The Holy Spirit is inviting you to come out of the world and enter the deeper place of His influence. Are you willing to burn with a deeper intensity for Him?
The fire of God is not a harmful or destructive fire. When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Daniel 3) were thrown into the king’s fire for not worshipping him…there was a man who looked like the Son of God with them. They were in the fire of God within the fire of the world and they were unharmed. God’s fire protects us.
His fire refines us. It is His passionate love over us, His Glory, His Voice and His Purified Truth. When we experience God in His fire, we are never the same.
Experience vs Knowledge
When the woman with the issue of blood heard of Jesus the Healer, it was knowledge that moved her toward Him. She then pursued His Presence and reached out and received His power…This is when she experienced Jesus.
Experience can never be taken from you. It transforms and heals. The knowledge that you are the Temple of God can be exchanged for what you feel. If you feel angry you may not feel like His holy temple. When you experience His voice within you and Know Him as Lord within, this can never be exchanged. Our emotions are fluid and their fragility is best held in His arms. He never leaves us and is always ready to restore our soul.
Knowledge can be diluted, replaced, or forgotten. But experience with the Living God becomes a revelation and a revelation becomes a source of knowledge!
John the Baptist said about Jesus, “He will submerge you in union with the Spirit of Holiness AND with a raging fire!” (Matthew 3:8-12 TPT)
If we are not aflame, we fail. We cannot change the world without the fire of the Holy Spirit. We cannot reflect His light without our hearts burning with the experience of the Living God.
We are not an imitation of Jesus. We are aflame with the anointing through the power of the Holy Spirit. Just like oxygen feeds a natural fire, the Holy Spirit breathes on you to ignite the gift of holiness inside you!
It burns out doubt and weakness. It burns out fear and worry.
God has written you a love letter:
“Fasten Me upon your heart as a seal of fire forevermore.
This living, consuming flame will seal you as My prisoner of love.
My passion is stronger than the chains of death and the grave, all consuming as the very flashes of fire from the burning heart of God.
Place this fierce, unrelenting fire over your entire being. Rivers of pain and persecution will never extinguish this flame. Endless floods will be unable to quench this raging fire that burns within you.
Everything will be consumed. It will stop at nothing as you yield to this furious fire until it won’t seem to you like a sacrifice anymore.” Song of Songs 8:6-7 TPT
The fire of God is more real than the life you gave Him.
Jesus said, “I have come to set the earth on fire…how I wish it were already ablaze with fiery passion for God!” Luke 2:49
The fire in the eyes of Jesus the Conqueror looks upon the Holy Spirit’s fire burning in you. Fire to fire…passion to passion…righteousness to righteousness…holiness to holiness…
Blessings,
Pastor Teresa
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