24/05/2026
DIVINE WORSHIP: Sunday, 24 May 2026
Festival of the Gift of the Holy Spirit and Aldersgate Lord’s Day✝️🙌
𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘆’𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 (𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟳𝟯𝟴):
On 21st May and 24th May, 1738, respectively, two brothers Charles and John Wesley, were converted and experienced the gift of assurance. The Evangelical Revival took root and spread throughout the United Kingdom.
John Wesley in a journal entry for 24th May 1738 wrote: “I think it was about five this morning, that I opened my Testament on those words, “There are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, even that ye should be partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1.4). Just as I went out, I opened it again on those words, “Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.” In the afternoon, I was asked to go to St Paul’s. The anthem was, “Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord.”
In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans, About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, “I felt my heart strangely warmed, I felt I did trust Christ, Christ alone, for salvation: an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.”
On this momentous day, Charles Wesley was an invalid in the house of John Bray in Little Britain, also in Aldersgate street. He was a triumphant invalid, however, for three days earlier, on Whitsunday, 21st May, he himself had entered into the joy of salvation, and had written on of his earliest hymns under the inspiration of this experience. In his journal for 24th May he wrote: “Towards ten, my brother was brought in triumph by a troop of our friends, and declared, “I believe!” We sang the hymn with great joy, and parted with prayer.”
Acts 2:1-21; 1 Corinthians 12:3-13;
John 20:19-23
