From Todd Bentley...
In Matthew Chapter 3 Jesus promised that we would be baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire!
The fire would come and consume the sacrifice on the altar and then the glory would fall. When Israel saw the appearance of the glory, they saw it as a flaming fire. The Shekinah glory. God is a consuming fire. And there is something happening in the fire again today.
The burning bush was a bush consumed, but not burned. There is a refiner's fire. It is the burning, the spirit of burning. The spirit that purges and cleanses. It is the fire of His Holiness. And it sanctifies us. Then, there is the fire of his love.
Song of Solomon the 8th chapter: His love is like fire…set on our heart as a seal…a burning fire…new passion for Jesus. Passion's fire. Desire. The lamp of our first love.
The fire that fell on the day of Pentecost. Tongues of fire appeared on each one. It is a baptism of the fiery witness. The Bible called John a burning, shining lamp. It burns up all that fear.
It is a burning heart for souls. A burning heart for evangelism and to set the nations ablaze. It is the spirit and fire of revival. It is the fiery witness.
I am going to read out of the book of Isaiah. Just hear what I am about to share with you. When this outpouring began, we started talking about the fiery hot coals. You know the great thing about the coals… all you need is one.
It may not even be a flame right now… it may just be a burning ember. You gotta get a little gas on the fire… It does not take much to start a fire. It does not take much for a fire to spread.
I had an experience in the first week of the revival. I was thinking about 2 things that God promised…Isaiah 4:3: It will come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy….when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion…by the spirit and blast of judgment and by the spirit and blast of burning and sifting. Then the Lord will create… Oh this is what I want…the Lord will create over the whole site, over every dwelling place of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night -- for over all the glory shall be a covering. There will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge and a shelter from storm and from rain.
Lord, let the spirit of burning come tonight…that is going to make us holy. The spirit of judgment and burning that is going to purge us, O God. Because when that fire begin to fall then the Lord will create and then the glory comes. Then, I was thinking about Isaiah 6: In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings; with 2 he covered his face, and with 2 he covered his feet, and with 2 he flew. And one cried to another and said Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts--the whole earth is filled with his glory.
There is something about declaring the glory of God. We are prophesying. This outpouring is an outpouring of the glory of God as much as it is healing and miracles. There is something about "holy, holy, holy -- the whole earth is full of his glory."
The posts of the door were shaken at the voice of him who cried and the house was filled with smoke. I am so hungry for that.
I am talking about 3 baptisms of fire tonight…Refiners fire, spirit of burning. May we receive a fire of passion, the fire of his love. I want to fall in love with Jesus again! I want to have that desire. The lamp of that desire. We need a fire. I am talking about a 3rd baptism of fire called the baptism of the fiery witness…
When I was praying the first week of this outpouring, I saw a vision of an angel, and he had a coal in his hand…he took 1 live coal from the altar of Heaven and he stuck it right inside my belly and I screamed! I felt fire go through my body from the top of my head to my toes. That is when the lord began to speak to us about the coals and he said COME GET SOME. All you need is 1 live coal. You don't need a whole fire. Just a few burning embers. And if you are only smoking and your fire is just about out, it only takes 1 wind…just get around people that are hungry… get a little dry wood. The Lord wants to release those coals tonight..
Ever since the Lord but that fiery coal in my belly, I have had such a hunger for his presence. There has been a brokenness in my life…
How many tonight need a fresh fire? A baptism of fire? Jesus promised you would be baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire. I want to set my city, my nation, the nations of the world ablaze!!!.
I believe there are angels tonight--seraphim, cherabim--ready to bring those coals….The lord said this anointing and this outpouring would be the most transferrable, contagious. People are taking the fire. And everybody we pray for, we are telling them this: The first thing I want you to do is have a meeting, an impartation, and see if the same things break out in your city. It is happening in many different places. I want to pray for that fire tonight. Some of you need that fire. You need that passion again.
Worship: You have cracked this heart of stone…you have called me as your own…let the embers burn in me…
Let the embers burn. Father, let the embers begin to burn. Father, I prophesy to the embers, to the coals, to the burning ash. Let the coals…let the fire rise! Come on. Stir up that fire!
You can't have it until the heart is cracked. You can't have it until you are broken. You have to want it more than you want anything else. Say, "My God I need it. My God I need it. You gotta want it. You gotta want it!
Lord, fill this place with the angels. Fill this place with the coals. Come on. Prophesy to those embers. Crack our hearts, O God! There are baptisms of fire tonight!!!
The Lord said, Ask of Me and I will give you the nations.
Just as you can be FILLED with the Spirit… you can be baptized again with Holy Spirit and fire!!!
Consuming fire would come and consume the sacrifice on the altar… then the GLORY would come…
Right now... I need the gas, the small wind, a piece of dry wood, the fire of love, the brokenness of heart...
I need to get around people who are hungry for His glory...
I need to be tenderized in my heart and broke down in tears...
I need encouragements, edification, testimonies....
If you don't have compassion for them, don't even bother to go perform signs and wonders...
It's not about miracles, not about signs and wonders, not about feelings.... It's about His glory and His presence!
And without love... all you do is considered nothing...
(This is mostly for myself by the way...)
Pray for me sometimes if you will... thanks in advance.
Love,
Sala<3
2 comments:
honey 我好像又好久好久沒有來了吼
也已經好一陣子沒看到你了 很忙嗎?
你最近好不好阿? 我最近比較少碰電腦了~
大部分的時間都埋書堆 真悶耶>"<
希望你一切都不錯囉^^ 有空再給我留言或mail吧:)
Thank you Sarah. I need the reminder constantly. We are so weak compared to His vastness and strength. I love this post.
If you don't have compassion for them, don't even bother to go perform signs and wonders...
It's not about miracles, not about signs and wonders, not about feelings.... It's about His glory and His presence!
And without love... all you do is considered nothing...
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