Sunday Focus

24th May 2026

Pentecost

 

Welcome to this weeks Sunday Focus, we pray you will be blessed.

  

Hymn -  Holy Holy Holy

 

Song -  Great is The Darkness

 

This is the day when the Spirit arrived.
We shall rejoice and be glad in it!

Holy and wonderful God,
we praise You and exalt Your name.
All over the world, Your people today bless You in a thousand tongues,
and we come to add our cries and our whispers,
and the sighs Your Spirit awakes in our hearts.

You speak to us, God in so many ways -
in song and word and picture;
in cloud and wind and flame;
and in the person of Jesus Christ,
who baptizes with Holy Spirit and with fire.

Forgive us Lord, when we grab the nice images we have of You, kind and gentle,
and forget that Your being is eternal light,
Your love is a holy fire,
and your promise is to make a new world in which evil has no place at all.

Forgive us Lord when we choose the easy road, the quiet life,
and close our eyes to the pain of others,
to the opportunities we have of doing good,
to the great scope of Your purposes.

Draw us in afresh to the friendship of Christ and the power of his Spirit, we pray,
for Your mercy's sake.
Amen

 

Song -  Holy Spirit Living Breath Of God

 

 

Acts 2:1-21  The Voice Version

2 When the holy day of Pentecost came 50 days after Passover, they were gathered together in one place.

2 Picture yourself among the disciples:

A sound roars from the sky without warning, the roar of a violent wind, and the whole house where you are gathered reverberates with the sound. 3 Then a flame appears, dividing into smaller flames and spreading from one person to the next. 4 All the people present are filled with the Holy Spirit and begin speaking in languages they’ve never spoken, as the Spirit empowers them.

5 Because of the holy festival, there are devout Jews staying as pilgrims in Jerusalem from every nation under the sun. 6 They hear the sound, and a crowd gathers. They are amazed because each of them can hear the group speaking in their native languages. 7 They are shocked and amazed by this.

Pilgrims: Just a minute. Aren’t all of these people Galileans? 8 How in the world do we all hear our native languages being spoken? 9 Look—there are Parthians here, and Medes, Elamites, Mesopotamians, and Judeans, residents of Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygians and Pamphylians, Egyptians and Libyans from Cyrene, Romans including both Jews by birth and converts, 11 Cretans, and Arabs. We’re each, in our own languages, hearing these people talk about God’s powerful deeds.

12 Their amazement becomes confusion as they wonder,

Pilgrims: What does this mean?

Skeptics: 13 It doesn’t mean anything. They’re all drunk on some fresh wine!
14 As the twelve stood together, Peter shouted to the crowd,

Peter: Men of Judea and all who are staying here in Jerusalem, listen. I want you to understand: 15 these people aren’t drunk as you may think. Look, it’s only nine o’clock in the morning! 16 No, this isn’t drunkenness; this is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel. 17 Hear what God says!

    In the last days,
    I will offer My Spirit to humanity as a libation.
    Your children will boldly speak the word of the Lord.
    Young warriors will see visions,
        and your elders will dream dreams.
18     Yes, in those days I shall offer My Spirit to all servants,
        both male and female, and they will boldly speak My word.
19     And in the heaven above and on the earth below,
    I shall give signs of impending judgment: blood, fire, and clouds of smoke.
20     The sun will become a void of darkness,
        and the moon will become blood.
    Then the great and dreadful day of the Lord will arrive,
21     And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
        will be liberated into God’s freedom and peace.

 

Song - O Breath of Life

The Lord's Prayer
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever.
Amen. 

 

 

Song -  O God of Burning Cleansing Flame

 

Go in the power and wisdom of the Spirit
and may the God who brought the universe into being, birth fresh hope within you;
may the Christ who died and rose again, sustain His good purpose for your life;
and may the Holy Spirit surprise and delight you,
now and always.
Amen