Abide in Love

Beloved,

I pray you are having a blessed week and making every effort to spend time with the Lord.

The disciples would have, in these last remaining days after

His ascension, been preparing for the coming of the Holy Spirit, another like Jesus, a divine empowering encounter with the Comforter who does not leave, but comes to abide in us in love.

“No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Saviour of the world.”
1 John 4:12–14.]

Love Our Neighbour

This Sunday is Pentecost, for the first time we are holding the service outside the front of the church. How wonderful!

Please be on time and come celebrate with us. Sit on a chair or bring a blanket to sit on the grass.

Please can we all pray not just for us who have the Holy Spirit, but for our local community that the Holy Spirit may fall upon those who do not yet know Him.

May the mighty rushing wind come and bring encounters to our neighbours.

The second commandment calls us to love our neighbour, and how deeply we long for them to be saved and receive the beautiful gift of salvation. This is love.

Please Lord, Do It Again!

The Hebrides Revival began on the Isle of Lewis after two elderly sisters, Peggy Smith and Christine Smith, prayed faithfully for God to revive their community.

One sister was blind and the other suffered from severe arthritis, yet they spent long hours praying for the young people of the island.

They stood on scriptures such as:

“For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground…
— Isaiah 44:3

and

“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray… then I will hear from heaven…
— 2 Chronicles 7:14

As believers gathered to pray, a deep conviction of sin spread across the island.

Many people turned to Christ, prayer meetings filled through the night, and entire communities were impacted by a powerful awareness of God’s presence.

Church, Let Us Be Praying

Let us ask the Lord for a hunger to pray without ceasing, and for mercy for the lost this Pentecost.

May He raise up true intercessors, just like the sisters in the revival, for the Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

We can only walk in this if He abides in our hearts. Let us enter the secret place and ask the Lord for more love. More Power and More of Him in our lives.

Bless the Lord may you all discover a fresh, enduring love for prayer and be partakers of His Holiness.

For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of

My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams…

And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.’”
— Acts 2:15–18