Friday March 03rd, 2023
Meditate on: 1 Kings 18:38 ISV
« Right then the LORD’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and even the water that was in the trench! »
Read: 1 Kings 18:36-39 NLT
36 At the usual time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar and prayed, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this at your command.
37 O Lord, answer me! Answer me so these people will know that you, O Lord, are God and that you have brought them back to yourself.”
38 Immediately the fire of the Lord flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the trench!
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell face down on the ground and cried out, “The Lord—he is God! Yes, the Lord is God!”
Understand:
The fire is proof that your offering has been accepted (1 King 18:38).
No offering is acceptable to God except it is by fire.
Always pray to God to send down fire to take your offering up before you drop it.
In Judges 6:19-21, when the angel put his staff on Gideon’s offering, fire fell.
The Holy Spirit as fire also has the power to consume wood. Every piece of wood has the potential to become fire, hence the term firewood.
Every piece of wood will die an ordinary death unless fire comes upon it.
Every Christian has the potential to become a mighty man or woman of God.
Unfortunately, many Christians will die without performing a single miracle for God because the fire never came to change their wood (gifts) into firewood (manifestation of the gift).
Even though Jesus had said he would make Peter a fisher of men, he still needed the fire to come upon him on the day of Pentecost, after which he preached a single sermon and won three thousand souls on that same day.
There is something great that God has deposited in you, a great purpose God has for your life. You did not become a Christian just so that you can go to Church, shout Hallelujah, eventually die and go to Heaven.
You were created for greater things, but that hidden potential will not find expression until the fire of the Holy Ghost comes upon you.
The fire also consumed stones which are representative of hardship and poverty.
God says in 3 John 1: 2 BSB
« Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.»
He wants you to prosper; it is the devil who brings hardship and poverty.
When you see someone struggling so much, yet with minimal results, it is very likely that a demon is behind it.
Once the fire of the Holy Ghost comes upon that fellow, the demon will flee and an end will come to suffering in his/her life.
You need the fire of the Holy Ghost.
Prayer point: Father, let Your fire fall upon me now in the mighty name of Jesus.
Author: Pst Enoch A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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