As Ordained By God
By
Holy Moses
Meaning of Pentecost
Pente
refers to fifty, 50. The time of Pentecost is calculated by counting seven
weeks and one day. It is by counting seven days times seven, and plus one day. That
is by counting seven weeks and I day, from the day of the Wave Sheaf. A total
of 7 x 7 + 1 = 50 days.
It is an
annual festivals as ordained by God in the Holy Book.
Importance Of The
Feast Of Pentecost
1.
It is a time for you to know that you are sons of the living
God.
2.
It reminds you that you are spirit, and not sand.
3.
You are the breathe of life that
came forth from God. You are neither sand nor flesh.
4.
It is God’s Feast of Weeks. God counts in weeks of days,
weeks of Sabbaths and weeks of years. That is using d number seven as a base
number.
5.
It is a day of anointing by the Holy Spirit.
6.
It is a day to receive the spirit of peace, joy,
satisfaction, success and prosperity.
7.
It is a day of worship, praises and thanksgiving.
8.
It is a day of fellowship and communion with God through:
o Incense Offering.
o Offering of Sacrifice.
o Holy Communion.
o Anointing of Holy Spirit.
o Self-presentation, family
presentation, group presentation, etc.
9.
It reminds us of the Holy Spirit, who is the omnipresence of
God, just as the sunlight is the presence of the sun.
10.
It
reminds us that we live and move in the presence of God. Always. Everyday.
Just, as we live and move in the presence of the sun.
11.
It reminds
us that we are children of God, whose spirit is all around us, just as a hen
broods over her chickens.
12.
It
reminds us that we are children of God, who is a Consuming Fire. We are Globes
of Fire, the sons of the Living God.
13. It reminds us to live in spirit and in truth.
14.
It
reminds us that we should glorify God by righteousness and praise, because all
actions are performed by the forces of nature - by the Holy Spirit.
15.
It is
time to pray seriously for the gifts of Holy Spirit, for at least seven days.
The gifts include the spirit of healing, deliverance, anointing, tongue,
prophecy, dream, vision, trance, etc. However, the best way to get and develop
the spiritual talents is by using the little we have in service to God and
humanity.
16.
It is
time to pray to God to direct, empower and prosper you in your everyday work
and routine.
17.
Also,
you should pray for God’s power and glory for, and in, all your various
activities and engagements.
18.
Pentecost
signifies the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, life over death,
hope over despair, wellbeing over suffering, right over wrong and spirit over
flesh, and Gospel Of Truth and Salvation over the Gospel Of Deceit.
19.
It is a
period of happiness, joyfulness and gladness of heart.
20.
It
points out the need for peace of mind in your everyday life. You should not
allow the cares and worries of everyday life to take away your peace of mind
from you.
21.
It
indicates that God is within you. Therefore, you should turn inward to find God
within you, by observing quiet times and meditation.
22.
The Holy
Spirit is the spirit of victory, the anointing power that breaks the yoke. “Not
by power nor might, but by my spirit,” says the Lord.
You should pray to the Holy Spirit for:
o The spirit of knowledge and wisdom.
o The spirit of understanding and counsel.
o The spirit of foresight and insight.
o The spirit of love, because God is love,
loving and beloved.
23.
The
Pentecost reminds us of the use of the consuming fire, with which we pull down
the strongholds of darkness.
24.
It
reminds us that each person has seven spiritual centers
in his body. It is our duty to make the seven spiritual centers
functional. That was why in d ancient times, the priests were anointed on their
head, forehead, eyes, ears and toes.
25.
It
reminds us to fill ourselves with the Holy Spirit. We do this by remembering
God in our everyday activities. When we do so:
o We become full of Holy Spirit.
o Our actions become performed by the Holy
Spirit.
o Our fruits (services and results of our
actions) become perfect, blameless and irreproachable.
What Is Fire?
Fire is the
glorious manifestation of God’s presence.
Fire is spirit in action, by which it destroys all works that are evil.
God Is Consuming Fire
God is holy because there is no evil in Him or
from Him, and there is no evil that can enter into His kingdom. His nature
maintains this by being a Consuming Fire that destroys every work of
unrighteousness.
The Importance Of
Fire
1. Fire is the very nature of Spirit,
God.
2. The fire means the presence of God.
That is why you shall keep the light, candlelight, burning at the altar.
o The Angel of Yahweh appeared to the
Israelites in the shape of a pillar of fire. Yahweh went before them, in the
form of a pillar of fire to give them light.
o God will baptize you with the Holy
Spirit and fire, even so as God anointed the seventy elders with the powers of
the Holy Spirit, for various works and services.
o Our God is a Consuming Fire.
3.
Fire
purifies from every unholiness. That was why the
Israelites passed some of their loots through fire.
4.
In
the form of flame, fire is able to consume (destroy) all things, especially
things that are evil.
5.
Fire
in the form of heat is able to penetrate all things.
6.
In
the form of light, it is able to reach all things that are far away.
The Time Of Pentecost
This is a period in which to:
1.
Express
our thanksgiving to God.
2.
Sing
praises to God.
3.
Pray
to be washed clean with baptism of consuming fire of the Holy Spirit, blood of
Jesus and water of life.
4.
Pray
for the empowerment, ennoblement, success and prosperity.
5.
Celebrate.
6.
Perform
deliverance by binding and casting away evil spirits, demons, mermaid, ghosts,
witches, idols, charms and black energies.
7.
Obtain
and manifest our spiritual talents.
8.
Give
gift to all and sundry, especially the poor and needy ones among the children
of God.
9.
Erect
an altar to the Lord, in our house, office, company, organizations etc, just by burning candles, by using candlelights, every
day for seven days before the Pentecost.
10.
Renew
the altar of the Lord in our life and places of residence.
Everyday Significance
The Pentecost points to the characteristics of
the Holy Spirit. It is our duty to emulate the characteristics of the Holy Spirit,
and to spurn (turn away from) every form of evil. We should do this by ensuring
decency, holiness, peace, honesty, harmony and righteousness, in our everyday
conduct and dressing.
How To
Celebrate The Feast Of Pentecost
(Also Called The Feast
of Weeks)
'And you shall count for yourselves from the
day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave
offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after
the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord. You
shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked
with leaven. They are the first fruits to the Lord. And you shall offer with
the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and
two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain
offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma
to the Lord. Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering,
and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering. The
priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering
before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the
priest. And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to
you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all
your dwellings throughout your generations.
'When you reap the harvest of your land, you
shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you
gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and
for the stranger: I am the Lord your God.'"
"And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks,
of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the
year's end.
Offerings At The Feast Of Weeks
'Also on the day of the first fruits, when you
bring a new grain offering to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a
holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. You shall present a burnt
offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven
lambs in their first year, with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with
oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths
for the one ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; also one kid of the
goats, to make atonement for you. Be sure they are without blemish. You shall
present them with their drink offerings, besides the regular burnt offering
with its grain offering.
The Feast of Weeks
Reviewed
"You shall count seven weeks for yourself;
begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the
grain. Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the
tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord
your God blesses you. You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your
son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite
who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are
among you, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide.
And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful
to observe these statutes.