Binghamton New York USA
February 07, 2010
Deuteronomy 4:23-25 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
The scriptures say that where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty and there is freedom. Jesus himself said that he had come to set us free, and if the Son sets you free you are free indeed. His heart was in the Father’s heart, and the Father’s heart was in the Son’s heart, and when Christ ascended into the heavenly realms he sent down the Holy Spirit who is the manifest presence of the unified heart of the Trinity of God. There is a holy fire of love that burns within the center of this godly alliance. It is the fire that has fueled the universe in all its glory even before ancient times, it is the fire that provides fuel for all humanity, and all that we have been asked to take dominion over. It is a refiner’s fire that burns away all the chaff, hay and stubble within our souls that we may become true children of the Living God.
Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him." But the people said nothing. 1 Kings 18:21
We have entered into a season of God’s consuming fire on this earth, and during this season of the refiners fire when God will start to separate the wheat from the tares, this same question will be asked of you and I; “Will you continue to follow Baal and the idols of this world, or will you lay down your lives and follow Jesus?”. The season for wavering between two opinions is coming to an end of this you can be certain, for the holy scriptures have proclaimed that our God is a jealous God. The very first commandment that we were given was to love God first, with all our heart, our soul, our mind and our strength. “Seek ye first the Kingdom”, Jesus said; and the riches of heaven will be made available to you. A meteor shower of God’s glory has already become evident in varying places all over the earth, and as the darkness of evil continues to increase the meteors will become asteroids of God’s power and his transforming presence will shake the very foundations of civilization itself. I can assure you, that this is no time for a mambi pambi church. This is no time to be hiding behind excuses as we lick the wounds that have been inflicted on us by us. OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE and it is high time that WE BURN FOR Jesus! John Wesley was once asked how he was able to draw such large crowds and what he said penetrated the depths of my soul. He said; “I set myself on fire for Jesus and they come to see me burn.”
Revelation 3:15-17 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
The church in America today is lukewarm at best, this is not to say that the fire of God is not present in various people and places within this nation, it is to say that the fruit being born from our collective church efforts has fallen far short of God’s glory. If this were not so our nation would not be what it has become, a place of open sexual promiscuity and perversions of all kinds, a land where millions of children are being snatched from their mother’s wombs and placed at the altar of Baal, a nation that has placed Jesus at the back of the bus. A nation that has been wavering between two opinions for far too long.
There is a heart cry that is resonating deeply within the body of believers, a heart cry for true freedom in Christ, a heart cry for more of Jesus and less of man, a heart cry that will shake the very foundations of church as we know it in the coming days. The days of being lukewarm are coming to an end for you and I. God will have his way with us or without us, he will take his rightful place as King of Kings and Lord of lords. It is not his desire to leave anyone behind, but he will because he is holy and his word is faithful and true. Many will be burned by the fire of his presence during this great movement of his Spirit, but far more will be set free to live and to die for him.
Hebrews 12:28-29 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our "God is a consuming fire."
The fear, awe and wonder of God will fill the hearts of his true believers in the coming days and people from very tribe and every nation will come to watch them burn for Jesus. It will be an unprecedented time of evil, but it will be an even more unprecedented time of God’s manifest power and glory.
Isaiah 6:5-8 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."
Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall
I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
I pray that each and every one of us will encounter God in a way that will set us on fire forever, and ever and ever so that when he asks; “Whom shall I send?” we can all answer in unity, in spirit and in truth “Here we are Lord, send us” Amen.
In Jesus name and by his love
Barry