The Fire from the Holy Spirit or God is a purifying Fire for His children but if you are not His child, this Fire is very dangerous and it will warm you. The more Gold is purified by fire, the more exquisite it looks. The reason being that is there are still some unwanted particles in the Gold.
The more Gold is purified the more it’s reduced in size. Burning away all unnecessary particles as to attain the purest form of Gold. Scripture even says that one day our works will be tested through fire. Let’s say all Christians are Gold, the essence of His presence will purify us gradually until we become the purest of substance. This also encourages us that the closer we get to Him the fast we get purified.
One of the reasons why Christians cannot get deeper intimate relationship with God is “self consciousness”, because like a big piece of Gold, after it’s purified to the highest level, it becomes very small. Self consciousness hinders us believers greatly because we hold on to certain things or behaviors we have and we do not want to go so close to the Consuming Fire or else the Fire will burn it away.
We know for a fact that the closer we get to the All Consuming Fire those things will fall off. So why not get close. Most at times Holiness is best communicated through this process of being Close to the All Consuming Fire. Holiness cannot not be taught to a certain degree or the people being taught might get religious and not Holy. When we get close to the Fire which consumes all things that are not of God will fall off. No one will tell you how to dress (7 earrings, tongue rings, nose rings, toe rings, tummy rings) what to wear(skinny jeans, tight pant, sagging pants), how to talk when no one is looking(cursing people, lack of meekness in your tone), how to relate with adult , parents etc.
His Holy Fire will also burn away all our worldly desires, all works of the flesh.(gal 5) selfishness, pride, anger problems, etc. In short your lifestyle will be in good shape because His Fire burnt off ungodly things in your life. There is a trick, certain things are difficult to burn when its not close to the Fire. When its distant a bit from the Fire,it will not burn or it will take a longer time to burn anything.
Lots of people want to be anointed but being anointed alone is dangerous. An Anointing ATTRACTS demons, principalities world rulers etc. To be safe One has to be anointed and be on FIRE. It’s very important because one can be anointed and not be on FIRE; or can lose his or her FIRE along the way but still have an anointing( an Anointing is NOT the Holy Ghost, it is His POWER OR PRESENCE) . An Anointing is not a person , the Holy Ghost is the person . The anointing is the presence or power of the PERSON of the HOly Ghost. That’s why it is said or written, ” the anointing OF the Holy Ghost”. This anointing and the Holy Ghost are not interchangeable words. They are very different.
That was just by the way. As a christian, one can be anointed or empowered and be COLD. Its imperative that we stay HOT all the time with the help of the Holy Ghost. Being hot as a Christian is not a one time event its continuous. Our duty is to stay close to the consuming Fire. As close as possible, through that we will be hot.
In Ghana during the evenings when its gets dark we turn on the florescent tube lights. As soon as we do that , insects come around the lights. Now because the light has just been turned on, its warm not hot. However, this makes these little little insects hang around and sit on the light, but as soon as the light gets hot they cannot sit on the light because the heat from the light burns their wings away.However they are still attracted to the light but the heat from the light prevents them from SITTING on it
Likewise, we can have the anointing but demons can sit on us and influence us but when we become HOT..- GLory to God- these demons cannot sit on us or hang around because the hotter you are the more distance you create between you and them
BEING ON FIRE IS A REPELLENT AGAINST THE FORCES of DARKNESS
stay blessed
matt 2:11
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented [3] gifts unto him; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
One mistake we all tend to make is refer to Jesus as an infant or baby born yesterday. When the wise men ( not three wise men… wasn’t stated) came to visit. Jesus was a young child when the wise men came.
1. Anybody throughout history who have had a real one on one genuine encounter with Jesus had a deep sense to worship Him. People who met Him, all talked about how they were flooded with worship for HIM. They say He is soooo Glorious, there is nothing much you can say,but the only way to express is to BOW and Worship HIM.
I believe these wise men story is a template of what happens when we have a one on one encounter with Jesus.
2. Anybody throughout history who have had a real one on one genuine encounter with Jesus had a deep sense to give up everything they hold valuable in their lives. People totally give it up, even areas in their heart’s which are untouchable, in a split second they say here is it Lord. Ex. Our little little idols.
JESUS IS THE KING OF KINGS. The verse says that they open their treasures… we all know that our heart is where we usually keep valuable treasures. When you meet JESUS: its worth giving up everything in our Heart.
3. Anybody throughout history who have had a real one on one genuine encounter with Jesus had a deep sense not go back into the World. ” the wise men were warned not return back to herod” When u meet Jesus u will know not to go back into the world. That conviction will be sooo strong on your life, its almost impossible to go back to the world.
Moses had a very powerful encounter with God
Abraham had a very powerful encounter with God
Paul had a very powerful encounter with God etc
YOU too ask GOD for a powerful encounter and believe your life will never be the same!
Stay Blessed
a balanced diet simply means a meal that contain all the sufficient amount of fiber and all the various nutrients to ensure a good health. A balanced diet is easy to state but its much more difficult to state precisely what constitutes a balanced meal or diet for an individual.
a balanced meal can only be determine by what an individual is missing or lacking, in terms of nutrients
most at times what we call hunger is actually not hunger, especially when you just ate something an hour or two ago. All the brain is trying to alert us is, the body is still missing an adequate amount of some type of nutrient. That signal is referred to us hunger, and because we don’t know what nutrients we need we keep eating stuff still eventually we are fully.
because we also lack knowledge where we are missing these nutrients, our excess eating in good intents to quench the hunger make us obese.
when you flip the coin to spiritual side of this, the result is the same. Some are spiritually obese because we feed one side only in our christian life.
A balanced christian life for everyone is very difficult. Its very easy to generalize a prescribe balanced life for Christians, but honestly its not so
proverbs 11:1 a false balance is abomination to the lord , but a just weight is His delight
it’s important to recognize where you lack as a christian and start to balance it out. Some christians tend to more of the Word than the Spirit, which makes them as dead as a door nob. on the other hand some christian are so Spiritual that they are really empty( empty barrels make the most noise) or the get so spiritual they fail to apply common sense when needed
within this two points one can balance out their christian life. Pride often us make one thing they are okay. even with the Gifts of the spirit we should try and balance it out with the fruit of the Spirit
God always want a balance we should see how always the LIVING WORD is working with the SPIRIT
balancing is important to Go
its easy to justify yourself in your strong area and not care so much about your weak area
eg the fact that i can sing powerfully does not even out the fact i don’t like praying lets us find areas in our life’s where we are lacking or where there is an imbalance and balance it out.
God doesn’t necessarily judge actions, He will always judge the motive behind our actions. As young people most at times we tend to have lots of ulterior motives. Meaning Lying beyond what is evident or revealed, especially being concealed intentionally so as to deceive: an ulterior motive also could be classified as lying beyond or outside the area of immediate interest. MERCY on us.
Matthew 21-38..
28”Tell me what you think of this story: A man had two sons. He went up to the first and said, ‘Son, go out for the day and work in the vineyard.‘“The son answered, ‘I don’t want to.’ Later on he thought better of it and went.”The father gave the same command to the second son. He answered, ‘Sure, glad to.’ But he never went.
This a very interesting verse, take some time to ponder over this verse. One son said he wont go but later went, and the other son said i will go but didn’t. Motives!. If were to go by the definition of motives ” an action which lies outside the area of IMMEDIATE INTEREST ”.the first would have been hated by man but preferred by God. The reason is , man judge’s actions but God judge’s motives. The first said no but later THOUGHT of it (powerful) and went. His first action was totally wrong but his motive to God was totally right.
As young people we should be careful the things we say, we should let our yea be yea and our no be no. The story is a parable, meaning its symbolic. A man can be equated as Jesus ,two sons =two sets of christians in the kingdom, vineyard = the field ( SOULS ). So Jesus asked His children to go out and wins some souls, Some knowing how Jesus feels about souls they just said yes to please him, Some due to whatever they were doing said no yet but later went and won the SOULS. After saying No, Bible tells us that they thought better of it « that is the meaning of repentance. to repent means To feel such regret for past conduct as to CHANGE one’s MIND regarding something: repented of intemperate behavior. Also To repent means to make a change for the better as a result of remorse.
His action was definitely wrong but His Motive led him to repentance. WHICH OF THEM WILL be PLEASING TO JESUS. Our motives are very important as christians. I don’t what you are into but i pray that whatever you do has a right motive to it.
stay blessed!
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. I have always wondered how can one guard his or her heart. It puzzled me me for a minute, due to my lack of understanding this verse properly. I discarded it hoping to understand it oneday or later.
However, a literal look at this verse will mean, do anything possible to get hurt or do anything possible not to allow things to enter your heart, which at the long run will destroy or defile you. In attempt to execute this verse, we tend to build walls around our heart. Guard in the verse makes us think of it as self defense.
We surround our heart with metal walls. In the end the Gospel cannot even penetrate in out hearts.
Also too beacause the heart is a very sensitive and fragile, we make it hard ourseleves mainly because we don’t wont to be offended. The answer is very easy as the Holy Spirit revealed it to me. The solution to guard your heart was a statement david made.
He said Your word have i hidden in my heart that i may not sin against you. The best way to guard your heart is to put or hide the word in your heart
This the best defensive mechanism ever. Stay blessed!
