Day 5 – Biscuits and Gravy
The Holy Spirit is more than just speaking in tongues.
It’s about listening to that voice that speaks to you to not do something or to do something. That voice we ignore sometimes because it’s easier. I promise you my heart is just to share what the Holy Spirit is speaking to me and hopefully at the end of this we get to eat some biscuits and gravy.
Can you imagine how it must have felt on the day of Pentecost? Everyone was in one mind and one accord. The power of God must have been so powerful.
Acts of the Apostles 1:3-11 NLT
[3] During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God. [4] Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. [5] John baptized with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” [6] So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, “Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?” [7] He replied, “The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. [8] But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” [9] After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him. [10] As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them. [11] “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go!”
Jesus gave the instructions, he told them to wait. He promised that they would receive the Holy Spirit. He also told them that they were to be witnesses. I think a lot of people who were raised in Pentecostal backgrounds thought we had to be in church to feel God’s presence. We also attributed being filled with the Holy Spirit as speaking in tongues. There is so much more to the Holy Spirit than the gift of tongues. Don’t get me wrong I am a tongue talking, devil stomping, Holy Ghost shouting child of God, but in my adult life I have learned so much more about the Holy Spirit. Many people have not been taught about the benefits of the Gifts of the Spirit. Sometimes we scare people, and we don’t think to explain what they are witnessing or maybe even experiencing.
