TITLE: Beware of the FIRE! By Trisha Jackson 06/27/07 |
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Beware of the fire!
Lately, there have been a lot of people who have been praying to God to send the fire. I have to wonder if people really want the fire. Let's look at the characteristics of fire. It destroys. It kills. It burns...cremates. It is a source of heat. I bet most of you have never thought about what that is, but I have. Not until I really began to study and listen to God. Fire is a consuming force. Simply, as the church is crying out for God to send the fire, he will but what is your expectation? Is it power..or is destruction.
Let me explain..the bible says in Roman 12:1(KJV) that we should present our bodies as "living sacrifices," wholly and acceptable to unto God, which is the least we can do. When I make a sacrifice....when God told Abraham to offer his son as a sacrifice, Abraham gathered wood and sticks so that he could start a fire, to burn the sacrifice unto God. Are you hearing me! We are asking and crying out for the fire but we don't realize that we are the sacrifices.
Yes, the fire will come but it's a consuming fire. Jesus is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. When you iron your wrinkle pants or shirt, do you put heat to it to get it to become straight Do you hear me?? When you wash clothes, you put them in water and if you want to really get them clean, you have to either wash them in warm or hot water. Then we put them in the dryer....
Think about it..if I am washing something that is colored...What type of water would I put that clothing into? Cold, right? Exactly, so it won't fade. But hot water does just the opposite. It will fade that color. That's what God wants, you to fade away. We should be dead to sin, operating under the influence of the Holy Spirit and not our flesh. In essence,..I need to fade away. Yes, that's what God wants. If I want something to shrink. I will wash in hot water. Right? Do you get me? God is wanting us, our wills to fade and shrink so that his will may be done on the earth, so that Jesus can come back.
God says that his son is coming back, but you have to be ready for the fire; for it is a consuming fire sent to clean up his church. Get rid of the mess and stains, the wrinkles..the besetting sins...the strongholds. It is a consuming fire that will burn up anything that is not like God. Everything contrary to his will and his word. Beware of the fire! It is a consuming fire. If you are ready to lay yourself down and become the sacrice that God desires, he will send the fire.
But Beware! You will be consumed and God will be glorified!
© Thelma P. Jackson
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