I Go Pour My Spirit Comot

Rain dey fall on top dry farm. E no fall for only one corner, or on top di best plants alone. E pour on top every inch of di ground, every stalk, every seed. Now imagine say God no pour rain, but e pour imself, like dat.

Di prophet Joel don live through one terrible locust plague for di land of Judah. E don call di people make dem turn back to God with all dem heart, and God don answer with promise of rain and harvest: I go pay una back di years wey di locusts don chop. But God never finish. E still promise something wey big pass barn wey full. To understand how wonderful e be, remember how di Spirit of God dey usually work for Israel story. Di Spirit dey come on top special people for special work: on top Moses and di elders, on top judges like Gideon, on top kings like David, on top prophets. Most ordinary people no ever expect say dem go experience di Spirit for demself.

And e go happen after, say I go pour my Spirit on top all flesh. All flesh. No be only priests. No be only kings or prophets. Then God explain who e mean, like say e wan make sure say nobody dey left out. Una sons and una daughters go prophesy. Girls as well as boys. Una old men go dream dreams, una young men go see visions. Grandparents and teenagers, all of dem. And then, di one wey surprise pass: And even on top di menservants and di maidservants for dose days, I go pour my Spirit. Even di servants, di people wey dey di very bottom of society, wey no get anything. God go give dem im Spirit free, just as e give anybody else.

Then Joel vision become big and strong. God talk say e go show wonders for di heavens and for di earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. Di sun go turn to darkness and di moon go turn to blood, before di great and terrible day of Di Lord go come. Dese na pictures of di whole world wey dey shake, di way di earth shake when God come down for Mount Sinai. Dis matter serious. Di day of Di Lord na di day when God go put everything right, and nobody fit stand for im own strength before am.

But for di middle of dat shaking, one door dey open. And e go happen, say anybody wey call di name of Di Lord go dey saved. Anybody. Anybody at all wey turn to God and call im name, God go rescue am. For Mount Zion and for Jerusalem, people go dey wey escape, Joel talk, just as Di Lord don promise, among di survivors wey Di Lord call. So di promise get two sides wey fit together. God Spirit wey e pour on top all kinds of people, and God rescue wey dey open for everybody wey call am. Long time ago, Moses talk say, I wish say all Di Lord people na prophets, and say Di Lord go put im Spirit on top dem. Through Joel, God talk: one day, I go do am.

Hundreds of years after, Jews from many nations full Jerusalem for di Feast of Weeks, one harvest festival wey dem dey hold fifty days after Passover. Im Greek name na Pentecost, wey mean di fiftieth. Di book of Acts talk say for dat day, Jesus followers full with di Holy Spirit and dem talk for many languages. Peter stand up and explain am, as e quote dis same passage from Joel.

You go find dis promise for Joel chapter two, verse twenty-eight reach thirty-two. God Spirit for sons and daughters, old and young, servants too, and rescue for anybody wey call im name. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. If God Spirit na for young people too, how God fit wan use you?