Yesterday, Fathers Day, you were most likely honored in some way by your children.

Could be you took the day “off”

If your children are young….
up to about 35….
they still need you to take very few days “off”

You should never quit “fathering”

Our Heavenly Father does not.

Never abdicate your role.

If your children are under college age….
they need a large QUANTITY of your time.

Please do not subscribe to the fallacy of “quality” time.

It’s a pacifier for the guilt of a father too busy to give himself to his children…..or wife.

It’s a tease.

You can tease your children with
“quality” time.

They will take it because any thirsty
human will take a small drink of water.

But it will harm them eventually.

And they will seek that drink from another “cistern”.

Choose to give them the best parts of you…..

not what’s left over.

This was the day the Power came to us.

John 14:12 gave foresight to it.
Acts 1 reads that Jesus told of the Power to come.
Acts 2 tells of it happening and the result is still being played out.

Read it.

I hope you are living it.

The works Jesus did, we can do, because He went to The Father.

He told us The Holy Spirit would come, come into us…when He went to The Father.

These statements told us The Power would come to us.

We need to be more cognizant of that.

We need to rehearse that in our minds, hearts, souls and spirits.

The Disciples were called and chosen by Jesus.

So were you….
if you are His follower.

The same Power that rushed in like a roaring wind upon those chosen and called fishermen…. will come to you ….
as a chosen and called church-age believer.

The Spirit came upon them in the
Church age …for when Jesus ascended …it became the Church age.

We are in the Church Age.

The Spirit is here for the Church Age.

For us.

This should be a day believers celebrate as much as when Jesus was born.

For on Pentecost ….
an equal Gift was given to us.

If The Trinity is three-in-one and all are God… as Jesus was the Presence of God on earth…
then the empowering gift of The Holy Spirit is the Presence of God in me…in you.

Jesus walked with the Disciples.

The Disciples saw Jesus minister, preach and perform miracles.

They became more than spectators
though when the POWER came upon them …as Jesus had told them earlier.

They were empowered to do those same things….
back to John 14:12.

They were empowered because they were filled.

We can be empowered that same way because we can be filled the same way.

The Disciples watched, walked and learned from Jesus for those three years. They were trained, not to be spectators, but to carry out the same work Jesus did… after being filled with His Spirit.

We watch and learn and are trained as well. But as The Twelve, we are not trained to forever be spectators watching from the seats.
Being filled…
we are to be putting the gift to full use.

It started in Acts …
and It’s still being played out today.

Pentecost….
the day the POWER came to us.