At Communion Christian Centre on “Re-Ignite” Deuteronomy 4:24, Hebrews 12:29
To ignite means to start to burn…to be set ablaze. When we came into Christ, he set us ablaze for him but the demands or issues of life sometimes causes our fire to burn out. God doesn’t require sacrifices that must be kept burning day in, day out in the Temple just like it was done in the Old Testament but we are the living sacrifices now that must continue to burn day in, day out for Him. There must be opportunities for us to be re-ignited, to continue to burn like we were once set ablaze by Him when we first accepted Him into our lives. We are connected to God. God cannot be a consuming fire and we are not. Our appearance, beauty and produce must burn for Christ.
We are living sacrifices with the Holy Spirit in us. We don’t just have the Holy Spirit, we must be burning for Him. It will be difficult for us to overcome without the fire of God in this world full of perversion and darkness. All throughout the scriptures, one of the ways God revealed Himself in the Scripture is by fire. His appearance, presence and voice, were likened to fire. He revealed Himself to the Isrealites providing them with illumination through fire. God went ahead of them in a Pillar of Cloud during the day to guide them on the way, and at night in a Pillar of Fire to give them light; thus they could travel both day and night. The Pillar of Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night never left the people. Exodus 13:20â€-‬22. He revealed himself to Moses as fire burning the Bush but the leaves were not consumed. Exodus 3. What Moses saw (the burning bush) is who we are. It is a replica of who we should be..burning for the Lord. God is a consuming fire. Deut 4:24, Heb 12:29. This is the reason why the three Hebrew men were not consumed in the fire. They carried the Grace, the non-combustible fire. There are fires in the world but as a consuming fire, you swallow all other fires.
Believers in the New Testament are a walking, breathing, thinking and manifesting fire. Psalm 104:2-4. Fire is not just what we possess, it is what God has been us to be. Fire is part of our make up. The Holy Spirit is the custodian of fire. We possess the fire of God. Without the fire of God, we are not complete in worship and fellowship with God. There is no such thing as a gentle or attractive fire. A fire is a fire even when it’s sleeping. The fire of God quenches everything that is not aligned with God’s will. Sometimes there are things in our lives that look like the will of God but they are not…e g tares and the weed. The tares are useful while the weed is not. The fire of God separates the weed from the tares and burns the weed. One thing the devil does to try to get at believers is to separate us from other fires (believers) because he knows that being together with them will help our fire and keep you strengthened. Sometimes he deceives people by introducing them to a new family of fire and between the time they will migrate from one family to be united with the new family, he would have dealt with them.
Some believers need to be refuelled for their fire to keep burning. This is one of the reasons the five foolish virgins didn’t meet the bridegroom. They had a lamp but the oil in it got finished. No oil means no fuel and no fuel means no fire. There is no believer that doesn’t have oil but you need to keep being supplied by God consistently and in abundance to be fuelled. When the Holy Spirit comes upon our life, we receive the power and fire of God. Acts 10:38. When you have the power of God, you are set ablaze for God. When you are set ablaze for God, you have the power of God. If you are not full of the Spirit, you can not be led by the Spirit. Luke 4:1.
You must have a spiritual walk with God else you will burn out. Don’t expose yourself to service when you know you are not burning for God. You can’t serve God without the fire of God burning in your life. A truly anointed person, one who carries God’s fire, cannot be hidden.
Benefits of fire
1) Fire reveals. 1 Corinthians 3:13.
Nothing will be hidden to you when the fire of God is at work in your life. II Thessalonians 1:7-9
2) Fire destroys or consumes. II Kings 1:10-14, Luke 9:54, Numbers 11:1
3) Fire provides light. Psalm 105:39, Exodus 13:21.
4) Fire protects and preserves. II Kings 6:17.
5) Fire prepares and purifies..Fire prepares us to be a finest product of God to be launched to the world to fulfil purpose. It burns and deals with impurities in our life for God’s anointing and grace to flow freely. I Kings 18:17-40, Luke 3:17, Numbers 31: 23.
In I Kings 18:24, we can learn a lot from Elijah in this passage. Elijah had been praying to God in private before he commanded the fire of God on the sacrifice. Don’t come to public without having a private conversation with God. Anytime you see a public manifestation of Elijah, it is as a result of what has happened in privacy. There are lots of people that have ended their ministry by coming to the public without getting a divine approval in their privacy. Prayer is in privacy, declaration is made in public. Prayer can take many days, declaration can just take two statements. The same could be said of our Lord Jesus Christ who went to the tomb of Lazarus and made two statements. He said, Lazarus, come forth! but before then he had prayed in private. Every believer must have first and foremost, a privacy before a public life. In our world, there is a demand on our God to manifest. One of the reasons why we need the fire of God is because there are prophet of baals in the world. There are people who represent idols and they put on a form of godliness but deny the power. When you as a believer apply your tactics, they will also apply theirs but eventually yours will prevail. E.g Moses, Aaron and the magicians in Pharaoh’s palace. While Aaron threw his rod and it turned to a serpent, they also did theirs but Aaron’s own swallowed theirs.
Elijah was the one calling the shots in I Kings 18: 23-25. In the battle of life, don’t ever be on the defensive, be on the offensive. You have to be the one calling the shots. You can only call the shot when you have a strong private life filled with prayer cause through prayer, you have an inside information from God that will help you apply the best strategies for winning.
Your manifestation in the world as the light and fire of God is for people to know that the Lord is God, it is not for fame or to have followers. If you miss out on this, your altar is getting disorganized. I Kings 18:39
There must be an end to the practice of idolatry. We are His living sacrifice. This is why we should be re-ignited….1 Kings 18:40
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