shall keep a feast to Me
in the year: You shall keep
the Feast of Unleavened Bread...
the Feast of Harvest,
the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and
the Feast of Ingathering
at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
Leviticus 23:14-16

6. Leviticus 23:14-16 Three times you shall keep a feast to Me
in the year: You shall keep
the Feast of Unleavened Bread...
the Feast of Harvest,
the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and
the Feast of Ingathering
at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
Leviticus 23:14-16

7. Leviticus 23:14-16 Three times you shall keep a feast to Me
in the year: You shall keep
the Feast of Unleavened Bread...
the Feast of Harvest,
the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and
the Feast of Ingathering
at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
Leviticus 23:14-16

8. God’s Holy-Days...Feasts{ }
Passover
Unleavened
Firstfruits
Pentecost
Trumpets
Atonement
Tabernacles
Jesus’
1st coming
Feast of
Unleavened Bread
Jesus’
work now
Feast of
Harvest { }
Jesus’
2nd coming
Feast of
Ingathering
Notice, Pentecost is not celebrated on a specific day each year (like July 4th)
Instead – always tied back to previous feasts – picturing Resurrection and Cross
Exodus 23:14-16

9. Feast of
Harvest
Pentecost
Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest

10. Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
John 4:35

11. Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
John 4:34

12. - about a harvest of souls saved
Feast of
Harvest
Pentecost
Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
- about a harvest of souls saved
- about a commission we have to follow

13. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Matthew 28:18-19

14. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 28:18-19

15. teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Matthew 28:20

16. - about a harvest of souls saved
Feast of
Harvest
Pentecost
Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
- about a harvest of souls saved
- about a commission we have to follow
↳ Imagine like a note given to a child

17. Make
Disciples!
Tell everyone
you can

18. - about a harvest of souls saved
Feast of
Harvest
Pentecost
Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
- about a harvest of souls saved
- about a commission we have to follow
↳ Imagine like a note given to a child
↳ Understand - really is GOOD NEWS

19. good news
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes
Romans 1:16

20. Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right
Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent.
2 Kings 7:9

21. - about a harvest of souls saved
Feast of
Harvest
Pentecost
Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
- about a harvest of souls saved
- about a commission we have to follow
↳ Imagine like a note given to a child
↳ Understand - really is GOOD NEWS

22. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency

23. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves...
2 Corinthians 3:5

24. - Insufficient knowledge of what God is doing
Feast of
Harvest
Pentecost
Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
- Insufficient knowledge of what God is doing
- Insufficient power to accomplish this
- Insufficient plans to bring it about

25. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit

26. Nevertheless I tell you the truth
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.
John 16:7

27. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
John 16:8-11

28. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
- invite you to a dynamic plan
where the Holy Spirit prosecutes (convicts)
where you are called to witness (witness stand)
as He prompts and gives you what to say

29. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves...
2 Corinthians 3:5

30. but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 3:6

31. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
- invite you to a dynamic plan
where the Holy Spirit prosecutes (convicts)
where you are called to witness (witness stand)
as He prompts and gives you what to say

32. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer
- called to wait...in dependence...in prayer

33. After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.
Luke 10:1

34. Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
Luke 10:2

35. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Luke 11:13

36. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer
- called to wait...in dependence...in prayer

37. Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him, that the Spirit’s power might be manifested?
We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power
James Hudson Taylor
Missionary to China
( )

38. The power of prayer has never been tried to its full capacity in any church.
If we want to see mighty wonders of divine grace and power wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment
James Hudson Taylor
Missionary to China
( )

39. let the whole Church answer God's standing challenge:
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knows not."
James Hudson Taylor
Missionary to China
( )

40. Pastor, Writer, Prayer Warrior
We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel.
EM Bounds
Pastor, Writer, Prayer Warrior
( )

41. Pastor, Writer, Prayer Warrior
What the Church needs
today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods
, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.
EM Bounds
Pastor, Writer, Prayer Warrior
( )

42. Minister, Revival leader
Prayer is the secret of power
Evan Roberts
Minister, Revival leader
( )

43. The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer
Leonard
Ravenhill
Evangelist, Author
( )

44. There is not a more blessed and powerful weapon for the children of God, than that they should give themselves to prayer.
George Muller
Pastor, writer
Orphanage
founded by faith
( )

45. For thus they can have the power of God on their side—the almighty power of God...expect great things at the hands of God; look out for wondrous blessings, and you will find how ready He is to give those things which we ask for.
George Muller
Pastor, writer
Orphanage
founded by faith
( )

46. The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
Andrew Murray
Pastor, Writer
( )

47. Mr. Spurgeon repeatedly acknowledged his success as the direct result of his congregation's faithful prayers.
"I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people.”
Spurgeon by
Arnold
Dallimore

48. Then Spurgeon would declare, "Here is the powerhouse of this church."
When visitors would come to Spurgeon's church he would take them to the basement prayer-room where people were always on their knees interceding
Then Spurgeon would declare, "Here is the powerhouse of this church."
Spurgeon by
Arnold
Dallimore

49. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer
- called to wait...in dependence...in prayer

50. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer

51. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer

52. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer

53. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer
Pentecost is about the Reality of the Harvest

54. And I also say to you that
And I also say to you that...I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:18

55. Feast of Harvest Pentecost Pentecost is about our Purpose - Harvest
Pentecost is about our Insufficiency
Pentecost is about the Power of the Spirit
Pentecost is about the Priority of Prayer
Pentecost is about the Reality of the Harvest

56. Feast of
Harvest
Pentecost