Body and Breath – Pentecost Talk
On Sunday 5th June Ben spoke on the Body and God’s Breath. You can download the talk here or listen below. The reading was Acts 2: 1-21
Pentecost
Pentecost Sunday – 5th June
On Sunday 5th June Kairos Church will be gathering to mark Pentecost together at 10am. This will replace our normal 9am and 11am gatherings and allow us to celebrate together. During the service there will also be thanksgiving for the Platinum Jubilee and prayers for Her Majesty the Queen.
We’d love you to join us for this special celebration, gathering starts at 10am, refreshments will be served after the service.
Fourth Sunday – Pentecost Special
Pentecost is a special day for the Church. We celebrate God’s Holy Spirit filling his people and sending them across the world to share the good news about life with God.
Kairos Church have lots of things happening across the day this Sunday. Join in with one or more of our activities.
9am: Communion at Westcliffe Hall.
A reflective worship service with a Pentecost theme – book a place here.
3pm: Forest Church at the clearing in the Pinewoods.
Forest church is about worshipping God and enjoying nature outdoors.
This month we’ll be thinking about wind – book a place here.
3-5pm: Kairos Fairfax Garden Catchup.
Leave a message in the comments if you’d like to find out more.
6:30pm: Joint Churches Prayer Evening for Thy Kingdom Come.
Join in live online or book a seat at harrogatehub/tkc.
Wait for him, Empty Me, Fill Us
I find it helpful to write things down that I am hearing from God – I will often put them in places where I can’t miss them. I want what God is saying to be written on my heart, in my mind, and influence my actions – this is how I ‘feed’ on God’s word – I want to live “…by every word that comes from the mouth of God”. At present above my desk, and hanging up in the Kairos Room where we pray daily are the following words:
Wait for Him Empty Me Fill Us
So often we don’t wait for God. If he doesn’t come with his power when we want we go and work in our own power. And then we wonder why things are hard work or we get exhausted or nothing
happens. If we wait we will be clothed with power from on high (Luke 24:49). Without waiting we are like engines that aren’t being lubricated – eventually they seize up. When we wait we find out who God is; the one who sends the Spirit to empower us.
D.L. Moody used to say “Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray for him to empty us.” So often we pray to be filled when we are full of other things – often full of ourselves and our own needs. I find that emptying myself before God means I discover once more the truth of Jesus’s words “For apart from me you can do nothing.” I am brought to humility and God can do something with a person who is humble before him.
Fill US – not fill ME. That’s the problem. We so often think that it’s all about my little world and God helping me to live well within it. The power that compels us to witness to the good news of Jesus comes from the Spirit who indwells us. To pray ‘fill us’ is to welcome a filling of the Spirit that means we get dunamis (power) and exousia (authority) – we get to be witnesses because we get filled.
As we wait we find out who He is
As we are emptied we find out who we are
As we are filled we are commissioned and sent
By Mark