Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Acts 1:1-11
by: Irene B. Saunders.
We can become impatient to receive a gift for Christmas or perhaps a birthday. It spoils the surprise when we open it too soon! Jesus had just the right time planned for the disciples to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. “Wait in Jerusalem,” he said. The disciples waited and received the outpouring baptism of the Holy Spirit and became dynamic witnesses throughout the world at that time.
We as Seventh Day Baptists can have a wide mission field to spread the gospel and the blessing of the Sabbath. Waiting is difficult, but we need to be constantly waiting on the Lord with a spirit of expectancy for what he has for us. He will give us his Holy Spirit without measure if we wait and expect.