Pentecost

Today is Pentecost. All this past year, God has seemed to do new things in my life on Jewish Holy Days. Last year, I left on Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year, for Kansas City. I knew that was significant. For more than a year, He had been sending me the word out of Isaiah 43 I spoke of before, over and over,
Isa 43:19
19 "Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
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It was a season of "new". I could feel it internally. My 49th year of life, and 50th birthday came in Kansas City. I kept getting words of "jubilee!" The Sabbath year.
The desert was behind me, and I could smell the rain.
So today, of all days, the birth of the church of Jesus Christ, it is appropriate, that God would ordain it to be the official beginning of the Dayton House of Prayer. We met, kind of last minute, at the new Webster Street facility. It was one of those full circle moments. I remembered seeing and praying for this way back...how many years....14, 15 16? Not sure, but a long time ago!!So long that I went through a cycle of birth of a vision, death of the vision, and rebirth. Well...I'm a slow learner. Late bloomer. It took that long I guess to learn to keep my hands off it.
So I had one of those, full circle moments last night. The indescribable feeling, of being priviledged to be there on the Dayton House of Prayer's birthday. The answer to my prayers. Of course there were many, many people pregnant with it. Laboring to bring it forth. We didn't know one another, but we were all out there doing our thing, waiting. And last night, the night of Pentecost, the birth of the Christian church, and the festival of First Fruits, I saw a "first fruit" from Dayton, one of America's fastest dying city's.....but maybe not.

Isa 42:3
3 "A bruised reed He will not break
And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;
He will faithfully bring forth justice.
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Give us beauty for ashes Lord. Amen