My daily coffee talks with God have turned into around the clock need, without caffeine. I miss my morning cup and silent communion with Heavenly Father, but I’m on a different schedule these days.

Have you heard the phrase, “Sunday’s coming?” In general, whether poem, song or other use of the catchphrase, it’s about sharing some aspect of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. In layman’s terms, it means a “reckoning” or a change is on the way. We know about waiting for change.

Unless you attend a church service that focuses on the topic for this Sunday’s message, you may not know that May 20 is Pentecost. Like me, you may not have realized it also is the Jewish Festival of Weeks. Shavuot is called the Festival of Weeks, also known as the Festival of Reaping or harvest. Jews traditionally read the Book of Ruth at Pentecost as the story links with the grain harvest theme.

Pentecost as a Christian feast dates back to the first century that occurred 50 days after Easter. In the New Testament Acts 2, Pentecost is the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ. It was significant.

Most of us may fail to comprehend the reality of that day in ancient Jerusalem when Jesus told his disciples, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:4-8, New International Version.

It was only with the power, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, that the disciples could do the things God had chosen for them to do, greater things than even Jesus — hard to imagine.

I heard a radio preacher the other day talk about doing the greater things and he said we don’t always realize what things are greater than Jesus because we don’t have God’s perspective. This doesn’t mean WE are greater, but with the gifts and call we will accomplish greater things. But not without anointing and Spirit led instructions.

I also heard on the radio the other day two new songs, new to me but perhaps not to you. “In Awe,” by Hollyn is a message I needed to hear. “I’m livin’ in awe, You don’t need me at all,” — (in other words, God can accomplish all himself, yet he chooses to use us) — “But You couldn’t love me more, I’m livin’ in awe. Every day I fall, But You never let me go, I’m livin’ in awe.”

A song by FFH, “Undone,” said it all with, “We all want love, we all want honor, Nobody wants to pay the asking price.” The chorus repeats from the top, “Come undone, surrender is stronger, I don’t need to be the hero tonight.” Both songs played within the same few minutes as I drove from one destination to another within New Iberia. Was God speaking to me?

Perhaps you don’t need a Pentecostal moment, but I’ve been waiting for a Holy Spirit moment, again, for months. Times of testing come and go, but His faithfulness is eternal. Sunday’s coming and we are promised in Matthew 5, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

And that’s only part of His promises.

Vicky Branton is Teche Life editor of The Daily Iberian.