Holy Spirit! Come on your people like strong wind and wildfire.

July 14, 2013 - Acts 2:1-13

    ^1 1-4 When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force—no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks, and they started speaking in a number of different languages as the Spirit prompted them.

   ^5-11 There were many Jews staying in Jerusalem just then, devout pilgrims from all over the world. When they heard the sound, they came on the run. Then when they heard, one after another, their own mother tongues being spoken, they were thunderstruck. They couldn’t for the life of them figure out what was going on, and kept saying, “Aren’t these all Galileans? How come we’re hearing them talk in our various mother tongues?

   Parthians, Medes, and Elamites;
Visitors from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia,
   Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,
   Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene;
Immigrants from Rome, both Jews and proselytes;
Even Cretans and Arabs!

   “They’re speaking our languages, describing God’s mighty works!”

   ¹² Their heads were spinning; they couldn’t make head or tail of any of it. They talked back and forth, confused: “What’s going on here?”

   ¹³ Others joked, “They’re drunk on cheap wine.”

The Holy Spirit was poured out from God on the disciples unexpectedly on the Day of Pentecost as a fulfillment of the Abraham's Promise on the New Testament believers. The Holy Spirit was sounded like a strong wind; the Holy Spirit was like a wildfire which spread on the disciples. They spoke in tongues - the various languages of those pilgrims who were in Jerusalem; they praised God with various languages. People around them were puzzled as they never heard or seen this thing before. Without faith and experience of God, they couldn't figure out what and why happened, they joked on their behaviors and considered that the disciples were drunk. 

Dear Holy Spirit, I admit that though I know that You are the third Person of the Triune God, I don't know much about You. You indwell me but You have the sovereignty and will to do things according to God's will that is not under my prediction and control. But I believe that You are like strong wind - You desire to spread across Your church and breath life into Your people; You are like wildfire - You desire to baptize your people, cleanse them, and burn their hearts with holy passion for God. I can only humble myself before You, submitting to Your Lordship that You lead, and You fill up my heart with Your power, peace of Jesus, and the love of my heavenly Father to conquer my weakness and all kinds of sufferings, and to advance the Gospel and Kingdom of God.