ESOCS Devotional 8 June 2025 – A Great Time To Be Alive
MEMORY VERSE: “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.” Joel 2:28
TEXT: JOEL 2:28-32
“And it shall come to pass afterward
That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
32 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,
As the Lord has said,
Among the remnant whom the Lord calls.
Read Other ESOCS Devotional Here
This is a word of prophesy spoken hundreds of years before it was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. We can see Peter referring to this text in Acts 2:16-21: “No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel …” I hear many Christians today who are deeply troubled about culture. Others are worried about terrorism. Still others are decrying to decline they see in the local church. Now, listen to me carefully, the issues we are troubled about are mere trifles when considered in the light of God’s mighty power. I promise you that God is not wringing His hands over these matters. He has the power to grant to His people all that is needed to face the issues of our day. God’s arm is not shortened that He cannot save. He has not diminished in His power or strength over time.
Perhaps, we ought to look at ourselves and ask if perhaps the problem of facing the issues of our times lies in the fact that we are not filled with His power – with His Holy Spirit. God can and will work in any age or generation when He has a surrendered people through whom to do His work. Do you think this day is worse than the days of Roman occupation of Jerusalem? Do you think this time is more wicked than the days when Peter and Paul ministered? Surely you know that our day is no worse than it was then. Yet, God moved in those days and the believers who lived then were used of God to turn the world upside show – or it might be said that those believers were used to turn the world right-side up. The same power is available to us today, for the same Holy Spirit dwells in us that dwelt in them.
My friends, it’s A Great Time to be Alive. We must not take for granted what we have been given, nor should we neglect the power available for us to carry out God’s will in our time. Most of us read the Bible and imagine what it would have been like to live in the days long ago. In reality, however, there has never been a better day to be alive and in God’s service than during our own generation. I want us to take a moment and consider how blessed we are to be living right now, in the Age of Grace, the Great Church Age, the Age of the Holy Spirit.
CHALLENGES
- What does heaven say about you in this generation – a heavenly kingdom citizen or a worldly person?
PRAYER POINT
- Father, keep my heart to say, ‘Now is time, today is the day of salvation.
FURTHER READING: Lamentation 3:1-34; John 7:20-53
ESOCS Devotional 8 June 2025
