The Fire (Part 1)

The Fire (Part 1)

The fire of God provides energy for the work of God:

-It warms the cold, indifferent spirit.  

-It results in spiritual food and abundant spiritual harvest.  

-The fire of God consumes the waste of your life, working just as it does in gold and silver in the natural world to burn out the impurities.  

A man or woman set ablaze by God's fire attracts people to the message of the Word. As natural fire, spiritual fire kindles other fires.  A believer burning with a passion for the lost and demonstrating the power of God soon ignites the lives of those around him. But as fire in the natural world, spiritual fire must be continuously fueled.  Was there a time when you were once more spiritually ablaze for God than you are today? A flickering flame that is almost out can be fanned again into a brilliant fire.

Just as God supplied the fire for the altar of burnt offering, He supplies His fire from Heaven to touch your soul.  But you have the responsibility of keeping the flame burning according to Leviticus 9:24 and 2 Chronicles 7:11.  You are spiritually combustible.  Your spiritual nature is created to be set ablaze by the spirit of God.

The Bible speaks often of the fire of God:

Deuteronomy 4:24 "For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God."  
 Hebrews 12:29 "For our God is a consuming fire."

Men of Bible times who had visions of God record that His appearance was like fire:

Ezekiel 8:2 "Then I beheld, and lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire, from the appearance of His loins, even downward, fire; and from His loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber."

Daniel 7:9 and 10:6 "His body also was like the beryl, and His face as the appearance of lightning, and His eyes as lamps of fire, and His arms and His feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of His words like the voice of a multitude."

Revelation 1:14 "His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire..."

WHAT IS THE FIRE OF GOD?