Desire the Fullness of the Holy Ghost Power with Fire It is your empowerment for your rejuvenation and inspiration from your creator, the source of spiritual power!
Jessie Bibb
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Dedication This book is dedicated to my husband Edward Bibb. You are a loving man of integrity, an awesome provider; you love me unconditionally, and I love you too. To Sylvia and Michael, my two adult children, you have always been my joy, and now at adulthood your love, care, wisdom, and insight are of great benefit to me. Oh, how the tables have turned. I love being your proud mother and always will.
Acknowledgements I offer my thanks to all who worked untiringly with me. To my husband Ed, thank you for your continual love, patience, and understanding for fifty-five years of blessed marriage. To my dear daughter Sylvia, thank you for being my “inspector general” and trainer on this project; your savvy knowledge, wisdom, insight, and encouragement has been just what I needed to make this work a success. To my son Michael, thank you for your willingness to share and to help with this project, your insight has been encouraging. To Michelle Saucedo, thanks for your help. To Gwen your eagerness to help gave me a timely boost. You love helping others, and that is a crown in your memoir. To Saba, my spiritual daughter, your desire to help was impeccable thank you.
Introduction Believe it or not, the supernatural fire is like-unto the burning bush that never burned up. In our day, we have never seen or known such a thing. The question was asked, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?”
They said, “We have not heard of such a thing as the Holy Ghost.”
Today, some have experienced it and believe in it; some have heard of it and are afraid to experience it, not realizing they are missing out on God’s fullness of power without measure. Many are operating on half-full, like a car running on a half-empty tank of gas. The overflowing well hasn’t begun filling them up to the full, running over and flowing out to the lives of others. The power of God’s pure and holy divine presence is the supernatural baptism of the Holy Ghost power with the presence of fire sent by Jesus Christ flowing through your inner being. It’s a flowing river of life stirring up some and imparting life to others. It’s totally unlike the natural fire that is destructive and devouring.
If there is an aching void, a thirst for something your heart is set on and you are consumed with it, that is a desire for the baptism of the Holy Ghost power gift with the fullness of fire without limitation. The “liquid oil” of the fire of the Holy Spirit’s fullness is sacred, loving, virtuously pure, inwardly soul-searching, and sets captives free. The presence of fire breathed into you by God is not to be misused and abused. It was promised and kept even now that the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus Christ would come and fill you with the fullness of the power of fire. The Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost are the same. They are the third person of the “Trinity the three in one” (I John 5:7, KJV). The Holy Spirit exercises the power of the Father and the Son in creation and redemption. He draws in the believers to Christ to see with new insight through the new lens of the eyes of faith.
My desire is to educate disciples of God and revive their interests in the gift of fire from on high. This is to restore and renew the belief that makes known the simple truth with understanding of its power. Desire this truth of the fire of God, let it speak to your hearts with a yearning to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost’s fullness of fire. Be advised, this fullness is the quality or condition of being filled to the fullest in various senses. It is the condition of containing in abundance or abounding in all that is contained in your maker God. You will acknowledge the fullness of time is the destine time for you. Will you step out in it is the question?
You have the volume control--the ability to turn off the negative and receive a great manifestation of a new anointing. It’s already loosed in the heavens for you to walk in the liberty of it.
The believers who were ignited by the Holy Spirit will overcome the strongholds on the soul and the lake of fire. You will see your mission as the church--the called-out ones--is to minister and not spectate. You will see and should experience the life-changing encounter of the Holy Spirit’s power in the lives of Jesus Christ, the Apostles, and yours as well. It’s up to you, the readers, to stay the course and not give up on God. May you enjoy this seven-course spiritual meal prepared for you by the Holy Spirit. Let’s look at real life and sugar-coat nothing.
Chapter 1 b
The Natural Fire Opens the Book Sodom and Gomorrah were void of God’s vision for them, the infilling of the “fullness of the Holy Ghost gift of power and fire without measure” (Genesis 13:13, KJV). They went from making merry and glorying in their sins to dust and ashes (see Genesis 24:28 KJV). God saw that their hearts were hardened against Him then and continue to be so in the world today, as we can see. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah didn’t know Him, nor did they care. Is that where you are? Is there a hunger for more of God? Many are saying no, “That was then, and this is now, we don’t need the Holy Ghost’s gift of fire power under grace.” For your information, grace is God’s favor to utilize the power gift as an effective tool for witnessing.
God hated the fleshly works of sin and loved His people too much to let them self-destruct. This was what happened when His people refused to repent. A powerful God created a people He wanted to be powerful like Him, and sin was and still is a power blocker.
A Sudden Thing Happened
A sudden overthrow without warning took their minds by surprise with brimstone and the natural fire. The wicked flesh had come to a dead end forever. In everyone’s life, there has to come a cleansing by fire. His love for His people makes it happen by His sanctifying, purging work through His active principles of the living Word of fire. Jesus sent His Holy Ghost power with a fire gift to do the purging and cleansing work in God’s children. His power of fire sets the sinful ways of the fleshly soul and body on fire, burning it up from ash to ash and dust to dust, gone from His sight. Nothing is left but pure hearts and minds eager to serve Him. You are His child; together, we are His children. The belief system of everyone must be well-grounded in right living and godly behavior, in spite of cultural shifts.
Judgment by Fire
There are those who love courting the sins of the flesh. Lot, the son of Abraham, set the example; he chose to camp outside of sin, in a small city name Zoar. Hiding in sin where no one sees or knows him. God, the discerner of all things, knows the intent of the heart. His judgment will come on the continued sins of the flesh. He lovingly removes His powerful hand from covering us when judgment is due. Set out to please your Father God, and you will avoid the unpleasant judgment by fire. Take the challenge and search it out in the Scriptures; you will be lively and exuberantly happy you did.
A Destroying Fire
A deposit of brimstone and asphalt was in the area of Sodom. Fierce-striking lightening from God’s anger ignited the gases that were released, which caused a deluge of rain fire and smoke. Divine judgment had arrived on the scene. When judgment is due, your God is no respecter of persons. The overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning to the world. It happened then and believe me, even now, it is taking place in the current new age of ability. The coronavirus this year 2020 has put the whole world on lock-down so we can give Him some valuable time. We cannot avoid such a dangerous downfall as this when true heart repentance is needed.
No Question is a Dumb Question
Does it mean we serve a mean angry God? He is not mean, but He does get angry; there is a difference between being mean and being angry. We serve a loving, wonderful, kind, tenderhearted, gentle, and patient God who seeks an
obedient people and to chastise those He loves. God hates sin. Does God take pleasure in allowing the judgment of wrath on His people? No, He does what He does because He loves His children.
The desired fullness of the Holy Ghost and fire sets us free from the love of a sinful life. We can have His profound zealousness of power with a great desire to be an influence in the workplace. In the church house, the white house, and our house. Many are panting, hungry, and starving to experience the exhilaration of God’s power upon them if they haven’t received Him. His grace can invade your hearts by faith. Receive this, let it sink deep into your spirit in great appreciation for how it will benefit your life. Let it be your focus for the new thing He has promised you. It will make the old thing you used to do as nothing.
Scars from the Natural Fire
You’ve seen how the natural fire disfigures by inflicting a wound even after surgery some scars remains. They’re talked about as a fault or blemish left as proof of what a person went through. You have seen it, haven’t you? A fault can be dealt with through the cleansing work of the Holy Ghost power and fire gift. The spiritual fire beautifies the believer for life. As long as the fire is there, and you keep it fueled with the active voice of God to hear Him. God’s fundamental truth of the living Word will always burn deeply in your soul. Your beauty in the creator is powerful in you and comely on you. Your glowing imagination with the brightness of His inspiration manifests in a fire-like glow shining through you, and it is His glorious light. Others will know His presence of fire is with you.
The Flesh Dies Daily
The book opens with the carnal mind in charge. Cry if you want to. It makes
sense to denounce carnality and the test of flesh denial. It’s an individual thing for all believers to forbid the flesh from being in charge. Taking over and doing what it wants to do. We are given power over the flesh with the active principles of the living Word of fire working in us. The purpose of the purging fire is to blow away the good-for-nothing worthless chaff from the mind and spirit, and to flow through your whole being for empowerment and service to the Lord. Say it now: “Flesh, I deny you the right to rule over me any longer.” Have its funeral and say, “Goodbye flesh, hello Spirit of the living God, come live and abide in me forever.”
Jesus ed the carnal fleshly test, and so can we. “And Jesus full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan and was led about by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days being tempted by the devil” (Luke 4:1-2, NASB). Are you experiencing a wilderness test now? Be grateful it’s for your good and not to harm you. The word tempted is to try to prove and put to the test. It’s in your days of trials and experiences you will learn Satan tempts and God tests. This is your opportunity to allow the active fire of the Word to put to death the works of the active flesh. This is something everyone must do.
Temptation Resisted
The devil is defeated—he is mentally unsound and doesn’t know it. His fake news to you of what he can do for you is a lie and has no power to it. All he knows is how to lie, the truth is not in him. Jesus stood up against his temptation, knowing the devil is a liar and the father of lies. The young believers in Christ need to know this. To fall for what the devil says is to fall for deception. As I look back on the Word, it is a great teaching for an understanding between the natural, the real, the spiritual, the fake, or the lack thereof. Then I looked forward for greater enlightenment from the front to the back of the Bible, you can do it too. What happened then? I learned more than I ever knew before.
It teaches you how to do what the savior did. “Jesus said unto him, ‘Get thee
hence, Satan for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve’” (Luke 4: 8, NKJV). Here you have this active principle of the living Word of fire power in your mouth, speak it!
Rise up and do what Jesus did--reject the devil, deny his lies, nullify them, and watch him flee from you.
the Test of Doubt
You are challenged to take a stand against the deceptive words from the devil. He must be rejected and refused by you, the anointed of God. You will see him leave your presence, your children, and your household in fear, screaming that you know your God. His satanic “if” is extremely high and over-the-top, depositing doubt in the mind of the . However, it has no effect on you. When the people of God know their God, they will do exploits. Jesus gave a clear, precise promise He would send the Holy Spirit and fire to be manifested in His people, He loves. He yearns for us to experience the exhilarating, lively enthusiasm of His fire and glory. Think on this, when the devil leaves you, God always comfort you with the living Word. After you, the true believer, have suffered a while and endured your trying wilderness experience of barrenness, aloneness, and emptiness, being tempted of the devil. Then your God will lead you to others to witness and to the “pulpit,” if it’s included in your future purpose and destiny. Worship Him in the beauty of His holiness with undivided attention. He gets the glory, and your reward will be great in heaven. How do you feel now and what do you think? It’s all good.
The Power of Words
Receive this promise: “Behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire” (Jeremiah 5:14b, KJV). Believe this principle and achieve it with your
unshakable faith. Obey His word by putting Him in remembrance of His Word. He wants you to ask Him in faith to make it happen. The Holy Spirit inspires the message, trust Him to teach you what to say. He is covering you in His hands. Your time is now to depend on the Holy Spirit who teaches you how to use His Godly wisdom, knowledge, and understanding that the enemy cannot resist. Man’s worldly wisdom empowers his natural life. God’s words out of your mouth are the power gifts of fire deposited in you for your spiritual life and work.
Your Preparation Is at Hand
Seek out a mentor the Father has for you. When you do, don’t try to mentor them, let them mentor you. Isn’t that the reason you sought them out? They must be one called and ordained by God, who is anointed to train sons and daughters in Christ for their future purpose and destiny ahead. Fear has gripped the hearts of many and made the fearful afraid to ister words of life on behalf of God. Those being robbed at the hand of the oppressor must get free. The God we know, love, and serve doesn’t want His wrath to go out like a destroying fire under His covenant of grace. Hardly anyone is crying repent for fear of being ridiculed by trusted friends. We are engaging in spiritual warfare battle for the salvation of souls and a change of heart to be prepared for powerful days ahead.
Trust in the God of Fire
While there are some that don’t know Him, there are some that do, and they are boldly speaking out against the terror day and night. The days are here now! God’s people are falling to their weakened knees in repentance and acceptance of His love for them. Rivers of living waters are flowing out of the depth of their bellies, setting captives free to live life in the Holy Spirit. You will rise up one day out of your shame and the weights that are giving you a set-back. You will seek after the fullness of the power of fire. For goodness’ sake! It’s a must-have to be productive in building up a strong, powerful, and able body of Christ, to do
exceedingly, abundantly, and above what they think they cannot do. You need to baptize them in Jesus’ name, and God will seal it with His Holy Spirit of promise. Everyone seeking after the creator of heaven and earth is in dire straits for the Holy Spirit, first and foremost in their life. Otherwise, they will have no one to guide them into the path of righteousness and comfort them throughout all the days of their lives.
Chapter 2 b
Unauthorized and Strange I believe a requirement needed in the world today is that no one should work in the church or business institution without the fullness of the Holy Ghost and power with fire. The leader in authority, president, or boss in charge is included. Some say, “You don’t need this gift to work in a business institution.” Seriously, study Jacob who worked for his uncle Laban. God blessed Laban’s company because the anointing to be a blessing was on Jacob. Laban put Jacob in that position not realizing he had the power to be a blessing. There are many saved, dedicated, powerful, anointed, honest believers whose hearts God has empowered greatly, working in business with the boss, unaware of who they really are.
Wouldn’t it be better if all were of the same mind working together in Christ? There is a hastiness to be in position of authority, it creates a false fire in the house of worship or a company of employment. It has no benefit for others to receive. It offers a dryness of the natural carnal mind of a man or woman in charge for themselves like Jacob’s uncle Laban. He used strange fire of trickery to deceive Jacob his nephew for his own selfish gratification. If there wasn’t anything in it for him, he would have let Jacob go by firing him. It’s strange to some, but if that’s all you know, all you were taught, it isn’t strange—it’s real life and how things should be in the mind of those that are deceived and delusional.
Strange Fire Mind-set
Never be anxious to offer before others’ strange fire, not understanding the harmful effects of not knowing proper code of behavior in the church or work environment. Things that are spoken of as “strange” are unknown things that have never been experienced before by the hasty seekers of self-promotion. “Strange fire” is taking matters upon oneself to serve without being told to do so. It is seen where the flesh is ruling. This is not the correct working order, in God’s
house or a business institution doing real, honest business. It will not be acknowledged by your Father God. He is aware of those who have experienced His real fire and knows the difference between the fake and the real.
The Grass Is Not Greener
So, you think it’s easy? You have watched your authority do it and think you can do it too, only to find out you are not qualified or ready. Some pay the price for what they do in the flesh. Ask yourself, “Have I been installed in this position by my leader in authority?
“Am I properly anointed and appointed to perform in this sacred position in the body of Christ?”
God created all things, and by Him do all things exist. He rejects selfish appointment out of hasty action. The Bible says, “All flesh is as grass; and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, But the word of the Lord endures forever” (I Peter 1:24-25, NKJV). The glory and frailty of man is as grass, with too many uncertainties in life to put one’s trust in. Since you were born again of the flesh, which is referred to as dishonest seed, you must also perish like the grass. Live in this life by the Word of God and live forever. His uncompromising Word lives forever.
Learning the Hard Way
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took censer, put fire and incense in them, and offered strange, fleshly fire before the Lord. Which He commanded them not. Where there is smoke from dishonesty, look for the destructive fire. “So
there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord” (Leviticus 10:1-2, NKJV). The two of them seemingly were overly zealous and jealous. Where there is smoke from dishonesty, look for the destructive fire. Beware, your hurry-up-and-do-what-you-want-to-do attitude can cause senseless, untimely, unnecessary death--natural and spiritual. This Bible truth is not meant to scare you but to prepare you for a powerful work. If they had known better, their lives as believers in Christ would have been saved for the perfect timing of the Lord to serve in their ordained, justified, and rightful place. His timing is everything to the believer. When we learn better, the soul will be convicted to do better.
Misguided Zeal
A believer can have misguided zeal when they are misinformed without knowledge that is appealing to the perfect and powerful God. There is an end coming to the life of the flesh, with its hidden agendas that are seated in ulterior motive and cut-throating. The need is great for the art of planning before God for your church house; under delegated authority, your work must be accepted by God, the supreme being in all the earth working through all His believers. Otherwise, the nature of the flesh will be in control.
Healed Wounds
If we physically cut ourselves, the wound must be cleansed from all foreign bodies that are unsafe for good health. A clean dressed wound can be healed. The works of the flesh require the same treatment. It must be cleansed and purged from the misguided zeal, the strange fires of the flesh. Never get in a hurry to disobey in a rebellious way against authority following how you feel. To be led by your feeling is asking for a disaster. To be willfully head-strong brings shame to the leader and the body. It will block the actual fruitfulness of the church and business governing. If the delegated leader in charge elects to do nothing about it, the anointing of fire dies. Every leader knows this; if not, they
are not an ordained qualified, called, anointed, and appointed leader.
A Time of Waiting
To all God’s children anxious to do altar work without permission, beware of stooping to what I want to do. Even now, some think, “It’s easy, I have watched those in charge do it.” The natural man says, “I know the correct way, I have the answers.” They have no clue of the outcome of their lack of knowledge. Hopefully, they will figure it out before being snared in the trap of the enemy to the mind with regrets. The list is endless; they think, “No one has to tell me anything.” Here, you have a spirit of confidence and arrogance in one’s independence without the proper knowledge. Don’t go there; it’s a high price to pay for your hastiness to get ahead of God’s instructions through your leader.
The Courage to Wait
“Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart: Wait, I say, on the Lord” (Psalms 27:14, NKJV). This is your active principle of the living Word of God’s presence of fire to live by. The ability to wait has a great reward for the growth you need to work effectively in your position. Be happy and content while you wait. Serving while you wait allows the purpose of God to be clearly known by you. The liberty you have comes through your God-given freedom and revelation deposited in you by the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus to live in you. He gives you strength for every battle in the same way the warriors gird their loins in preparation for war.
A Jealous Father
The love, joy, peace, holiness, and righteousness of the perfect and powerful God has great value to all who receive Him. He gets jealous when we seek honor, love, and a pat on the back from man. Sanctify and glorify Him in all you do in His name. He alone deserves the praise. He blesses the heart, inflaming it with love for Him in worship. There is a fascination with what and how He does things. You get excited, captivated, and more drawn to Him in the Holy presence of His baptizing oil of fire. You can possess this wonderful, valuable, and priceless desire in life not to sit on it but to set captives free doing what Jesus did. Your desire is His desire to reach the unreachable, to do the impossible in the body of Christ. To function as an on fire, holy nation to accomplish His plan in life. Make a decision now not to pay the unwelcome price for what the flesh leads you to do; use caution. Question your motive for what you are attempting to do. If your leader has hearing ears and seeing eyes, with an understanding heart they will know when it’s time to launch you in position. To learn about Nadab and Abihu’s accomplished plan, convict the heart not to do what they did. The end result for them was physical death.
False Cravings
There is a false, faulty craving, and not the true craving in the mind. These hurtful cravings end in regret with true heart repentance whenever there is rebellion to those in authority. It takes away the glory in the house of worship. When you serve, not acting rashly but serving humbly in obedience, you and your work will be accepted by the one who anoints and qualifies the anointing in you. When you wait patiently on God, there will never be an offering of strange unauthorized fire, but holy fire received upon the mind and the heart sent from heaven. Think about that before acting and waiting patiently on the Lord.
The Carnal Flesh Must Die
A humble leader of integrity watching over the flock uses wisdom when rebuking before all so all can learn. They know the works of the flesh cannot
survive in the believer, it must not go unchecked by the overseer, the appointed person in charge. It must crumble to the ground like a high-rise building when blown up with dynamite. They should never sugar-coat, nor withdraw from speaking the truth in love seasoned with grace to guide the Nadab and Abihu in God’s house. The chosen leaders are given the power and authority to tell the hasty and rebellious go sit on the side-line until they hear from them or their appointee and wait on the Father’s timing for them. All believers must stop comparing God’s fire against the flesh. They don’t measure up. Some say, “The fire was there today.” The question is asked which fire? The flesh fire or God’s presence of fire? “Oh! I don’t know.” This is telling you they are judging by the carnal senses. The carnal mind must die daily or pay the sit-down-price; it has a humbling effect that benefits you as you minister in the fullness of God’s fire.
The Sit and Stay Period
What to expect during the sit and stay put period is a new person who rises up in the Spirit. Ready to serve in a new changed life in their community and abroad. There’s a greater yielding to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Your leader begins to use you to do a work for Christ for a lasting effect leading a prayer group, visiting the sick and the incarcerated, serving in the food lines. These are services that glorifies God. Rise up from your sit and say nothing period. Follow your leader’s instructions; your freedom is on the way to begin your journey seeking to save the loss and help others on your way forward. Believe to see the manifested glory of the Lord in the land of the living. There is more to the Christian walk than just saying, “I believe in God while pursuing after everything that benefits the flesh.”
The body of Christ needs committed, anointed vessels--those who have taken possession of God’s power gift of fire. They employ it by the impartation to others to grow the body of Christ to succeed, prosper, thrive, and cause you to flourish in a powerful way. Supernatural increase belongs to everyone in the house. The church of Jesus Christ--whether Baptist, Methodist, or any other name given by man--should never suffer lack in any way. If that is the case,
could it be a false sense of who you are? That you’re not producing the proof of who Christ is in you? When awakened out of sleep, it’s alright by God to search out the answer of where you went wrong and bring correction. Your God stands ready to and advance you forward to enlargement.
Chapter 3 b
The Tongue is a Fire There must come a desire for the power of the Holy Ghost’s baptizing work from God’s gift with fire power. Without this power gift, the tongue cannot be tamed by man’s own efforts. It takes the active principles of the living Word to bring under control the unruly evil language by the fire sent from God within you. The Bible proclaims:
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our that it defiles the whole body, and set on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:5-6, 8, NKJV
The believer in Christ needs courage to discipline and harness this pole in the mouth to talk right, live right, and do right in the body of Christ by the work of the Spirit in you. That’s love; it motivates you with a desire to do the above.
An Evil Power of Speech
The tongue is considered as the principal organ of speech; it is a must have by everyone. It causes one to boast in their arrogance and blesses the greedy, who believe like they believe and act in the same manner as they do. They trust in their wealth and boast in the lying multitude of their riches. All such false boasting is evil. Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? It is the goodness of God that endures continuously. Your false evil speech cannot redeem a brother
or sister, nor give to God a ransom for them. No one but Jesus can redeem us from the pit. When will you relieve yourself from the wicked boastings of autocracy? Let this be your heart’s desire, and let what you yearn for and seek after be this: the fullness of God’s gift of power with fire. The plea is for who will step up and acknowledge, “I will, release me O God and let me go free from this evil power of speech.”
Full of Deadly Poison
There is such an abundance of sin in the tongue that it may be called a world of iniquity. It breaks through all boundaries and rules, spitting out divisive poison, not caring who is being hurt by it as long as the self is being gratified by it. To fear an unruly, cursing tongue is one of the greatest and pernicious evils. It draws the whole body into the guilt of sin and sets on fire the course of nature. The affairs of humankind and societies all over the world are thrown into confusion in using the mouth as a deadly flame of fire. Many are raising hell, picking fights with one another, not fully understanding why there is a lashing out in anger when sparked by an injurious, unrestrained organ. The answer is, there are many plagued by generational deadly poison, damaging root causes that must be purged out by the cleansing power of the Holy Ghost’s pure fire of God. To the church, the called-out ones, we can help them with love seasoned with wisdom.
A Great Forest of Followers
This tongue we have is small but powerful, like a bit, rudder, and a spark. The tremendous destructive power of this organ of speech comes from hell. Many are unaware how much hellishness is involved in promoting the dangerous fire of the tongue. It is mischievous in producing rage and hatred and those things which serve the purpose of the devil. The vain, boastful talk can create a forest of blind followers without knowledge, but when their distasteful babblings are condemned, they are wounded because they can’t have life the way they want it. They will sit, pout, and sulk all day long with woe is me, while simultaneously
refusing to receive Christ in the heart for a changed life. Their vain talk is mostly lies sprinkled with a little truth with a play on words to pump up the self and deceive the innocent. This is happening as we speak.
Are You Listening
Listen to what others are saying; when you do, it avoids becoming brain dead. This mean you are following after someone or a thing, not knowing if they will tell you to jump off this mountain together with them and suffer the consequence of it. The devil heard and is still hearing what’s being said and is acting on it. If you don’t have anointed, hearing ears opened by the Holy Spirit, simply ask God to open them up to hear and discern the motive behind what the enemy is doing and saying repetitively. It will keep your brain alive, active, and well-endowed in the sanity of God. He will teach and lead you in His divine paths of righteousness for His namesake. As you walk through your valleys in life, you will fear no evil (Psalms 23:4, NKJV). You believe the Lord is with you, His protection covering you. This is the blessings of possessing hearing ears to hear what God is saying and judge what others are proclaiming by the power of the Holy Spirit. Everyone that’s saying something is not going anywhere.
Gut Sensitivity Really!
This slang is not a dignified use as it pertains to man. Some believe, My gut is telling me this or that. Be sure it’s not your abdominal cavity or bowels growling because you put the wrong food in it. Be sure it’s not your belly or stomach, the seat of your uncontrolled appetite or a spirit of gluttony you are mistakenly thinking its God talking to you. Be certain its God’s Holy Spirit speaking through your inward part or inner man into your hearing ears. Many of us prefer the Biblical word “belly” instead of the slang word gut. The Bible says, “He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart [belly] will flow rivers of living waters” (John 7:38, NKJV).
Believe Christ is the water of life promised to you by the Holy Spirit. No one can satisfy your thirst like Jesus when you answer the universal call to come take a drink of the living water of life. Expand your faith to receive the spiritual river, a channel of truth flowing out of you. You the spirit filled believers are instruments of blessings to meet the needs of others.
A Check in Your Spirit
Man cannot tame the tongue, but God can by the power of the Holy Spirit if He lives in you. He is the check or nudge in your spirit urging you not to do or say a certain thing. You can demand your flap in the mouth to speak appropriately. In the natural, it’s difficult to tame it, which is why it takes the gift of the Holy Ghost’s power with fire requiring your serious attention with great and careful watchfulness, discernment, and prayer. The Holy Spirit is the instructor; trust Him to teach you how to use it in the service of the Lord. The check in your spirit by the Holy Spirit keeps your tongue under control placing it under arrest to deprive it of its liberty of freedom of action in saying and doing the wrong thing at the wrong time for what you think is the right reason.
The Wisdom of the Wise
The wise is not out to divide; they use the wisdom of the Almighty, and they seek Him first before speaking. They have a heart for the needs of the people. Who is wise among you? Let them have understanding, good conduct, good works, and meekness. The wise knows how to refrain the tongue, when to keep silent, and say nothing when needed. They have a civil tongue in their head to avoid rudeness at any cost. They are anointed to rebuke you in love when they hear slanderous words out of your mouth to injure others. You won’t see inconsistency; in the wise you will see constant and steady effort in their thoughts and actions. Many have taken note of the divine image of God being
manifested through them and all leaders. This is the way it should be in all of the existing houses throughout the land. The wisdom of God is the principal thing for all Christian believers in Christ. Wisdom is understanding, prudence, and insight into the true nature of things, as well as how to apply the distinct proper application. It is possessing the ability to discern modes of action and their results. Those who are wise are endowed with spiritual Godly wisdom. They are reflecting on the deeper issues and the meaning of life, the worth and value of a spiritually well-disciplined, committed life.
With the supernatural empowerment of the baptizing gift of the Holy Ghost’s power with fire, you, the believers who are able to keep God’s moral and ethical laws, will be rewarded by God with long life, health, wealth, possessions, respect, security, and self-control. The wise teach the unwise, bringing them in harmony with the love and wisdom of God they desperately want everyone to have. The wisdom and grace of God enables you to rule the actions of the tongue. In doing this, you are proving yourselves to be perfect and upright in Him. You are the one who will not offend others in words this is proving you as earnest and well-advanced in Christ as a Christian. A well-trained tongue empowers you to speak with humility as one who is always teachable willing to learn. Those using their vernacular of words in praying to God, worshiping and praising Him, should never use it in cursing and slandering others. It must be utilized in addressing the divine heavenly being, God, the Father, creator of heaven and earth about the wonders of His love, mercy, and grace.
Chapter 4 b
The Greatest Liberator Ever Keep your desire for the fire on top of your faith, confident you will receive the fullness of His gift of fire endued with power. Your transparency in prayer will meet that need for the cleansing with fire. The spirit, soul, and body are in need of a supernatural purging from sin for the work set before you. No one is expected to endure what they don’t know, nor can they fix what they won’t confront. The yearning of the savior is to teach and empower the believer with what they never knew. Was your growth hampered by the enemy when you decided to seek after the fullness of God’s gift of fire power? You wanted a changed lifestyle, didn’t you? Instead, you gave up without understanding the gift of fire sent from heaven for your endowment in God. There are many people who actually knew beforehand that seeing, hearing listening, learning, and receiving was the first step in salvation. You learn faith comes by hearing what is told, and what is heard comes by preaching of the good news (Romans 10:17, AMP). You should have been told to believe and trust in God, who through Christ became a man, lived a perfect life, died a sacrificial death for sin, and was empowered by the Holy Spirit. He rose again in a glorified body for His people to enjoy eternal life by the Holy Spirit’s transforming power and authority. Were you told the cross of Christ fulfilled God’s plan of salvation to be activated in your life and the lives you witness to? The power of fire is a gift from God.
When Faith Comes
Faith is a power gift from God, salvation is God’s free gift imparted in the hearts of the hearers through the power of the Holy Spirit. Those who hear the message of Christ receive it and are saved by grace through faith. Faith is coming alive in your heart now. Rise up, get back in there, and be transformed by hearing and receiving the cross of Christ through faith. You are challenged to see faith as “decrease and increase”; decide now which will it be for you. A spirit of increase in faith is your first principle to possessing the fullness of the Holy Ghost without measure. The Bible says, “But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him” (Hebrews 11:6, NKJV). Continuous increase
in faith is your requirement to deal with the issues of life confronting you.
The Master of Time
Jesus came proclaiming this truth:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captive and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 4:18-19, KJV
The Spirit was upon him to do a supernatural work, to lift the heavy burdens of those whose senses are dull and uninformed. To anoint with spiritual healing and enlightenment. To release His people into spiritual liberty and the power of vision. He gave you His power, do you believe this? If not, arise out of the shell you made for yourself and continue to live there. Think big; this is your acceptable year to receive all He has for you to accomplish in life. “For he whom God has sent, speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure” (John 3:34, NKJV).
Christ was a powerful messenger and a mouthpiece for God, to explain and interpret the will of God with His inspiring heavenly revelation. The Lord’s message convicts the heart and gives hope to men and knowledge of eternal life. It is trustworthy as a sure, perfect, and clear word of God, and it is profitable for instructions. Ignorance of it is perilous. Search it out and make it the standard of your faith. The Bible proclaims Him as the Savior of the world anointed with
authority and power of speech with undeniable truth. He never had servants, but they called Him master and Lord. He didn’t possess a college degree, but they called Him teacher asking Him questions. Never did He carry natural medicine with Him, and they called Him a healer of sickness and a deliver who sets those in bondage free. We’ve never seen Him with a huge army backing Him up, but kings feared Him. Military battles were never won by Him like King David, yet He became the conqueror of the world. He was the only son of God crucified, buried in a tomb, rose again and is now seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for us.
Heart Break Avenue
Nothing can be more heart-breaking to a believer than the actual discouragement of a denial of life’s expectations. Although it’s not a definite denial, it appears to be a delay. You say, “But Jessie, they left me, it broke my heart. I will never love again.” When you get through it and over it, you will be empowered to love again. Most of us fellowshipping in a relationship with the Father believe what seems to be a sad delay is not a denial. It’s a blessing to the believer to enjoy at last those answered prayers we waited for coming to past. Many are not pining and whining anymore on heart-break avenue. They are greeting others with, “It is well the joy of the Lord is my strength.” Since that is so, hold on to your joy; if you lose it, you will lose your strength.
Stages of Spiritual Growth
Why did your belief in Jesus Christ hinder you from growing in Him? It is because you never studied it for yourself, nor were you told about the stages of growth and what to expect. After receiving Him, you took your first step as a babe but should never end as one. There are two stages: the milk of the Word belongs to the babes in Christ, and the strong meat belong to the mature Christian believer in Him. Were you told this? Ignorance of the Word is for the immature. Did anyone show it to you in the Bible? “For everyone who partakes
of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe” (Hebrew 5:13, NKJV). There is always time for learning about spiritual growth in Him. If your answer is yes, you are unskilled in the words of righteousness, is it that you never adapted to the truth and therefore remain spiritually immature? Is that your status now? If so, you know why you failed to reach the stage of maturity. Get up! Cast off and throw down all restraints, take on a love of the Word and receive it as food, then go teach, speak, and share with God’s people. Solid food belongs to those of full age. Those who have had their senses exercised to discern both good and evil, your spiritual growth is in the active principles of the living Word of fire; it’s your Biblical food to grow in maturity and spiritual discernment. To know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil.
Harmful Cravings of the Soul
Gluttony habits must come to a halt. These are habits of the soul; it is like a spoiled baby. It wants the comfort of the flesh warm milk and mama. It doesn’t want to get weaned. They cry and scream like never before at weaning time. The Scripture says,
Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little.
Isaiah 28: 9-10, KJV
We the leaders have been pacifying the church, we must get the pacifier out of the mouths of the babes and empower them to grow up and mature on the meat of the living Word for their lives. A powerful transformation takes place, when there is a change from milk to strong meat for maturity in spiritual growth.
You Have a Helper
Jesus Christ endured the cross of shame by taking upon Himself our sin and died taking away our blame. He rose from the dead in resurrection, life for all to take part in a new life with Him. Christ, the greatest liberator ever, sent the Holy Spirit to help you. What He said to me is for you also: “You are killing yourself by what you are eating.” I quickly repented, and God set me free. He will do the same for you. This spoke to the natural and what I was doing. If you give a baby Christian the milk of the Word, all their life they will die spiritually. They need the strong meat of the Word for spiritual growth. Give them a seven-course meal, some milk for the babes, and strong meat for the mature. If those who think they are mature refuse the meat, they’re not ready. They are still a babe. To give Satan an inch in these, he will get a foothold on the soul, spoiling the growth process. To ignore Satan’s demon activity is an invitation for him to enter in. The Holy Spirit is your helper; He has promised you success in life as a mature Christian believer.
The Soul Takes a Hike
The soul life is the flesh life that has not been cut away unchanged or uncircumcised. It is the carnal insensitive stony part of the natural man’s heart. It is always impulsive and opinionated, closed-minded, arrogant, unbending, unyielding, and dogmatic. It will quickly oblige and light you up in a harsh way when you disagree with them. However, there is hope for the soul.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 11:19, KJV
When the soul gets saved, it is raised from a sunken fallen state to the new spiritual mind of life and peace. The new man with the Holy Spirit inspired renewed heart takes over, and the hardness takes a hike. Now, it has a longing to spend time with God in the secret place. It’s there in your Bible, Psalms 91. The hunger is to get the mind of Christ in every situation. Before receiving Jesus Christ, the soul didn’t want to get quiet before the Lord.
Where There’s Failing Strength
Jesus the Liberator promised to send the fire of the Holy Ghost to do an inner purging work to restore strength and fulfill His promise to you. His desire is for you to have the fullness of fire to set the spirit-man free from the bondage of anger, resentment, bitterness of soul, hatred in the heart, stubbornness, malice, intimidation, violence, a murderous spirit, incest, and rape holding captive the mind. Abuse hurts; it causes one to be heavy laden in self-pity and unable to rise up and move forward. The rehearsing of past hurt and pain continues to block spiritual growth. Set the reset button after you are delivered from all that is holding you in bondage.
Don’t Throw in the Towel
Don’t quit and give up with, “It’s not worth it, I quit, it’s too hard.” If you say you can’t, you won’t, why? Because you will have what you say, if you say you can by faith in God, you will possess all that is contained in Him. Take the leap of faith and do something with your life. Do not withdraw in fear for something you didn’t know, but now you do. It’s never too late to try again. His desire is to blow you mind taking it by surprise. Your victory is in the living Word; it’s your sword. Use it to speak life to your mind against attacks. The anointing of the
Holy Spirit’s power is an empowerment to take charge of your promised purpose and destiny. Drop-outs never have any success. Believe in the deep cleansing of fire, the active rules of God’s Word. The more you read and study it, the quicker the cleansing work will be done. It is a provision made for everyone in bondage. Many individuals have said, “I use to think, plot and carry out sin. I had one foot in the church and the other in the world, doing what the world does and loving it, but I don’t anymore. Jesus set me free.” Since that work is done, nothing shall be impossible.
The Desire to Duplicate Him
Everything He did was for our example. With one word, Jesus cast out evil spirits everywhere He went. He confronted the enemy, spoke the Word, and destroyed the enemy’s stronghold on the souls of Gods people. He spoke and blind eyes opened. He spoke and the lame man walked, the dumb talked, and demons came screaming out. The wind and sea obeyed His voice. The dead were raised, and Lazarus came walking out of the grave. Do you have a hunger for this? Do not fear; it takes away your focus and cripples your faith. The glory of the Lord is still here. Speak His Word, live it, and watch Him do what He said He would do. He is not a man that He should lie; if He said it, He will do it. Not everyone has the longing to do what Jesus did. Some are content to sit on the sideline talking and do nothing.
Fear Has Torment
Fear kills power, cancels out faith and paralyzes its victim. You are not a victim; you are a victor casting down doubt from your mind. It’s a conflict between what you see and believe with your natural eyes that is usually temporary. You must quickly seize every beneficial moment confront it and unleash your unshakable and steady faith on it, commanding the unbelief to flee from your mind. Cast down the fear. Speak the words of life over yourself and live. To be able to speak the Word, you must first know what it says; no one can speak what they don’t
know. You need faith to build a business, raise up an army for God, and strengthen the body of Christ. Believe me, a spirit of fear has lost its grip on your soul, God’s power and faith are merging together because the liberator’s angels are going before you to prepare the way for spiritual growth in Christ.
Step out in Faith
Your past failures must not dictate your future. In fact, let it be a stepping stone to your future. Focus your mind and do not think about what you lost. Look forward to what you have to gain now and in the future. Take aggressive action; the sheer force of the Word has the power to deliver. To give in to doubt would be a travesty on your part. We can choose spiritual death and remain the same without the infilling of the Holy Spirit’s active fire, or we can choose life in the Spirit and the power of His fire. Why do you need it?
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the statute of the fullness of Christ; That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive.
Ephesians 4: 12-14, KJV
There Is Strength in Unity
This walk is the Lord’s heartbeat: the unity in the church to walk in your spiritual gifts. Christ is the way and the truth. The Holy Spirit who guides the
church is the Spirit of truth. As followers of Christ, we must be committed to the truth. He told His disciples:
Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them, (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go then and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew 28:18-19, AMP
The Liberator, Jesus Christ, said the great commission is to go preach this universal gospel in demonstration of the Spirit and in power. Those called and told to go must obey His Word. The command is yours to baptize in the name of the Trinity, the three in one God. This mission is your duty as a minister of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Chapter 5 b
When Desire Comes The longing ceased, and the desire for God’s presence is fulfilled with the ion of Christ. His desire for us is to have comion for others and a love for His active words of fire. A true melting heart of ion drives out the need for the unprofitable things of the world. Gambling, lying, stealing from others, cheating, mingling in worldly bars, believing in old wives’ tales, and many more. Can anyone bring another out of the world’s system when living like them? No, some will ask, “What are you, the believer in Christ, doing in this bar! You haven’t as yet separated yourself. Why should I?” Apparently, you haven’t obeyed this Bible principle to, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you” (II Corinthians 6:17, NKJV). If this doesn’t convince the heart, convict, cleanse, and bring correction, nothing will. Receive this encouraging Word. Rise up you with a desire for more of Christ. A diverse collection of good-things and even strange things you don’t know much about, has come to you. It will deepen your sincere trust in Him on your post of assignment. Ask yourself, do I have a hunger for more of what God has to offer me? If not, why not take it on and pursue after it with your whole heart and soul? It will pay great spiritual results for your life now and in the future. The supernatural perfect God of power, authority, and strong ability empowers you to reach your planned goals and win in the body of Christ above all odds.
Turn the Page for a New Chapter
Why sit there until you die? Stir up your hunger for the fire that operates in the active living Word. Take in the Word every day for spiritual growth; it is your spiritual food for the soul. Search it out. “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when desire comes, it’s a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12, NKJV). There is a fiery comion of love, joy, and peace to replace the self-will and selfcenteredness in those who truly long for more. Ultimately, you find yourself giving into His will and yearning to be like Him--full of fire. Receive the new and reject the old that was good for then and not for now. You are stepping into a fresh new experience. It’s like being a tree of life in a beautiful pleasurable
garden of paradise where all heaven above rejoices for the fulfillment of a hope deferred, a crown of life worth waiting for. He makes you, the tree, good that your fruits may always be good.
Fire up Your Imagination
How do we win the war for the battle in the mind? Stop forming mental opinions of what is not present to the senses. It’s the cause of mental ideas that are vain, false, ungodly imaginations. By which many are inventing the absent as if it were present. Raise your expectation to achieve the ability to possess the powerful living word of fire without limits. Everyone needs to be endued with power to meet the mandate for ministry in the body of Christ. Your destiny goes far beyond a diluted imagination. It gives spiritual sight to your future motive to build up the body and those in the workplace. Success doesn’t trickle down; it springs up from inside the heart in the believer. Strive for it. A can-do-heart and soul never quits. The fire is sent to keep you fired-up and fueled by the Holy Spirit, ready and active in the service of the Lord, powerfully anointed to obtain great results.
A Shifting Is Needed
If you have to, shift from one position to another. Fear not, you can do it, faith is acting while trusting in God. Build up your spiritual inner-nature and strength in your prayer time; it is essential to the believer’s work. Experience the exhilaration in fighting the good fight to possess what your heart is seeking after. The power and fire of God in your life benefits you and blesses others when teaching them the active principles of the living Word. The fire of the Word is the light and illumination of love for all people in the heart flowing out of you, penetrating the hearts of others. “In the beginning of the world. . . God said Let there be light and there was light” (Genesis 1:1, 3-4, KJV). The light of the Word brings illumination, inspiration, and enlightenment in the soul. Anointed spiritual insight comes with the active principles of the living Word of the Holy Ghost
and fire given without measure. The fire of light and illumination takes you from low weakened visibility in the soul to a profound position of power, authority, and the ability to see deep into the spiritual realm where the natural eyes can’t see.
Vision and Hearing Impaired
The active principles of the living Word of fire purges the negative cataracts from your understanding. Then will the blindness, dullness, and hearing gonebad leave the mind. Expect that precise, clear vision, keenness of hearing spiritually, and sharp discernment in the spirit realm will be yours. The Holy Ghost-filled believers are aware they need eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. If you don’t have seeing eyes and hearing ears you can have your request fulfilled by faith and trust in God. Set your mind to believe that the active principles of God’s anointing and fire in the Bible can operate in you. Nothing can stop you now. The shifting is not going away. Gird up the loins of your mind; a rebuilding is taking place. The weakly built foundations are being strengthened. The souls of those in your sphere of influence are being motivated and improved. Their vision and hearing are coming into clear focus by the presence of fire when they are receiving the Word from you.
Indecision Is not an Option
I had to make a decision. The question I needed to answer was, do I want to live in the bondage of sin all my life rejecting His way? Or did I want to get out of the way and get into His way and allow the fire to set me free from sin into a holy life of freedom? The supernatural warm presence of fire must flow from your heart to the hearts of others. It purges and cleanses thoroughly the old sinful nature. Setting you on fire for Him restored and renewed to proper committed relation with Him. When your God kind of faith and courage connects with the living active Word of fire, nothing shall be impossible for you, the believer in
Christ, to do. The decision is yours to make. Many do not have the complete fullness of the savior’s anointing needed for the work of the ministry. They lack the fruit of God’s patience, endurance, long-suffering, meekness, and gentleness. They are easily angered and are short with others in the simple things of life. Totally unaware each one of us has been given a measure of faith to suffer long with others. With time they will get understanding in learning there’s no need to rush and get ahead of God in ministry.
Our Desire Is His Desire
His requirement for you is to be spiritually minded like Him, transformed into a change life. Have faith in God. He knows and sees your heart and will reward you for openly continuing to trust in the living Word of fire. He gave His life and made it possible for you to have your hearts petition fulfilled. I refer to it as the presence and fullness of the Holy Ghost and fire without measure imparted to the body of Christ and the world. When the heart is surrendered with a sincere eagerness for more of the anointed words of fire to move upon lives. You will be that overflowing deep well powered by the Holy Spirit flowing out of your inner-being touching the hearts and souls of others. It drives out everything hindering the moving of God’s power. Is that what you want? It’s exactly what He wants for you. His desire is for your benefit.
Mount up and Soar
God’s fresh “new anointing” is here now, restoring and reviving your strength to take back destiny. You will do it in an intense lively and aggressive effective way. Can you see your purpose looming before your eyes now? Be patient, it’s coming. Many believers in Christ will say, “Doubtfulness and slowness are gone, my eagerness for the fire has been greatly fulfilled for a hopeful future.” “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31, NKJV). He speaks this for your exaltation. He is your source of
peace in the midst of a storm, your battle ax and rose of Sharon. He is your hiding place to run to in times of trouble. He is your comforter, protector, leader, and guide and much more. Stand up in the empowerment of renewed spiritual strength you have in Him and proceed forward in the Lord!
Claim What You Believe
So, you have a continuous need to be an anointed person on that great outpouring Pentecostal day. It’s not too late to stake your claim to be endued with power. Put your faith in action, speak those things that are not until it becomes what you want it to be. Let it sink deep into your heart now that what you shall be can become a reality. Give your yielded heart and soul to Him now as your source. His promise of strength is for your spiritual progress and renewal in His power and presence of fire. Fear not to mount up and soar. Great things in this life never comes before a great desire. Are you hungry for the fullness? That is, the abundance of all that is contained in Him? If so, it is the soul that empowers your ability to obtain all there is for you. It must be in alignment with the spirit. There has to come a yearning for the mind to be justified by faith; it cannot afford to be contrary to the will of the Holy Spirit in you, who is leading, comforting, guiding, and bringing directions as needed. The soul has been accustomed to doing as it pleases, and it is a process that takes time to be delivered and set free from acting on its own volition apart from the Holy Spirit’s direction. It’s rashness, hastiness, and unchecked impulsiveness is a result of ignorance. In taking needless risk, it brings trouble into your life with serious regrets. The whole person must possess the same desire, which is to receive the Holy Ghost power gift of fire.
Since the soul is being saved, it cannot rule forever aside from the leading of God. Desire has to come into the three part being: that is, you have a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body the three must be in agreement as one. The Bible says, “Also it is not good for a soul to be without knowledge, and he sins who hastens with his feet” (Proverbs 19:2, NKJV). The Holy Spirit begins to talk to your soul in bringing it under subjection within. It gives corrections with
such words as, “You know you were in the flesh when you said what you said to them.” As a result, you are shocked into repentance, totally unaware of being caught up in the power of the soul.
Now you know when desire comes, you can be that tree of life. The soul can be able to empower you and others around you while speaking the truth of the Word with life pulsating and flowing out of you to them. You are able to claim what you believe, mount up and soar with the eagles, run and not be weary, walk and not faint while doing kingdom work in the body of Christ. When desire comes in the soul, take the challenge, lay aside all your unbelief, and do all your God requires of you. When the eagerness for more comes, you will stop playing church and be the church.
Chapter 6 b
Believers Shall Be a Fire God never turns a deaf ear to our hearts’ expressed requests for the fullness of the gift of His power with fire, to do His work in demonstration of His Spirit with authority. Change is coming; for some, it’s here now, for others it’s on the way. Where you are now is not where you should be until after you have received the Holy Ghost’s gift with the empowerment of the presence of fire. It is the authority all Christian believers need. The insecure in themselves are drawn towards hurtful things thinking it will make them secure. This is precisely false trust at the root, which is a spirit of insecurity. Those who have the Godgiven power and authority to rebuke the sinful ways to render it null, void, and ineffective to operate in your life do it. It will produce the effect it was sent to do. We have what the Word says we have; we will be what it says we will be in the Lord our God. We are a fire in the earth to carry out His purpose in our lives. The condition of your emotions must remain focus on the fullness of the Holy Spirit and fire Jesus sent to live in us.
You are empowered to rebuke and cast out the sins of the flesh. You can begin now to live a righteous life. Speak to it, “Sin, you no longer have rule over me from this day forward. God’s active principles of the living Word of fire have rule in my life now and in the future.” You are to “Abstain…from all appearance of evil” (I Thessalonians 5:22, KJV). Does it appear to you as evil? There is no escape for the unready, uncaring sinners enjoying the pleasures of sin for a moment. It’s up to us, the believers in God, to win them to Christ.
Know What’s Missing
The gift of the Holy Ghost power with fire is what everyone needs to purge the sins of the flesh and live by the principles of the Bible as a way of life. Those held captive are set free into a new and renewed spirit-filled life, endued with the heaven-sent fire. Your children can possess it in the home. The workers can have it in the workplace. Everyone in the body of Christ can possess it globally. How
is your heart now? Are you ready? When you ask the Lord in prayer to make it happen, believe He can, and He will send forth the manifestation. Keep His living Word activated and alive in you.
The House of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame but, the house of Esau shall be stubble. These shall kindle and burn them and consume them and there shall be no survivors of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken it.
Obadiah 18, AMP
God’s Word is sure as it pertains to the destruction of the flesh. The name Esau represents the carnal flesh that doesn’t care about spiritual things.
Know Where You Fit
Decide now, your house will be a fire and a flame to melt hard hearts, to burn up the stale dross blocking the pure essence of God. It purifies the believer with the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning. The Word in the mouth of the anointed is like fire. Those in the flesh are the stubble to be devoured by it. Those that are not refined as gold by the fire of the good news of the Gospel shall be consumed as dross. But you will be a glowing flame active, well-lit, and empowered to melt hearts hardened in sin, drawing out everything not like God. There are many thinking they have it, but they don’t. It’s coming; pray for it, believe and look for it. When it comes, you will know where you fit.
Take Back His Word, Never!
He abides by what He speaks. Wherever there’s a problem or a misunderstanding, it’s not in Him, it’s in the believer. He is with you, comforting you with, the best from God for you is yet to come. A perfect plan was set-up beforehand and made ready for you. God set His designed purpose in motion when the world was formed for the many gifts and callings by the same Holy Spirit to live in everyone. Prepare yourself, get in your lane, be you and not someone else. Their shoes won’t fit you. Wear the shoes appropriate for your gifting. Put away the cesspool of tearing down the bride of Christ with words of slander because of envy, jealousy, striving and seeking position. Put away the false prophesying to draw others to you. It won’t open doors for you either. The Bible says, “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death; jealousy is as cruel as the grave” (Songs of Solomon 8:6a, KJV). The perfect and powerful God of heaven forbids jealousy and competing in His house or anywhere to bring down others. The love in your heart for Christ must rule and reign.
Be Yourself Not Someone Else
The blessings of the Lord are coming to you now; will they find you acting in disguise as a copy of someone you ire? Beloved, the blessing will be marked; the wrong address, return to sender, they don’t live here anymore. They are somewhere pretending to be someone they are not out of a spirit of jealousy, competition, and strife. Everything given to us from above is for our greater good. To see those family , spouses, and children receive Christ and become healed, delivered, and set free. It’s a joyous blessing to see them learning to be independent and responsible. It’s satisfying and jubilant to the soul.
More Is on the Way
Babes on the milk of the Word cannot see the hand of God at work in things seemingly impossible to the mind with no understanding, not wanting to let go. Some say, “It’s so hard, I can’t see what I am believing Him for, it hurts so bad. What my friends did to me is so embarrassing.” The tendency is to overspiritualize that the devil did this. Rather than exerting control over their lives, they prefer to play the blame game. The system of the world is number one on the list. They refuse to take a good look at self in the mirror of life. This is their favorite line, “Just leave me alone in my depression with my own demons.” The demons love it when you give them ownership with talk like this. If you say you can’t, you won’t, if you say you can, you will. Continue seeking after the fire; help is on the way. Sometimes it seems to be more than you can handle. It’s not; give it to Jesus in prayer. This is not the time for murmuring and complaining, be thankful with thanksgiving to God. The day will come when you will not be running this race on half empty but on the fullness of Christ, doing exploits for Him.
The Giver Gets the Glory
Give Him the glory and not yourself for bringing you out of difficult times. The glory is not for you to consume it upon the lust and longings of your flesh. He deserves it and not us. There are those rude believers who are declaring their Christianity daily. At the same time, they are tormenting your soul with destructive words. Think big--you have volume control, turn that volume off, not down. Their lot is to answer to God for their rudeness. Keep your eyes on God. You answer to Him, and they will too. Be encouraged with this: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28, NKJV). Good often means one thing to God and another to you and others. His divine promises are unfailing to the needs of the afflicted. Love Him with all your heart and know that you are one of the called of God, sanctified and set apart to Him. He is working all things for your good, ultimately leading you to your purpose in life.
The Natural and the Spiritual
Some people live in cities that are surrounded by mountains. When a fire starts in the hills or near them, the wind blows the embers of sparks from one hill to another hill and across the highway. Another fire actually starts burning up everything in its path. You can hear the wind, feel it, but can only see the moving of the leaves on the trees and the damage if any is being done. So it is with the Holy Spirit; it’s like the wind it blows where it wishes. When the living active Word is spoken, you can feel the tingling moving fire on you and falling upon others; many times, you can see the glow on your countenance. Your spirit rises in glorious praise to the King. Some begin to weep, shout, and dance; some lift up holy hands and some fall to the floor on their knees in humble submission. You simply must let God have His way spiritually, He is raising you to another level with a new commitment.
A Word of Encouragement
Stay the course, trusting that you will receive the gift of power with fire to dominate your life. You are the devil’s worst nightmare. He trembles when you get up. A new season of courage has arrived; your life is shifting to another elevation of a higher calling in Christ Jesus. Be encouraged with this: times and seasons are changing new things are coming upon those who would believe to receive their all from God. The suggestion is, try moving out in the breakthrough you may perceive to be coming upon you. There are many believers God wants to use to penetrate the darkness of this world in the souls of His people. The rivers of living waters can and should be flowing out of the belly of God’s people into the dry barren desolate, spirit, soul, and body of many individuals giving life to the uncultivated spirit man. Those that dare to believe this should achieve it. May Jesus Christ be your source of help and strength. Focus your attention on Him. Recharge, activate what you know, and apply it to your life. If Moses hadn’t lifted up His staff to God, the Red Sea would not have opened up. Act on what you know. Rise up, take action, prepare for the presence of fire. Your God is with you.
The Grace of Enablement
God’s grace is your enabling power for your future kingdom assignment to walk worthy of the Lord. If you want to please Him in everything you do, “Trust in the Lord, with all thine heart; lean not unto thine own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5, KJV). He is encouraging you with self-confidence to trust Him with your whole heart. The empowerment of God’s grace authorizes you to receive the fullness of fire to be effective on your mission. Know this: “They brought the sick into the street on beds and couches that at least the shadow of Peter ing by might fall on some of them” (Acts 5:15, NKJV). Will others see the glory of God on you and feel the presence and power of the fire flowing from your life? Some got healed when Peter walked by. Today many receive the refreshing invigoration and inspiration of God’s presence. It’s an encouragement to keep your lives in God moving forward. When you go witnessing two by two, never allow a spirit of fear to stop you. Peter and John didn’t, neither should you. The Scripture says that a lame man lay at the gate call, beautiful and begging for alms.
Peter said, “silver and gold, I do not have, but what I do have, I give you: In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
Acts 3:6-8, NKJV
Those believing with great faith in the power of God to heal are blessed by God to do the same in the name of Jesus. To take them by the hand is an aid to their faith while demanding effort on the lame person’s part.
The Inward Fire
Suffering is predicted, that is why everyone needs the inward fire because lives are being tested while you are professing to be a believer in God. The quickening fire within keeps you tied so fast to Christ, you will never entertain forsaking Him again. The Bible says, “If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us” (II Timothy 2:12, NKJV). Your duty is to endure the pressure of the persecution and suffering for Christ. There’s no reward in denying Him.
“And they said one to another, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scripture?” (Luke 24:32, NKJV). This was spiritual talk of their Christianity and the inward fire in Christ flowing out to them. The desire for more burned in their hearts while fellowshipping with the Lord Christ, listening to Him expounding on the scriptures. The fire of Christ was sitting upon them, but they had not yet received the new commission of the Holy Ghost. So Jesus said to them again, “’Peace to you! As the Father has sent me, I also send you.’ And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:21-22, NKJV). He breathed upon them His divine breath for the new commission. As His messengers, they received the fullness of the Holy Ghost power with fire all that is expressed in Him. It caused a ri in the zeal imparted by the Lord. If the inward fire and Word of Jesus Christ moves you, it will make you into what you should be.
There is no work in the grave where some believe they are going. Your body will decay there, but your spirit will be singing praises, Glory be to God, the Father, heaven bound, here I come, immediately it’s present with the Lord God. Do not allow anymore lagging in your spirit. But move with the inward fire of Christ in your heart with fervency to conquer all set before you. Your household is first on the agenda. This is where training for winning in the kingdom of God begins by the power of the Holy Ghost. Tell them with your understanding, wisdom, and knowledge at the early age of questioning and experimenting everything about
life and godliness and those things that are not. Tell them there’s no need to avoid God in fear, they can run to Him for the saving of the soul. They can be a fire on the earth with your best explanation with the Father’s endowment to act on His behalf.
Chapter 7 b
Repent and Receive We were told the promised fullness of the gift of power with fire we desired would come and fill us with a full measure. The foundation was laid by the prophets for repentance; from Moses to Malachi, they are calling on God’s people to repent and turn from their wicked ways. There must be a change in the thoughts. When you change your thoughts, your actions will change. The call is still open to His chosen to do a turn-around and come back to God. Everyone must know the presence of the kingdom of heaven is here to have a great effect on their lives, simply say, “Yes, O Lord, I receive your kingdom and the power of influence in me together with your Holy Ghost power with fire.” There is an enthusiasm taking over the heart. It’s in knowing, I am forgiven, cleansed, and set free from sin.
Then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to all that are far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Acts 2:38-39, KJV
Repentance takes place in the heart between you and God. The Holy Spirit energizes convicts while it is identifying you for the remission of sins. It’s better to know you have God’s forgiveness than to wonder if you have it. This keeps you settled in His peace. The Holy Spirit will empower you if He can trust you. There has never been a promise faith could not trust, and a victory faith in God could not win. If you haven’t acted on your faith, do it now. Repent and believe in Christ as Lord and savior. You shall receive the Holy Spirit in your heart.
Freedom Through Repentance
It is never too late, but it’s never too soon to feel compunction, sorrow, or regret for something one has done or left undone. You become overwhelmed by uncontrollable guilt in the heart and mind when there’s dissatisfaction about some past action or misconduct, a fault, a sin, or other offense. There will be unrest in your spirit you must unload; if not it will drive you backward into a back-sliding state and not forward for continual growth. You must quickly change that unproductive mind-set before it hardens your heart and you become ill because of it. Repentance is the key to everyone’s deliverance. It’s there in your Bible: “Therefore if the Son therefore makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36, NKJV). Jesus Christ is the liberator, there’s no other with the power to set you free.
The State of Being Free
Your freedom becomes the boldness of conception with a godly unrestricted ability to execute things you thought you never could. It is your immunity and desire to act on God’s instructions to you. Believe it’s your freedom in action, no chains of doubt binding you, no more wasting time musing over something you already have clearance from God to do. Beware, a spirit of fear is always lurking in the dark to keep your mind constantly pondering over the instruction to restrict you from moving out into what you know he said. It’s up to you with the authority given you to, rebuke that demon of fear sent to you from Satan and apply the blood of Jesus over your mind and be free. Speak the words of life, power, and fire you have hidden in your heart. Delete certain words such as, “I can’t,” “I am afraid,” or “it’s scary” from your heart and mouth. Keep in mind, you have volume control to turn them completely off before they exit your mouth. The enemy has to flee when you tell him where to go. Jesus didn’t die for a lost cause, He died for you to have life and have it more abundantly.
Unification for Your Destination
Where there is unity in the Spirit, the people will have the power to do what Jesus did. Rejoice, baptism with the fullness of the Holy Ghost power with fire follows after repenting to receive all He has for you. Be vigilant and never lose the unity in the Spirit, your purpose and destiny depend on it. As part of God’s spiritual family, our responsibility is to help one another in every possible way we can. His family of believers works extremely well when they work together in a bond of peace and unity in Him. Unity in the Holy Spirit of God is not about hoarding our material wealth to ourselves. It’s about sharing His love and blessings with others in serious need. Unification is for your destination, it is for your empowerment that bring inspiration, exhilaration, and fortification for your sanctification in Christ. On your way forward, , the body of Christ is one, with many all of one body in Him. Stay connected as one body in unity strength and power to be successful in Him.
The Ability to Comprehend
When you repent your expectation is to receive something you never had. You have an entitlement to the rejuvenation of the Holy Ghost baptizing power with fire in your spirit and soul. After being stripped of your citizenship of sin to now embrace the Kingdom of God’s righteousness, joy, and peace. When in doubt search it out in the Bible; it will be useful for your continual advancement as a Christian believer in Christ as your Lord and divine savior. Your eagerness to comprehend the Biblical truths is unction by the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus Christ to open the understanding. The answer is in Him for your continual growth improvement. He is your helper and comforter. You are never alone with Him in you. Talk to Him, have a conversation with Him. Ask Him questions and receive the answers you need. You have the mind of Christ, know that you have the ability to comprehend what He speaks in your hearing. Whatever your heart desires from your Father, it takes faith, belief, and trust to receive it.
Pricked to the Heart
If your message is powerful and Spirit-filled and full of fire, the people will be deeply moved and ask, “What must we do to be saved?” Those who are convicted of their sins will rejoice to know the way to peace and forgiveness. Quickly encourage them. Though they think their cases may be impossible, there is always hope to quell their desperation. They can live like they are forgiven. Their answer is, “Repent, change your mind and change your ways! Listen to the good news that Jesus saves and acknowledge him as Lord, God and Christ the Messiah of the free gift of salvation.” Such repentance brings salvation to the soul. It is imperative all believe firmly in the teachings of Christ and make an open honest profession of this. Renounce your unbelief and believe in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, and be baptized in His name. Every individual must know sin is not your friend. Repent of it or it will take you down in destruction and much ruin. Jesus Christ receives everyone who comes to Him with repentant hearts. His Baptizing Holy Ghost and fire belongs to you, your children, and your children’s children, this should be the teaching in every home and church.
Productive Principles that Work
Speak what you believe and say these principles daily: “We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I believe therefore have I spoken. We also believe and therefore speak” (II Corinthians, 4:13). The believer’s testimony of faith is proof of their confidence in God.
Wrap your God kind of faith around this, a new chapter is beginning in your life restoration for multiplication. “Now mine eyes shall be open mine ears attent unto the prayers that is made in this place” (II Chronicle 7:15, KJV). “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath He said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19, KJV). God is truth. His word meets every need. He provides for His people weapons that position the believer beyond defeat into a life of victory. It’s incumbent upon you to use your weapon of the Word against the attacks of the enemy on your life. Every believing child in the house can prosper
in knowing “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds” (II Corinthians 10:4, KJV). This will keep the sword of the Word sharp in their spirit. All His children must learn spiritual warfare. There is an enemy going to and fro on the earth, seeking who he may devour. The enemy has no pity on your children, which is why you must keep them covered in prayer while sharpening your senses in discernment.
Seeing, Hearing, and Believing
Many individuals have seen the wonderful effects of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in its influence on those that hear the Gospel and those preaching and teaching the Gospel. There is a convicting power that comes with repenting and receiving the Holy Spirit as teacher, guide, and comforter. When you are convicted by what you have heard and have seen, you will follow after, seek, and search after Him to learn more about the savior you have accepted to live in you by the Holy Spirit. Every day, your heart yearns for more of your keeper, maker, and provider who loves you with an unconditional love and has a purpose for your life. You are in pursuit of Him because you desire more for the journey set before you. Since you repented, your observation is, you are energetic, quickwitted, high-powered, alert and lively in Christ. You think this is what happens when you repent and receive Christ in your heart? Yes! You have the Holy Spirit, another personality, living in you now. He is the reason for the dynamic change of mind and heart. To cheer you up greater, this is just the first level of your walk of faith.
A Priceless Gift
The gift of forgiveness you received is priceless and yours forever. You repented and received forgiveness from the most-high God, and your next step is to give this powerful gift of forgiveness to others. You cease to harbor resentment. As it pertains to God and His people, we are the offenders, and He pardoned our offences against Him. When He forgave you, He abandoned His claim against
you. He forgave you and reconciled you back to Himself. In His good grace, God put action behind His forgiveness. The Bible says, “In him we have forgiveness of sins” (Ephesians 1:7, NKJV). Forgiveness is the action of forgiving, the condition or fact of being forgiven. You must be willing to forgive others because you are forgiven by God. It’s a priceless gift to receive from a loving, tenderhearted, merciful God of love. Therefore, He asked you to forgive and never what they did or said to you, simply let it go and keep your life moving on. Holding on to memories of wounds hurt and pain blocks your spiritual growth--receive your tough skin developed through your healing and deliverance process from God.
Chapter 8 b
Wait for the Power The fullness of the power gift of fire you desired after the Holy Ghost came upon you. It’s here now, presented to you in its fullness. There are in the body of Christ, as I perceive it by the Holy Spirit, many who are like pots after pots after pots of empty vessels of dry clay throughout the world, representing individuals without the power of God with fire whose emptiness can be filled. Jesus was invited to a wedding. Mary asked Him to perform a miracle, because they were out of wine. After a dialogue between Him and Mary, notice, “Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water” (St John 2:7 NKJV). If a believer knows they are an empty, dry vessel and has a desire to be filled to the full, it’s your time now to receive the overflow of the new wine of the Holy Ghost power with the presence of fire. However, effort is demanded on your part. The choice is yours to either accept or reject it. The fire of God is more than the strength to feel good. It is the authority to face and overcome Satan. To step out in ministry, not being anointed in the fullness of the Holy Ghost power with fire, the enemy will destroy you. Everyone has the same enemy. He will come at you like a hailstorm upon your mind. You will ask, “What happened?” Your God will answer with, “You didn’t obey my command to wait for the capacity to do what you were told to do.”
If you don’t have the power of the Holy Ghost and fire gift, it is because you didn’t ask for it. If you did, did you wait in prayer until the fire came and sat upon your life filling you, with its invigoration turning your little world up-sidedown? With the principles of the living Word of fire influencing your life, you can be effective witnesses in this world that desperately needs Him. The revelation of Christ is progressive. It doesn’t matter the condition you are in. He comes upon whom He will. He taught the disciples that they might receive the Spirit through prayer to the Father. His instruction to them was wait until the Spirit comes upon them before starting a ministry. When the power came that day, the Spirit came upon the whole body of believers. There is a difference between having the Spirit, which is true for all believers in Christ, and being filled with the Spirit, which is your right, freedom, and entitlement. Let no one tell you differently, that it’s not for you. There is one baptism with the Spirit, but many filling with the Spirit as needed. He knows when you are depleted and
needs another infilling.
The Waiting Church
And, being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father “which, saith he, ye have heard of me for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 1:4,5, 8, KJV
While they waited and prayed, they were brought into agreement by God. The promised power could not come until they were with one accord in agreement heart to heart. Only then would Pentecost fully come. God could not withhold His promise to the church. They came together in prayer and faith believing they would receive the power. No one was thinking negative, not even the children. Not one said it was taking too long or, “I give up, it’s not for me, I am going home.” On that great Pentecostal outpouring, the Holy Spirit descended in tongues of fire and sat upon each of them, filling every believer gathered there. They began speaking in a different language unknown to them but understood by others standing around outside. The church was to wait in Jerusalem at the house of peace. Where you are presently planted should be a house of peace. Where there isn’t any peace, there will be no power or plan and no purpose to fulfill. Waiting on God is easy when trusting Him in faith and prayer for the power needed to do His work for Him. You will have the boldness of authority and power when the Holy Ghost and fire comes in you and upon you. The inspiration and fortification stir jubilantly in you after receiving the power of the Holy Spirit baptizing fullness with fire.
The Power Came
The Holy Spirit fills the believers with the promised power.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:1-4, KJV
The spiritual power of Pentecost blows away worldly ambition, greed, tradition, deliverance from fear and human precepts. It brings true unity in the Holy Spirit. Many were awakened in astonishment by the great mystery that occurred. The Apostle Peter became a new man empowered with the Holy Ghost; no longer was he afraid of the opinion of man. Instead, he lifted up his voice in affirmation of the manifested gift of power with fire. This quelled the doubt of some that what was happening wasn’t a fulfillment of prophecy. He stepped up to the batting platform to knock the doubt and confusion out of the minds of the people with these words. “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel” (Joel 2:16, KJV). Your challenge is to take in the entire book of Acts, let it sink deep into your spirit, and recommend it to others. This prepares them to refute the negative doubters while calling down the fire of God upon the people to partake of all He has to offer. On your way forward, use what you asked for.
In-flow, Out-flow
“Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” (Acts 19:2, NKJV). To say I was filled is saying I was empty and half-filled and powerless without the power. Many believers today are operating on a half-filled inner spirit man. You can have this experience of His fullness of power; many have had it and many more are destined to possess it. This experience in you is like having a spontaneous explosive reaction occurring within the human spirit. When the Holy Ghost and baptizing fire connects with the human spirit, a response stirs in the inner-man with a mighty sound of stammering lips of heavenly languages speaking unto the great, “I am that I am God.” It is healthful, refreshing, strengthening, exciting, and inspiring in your heart. When there is no one to interpret, those speaking in an unknown tongue are speaking to God while building themselves up. The fire kindled in you causes you to produce from the inside out. It is a supernatural in-flow and out-flow of power to direct the believers walk. Without it, the spirit-man is starving from a parched dryness of soul power. If you honestly and seriously are desirous of this out-pouring of tongues of fire, which are being seen and heard, it’s for you and your children and your children’s children. Paul answers the question, “Do all speak in tongues?” The answer is no, not everyone wants it. I believe it’s a heart thing, without an ounce of doubt. God’s plan was to make believers of those attending the feast of Pentecost from every country known to man. The one-hundred-andtwenty that came staggering out of the upper-room were speaking in the languages of all the bystanders who didn’t believe in it. The invigoration and stimulation of the Holy Ghost’s fullness of fire had the multitude of unbelievers in amazement. God used Peter to bring clarity to the confusion in their minds to change their unbelief. This great out-pouring from your creator benefits you and everyone who crosses your paths in a meaningful way that glorifies God setting them on fire.
The Oxygen in the Room
There is oxygen in the room when we are giving birth to a child, and we are told to breathe deep and push hard. The oxygen in the room empowers you to take deep breaths and push the baby out. Too tense, the body slows down the delivery
process. You must push to experience the completion of the delivery process; if not, a medical C-section is required when you fail at your deep breathing and pushing hard. When the infant exits the womb, it has to breathe in the vital air of oxygen in the room and make some noise. It’s a good noise to everyone waiting to hear it with joy and gladness.
Here is The Comparison
The all-powerful God used the oxygen in the room to make with the mighty rushing wind of the Holy Ghost sent by Him. A combustion of tongues of fire fills the room sitting upon the heads of each one. It filled them, soaking them in the warm liquid oil of fire. Some signs of the Spirit are oil, water, wind, and fire, as well as a dove, a seal of an earnest pledge. They began to speak with new tongues a language unknown to them but known to those standing by watching in awe saying, “These people are speaking with joy in our language, they don’t know nor understand without an interpreter.” Those who were standing around were confounded and confused in their own wise eyes and hearts. They were speaking to God about His wonderful works.
What We Didn’t Know
We are not aware of the oxygen in the room when we pray. A term called oscillation takes place when praying and laying on of hands. We know as the supernatural power of fire is transferred. Oscillation is a person’s body suspended from a fixed point and free to swing to and fro between two extremes while their body is being guarded or their hands are held. The two extremes are the ability to stand or to fall like one drunk on new wine. What we sometimes see happening is a swinging pendulum, like a swaying movement before losing their balance to a welcome landing on the floor. At times, it’s a quick touch of His presence. You become weak-kneed and weakened in spirit, soul, and body. Down you go to the floor, totally unaware of falling weakened by the power of the Holy Ghost and fire. Some are able to stand, and some are not; they are
totally immersed in the intoxication of God’s fire, staggering like drunken men on the new wine of the Holy Ghost. The proud and fearful in heart say, “Not me, I am not falling to the floor under something I can’t see.” But when they come to themselves, they are on the floor looking up in puzzled amazement.
The Promised Power
The purpose of the coming of the Holy Spirit in this special manner was and still is to glorify Jesus Christ. The fulfillment of the promised baptism of the Holy Spirit, a new power is for all with a hunger for it. You can receive this power from the divine Spirit for your comfort and insight in the truth with a fresh power of utterance. The reason for this promised power is to love Him with our entire being. God wants His people to be one with Him, whose desires and wills are in complete harmony with His perfect will for them. Have you received God’s sustaining promised of power sent by Jesus Christ since you believed in your heart? Jesus’s followers waited and prayed for one purpose--to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost power with fire by faith.
The flames of fire on that eventful Pentecostal day were outward signs of an inward manifestation of the gift of power with fire. It got the attention of everyone, including the Apostles. It’s time to use what you ask for. Rise up and defy the powers of darkness that want to stop you with hopeless, helpless excuses. Stand firm knowing who you are. You are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, called, anointed, and appointed to do damage to the kingdom of darkness. Strike the enemy’s negative words, canceling out his assignments, rendering them null, void, and ineffective to operate in your sphere of influence with prayer. Be encouraged and rise up! Pray all mourning women and warring men. The enemy has gained a foothold on the souls of many. Tremendous power is made available when the righteous pray. We need a breakthrough for all nations on the earth. Pray, and God will see you through for your breakthrough into another realm of the Spirit with rapid progress advancing you forward. Your destiny awaits you. The promised power has come upon you and is in you to win over your circumstances. You can do this by faith, trust, and believing in His
empowerment.
Chapter 9 b
A Strange Shaking Hopefully you received the fullness of the power gift with the presence of fire you desired. The fire fell in the room, then came a vibration of the physical body, an intense movement back and forth, to the left and to the right. While a powerfully warm, chilling, and tingling sensation of fire from God touches you, quickening the body, and you are trying to shake off this unseen powerful falling fire. It makes you stagger, shake, shout, and cry. You are unable to withstand the new thing of being on fire from the Lord Jesus Christ. For some, if you are a gift called to the body of Christ to minister to people, the empowerment comes to enable you to stand up under the anointing. Many don’t realize this is a refreshing, renewing fire to the soul and the spirit. Weights are lifted and heavy burdens removed; confusion leaves, the soul is no longer tormented, and understanding comes in the mind and spirit. This strange shaking is of God for those who are confused in their carnality. Clarity will come sooner than later, just keep the faith in your heart open to receive. He does new things and strange things to confound the wise in their own eyes. Never attempt to judge the shaking from your soul’s fleshly carnal mentality. It will hinder your ability to receive the fullness of fire for yourself.
Instability in Question
For some, this vibration causes instability due to a lack of knowledge. They misunderstand the shaking, thinking they have it, not knowing they are in the processing stage for the next level. Not realizing stability in God’s anointing is the missing part. Some oscillate, while fluctuating between two opinions, principles, and purposes varying between two limits. Many actually believe they have reached the limit of their endurance, determined not to go further when there’s more to come. There comes a rising and falling in decision-making, changing the mind often wavering in faith, unsettled and hesitant shifting in belief from one thing to another. Dissatisfied with life as it is, not understanding why. Optimistic one day and despairing the next, unaware the next level has arrived.
There is a problem in adjusting. The mind must be firmly set in faith, believing to receive the promised power of fire in its fullness. Many have been shaking off the excess baggage they have been carrying, which all of us have done. The shaking or falling out on the floor is not all there is to the infilling power of God. You eventually must be able to stand strong on your feet, while you are praying fervent prayers for others under the anointing for the people to receive from the Lord Christ. A dry branch doing nothing but shaking and falling out on the floor is not helpful to an unsaved individual who stands before you hungry for Christ. This is different from laying hands on someone, and they are slain in the Spirit.
Avoid being content in your heart with less when there’s more empowerment to do God’s work. What is odd or bizarre to one is real and normal for God to do. He does the senseless things to perplex and baffle the wise who are content in their erroneous enlightenment. God does this to convince them, I am in this, this is my doing.
Before the Power
Before I received the fullness of the Holy Ghost and fire, I was doing the work without the power of fire. There are many doing the same even now. A group of us were invited into a person’s home for a walk-through time of prayer. When we entered the house, I sat on the couch in the front room. I could not say or do anything without the authority of His power gift and fire in and upon me. I sat there patiently waiting and praying quietly to the Lord God within myself. Suddenly, a sound like a coyote in the desert rose up in me, pouring profusely out of my mouth. I understood this was the promise of power from the Lord.
After the Power
Being confident, inspired, and enthusiastic, I had received the intensity and force to get-up and go the others.
When I stood up, I didn’t have a swagger. I was staggering for a moment on the new wine of the Holy Ghost’s baptism of power with the presence of fire. It licensed me and left me with a bold, sure stance of His Spirit resting upon me. Clearly, it was the lasting promise of a new experience of authority and strength from the Holy Ghost to fill us up. A dry barren spirit is thirsty for this fresh power and authority to keep our walk steady while on fire doing His great work. The power came, the fear, intimidation, and unbelief left, and a heavenly language rose up out of my belly into the room. Did I understand what I was saying? The answer was no. During that point, I was attending the Morris Cerullo School of Ministry--twenty years at the time--and knew from his teaching, he that speaks at will in an unknown tongue speaks unto God. At times, someone would give a word, and another would interpret. I didn’t think to ask the Holy Spirit what it meant, and He didn’t volunteer the answer. This one thing I knew I was overwhelmed with the vim and vigor of the fullness of God’s power to rise up from the seat of do-nothing-and-pray with the group. He alone deserves the glory, honor, and praise. After that infilling, I was able to pray in a heavenly language at will.
The Petty Rules of Tradition
Deliverance follows suit by the great and powerful rescuing, mighty rushing winds of the exhilarating, vigorous healing force on the mind. It purges out and blows away the ambition and the hasty over-anxiousness to get ahead of God before His timing to launch us out. It blows away the petty rules of tradition that hinders the flow of power to direct a believer’s walk. Many are stuck in the status quo things they were accustomed to doing. Their human spirits and souls are in dire straits, lacking in clear precise understanding for a continual meaningful progress in Christ the Lord. There must come a yielding to spiritual understanding, or the church of Jesus Christ will die a slow declining spiritual death stuck on the unfruitful past. This is not what God wants for His people. A
fruitful past is an encouragement to keep your spiritual life moving forward.
Mission Accomplished
The tormenting paralyzing spirit of fear has lost its hold. You no longer fear the faces of man with their harsh demeaning opinions against you. With the infilling fullness of the promised power of the Holy Ghost and fire, you have the ability to keep your eyes on Him. You can speak the principles of the living Word of fire. Out of your inner spirit through your mouth it flows, and it goes and blows like the wind upon others by your giving it the oxygen it needs to change the atmosphere. The sphere of your surroundings is caught on the fire of invigoration because of its stimulation in the soul. You are set free to speak it without restraints on the soul. You have the assurance and confidence His presence is with you. You can stand up against the forces of darkness and win in every battle. You have learned trusting in Him is a daily walk. Never lean on your own understanding but in all your ways, no matter how difficult things may be, you are determined to acknowledge Him and His leading by the Holy Spirit. By this, you are keeping your thoughts in alignment physically, spiritually, and mentally with what He is saying. Your spirit-man is invigorated and your walk in the Spirit is joyous and peaceful in Him.
The Keeping Power of Humility
When you say, “Father, it’s not my will but yours be done, it’s not my personal desire, but your kingdom come your will be done in my life.” Be prepared for the unexpected response: “I am establishing My kingdom in you forever. You have ionately desired My presence of fire to fill you like an overflowing deep well of living waters. You will be a voice for Me. Many are waiting for you to be My ambassador, My representative to speak on My behalf.”
Your response should be, “Yes, Lord, send me, I will go. This is my due season ordained by you.” Let this be your sacred marriage vow to God, your husbandman, your perfect and powerful universal King of kings and Lord of all. Now and forevermore. “For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of host is his name; and your redeemer is the Holy one of Israel; he is called the God of the whole earth.” According to the Holy Bible (Isaiah 54:5, NKJV).
After you have received the baptizing fire of the Holy Ghost’s fullness, you are able to do exceedingly, abundantly, and above all He asks you to do, not in your own strength but in Him as your source of power. The magnificent God of impossibility by the unction of the living one in you is ordering your steps in Him.
Strange but Real
Some things appear unreal because we have never experience them before. It doesn’t mean it’s not of God. “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and weakness of God is stronger than men” (I Corinthians 1: 25, NKJV).
It’s just a few of the wise, mighty, and noble who embrace the Gospel of the cross. God uses preachers of low rank and no liberal education to do the base and despicable things of the world. He has used the foolish things to beat down, confound the pride and vanity of the unbelievers. The Corinthians prided themselves highly in worldly wisdom, which was in opposition to the wisdom of God. For our learning, He was made wisdom to us. When you were guilty, He was made righteousness for you. When you were depraved and corrupt, He was made sanctified for you. When you were in bonds, He was made redemption for you. Now you see God’s tool chest for us, His people. The Christian’s calling is to walk in His wisdom and power and avoid the foolishness of human wisdom.
Chapter 10 b
The Refiner’s Fire There are many with a page missing in their lives. It is the desire for the fullness of the baptizing power gift and presence of fire. All that is contained in God the father has already come to do the works of Jesus. It empowers, refreshes, and invigorates the believer to do more in the body of Christ than one has ever done. The refining process is the missing page. Beware of the hidden destroyer; they are things hidden in the believer that need to be exposed, expunged, cleansed, and purged.
When the Titanic sunk, many lives were lost. The captain and work crew saw a small part of the tip of the iceberg above water, unaware of the huge portion of the iceberg hidden beneath. They thought there was nothing to it, not knowing the tip of the iceberg had a huge hidden body part beneath the water. In comparison, before and after salvation, the believer possesses destructive detrimental cravings. Similar to the hidden portion of the tip of the iceberg. They are hidden, sinful feelings in the spirit, soul, and body of human beings in need of deliverance. It takes discerning eyes of a believer to see into the spiritual realm as to what is blocking spiritual growth. The refining work of the Holy Ghost and fire does the work and raises the person to a higher spiritual state of mind.
A Volcano Eruption
At the top of the mountain, we see the eruption of a volcano. What we don’t see is what’s happening underneath. The earth is boiling and bubbling up, threatening to erupt. Many believers are suffering through the same turmoil, ready to erupt, easily provoked to get offended by small things. They are quick to get a smart attitude response with no wisdom in using choice words in minor situations. They are likely to blow a fuse in something too difficult for them to deal with. While ranting and raving, fuming with anger, screaming on the inside to be released. The mind is being tormented. God can defuse the potential
eruption when they cry out for freedom from God. The hidden Titanic iceberg or a fuming volcano in the believer’s spirit can and will take them down in massive destruction caused by an eruption of anger at the root, if the Word like fire is not allowed to do its purging work. After a while, a few days, a month, a year, or several years, they are tempted again to blow a fuse. When the fire is allowed by them to do its cleansing work, they will find themselves showing love, kindness, and temperance. They are now able to pray blessings upon others in awe of what they know the Holy Spirit baptizing fire did in them.
Cleansed for Righteousness Sake
But who can endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Malachi 3:2-3, NKJV
Stay in the fire; it’s the perfect place to be tried in times of impatience. Those things we inherit from our forefathers are the things which brings us to an imperfect state of mind. Our Father sits as a refiner and purifier of silver; His aim is to purify His sons and daughters. He turns up the heat while you are in the fire. Launder soap cleans, but the cleansing refiner’s fire of God makes you shine like the morning light with radiant lives as you follow Him with committed hearts. When your life is being tested and your faith is on trial. Stand on faith without doubting. Those who are filled with the fullness of the living active principles of the Holy Ghost and fire endures to the end.
God is refining His people like the silversmith frees impurities from silver. When the silversmith can see his image in the silver, he is processing. He knows
the silver is completely clean and polished. When God’s refiner’s fire work has reach full completion in the believer, God and the world will see His image and likeness in you. You will be courteous, gentle, graceful, and develop and improve in manners and action. There isn’t any launderer soap more powerful than the refiner’s fire. It melts and removes the scum and the dross of sin. Your great faith empowers you to endure the purging of dross for spiritual refinement and maturity to serve the Lord with pure hearts. Your desire for the fire is to be productive in His kingdom work.
From Bondage to Rock Solid
The fire is solidifying things in the process of refining, while you are patiently enduring it for a permanent, secure, changed, sound, and durable life in Christ. The excess burdensome matters of hurt and pain turned to anger and bitterness fused by a disgruntled spirit of rejection leaves the mind. It has become a definite stronghold holding the soul captive, driving you to seek other things for solace. Things that have no power to heal and deliver. But, now that you are filled to overflowing with the baptizing fullness of power from on high, you are able to rebuke every demonic attack coming at your mind in Jesus’s name. The power gift of the Holy Ghost teaches you to open your mouth, speaking to it, commanding it with authority never to return. This is somebody’s first test; more will come.
It worked for me. You are on your way to becoming solid as a rock in your walk with Christ as your Lord and Savior. Are you working the works of God in your purpose and destiny? Your purpose is loving your neighbor as yourself, saving souls, visiting and healing the sick, ministering to the incarcerated, raising the dead, and making true disciples--including going to and serving the nations of the world. As anointed followers of Jesus, we are empowered to do everything He did when He walked the earth. While in the processing work of the refiner’s fire, always keep your eyes focused on the results: development, refinement, and advancement in God. He is moving you towards ministry in a more definite state. You have been at ease, peaceful and satisfied that a good work is being done
during the process. This processing work in the believer’s life requires the fruits of godly patience, obedience, endurance, and the power of lasting to get results from laboring through it. There is long-suffering, the ability to suffer long and enduring with others in the godly fruits of the Spirit: meekness, kindness, gentleness. Ultimately, it’s a pure walk-in godly fruitfulness. Every believer is required to bear up under the change for a lasting breakthrough. The proper teaching is your answer. As life progresses and the missing page is never dealt with by the refiner’s fire, the growth process will be delayed. Some will not see it unless it’s brought to their attention with the wisdom and love of God who loves us so much. Only then will repentance and restoration come in the heart.
Seeing Eyes and Hearing Ears
The command for the saved sanctified filled with the Holy Ghost and fire is that you are able to see, hear, know, go, and flow in the Holy Ghost. The vision you see always needs an explanation. When a demonic influence manifests on the face of a person, what must you do? Never tell the individual what you see; it will frighten them, leaving them shaken in the spirit of their mind. Not everyone understands demonic activity. Never attempt to argue or fight with an unclean spirit if you are called, anointed, and appointed by God and is trusting in Him. By the power and authority vested in you, call it out in Jesus’s name and be through with it. It will obey the orders of fiery words out of your mouth. The leader or intercessor doing the praying for that person silently seeks the Lord in their heart. What is this I see? The Holy Spirit gives the answer, and they call it out in the name of Jesus and out it goes.
Haste Makes Waste
Some rush out in haste before the refiner’s fire completes its refining work to avoid the chastisement of God for growth before the purging work is finished. They hide from the prophet, afraid to hear the truth about themselves. They sit there praying, “I hope they don’t come to me, I don’t want to hear it.” If it’s not
what they want to hear, they go away in denial, refuting what they were told with the words “They are not hearing from God.” What they don’t know is God is more concerned about their distrustful attitude and their undeveloped character than protecting their flesh. Many are totally unaware when they are acting out of character; they are grieving the Holy Spirit of God. The Bible says, “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice” (Ephesians 4:31, NKJV). This is unlike someone who says they are filled with the Holy Ghost and speaks in a heavenly language. This is the believer’s exhortation to living a holy life. Show kindness and forgiveness because the Savior Jesus Christ, who loves you, has forgiven you. There is a tendency to get ahead of God and try to lead in a position they are either not prepared for or not called to partake in at the time. The missing page of cleansing and deliverance conveniently goes unchecked while the Holy Spirit is crying out for you to yield your mind for your complete freedom. God sits on His throne as the refiner’s fire, waiting to set His captives free from bondage.
Chapter 11 b
The Holy Ghost Refinery There are many who have not desired the Holy Ghost baptism and fullness of the power gift with fire. When you do, a great work can be done in your life by the Holy Ghost refinery work in you. The oil refinery refines, in a great way, crude petroleum. It involves straining and filtering crude oil to cleanse it from unclean, impure foreign matter. This great and heavenly work from the Holy Ghost refinery is like a shower of rain that leaves your spirit and soul restored, strengthened, revived, refreshed, and renewed in His great love. It awakens your spiritual senses in the Lord, leaving you keen and discerning in seeing deep into the spiritual realm in understanding and hearing. The believer must yield to the processing work and expect a great purging in them. If Moses hadn’t lifted up his staff to God, the Red Sea would not have opened up.
The believers must yield the mind to this work of the Holy Ghost and fire refinery. Expect it to bring death and put an end to the life of the flesh that’s in control. Yield the mind to it to do a cleansing in the human spirit. The intensity of it is given to make you believable. It makes you strong-willed in the Biblical, powerful, God kind of stubborn, unshakable, unwavering faith. This is a faith that is determined and fearless in Him. It will never give up.
A Cry for Freedom
While in the refinery furnace, the spirit is crying out to be free from all forms of bondages through the fullness of the power of fire. The natural carnal mind seeks instant gratification of the flesh, which has nothing spiritual to offer a believer in Christ. You must believe your cry for freedom will bring change with a new attitude for your purpose in life. Your responsibility is to simply trust the Holy Ghost to do a deep cleansing work in you. Shake off the many excuses you may have, activate your faith, and make the effort to fall on your knees in prayer to receive a complete work done in you. Your deliverance will be quick like a woman who gives birth before her labor pains begins. It’s because of your
travailing in prayer to the Lord that you may hear these words: “Do you want to be made whole?” Let your answer be, “Yes Lord, you can make me clean.” Never venture to have a pity party of excuses; it won’t get you anywhere with God.
Anointed with Fresh Oil
The Bible says, “But my horn you have exalted like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil” (Psalms 92:10, KJV). In the refinery furnace of fire, He is processing, establishing, and anointing you in Christ, consecrating you for service to Him whatever the calling may be. Everyone’s calling is different but by the same Spirit. He has established you in the anointing. You emerge from the Holy Ghost oil refinery stimulated and elated in His power while being exalted to another dimension. The Holy Spirit as your teacher authorizes you to receive more spiritual knowledge, wisdom, and special privileges from Him. You endured the refinery like a dedicated solder should; He will never disbar you from His Holy Ghost’s fullness of fire. Life is a test set up by God for your benefit. Take hold of this in your spirit and understand that nothing that happens in your life is unimportant. Those small things you think are small, they are important for forming character. Every step you take, every breath you breathe, every moment in life is a great opportunity to grow your trust in God and fulfill the hunger for more of Him. You emerge in the anointing of fresh oil to do what you have never done before and go where you have never been.
Effort is Demanded
Rise up! Cast down the bondage of doubt from your heart and mind and loosen yourself from it. Lay aside procrastination; it keeps you in stagnated stale waters. Raise the level of your active faith with great expectation. When you are told to rise up, you have kept the faith during the refinery period. Rejoice, a great breakthrough has come to you. Walk out of the finished process of your deliverance dripping in the oil and presence of fire with joy unafraid. It’s your
time to pursue and overtake God’s plan for your life. Do it with all your heart and mind; when the door of opportunity opens, walk through it and set up camp with Almighty God, obeying every word from Him. Never give up on what He’s telling you to do. He is always demanding effort on your part. It’s needless to complain to Him. He knows what He has empowered you to do, and at some point in your life, you should know and be convinced of your calling, gifting, and anointing you are endowed with.
From Babe to Maturity
Perhaps your confidants miss you. They ask you, “Where have you been?”
Say to them, “I was down on my knees at the Holy Ghost refinery. The place of shedding the old man and replacing it with the new in travailing prayer unto God.”
Tell them, “That was my preparation time. Have you spent some quality time there?”
All aboard for class “one-o-one.” Who will get on board the milk train for adults who have just given their life to Christ, as well as the youth. Teachers teach them it’s a must-have for a permanent life’s journey. They need to know the milk of the Word. Tell them, take a seat believing, trusting, obeying in quiet assurance that His promises are yes, yes, and amen to benefit the kingdom. It will be fulfilled in your due season. But when you submit your will to His, God will begin to make it happen without your help, when you just keep being the new you. The next level of maturity will come, then will you know, the milk belongs to the babes, and strong meat to the mature.
Ready for the Meat
The meat of the Word is for the mature; it comes with progressive revelation into the anointing of fire for spiritual growth. Those on the milk cannot digest or understand spiritual things. For the mature, deep calls unto deep. At one point you grow up and stop scratching at the surface of the Word. When God wants to launch you out into the deep for greater revelation on how the Word applies to your life. Those who have endured the purging of the old leaven of sin are now a new and more mature person in Christ. You are emerging forth as a new creature. His grace has kept you for such a time as this to be that voice for Him. To represent Him to the world as His ambassador to speak on His behalf. The anointing of the Holy Spirit has done a great work in you. You agreed with Him that a purging work needed to be done and yielded your spirit, soul, and body to Him. This exalted living has been given to you, use it to bring glory to His name.
Full of Truth and Honesty
This visible fire in the form of a glow reveals God your Father and exposes the darkness within the soul of others through you. The darkness in the soul is keeping that believer’s spirit and soul from actively progressing forward. But when you have experienced the refinery, those you are training for winning must be told the active principles of the living Word of fire cannot be resisted by the devil. He has no power or words to put out your fire nor theirs. Be-it-known to you, the believer who is saved, sanctified, and filled with the fire of the Holy Ghost, speak what thus says the Lord. Those instructions He gives to you that shall you endeavor to speak. Keep your inspirations and fidelity to Him with this principle foremost in your mind and spirit: And Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak” (II Chronicles 18:13, NKJV). Be encouraged in keeping truthfulness as a requirement to sustain your life’s walk in Him, speak truth every man to His neighbor to live your life in the blessed promises of God. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your house. When justice is encouraged in the home, it easily spreads into the institution or workplace, the church house, and the white house. The vim and vigor of truth
and honesty keeps you speaking the truth at all cost; it sets you and your household free. Your children will learn the value of speaking truth and not lies. When you, the parent, initiate truth as a foundation, they will grow up believing, it is the truth they know that sets them free. The home is where truth telling begins. When they become adults, they will continue speaking the truth in love that they may grow up. Depend on the Holy Ghost refiner in your home to do a powerful work in the hearts of your children at an early age. They won’t be liars as adults. It’s up to you to keep them covered in prayer. If they are taught to lie, that’s what they will do as adults. If not, they will demand to hear the truth.
Start Right and End Right
Start your life right with time spent at the Holy Ghost refinery and it will end right. All that is contained in Him is sealed in your spirit at the refinery. Never take your heavenly Father for granted that it’s alright with Him to do as you please, for you are not your own anymore. You were bought with a price of the powerful shed blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son. Teachers, tell them you have spent quality time in your Father’s Holy Ghost refinery fire for stripping of the flesh before putting on the new man to be clothed in His righteousness and invested with His gift of power with fire. They need to know the old man, with the old nature and tendencies that are not right in God’s sight, must meet with death for the rebuilding of the new man to be born, exist, survive, increase, and become strong in the Lord their God. The teachers must be empowered to teach by the power and fullness of the Holy Ghost with fire. Otherwise, you will start wrong and end wrong when the truth is revealed to you. Get up and correct yourself, for many have taken the first step to receive Christ but didn’t pursue after the foundational teaching. No one wants to end wrong; everyone has a desire to end right.
Take the Plunge
Follow where the Spirit leads. He wants to see you move forward in His love.
Present your spirit, soul, and body to Him for a holy life of victory. The Holy Ghost refinery has set you free. To become a squatter in the house of God would be a travesty for you. Those who wants to settle in and do nothing have no reward in heaven. Are you one of those not wanting to do anything to help, but want to go and come as you please? They walk in, lie low, and shrink. The Holy ghost refinery doesn’t make this kind, it makes doers of the words and not hearers only. God is faithful: “Faithful is he who is calling you (to himself) and utterly trustworthy, and he will also do (that is, fulfill his call by hallowing and keeping you” I (Thessalonians 5:24, AMP). This is telling you to hold fast to the profession of your faith. Do not procrastinate back and forth in limbo; Christ, who has washed you from sin in His own blood, is faithful to keep you from falling. Follow the unction in your spirit to plunge in now and be released from all your fears holding you back in captivity.
Refined in Elegance
Do you sense the refinement work done in you? Some things may catch you by surprise, but not everything. Your accuracy and precision in the literal truth of the Word are correct, precise, and by the book. You are now fully aware of a spirit of elegance bestowed on you. Your good manners are of great grace, and you have the ability to use diplomacy in bringing corrections. You appear to be more even-tempered than you’ve ever been before. You are pleasingly mildmannered, not easily angered or provoked, and your good humor is all right with your Father. You are becoming more educated in the Holy Spirit daily. Your tutoring, training, directing, equipping, cultivating, imparting, encouraging, shaping, molding, and nurturing for further development in Christ will be beneficial to all in your sphere of influence. Due to your refinement in elegance, your transparency is impeccable, your openness and straightforwardness and openheartedness put others at ease in your presence. As someone who has ed the test of the Holy Ghost refinery, you can attest to the fact of being fulfilled, matured, and accomplished, one who can execute and carry out a productive plan leaving nothing to be desired.
A flawless Message of Sharing
It most certainly is an achievement because of your valuable time spent in the Holy Ghost refinery. Please understand, everyone makes mistakes, sometimes because no one is perfect. However, He never leaves your life incomplete, undone, or unchanged. He believes in bringing His people to a position of perfection and completion in Him. The fullness of the Holy Ghost, full of power with fire. What conclusions have you drawn? The refinery did a work no doctor or lawyer, pastor or friend can do. It was totally God, and worthwhile resulting in godly reverence to the most-high God. You are completely, wholly, absolutely, entirely, and utterly committed to God and His work to empower the body of Christ. But, Jessie, not everyone is called to be a pastor. I never said that. Whatever your calling in the kingdom of God, the Holy Ghost refinery is the place for frequent visits. Most pastors want their congregations to be filled with the Holy Ghost fullness of the power gift with the presence of fire. This empowerment helps him or her operate a church effectively--this is a need they must have. The days of Moses doing everything himself are over.
Chapter 12 b
Consuming Strongholds Stay focused on the Holy Ghost’s fullness of fire in your life without measure, which you have received. Meditate on it, keep it at the top of everything you do for the Lord in this world of chaos. There are some who think others are unaware they have a stronghold on their soul. They are in denial about it and don’t want anyone to know it, as if the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-present God is oblivious to the yearning in the soul to be free. The Holy Spirit opens up a portal, revealing those hidden things of deep darkness influencing the mind in a way that is not appropriate for a believer. There is a need for discerning eyes of profound understanding holding the thoughts of another in captivity. Throughout the history of the Bible, we see the fire of God’s powerful presence dissolves and brings down the rockiest of mountains, melting them as if they were metal in a furnace. The supernatural fullness of fire consumes strongholds on the soul, setting individuals free from believing a lie to be the truth. Let the fire begin its work in you now. It will be over and done when God says it’s over. The active living fire melts and softens hardened hearts that will not submit to Him. That’s what it did for me. It can do the same for you.
Curious of How It’s Done
Do you want the fullness of fire to free you? The pure fire sealed in the active principles of the living word of God is working in you. It draws and purges out the unclean works of sin setting you up to mobilize in Christ. You can be free from the hidden agendas by seeing God’s strong hand exercising His superior power. Launched out into a new and different beginning for a new commitment to God, it invades your mind with a new experience under a new anointing. It’s all for your good and not to harm or deplete your soul of its knowledge. Be strong-minded, and always have a strong, vigorous, and determined mind. Ask God to make it happen by the fullness of His Holy Ghost power of fire in and upon you. You must be in agreement with Him to do it. I have traveled that road. You must be serious about your yearning for the active fire. “For our God is a consuming fire” (Hebrew 12:29, NKJV). Now that you have received His power of fire, believe that you receive His glorious kingdom in you. To serve, please,
and respect His Holy name in godly reverence.
Hammered by the Hammer
The active power of the Holy Ghost with the presence of fire you longed for, is it in you now? You asked, prayed, and waited for it, didn’t you? It is your spiritual food to nourish and heal the soul. It purifies the spirit like a hammer that pounds and sends home a strong message to the unsaved minds of individuals. Those seeking a changed life, it will be revealed by the fire of God to replace the old ways, which were without the power of the Holy Ghost.
The power of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire breaks and humbles the unbroken soul in the same way as does the pounding of the hammer breaking the huge rocks in many small pieces. Who needs the symbolic hammer? It is the head-strong and the strong-willed believer endowed with great intellectual faculties in need of deliverance. They are the rough necks that want listen to godly advice. The fullness of fire has a powerful influence in the heart when they submit to serious counsel. It brings corrections from erroneous thinking and unruly habits in preparing them for the work of God. They won’t to be able to carry it into the work of the ministry. That stronghold on the soul must let go of its strength on the mind.
A Crushing Blow
The active principles of the living Word of fire are crushing hammers, saving powers, and life-giving forces. It is a defensive weapon, a probing tool, in making better believers to be sent into the world to win souls. “’Is not my word like a fire?’ says the Lord, ‘And like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces?’” (Jeremiah 23:29, NKJV).
The power of the Word is like a sledgehammer to slay the carnal works of the flesh bringing it down to dust and ashes. It’s a super-large hammer wielded with both of the blacksmith’s hands. The Holy Ghost and fire are like unto it. It’s a blessing to those who receive it, respect it, and submit to it. These will be anointed with the Holy Ghost and fire to serve in the body of Christ. The hammer of the Word of fire will benefit every unruly child of God to become submitted children of the kingdom, fueled and trained for a victorious life in Christ. It’s time to cast down doubtful mind-sets and pick up minds of purpose, power, and planning from God. Focused on what’s ahead, to the new thing He wants to do with you.
Iron Sharpens Iron
God sees and acknowledges the eagerness of your heart. Which is why He sends the blacksmith, one who works in iron or other metal as a forger, a hammer man to make or fashion a weapon of iron. He does it by heating and hammering; he lays the blade on the anvil and beats it. The anvil is a large iron block on which metal is hammered and shaped until it is ready for the soldering process. That blacksmith under grace is the mature leader in the body of Jesus Christ today. We cannot afford to remain in the immature baby stage mandatory growth will cease to be. The blacksmith believer’s sledgehammer smashes and flattens the dull unimportant remarks of logic in the carnal realm into pieces that has no value. Those are words uttered in an air of prideful importance. The ones who think they are saying something utterly profound. Not knowing they are dealing in the surface rather than the depth for a deeper spiritual understanding. The body needs those who have endured the sledgehammer process that softens hearts to be able to minister in love with wisdom and clarity. The soldering process by the mature is to unite the body. This happens when irons come together as one, as iron believers are invested with power to bring the people back to life again from dying as coals in the body restoring them to sound condition again. This glowing fullness of fire you whole-heartedly desired and received destroys strongholds when the hammering and soldering process of fire does the inner work. Iron sharpens iron to make one another durable, sharp,
strong, and anointed in the things of the Spirit. The wisdom of God is shared in how to settle differences anytime and anywhere. In the body of Jesus Christ, we can be dynamic in spirit, soul, and body, on fire for the King. As long as you are operating in the fullness of the power, that is, all that is contained in Him, you can be effective as iron in the body of Christ.
Emptying out the Trash
We empty the trash so the trash can will be free from its defiling content and the stench left in the house. If your life is full of trash, you will likely talk trash, live like trash, and see nothing but trash in others. Those who have received the active living Word of fire to work in their lives should search their hearts to see if their lives are like the trash can. A trashy swamp life may have a stronghold on the soul. Only the presence of power with fire can consume and destroy it by purging it out to stop the infectious spreading. After emptying the garbage can in a house, we do a thorough cleansing of the can that it might be completely free from residue. So it is with the cleansing of the inner-spirit man. All that defiles must be purged and emptied out by the eliminating fire of God.
The Unquenchable Fire
There is an unquenchable fire you cannot diminish or put out as long as the receiver is aware of their duty as a worshipper. The faithfulness and hopefulness are in having the unlimited power of God to invoke the vivid presence of fire in others around you. The active principles of the living Word of God are an empowerment to chase after God. Those with the presence of fire change the atmosphere for others to; receive all the abundance of blessings expressed in Him. It’s important to know what the Word says to be able to speak it and usher in His glorious presence of fire. The consuming, unquenchable fire throws a wet blanket on the natural flesh fire to put it out. The flesh itself is the vile degraded nature of human beings in conflict with the leading of the Holy Spirit. The cravings of the flesh excite and encourage sin. Beware,
You brethren, were (indeed) called to freedom, only do not let your freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse for selfishness but through love you should serve one another.
Galatians 5:13, AMP
Flesh in the Raw
This is a hardened, unbending, stubborn, unruly, fleshly mind-set that is not fused by fire. It’s the natural, unprocessed state of the unsaved soul and is not in obedience to God’s guidance. The flesh can only remain alive on the throne of your life if you give it the authority it needs. The time is now to re-fire and aim your focus high in the Lord your God. He wants to hear you say you will never be affected by a spirit of fear anymore. You cancel out all pre-conceived notions about anything and trust God in everything He speaks into your eager-ready heart.
Your launching pad is ready. He is taking you out into deep waters. There is a call to go deeper for greater understanding and revelation of His Word. You must know God is your leader, and as your head, He will impart overflowing revelations into your spirit with clarity and precision. Be encouraged, it’ s a new day and you are expected to walk in a new anointing He has for you. There are many lives He wants to affect through you. He is pouring down the oil and the wine over your head even now.
The Fire Triggers Movement
We must see clearly the other side of consuming strongholds. It is designed to bring the purging work to completion, accomplished and finished. There is no going back to the same stronghold on the soul. The believer is put in a state of readiness to mobilize forward. They are strongly secure in their fortified place to retreat for rest and sweet repose until its time again. Everything that was capable of being consumed by fire is now exterminated. The fire triggers movement for aggressive action. The time has come for some to launch out into the depth of things deeper than the surface. The superficial or surface is preferred by many who deals in the comfort of logic. You are to help those who fear going deeper in the things of the Spirit for fear of ability when God is revealing His spiritual revelation for further spiritual growth. Spiritual surgery is necessary it purges by cutting out difficult strongholds from the mind. No one wants to be kept from pursuing their purpose in life. When strongholds on the soul are lifted, clear thinking with a clear path to follow will be the results. There will be no more confusion as to God’s direction for your life. Expect the gift of the power of fire in you to empower you with an enduring steady pace; when it’s time to rest, that you will do. When it’s time to go, you will do it with joy. You are jubilantly inspired, excited, and enthusiastic now that you have been delivered, liberated, and set free in your spirit, soul, and body. The cleansing fire in you is keeping you active and on the move for God, confident and resting in the comfort of the Holy Sprit’s leading. Reflect back on your faith and know that where you are it’s because of your faith. The gift of the Holy Ghost and fire has made your life possible. Nothing can take it away from you.
Chapter 13 b
Deflating Untrue Error If you have done what the waiting people did on that great outpouring day of power with fire, you have what they eagerly waited for and received: the fullness of the power gift of fire from heaven. To deflate every untrue error entering your ears. By this, you are letting the air out of it forever. Some think they can have the power without the fire. No! If you don’t have the fire, there will be no power, no authority, and no ability to live in the active principles of the living word of fire. To minister to others in preaching, teaching, and sharing about who Christ is and what He came to earth to do. The Holy Spirit is always needed. This is why not many of His people are doing exploits in His mighty name with supernatural miracles, signs, and wonders following them. No one can have the demonstration of power without the fullness of the Holy Spirit and fire lacking nothing. That person’s status quo will remain the same empty, barren, and powerless in their own strength. The power and might of Jesus Christ will be missing. Make a plea to others to receive the gift of salvation. Ask the question, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?”
Fire Power to Witness
They respond with, “I don’t want your God, nor do I want your Holy Ghost and fire with the evidence of speaking in an unknown tongue because that’s not for today.” The fire of God in you eradicates every false word. Immediately inform them, “For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:39, NKJV). You must have the yearning for all God has for you. If there is one who doesn’t have it and has a thirst for it in their life, it doesn’t change God’s will for their life. The opportunity still stands. If they’ve given up, it’s incumbent upon you to quickly deflate that error in their mind. You who have been under tutors and mentors training for winning schooling to rule over the powers of darkness that be. They need to know God’s promises must be implemented by faith, and faith is belief in His Word, as well as speaking and acting on it.
Powerless to Minister
You say to the demon spirit influencing the victim’s mind, come out, instead the demon accuses you of having an immoral life because you are powerless and don’t know your God nor do you have a relationship with him. You turn to God, asking, “Why is there no force of fire power in Your words?” Beware, God will deflate your error when His power is rejected. And now, like the Seven sons of Sceva, they tried to cast out evil spirits by using the name of Jesus and the spirits leaped on them (see Acts 19:14-16, KJV). These spirits are aware you have no power to cast them out; the sin-blocker is the reason. After they have read your mail to you, do not expect them to obey you and come out. They will read you up one side and down the other. Why? Because you have given them the power to do so by not seeking after the power gift for yourself.
The Flesh is Disappointed
For some, there is a refusal to wholeheartedly repent and be transformed for a changed life. There is a retreating and giving up on God in doubt. There is a continual overthrow of missing God’s instructions and failing at understanding spiritual things. You tried loving your friends with agape love, and they accused you of trying to buy their love. Some step out with a desire to preach the Gospel for monetary gain that failed too. Some have been saved for years who still believe in old wives’ tales, knock on wood, crossing their fingers waiting for something to happen. Rid yourselves of these errors, they are all worthless. There is a failing to serve freely in God’s house because the flesh wants recognition. It takes on an unfriendly jealous attitude. There is always someone judging others and not loving them. No peace of mind exist to be still and know He is God. The soul is tormented--nothing is going as plan. That’s it, never let it be your plan and not God’s plan for you. One would need to override the Holy Spirit warnings to sin after receiving the fullness of fire. It takes a while for the carnal mind to actually get that the leading of the flesh is not the way the truth and the life for them. But God is the sure way, the truth, and the life for all who love Him.
The Missing Link
The fullness of the power of the presence of fire, is the missing link. It takes the action work of functional faith to receive the active principles of the living Word of the Holy Ghost power with fire to operate in its baptizing fullness. There is no need to give-up in doubt and unbelief when it’s yours for the asking. If anyone would be engaged with a new thing from God, they must first acquaint themselves with His Word that cleanses. When you do, you will learn the Bible is more than a book of instructions, it imparts life. The life-giving Word empowers you to receive His new nature, the old nature must be denied for all things to become new. The God of heaven’s glory makes all things new. If you can receive it in your mind, you can achieve it in your life. The impossible becomes possible with the fullness of fire. It is the purging, sustaining, keeping vigorous fire of God’s power which gives you the ability to minister. But Jessie, I am not a minister. Everyone that proclaims, “I am a Christian, I believe in God” is a “minister.” They can share how and when they were saved. The God of their salvation pulled them out of darkness in the mind into His marvelous light. If there’s one who can’t do this, they are not saved. The power of fire out of your mouth empowers you to tell them how.
The Sinfulness of Black Magic
Money can’t buy love and the fruits of the Spirit, nor can it buy the Holy Ghost power of fire and its fullness. Many have tried and failed miserably. Which is why we should watch and pray to avoid entering into temptations. Simon in the Bible worked black magic. He offered money to Paul to buy the gift of the Spirit. “And when he saw that through the laying on of the Apostle’s hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money” (Acts 8:18, NKJV). We can get rebuked for the soulful-carnal-minded blindness of sinning against the Holy Ghost in bribery. With this warning, do you think the gift of God can be bought? Your money will perish with you. Simon thought he could work his black magic on the Apostle. A true man or woman of God will not be bought. When you are
you put yourselves in their back pocket as their yes man or woman. Be advised, the luxury and sinfulness of black magic will not pay off; it’s a dead-end street to take. Stay focus on your future with God.
Poisoned by Bitterness
Study it in the Bible. Simon repented, so must everyone who is being influenced by an evil spirit. Many are involved in practicing sorcery and deceitfulness. Their unbelievable spiritual pride and boastfulness are poisoned by anger, bitterness of heart and soul, sabotaging and prophesying lies to draw other to themselves. This is known as bondage in the mind, repentance to God and forgiveness from Him is needed. Many are being influenced by demon spirits unaware with no real understanding. Repentance is the only way to make things right with God through His cleansing blood and purging fire. It is pointless to be poisoned by a bad attitude when God wants His people to be the beneficiary of His love flowing out of us. No one wants to be like Simon or who you once were. Your desire is to go from strength to strength and glory to glory in God. If this is not allowed in your household, you need to take it before the Lord and find out why.
The Power to Adjust
We believers are empowered to strike the negative inabilities with the sword of the active words and power of fire in our mouths and in our hands. The God of heaven made it possible for you. There is a rapidly rebounding power to search after when studying God’s principles of His Word that will make you powerful and take you where you need to go to fulfill your destiny. To succeed, you need the active gift and power of fire to be effective witnesses instead of malfunctioning in the Spirit. You want to adapt to the ways of the Spirit to begin walking in the Spirit. A happy outcome of life expectancies can be greater than anyone could hope for. If, when in your place of prayer and quiet time alone with God, you are asking and expecting to receive the power of fire, and you get
nothing, keep asking, waiting and praying. By faithfully persisting in prayer, you will receive when your appointed time of God has come. This makes the ability to adjust easy.
Without the Power of Fire
There are many believers who think of themselves as a piece of dry wood, with no substance and staying power they are always thinking about quitting in the house of God. Don’t quit! There is a need for someone to remain faithful, believing to receive the power, and presence of fire in their due season. Deflate these words of unbelief. Cast them down from your mind and look to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. He wants you to finish your journey and finish it strong in Him.
One night when my son was sixteen years old, he was enjoying the backyard spa and time alone with the Lord, as he is called to be a leader in the body of Christ. The wind of the Holy Spirit’s power of fire sat on him in the spa, filling him with the fire of His presence. He walked through the door wrapped in a beach towel, speaking with stammering lips of other tongues. The power of fire arrested him from his contrary ways.
The New Replaces the Old
The body of Christ must learn from the old and grasp firm hold of the new thing promised by God--what He has promised you, He will fulfill. There is a new anointing coming upon you. And a new commitment is in everything pertaining to life and godliness. Your longing for more is on His mind.
ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old, Behold I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:18-19, KJV
People of God must know God is moving in the now. They must be told a change has come to take them out of their uninhabited deserted inner being and soul without the freshness of the Holy Spirit’s rivers of living waters. Some are weary in stale waters without the exuberant power of fire to move their life forward under his new mercies and grace. What the believer doesn’t know can block spiritual growth. Blindness in part hinders the ability to see and hear in the spiritual realm. Many have entered into heaven without experiencing all God has for them. Unfortunately, the new never replaces the old for some. They die happy as ever satisfied with less instead of more. The status quo of their life remains the same without change. What is the more sought after? The abundance or abounding in all that is contained in Him as His fullness of the Holy Ghost power gift and presence of fire.
Sins of Omission
Some of God’s people are quoting phrases others made up out of ignorance of the validity or if it’s a principle of the living Word. They take the leader’s word, not reading and studying it for themselves to later find they were words of error. We have the young and the old in the pulpit unprepared without the power to effect a change in the established order of things. Is there no one with boldness in the spirit with Godly wisdom and understanding that can bring some correction with clarity? As a result, the people remain in ignorance until God sends a voice that will speak truth to them and for Him. We are never too young or old to denounce untrue error and learn the correct way of living life in Christ. There are people of God who will not allow a spirit of pride to stop them from learning the truth nor will they allow a Jezebel spirit to shut their mouths from
being a voice for God speaking the truth no matter what. The truth the people learn sets them free. The body of Christ throughout the world is in dire need of truth tellers for the facts of proven principles of how real God is. This is not the time for untruthfulness, and deceit to bring the innocent into deception. Truth is dealing with reality and real life’s issues for the empowerment of the people.
Chapter 14 b
Untempered ion There were many who received their hearts desire, the fullness of the power gift with fire after waiting for it. Some received it and kept falling and getting back up again. The Bible tells us why. “But their minds were blinded: for until this day the same veil remains not lifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ” (II Corinthians 3:14, NKJV). Many are blinded by the law and, therefore, blinded by sin. When the spirit-man got saved, the mind or soul didn’t. The character of Jesus Christ was never developed, but it can be, it’s a process in that it is being saved. The Bible shows it to you. King David’s out of control, untempered ion, caused him to look, lust, and act on what he lusted for. Today’s leaders are under a better covenant. Jesus Christ has taken away the veil of the law, which has ed away from one leader to all leaders in the Christian arena. If a leader has lustful eyes, it doesn’t mean they must pursue after it. The remedy is to cry out to the Father, to purge it out by His fire. You can fast and pray while speaking these words: “You, spirit of lust, I call you out of my eyes. Come out now and never return in Jesus’ name Amen.” You will notice the lust cease to be. He did it for me, He will do the same for you. How can you tell others what God can do if He hasn’t delivered you to obtain the victory? The fullness of fire purges the eye-gate and cleanses out the lust that doesn’t belong in your eyes. An example for you is this: A young, married, striving pastor in whom God was forming character is disappointed when a pulpit pastor says, “Look at that sexy lady walking down the aisle.” “But Jessie, they are testing their integrity.” Not in the pulpit, they must take them in a backroom office and test them. Ask them, “What would you do if you saw this?” Hopefully, they will say, “I will look the other way with dignity.” Not every pastor or leader is a bon-fide qualified leader with moral characteristics. That kind of talk in the pulpit is uncouth and asking for trouble. When a leader’s ion in the body of Christ is uncharted without the power of the Holy Ghost and fire, it becomes misplaced and misapplied. They become deceived by the control of the flesh; they say, “It can’t happen to me, this is an inflated sense of self control.” When the tempter comes to try them in the forbidden area of sexuality, they always fall prey to the devil’s deception of untempered ion.
Search Them Out
If you neglect researching a leader of the five-fold ministry gift before connecting with them, you may find they are not the one to mentor you. Ask God who you should sit under. The first thing to know is, where is their ion? It may be in the wrong place. ion is zeal, an intense drive, energy, and a sensational feeling. It engages one with courage to forfeit commitment seen in leaders and individuals with impulsive flaming inward lustful action. With some of God’s people, it’s anger and vexation of uncontrolled emotions in the soul. There are leaders with misdirected purpose and ion that is not tied to the destiny God has for them. They must not lead until they have their bodies under control. I am not saying they should not share God’s goodness--but to lead, no! The followers serving under him or her will think it’s okay to do what they are doing. For some, their ions are expressed by screening and lusting after the opposite sex in the house of God with wrong intent. They blindly with lack of knowledge fall into sin again. They scatter the people, crippling and driving them away from God’s house, separating the body and everyone involved. Everyone sees and know it. However, no one is bold in the anointing with godly counsel, and the body is wounded for the lack thereof. What’s the answer? My extrapolation is; half-full we are not operating in the fullness of the power of the Holy Ghost with fire (abounding in the abundance of all that is contained in Him).
Misapplied ion
Moses, in his anger and rage, showed arrogance and impatience because his untempered ion was out of control. He did the opposite of what God expected of him. King David was guilty of adultery and murder in the heat of the moment. Israel forgot God by giving place to cultural indecent immorality in carrying out the sin of idolatry. Saul, whose name was changed to Paul, made havoc with the church in his misguided religious zeal. We are warned against stepping out in zeal without knowledge, a form of godliness without knowledge and integrity. Read it and see it for yourself. Character is not a gift; it has to be forged, shaped, and formed in the likeness of God to excel over and prevail in every circumstance.
What diligence it produced in you, and what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal and what vindication! in all things you prove yourselves to be clear in this matter.
II Corinthians 7:11b, NKJV
God is no respecter of person. Everyone filled with the active fullness of the Holy Ghost and fire are empowered to bring their bodies under subjection to the power in them. To be tempered in ion is totally unlike untempered ion. It’s telling you your spirit, soul, and body has been modified (put to death), and therefore, influenced by the Holy Ghost fire and brought under control by you with God’s help. You are now endowed with temperance, the fruit of selfcontrol, the proper disposition for a believer.
What is a Good Leader?
A good leader has ed the character test. They will not keep their feet on the necks of certain ones to keep them in submission. Every human being was created to be a great leader. Everyone was given the power to dominate. A true holy and set-apart leader will not blame others pointing the finger with excuses. They willingly accept responsibility for their mistakenly harmful, dishonorable behavior, bad manners, and the consequences of any decisions made by them or anyone under their care. They test their beliefs faithfully to see if what was expected is right or wrong. God’s principles for effective leaders are these: fear God, keep His laws, and avoid backsliding into the world of sin that is forbidden by God. Do not be critical in tribulations; character is being formed. God will not remove the tribulation until character is formed in you. When God is developing character, it’s more than that, He is creating a new anointed person and not correcting a flaw. When you grow your own leaders, they will get to know your desire and catch your vision. If you are a true leader, everything you
need comes to you. Provision comes for the vision and not for the person themselves. A good leader must not oppress the people, nor should they turn the people back to oppression. How do you know a good leader? When they make those under them better leaders than they are.
Leaders with Integrity
These must have morality, purity, and loyalty. They will never let a crisis ruin their lives; it will destroy their God-given vision, put out the anointing, and cause their integrity to be lost. A leader who makes provision for the flesh does not care about their body, nor do they care about the body of Christ. Riotous and drunkenness must be denied. A leader’s integrity is a blessed trait of their character seen by others. Character is asking for a detailed report of a person’s reputation. Integrity is the soundness of moral principles: untainted and pure undeniable virtues, uprightness, honesty, and sincerity. If these qualities are missing, that is not a leader of integrity. Yet many are standing, though not in their integrity. While some are holding onto their integrity. The Bible says, “Better the poor that walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his lips and is a fool” (Proverbs 19:1, NKJV).
This is the vindication and comfort of a poor man; let him be honest and walk in his integrity. Let him speak and act with sincerity. If he or she have a shallow head and an evil tongue you know what you have leading the people. These are not my words but God’s. For clear understanding, read that scripture again for more clarity.
The Dawning of a New Day
The new day of grace is the accepted time to awake, rise out of sleep, and put-on Christ. This applies to all believers from the pulpit to the pews. The grace and
spirit of the armor of light secures the soul from temptation. If you are not armed with the whole armor, you are ill-equipped, undressed, and not ready for battle for the war between the soul and the Spirit. If you haven’t, put on Jesus Christ. Do not fear, He is the mighty one in the battle with you. He doesn’t always fight battles for you; He teaches you how to fight smart in His power. His teachings are the empowerment everyone need to stand up in opposition to the lust of the uncharted flesh. As mature, anointed, called leaders, you must put on His righteousness for justification. You are justified by faith in Him. You can get into alignment with Him. Mighty men of valor, holding up the king’s arms. The woman is not the only one called to pray. The body of Christ needs you to help those women declare war on the devil’s war. We must understand without God, we can’t; without us, He won’t be able to work through us.
Fear Kills Power for Teamwork
Are you walking in the knowledge that you are sanctified, qualified, and setapart entirely to Him? Nothing missing and nothing broken? If this is so, why is the enemy’s foot on your neck, holding you down in fear and unable to answer the call to step out in faith as a team working together as one? Aquila and Priscilla worked together as one. A pastor said he was called to do a one-week revival and pondered in his heart who was going to do the pastoring in his absence. The Holy Spirit suggested his wife, and he debunked that with, “She should not be pastoring, she should be a missionary.” The Lord answered with this, “If she can’t preach, then you can’t preach.” From then on, they were working together as team pastors. The two of them had brought their body and mind under control by the power of the living Word of fire. Together they put Him on as Lord to rule them, as Jesus to save them from a life of indulging self in wrongful ways. Jesus their Lord saved them for their appointed time to do His work.
Tempered ion
When your ion comes under control, you will know it has been brought to having a proper or desired temper. You are temperate and not untempered but toned down in action to an excellent and tempered ion that is of God. His power can bring temperance in your life. Our Father will have children powerfully tempered like Him. His desire is to have temperate apostles, prophets, Evangelists, pastors, and teachers leading His people with godly conduct practices, self-restraint, and not excessive in any areas of their lives. Your Bible says, “Gentleness, temperance, self-control, against such there is no law” (Galatians 5:23, NKJV). The word temperance is a fruit of the Spirit. It is a habit or fruit developed in restraining oneself in ion and desire, the avoidance of intoxication and total abstinence. Excess eating and drinking are to be managed well. When the flesh is modified, it is dead to sin and evil ion. Your spiritual life, walk of self-denial, earthly honor, and respect can be seen and known by all. Your love for all will rule your life until you depart this earth by death. There will be no false hearsay left on your name. It can be done when you decide to walk in the fruit of temperance from the beginning of your salvation.
Chapter 15 b
The Rich Oppressors Are Warned If you have desired the fullness of God’s Holy Ghost power gift with the presence of fire and received it, a sincere need has overwhelmed your heart to quickly cease oppressing the poor. Receive the warning, you who are rich, repent and avoid the judgment of the Lord. He is a God of mercy and forgiveness. You want to be included among those the Father is bringing back from the error of their ways. A clear cry is being heard now.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupt and your garments are moth eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days. Indeed, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
James 5:1-4, 6, NKJV
The Sins of the Rich
They are called upon to weep and howl for their miseries to come. Their riches are perilous, and their sins ultimately bring misery. Their misery and worldliness of pleasure-seeking turns to unnecessary anger, vengeance, and there’s no limit to the vindictiveness plotted and carried out. There is nothing they won’t do to get even to save face. Their miseries come from the things they put their trust in. To the rich, you are not worthless, your riches are unprofitable when that is all you trust in for happiness. Those who live like the beast are called to howl as
such. God can bring them back from the error of their ways. He can baptize and fill them with the fullness of the Holy Ghost power with fire when they put their trust in Him and not in monetary gain, fortune, and fame.
The Accumulation of Things
You who worship your accumulated things while oppressing others and worshipping money and materialism, beware, you reap what you sow. Your shady dealings will decay, rust and ruin will come upon all the material things you worship. Know it now, your living high will ultimately bring you low in your miseries of greed. Listen carefully, your heaping of treasures for the last days will prove to be those things hoarded for the wrath to come. When Christ returns, your money and things will be worthless. Therefore, spend your time accumulating treasures worthwhile in God’s eternal heavenly Kingdom that awaits you if you yearn to go there. The wages and unjust gain, fraud and oppression God will deal with. The cries of the reapers enter His ears, as did the cries of Israel when they were in bondage under Pharaoh. God heard their calling out to Him and sent Moses to rescue them. The worldliness and pleasure seeking for some has come to an end. Those who haven’t, there is still hope; the intercessors continue praying for you to receive the Holy Ghost with the baptizing purging power of fire. When you give your heart to Him and His work is complete, you will never oppress the poor anymore.
Your Heavenly Investments
Here is a logos word from Jesus, the savior of the world. May you receive it into your hearts.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 7:19-21, NKJV
To lay up treasures in heaven is your heavenly investment, unlike possessing many stocks and other earthly investments. By doing this, evils are repressed, riches and unprofitable worldliness disappear, giving place to spiritual treasures of riches stored up in your heavenly home. Selah, pause and think about that, O rich oppressors, and do a ninety degree turn from the error of your ways to Jesus Christ.
Money Isn’t the Problem
The love of money is at the root of all evil. The Christian believers leading in this world need money to live and their families, the evangelists need it to help them spread the Gospel. Churches need it to do their work effectively. The love of money is evil and not the money itself. The warning cry goes out to everyone who lives by worldly standards. There are the poor defenseless laborers who are misused and abused, and they are forced to sell all their possessions or a member of the family into slavery. To survive under the hands of a rich oppressor, many have died horrible death of starvation. To God, this is nothing but murder. When things go wrong for the oppressor, they will blame others for their downfall, believing they have a right to because of a spirit of greed, a seed sown in the heart.
The Curse of Selfish Living
Listen, you rich oppressors, beware of the sins that brings miseries upon you: covetousness is a witness against you by the rust, corrosion, and ruin it causes. Those who have the power of wealth in their hands in many cases are guilty of a spirit of oppression. They abuse that power by taking advantage of those under them. They make a hard bargain with the poor, and then cunningly refuge to make good on it, which is expected of the greedy rich oppressors. Know this, the fire of God is here to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. The persecuted sufferers always yield to the dictates of the oppressor under a horrific spirit of persecution while they are filling up their iniquities in the pleasures of all kinds of sinful, loveless lifestyles. Their sensuality and self-indulgence are telling you it’s not that God forbids the pleasures of life, He doesn’t, but to live in them and nothing else is sin. Their lives of pride, idleness, and fullness of bread instead of the fullness of the principles of the living Word of fire is a detriment to their future unless there is a profound change of heart. There must come a turning to God; forever try it and you will see. When change comes, acts of love and piety fills the heart. God, who sees, hears, and knows, brings honor to the sufferers and brings down the rich oppressors to their knees. The perfect and powerful God turns the worst of many dark and dreadful situations into something good for the benefit of the less fortunate who trust in Him.
Be Patient and Persevere
You suffering ones, in due time, God comes to your rescue. His delay is not a denial; you will receive the former and latter rain in your due season of endurance and perseverance. You continued steadfast in your course of action, especially in the face of difficulty, and your purpose was always looming before your eyes. You waited and prayed for His divine intervention, know that it’s your time to receive your just reward. As it is with the farmer, when you sow your corn in the ground, you have a long wait for the manifestation. So it is with your spiritual walk and life in Christ. Your patience, perseverance, and waiting for the productive growth are your rewards for the fruits of your labor. When you know God is with you, you won’t worry anymore about what the oppressor did to you. You have given it to God, therefore, let Him handle it. When He does, it will be done perfect and right in His sight.
Hearts that Are Established
The humble sufferers stand firm in the faith. In spite of the harmful effects at the hands of the oppressors, they practice doing good and refuse to do evil even when their lives are at stake. You won’t see, nor will you hear them groaning, complaining, and grieving to one another among themselves. They are planning a way of escape through Christ the Lord, seeking, asking, and knocking for what to do next. He alone devises the plan. You will find them calling on the name of the most-high God, thanking Him in advance for setting them free from the oppressors because He has the power to do it. A decision is made by the oppressed ones to continue praying the prayer of faith while studying the active principles of the living Word of the Holy Ghost and fire. Nothing shall be impossible for God to do in hearts that are pure and established in Him. Your steadfastness in unshakable faith always pays in the end with a victorious life.
Hope for the Rich Oppressor
O rich oppressors, have you wept and howled yet? You still can repent. Your wailing and lamenting as if in great pain has come up into the ears of God. Don’t change your mind and walk-back your repentance and praying with “forget it.” God wants to set you free and give you a complete turn-around for a new makeover. To Him, it doesn’t matter how deep the deception is. When the Holy Ghost comes in and upon you to live in you, He guides and comforts you during the deliverance process. You haven’t heard anything until you’ve heard the comforting words of the Holy Spirit telling you who you are and who you can be. Relax and stop resisting against Him and cooperate with Him for a change to occur in you. It’s for your benefit of supernatural peace and rest in your tormented soul. Joy instead of madness and anger, soundness of mind instead of derangement, love instead of hate will be your reward. When the wealthy or rich get saved and delivered from sin and develop a desire in the heart to bless others less fortunate than they are, they must give it out of a pure heart without obvious wrong motives to have them as their yes people. There is hope for you; reach out
to God, the giver of everything you need. Take it and hold it close in the bosom of your heart. Your hope is your desire combined with your expectation from God. You are expecting great results for those you help. You can be full of hope for those destitute of hope in despair. Your generosity will help raise them up from their low condition to a great future. When a rich oppressor receives the fullness of the Holy Ghost power with fire, the soul begins losing its control on life’s directions. The Holy Spirit can now begin to lead where you should go as you, yield your soul to Him in total abandonment.
Chapter 16 b
Weeping Over Zion’s Sins It’s understandable those who received the fullness of the Holy Ghost’s power and fire gift weep when those who should have received it are allowing sin to remain in control. That’s the time to cry out to Him to save His people. The unrepentant repent in a crisis; after the crisis lifts, they are back to the old ways, things as usual, the old normal. They know it doesn’t meet the standards of the new from God. They are not seriously convicted in the heart. The God we serve wants permanent relationship with us, His people. There is a serious corruption of manners in everyday living; it is a general coldness of devotion among the people. The power and fullness of fire is still missing in some houses of God. The whole world is in turmoil pursuing their own paths aside from the Father’s. The clarion cry goes out:
Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens! To make thy name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! For since the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: For thou hast hid thy face from us and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Isaiah 64:1, 2, 4, 7, KJV
How can we be saved? Believe it or not, He preserves, saves, provides, and supplies all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. He comes to our rescue with forgiveness when we repent wholeheartedly to Him. Just like the father who met with his prodigal repentant son on his return home, He salutes us with open arms of comionate love.
The Diagnose
Our God reigns to bring His people out of their ruined state, as well as from their emptiness of mind and spirit. He meets His praying people with the answer of peace and the fulfillment of His righteousness. The latter part of 2019, our daughter was down with an infection in both lungs. While other prayer warriors and I were yet praying, she was on her way to work. We were confessing and speaking words of healing and words of life. We were asking God to send His Word to consume, heal and clear up the fluid from around her lungs. We wept, prayed, and cried out for His healing balm to do its work in her body. She recovered well. Our God is a consuming fire. When the power of God is released, healing is circulating in the atmosphere. There is no distance in prayer, whether here or there, He sends His word out to heal, deliver, and set captives free.
Sin Separates
When repentance and prayer is neglected, emptiness will be the results. No one calls on His name, ignoring the great and powerful one with these words: “Seriously, I am not ready yet, I am enjoying the pleasures of sin.” No one is calling on Him for His grace and mercy to save and take away the sin that brought judgment. The plague of a worldwide virus didn’t come to separate us but to draw us closer to Him with regretful hearts. Excuses never fix the problem; a remorseful heart touches the heart of the Father. He sits on His throne waiting for many to make a move and accept Him as Lord. To pray to Him is to take hold of the promise of His goodness to us who believe in Him by faith. In prayer, give them back to Him with this, “God, your Word says—” and tell Him what it says. Apply it to your life. And watch Him bring things to in your life when your faith is in Him alone.
Wrestling with God
The seriousness of prayer is in what we say. To refer to yourself as clay in the Potters hand is a true heart of submission. To take hold of Him as He that wrestles with someone who is wrestling with you. The desire of the heart is pouring out while wrestling in prayer. Those who would take hold of God in prayer must stir up themselves to do it. All the energy and vitality within us must be put to use. The thoughts fixed and the affections flaming with a yearning for the active fire to do its work. In hopefulness, with an outstanding desire, Jacob took hold of God in prayer all night long at the Ford Jabbok and wouldn’t let go until He blessed Jacob. This is the perfect example for us to follow. We miss out when we give up before receiving the answer. That was then under the old order of the Most High God.
Begging the Sovereign
This is now, you are under the grace of God. Have you been begging Him? There’s no need to beg for something He has already done. Just begin to walk free from sin, thanking Him in advance for what He has done on the cross. Although some are doing some begging when the soul is being severely tormented, causing unbearable pain, and they can’t endure it anymore. He has already done what He needed to do; now, it’s up to you to act on the power given to you to do what Jesus did. It’s time to stop begging and start acting on what is already said and done in His Word. If it is demonic possession, demand that it comes out in Jesus’s name and give them Jesus. When a ministering believer speaks the words, come out or be healed in Jesus’ name. There is consuming fire in those words; in many cases, deliverance and healing are the results. We cannot mold ourselves the way we should, but we can ask His sovereign will to mold us into His image and likeness even as He made us at the first like Him and is our heavenly Father. He alone has the power to save. Waiting on the Lord your God flows from love, not fear and restlessness.
Restoration of Favor
You who received the fullness of fire in your weeping and travailing, in prayer ask the Lord to restore favor and heal the land from the sin of corruption. Ask Him to send a revival of spiritual quickening, hearing ears, seeing eyes, discernment, and rejoicing in the abundance of His mercy and peace. It must be sought after, not just in a crisis, but by everyone with a hunger to live in His presence, seeking God’s mercy through prayer.
Lord, you have been favorable to your land; you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. You have forgiven the iniquity of your people; you have covered all their sin. Restore us, O God of our salvation and cause your anger towards us to cease.
Psalms 85:1-2, 4, NKJV
God has said He will not contend forever, that we may know what’s happening to us is but a light affliction. Divine favor is here with the salvation of God, the forgiveness of sin, and restoration to all is restored.
ionate Intense Prayer
The ability to plead ionately when praying will move the hand of God. He is not a man hard of hearing; He hears, sees, and knows all things. He will bring salvation, healing, and deliverance in cities and nations held captive in Satan’s grip. Present yourself to God. He’s waiting to anoint you to stand in the gap for yourself, families, cities, and nations. Tell Him of your hunger for His fire of love. His fire from the altar of prayer anoints your mouths with His active Word. Ask Him to release His anointing through you to intercede on behalf of lost souls and desperate needs around you. It helps to weeping may endure for a night, but joy does come in the morning. It may be because someone you witnessed to gave their life to Christ. Prayer is your key; it unlocks doors for the
Word of God to enter into the hearts of those who doesn’t know Him and those who do.
The Father’s Heart
God doesn’t want His wrath to invade the world like a destroying deadly pandemic under His covenant of grace. Others and I have fallen on our knees in repentance and acceptance of His love for us. We are asking Him to let His fire fall and His river of life flow out of our bellies to destroy every yoke of bondage and lift heavy burdens setting captives free. Those who repent and believe deserve to have the power of God flowing through them to others. A real and glorious climate change of the believer’s committed spiritual walk will sometimes become tropical. In many cases, you ultimately will find yourselves weeping over the sins of Zion with tears wailing and travailing in agony. Other times, there will be bathing in the warmness of the active fire of His love shut up within your spirit.
God’s body of people are truly blessed to flourish in their maker’s spiritual rebirthing, as He smears on the oil of the active principles of the living Word of fire. It’s the supernatural empowerment of His glorious liquid fire of the Holy Ghost flowing through every saved repented believer sanctifying setting them apart, purifying, reconciling, justifying them to Himself. The work of the fire identifies you as a member of the body of Christ, the risen head of the body Himself. The fire of the living Word gives you purpose and destiny for ministry. Keep the faith, the Father’s heart is full of love for you and all who cross your path. His deep, heartfelt love for you remains the same. It never changes; He wants the best out of life for you, as long as you stay grounded, faithful, and hopeful in Him alone. Which is why He said, “For I the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me” (Deuteronomy 5:9, NKJV). This divine jealousy brings retribution for your parents’ sins. He simply allows it because of your disobedience. Before you think differently, mercy is promised when you keep His commandments in every area in your life. Read and study
the entire chapter, and you will see the heart of the Father is chastisement and love for you
Chapter 17 b
Lured by Beauty After you have received the fullness of the power gift of fire you desired, you should have developed a distaste in your spirit for the pleasures sin offers. The biblical city called Jericho in comparison with Jerusalem, the church, the house of peace, are not the same. We hear of many from the household of faith who fall into sin again at Jericho. They normally are seeking a good time according to the world’s system. To live in a city like Jericho, it’s crucial to have a life of constant warfare prayer, praise, and worship. The temptation to go astray from the right way haunts the weak in faith. The biblical Jericho was a pleasant city, but the water was bad, as was the morality of the people. Jericho’s city of today draws those who are not truly saved yet. Many excuses exist as to why they are lured and unable to run from its claws of indulgence. Some have a guilty conscious and a desire for change. Others don’t really care about living a double life; courting sin is a part of salvation for them. The sin conscious individuals are asking if it is right to stay in sin while confessing to be a Christian. Their doubleminded friends act as if it’s okay, always encouraging them to come along. When the answer is, “No, I can’t go with you, the Jericho seekers accuses them of thinking they are better than anyone.” This is because they don’t understand true heart commitment.
A delegation of the city officials of Jericho visited Elisha. “And the men of the city said to Elisha, behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my Lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground is barren” (II Kings 2:19, KJV). The waters of Jericho are symbolic of God’s people all around you. Are you one of them? This luring city is beautiful in appearance and pleasing to the carnal senses. To avoid being a fence sitter, you must openly rebuke the devil that is holding their mind in bondage without hesitation, and he will flee from them.
Caught in the Snare
For the double-minded, living a double-standard life of blindness in part is deceiving their mind when saying. Others are missing it, totally unaware they themselves are the ones deceived by it. Their problems get worse; there’s no peace for the wicked. They become agitated by everything, overwhelmed by a spirit of striving against themselves. Eager to light someone up by telling them off in a harsh way. It’s usually someone they can’t control. All patience is gone, and nothing but drama ensues in the lives of some believers. They need to make an effective quality decision to cross on over to the other side of life. When they do, they will not be lured by the beauty of the old nature ever again. A changed mind and heart await them when they can see beyond themselves and truly see God as their Father and Lord. He is the only one who can set them free from the snare of the enemy to their soul and put His approval stamp of righteousness on their life.
The Miscarriage of Sin
There are only a few inches of rainfall recorded in Jericho each year. The city itself is blooming with date palm trees waving in the air. You will see a symbol of victory triumphant and supreme; excellence is the drawing power. There are beautiful bananas trees, producing after its kind balms, sycamores, and hennas. Its enticing beauty causes the weak minds of God’s people to lose their way and become highly addicted to its beauty and everything it has to offer. This miscarriage aborts future purpose and destiny, leaving its victim barren, useless, and unproductive in the body of Christ and the world. If your city is like the biblical Jericho, it calls for daily travailing in intercessory prayer to save your soul and the souls of others from its grip. You can have a meaningful and prosperous life in this city when your heart is stayed on Jesus.
The Unfruitful Body of People
Bad waters of barrenness seen in the body of Christ are called unfruitfulness. To God, it is an unproductive barren church without spiritual life, not producing
after its kind. Not many souls are walking through the doors seeking help. There are no anointing oils of the Holy Ghost fire there to cast out demons; sin or the residue of sin is still holding them captives. Yet they are found trying to cast out Satan. Satan cannot cast out Satan. He laughs when counterfeit leaders try this, knowing they are weakened by him doing what he wants them to do. They are more committed to the devil then they are to their Father, God. Yet they, without the proper understanding on what the Bible says, continue serving, praising God out of soul-power while following after two masters, the devil and God. All the while, they do not realize no one can court the devil while walking with God. Many are totally unaware they are producing in unrighteousness after their ungodly kind that is the enemy to their soul.
Turning of the Head
The world is turning the heads of those without a definite desire and consistent focus. It’s possible they are addicted to Jericho, the city of sin. If so, you don’t have to socialize with that in-crowd. They have no relationship with God and are always looking for a place to party aside from Him. Yet they say I am saved because I am a believing Christian deceived by a double standard life. They are professing it, but their lives are not lining up with the active living Word of God. It’s a true sign of living a hypocritical life. Sin city is still turning their heads; they are refusing to say no to sin. Many are easily led by the lure of beauty; simply put, they don’t have a prayer closet experience with Christ. It may not be in the closet, it may be standing upon your feet or on your knees or lying on your face, it doesn’t matter the position. A true heart relationship with our Lord Christ goes far beyond head knowledge just saying who we are. The Father wants to see the fruits of your labor.
Instant Gratification
You will see, but don’t do as they do. Do as God and His Word say you must do. The unrighteous doesn’t want to hear about living right according to God’s
standards. Their piercing, wandering, glaring eyes are constantly focused on instant gratification. The deception is they don’t know what is right or what God’s Word requires of them. Which is why they’re not aware they are God’s workmanship. These want what they want and not what God wants. They don’t know God’s desire is to put His label on them. He wants to own them as His workmanship created by Him for good works. Their works are polluted works when they should be great and excellent works. My friends, you are either a child of God or a child of the devil. You must choose. If you are a child of the devil, you are the works of your own hands.
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there’s no truth in him.
John 8:44, NKJV
Satan’s destiny is hell. But God sent His son Jesus Christ to make the work of Satan ineffective in your life. God has a plan for you that began when you were born again, and it’s here now. If you don’t know your gifting, ask Him. He has the answer.
Cursing God and Self
There are languages the fire baptized, believing Christian in Christ should not speak. Yet many have chosen to curse themselves and others with their mouths. Listen to them, “I am so stupid.” They tell their child, “You will never be anything.” They hate their mothers; they curse their present and future. Holding a grudge in the heart is not a problem for them. This is not a new creature born with the real nature of Christ. This is what the unsaved in-crowd does. This kind has not come out of darkness into God’s marvelous light. Ask yourselves this
question, “Why am I like this?” We can learn how to bless and curse not. We must let everything we say come from a true heart of conviction. Make this your life. I will never curse God and myself again nor will I be lured by the sins of the flesh. My flesh dies now in Jesus’s name. Amen.
The Disobedient Price Tag
Some of us chose to never grow-up. If you mention a worldly uncouth, profane, and unclean thing, they are ready. If you never turn down the enticement of sin, are you a fake Christian? If so, you need the savior Jesus Christ. “But Jessie, I don’t want to hear about sin.” Is it because you want to continue living in sin and you feel guilty when the Word is mentioned? You continue with, “I love what I am doing at age forty, I’ve got to have my spirits. I am not ready to lay it down.” Are you willing to pay the price for living a double life? That is a false notion of what it means to be a Spirit-filled believer. It’s a spirit of rebellion, encouraging minds empty of the word that are weak to backslide. There are seekers on the straight and narrow road who are lured by the beautiful city its bright lights and those who loves it. They can resist the urge to partake of its worldliness.
The Enticing Glory
There are many cities like the city Jericho. Are you living in a city like this? If so, are you disconnected from its enticing glory? There was a spirit of indifference in Jericho; it persuaded those that once answered in obedience to the Lord’s will. They find themselves turning a deaf ear to His voice, caught up in the cares of the city, insensitive to the voice of God. The love they once had for God has grown cold. The indifferent hearts soon become hard to reach. This uncaring attitude doesn’t belong in the believers who say they belong to the body of Christ. Especially those filled with the desire of the heart the Holy Ghost and fire. They are no longer lured by its beauty.
Chapter 18 b
The Power of Resilience The believers must know why they are required to desire the fullness to abound in the abundance of all that is contained in Him. As it relates to; God’s gift of power with fire and what it is: it is the fullness of the active principles of the living Word operative in a true believer. His principles are what you live by. They govern your life in taking you where you need to go in the power of courage and resilience, to have good successes in them takes time. Great success in the early immature stage of life demands belief, trust, and faith in the giver of life. Know the condition your spirit, soul, and body are in. You must learn what time it is. It is time to know the power of courage and resilience and what it means to possess it in your life to keep you strong, healthy, and wise. It is having the ability to rebound or spring back into action. Resilience must be authoritative in your life. Others will learn from seeing you resuming your original position of strength in every dark time that arise. By this, you are dismantling every trap set up by the enemy to your mind to keep your life moving forward.
Who is Judging Who?
A spirit of pride many times is the culprit in hindering one from receiving from a true prophet of faith, or it may mean they are not yet ready for real change. If the heart is not convicted, they are content with one foot in the church and the other foot in the world. Is this considered judging? No, not if it’s a word from the Lord and is biblical. Here is your example: when Nathan was sent by God to King David with a word from the Lord rebuking his sin, David was quick to repent from the heart. He never accused Nathan of judging him and his sin. There are those who say, “They are judging me.” This is an excuse to continue dabbling in the pleasures of sin. When a true prophet comes to you with a direct word from God, that is not judging. If you didn’t receive it, it just might be that a spirit of pride has a stronghold on the soul. Do you agree? If your answer is yes, no, or you don’t know, is it because you don’t have a clear-cut understanding regarding what the Bible tells you about the words “judging others” means? Therefore, your understanding is unclear, and you are guilty of taking the words of instructions in the Bible out of context. Be encouraged, there’s hope for the lack
of understanding the written Word of God whether right, wrong, or indifferent. It’s there in your Bible; it gives both sides for every issue when seeking for understanding.
Search It Out
Search the scriptures for yourself if you are mature and not a young babe in Christ. There’s no need to wait for your leader or king to do it for you. The Holy Spirit in you is your teacher; ask Him to open your understanding. The Bible says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of the king is to search out a matter” (Proverbs 25:2, NKJV). You don’t have to be a king to search out a matter, just an eager believer to learn. God is perfect and seriously, lovingly powerful. The unsearchable secret things are thoroughly searched out by all God’s anointed leaders: apostles, prophets, Evangelist, pastors, and teachers. You the believer who has received the fullness of the Holy Ghost, and fire can do the same, do you think? Sure you can, without a doubt. It makes your leader proud of their congregation to know the people are not totally dependent on them. The Word opens your spiritual eyes to see deep into the hidden mysterious realm of secret things for understanding. Search it out, in the Word, you will find sustaining life.
Improvement Through Knowledge
Solomon sought to improve himself in knowledge to gain powerful instructions both by the wisdom and prudence of men and by the madness of foolish men, by the fields of the slothful, as well as by the acts of the diligent. He saw the mind and manners of men were crooked and perverse, partaking of wicked evils, mischief, and harm to others in their lewdness and immoral acts. His conclusion is this: “Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor” (Ecclesiastes 10:1, NKJV). Like Solomon, I believe wisdom and folly are rampant in the lives of many incompetent and weak leaders throughout the world. Solomon’s efforts
were toilsome to the mind and all vanity. It vexes the soul to see many who have the wisdom of God and not use it, many who have folly and do not strive against this weakened derangement of mind in foolish and unwise conduct with no morals. We must know all the politics in the world will not restore the corrupt nature of man, nor correct natural temper nor cure the distemper in individuals. But we have a perfect and powerful God who is a cure all, a deliverer who came to set captives free. Why the captivity in the soul? It must be they lack the active principles of the living Word of the Holy Ghost empowerment of fire working in their lives. True happiness is in the wisdom and knowledge of God.
Tyrants in the House
When in your efforts to help someone, you see the need, but they don’t see it in your attempt to help them, they say, “Thanks but no.” They selectively, blindly continue living in the denial of a vicious cycle.” They are willingly trapped in the cycle of ugliness in taking vengeance while putting the blame on God, saying God told me to do it. If you want to shift from being a tyrant in your house, the white house, and the church house, you must learn from your mistakes and fight the good fight of faith to get free and stay free. Let God reshape you into a new mold again for a new venture ignited by fire operative in your life. “Vengeance is mine and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them” (Deuteronomy 32:35, NKJV). Let us be biblically and sincerely real. If repentance never overwhelms the heart with remorse and a change of mind, sudden destruction will be the fate of the hardened hearts. Which is why we must cry aloud in love, spare not, and show God’s people their transgressions. When this is done in love, it will be received and people will be set free into a life of victory, nothing better than this can happen.
Your Ultimate Strategist
Do not run and hide feeling rejected, nor seek revenge on the souls of others. Be
courageous in God, resilient, rebounding in the ability to spring-back up again. You can now resume your power of recovery in your position of strength you are empowered with. He is your ultimate divine strategist. He has already figured out the when, where, and why to present His timing for you to lead others out of darkness in the mind into His marvelous light of love. The Holy Spirit and fire deliver the believers from all setbacks for a great come-back in Him. Many people believing in Christ have succeeded in getting free from the excess baggage that inevitably brings ruin to their life. Everyone with a desire to be free, if you are in denial, it won’t help your case, it only blocks your path to freedom. You must know your timing the perfect timing with God is everything. It’s time to deactivate deadly problems, settle them once and for all time by acknowledging there is a problem here and it’s in me.
The Winds of Change
Your bold resilience is astounding; you know now how critical it is to yield to the potter’s hand for rebuilding and reshaping a vessel to honor Him. Your elasticity in the principles of the living words of fire causes you to bounce back after trying situations try to take you down again. A new desire in the heart is evident, and you have Christ in you the hope of glory. The old trends are now reversed in you. You can see a new trend beginning in yourself and others in your sphere of influence. Your time has come to help others captive in the mind go through for their breakthrough. Beware of those who will say to you “I knew you when…” May your answer be, “But God set me free, He can do the same for you.” Tell them what you see now is a blessed resilience endowed upon me from the Lord God of heaven, who I serve. I was depressed and suppressed by the enemy to my soul. This awesome cheerfulness and exuberance I am experiencing is from the savior Jesus Christ. This will silence their jealousy and unkindness with a desire to possess what you have after they’ve seen such a wonderful change in you.
Rise Up in the Anointing
Rise up with a fresh charge and anointing; when you begin to walk in your new destiny, charge others to do the same. God is opening your eyes to see into the realm of the spirit. There you will see what the enemy is doing to the mind. The anointing on you empowers you to pull down the strongholds and set them free. Pull down the spirit of religion and the spirit of Jezebel that wants to shut the mouths of God’s true prophets. Anointed ministering leaders must resume the power of recovery; be who you are called to be and speak what you are told to speak. Pursue after your divine destination, experience the exhilaration of being fired up in the freedom of the Holy Ghost in setting captives totally free to a new powerful life in Christ. There are generational consequences of curses the youth today seemingly know nothing about. It can be a deterrent to them. They need Jesus, as well as your wisdom and teachings at an early age. Rise up without hesitation. If you don’t teach them, the world will. Your resilience is keeping you strong in the power of Almighty God. Like many, your latter days is your launching pad into your new destiny now and forevermore.
Chapter 19 b
Salted with ion Everyone is entitled to receive the fullness of the Holy Ghost power gift of fire with a desire for it. You did what was required of you; you waited in prayer, asking and believing you would receive it. Anything that is salted is cured, preserved, or seasoned with salt, infused with salt, treated with salt. Applied to you, the believers, they are cured from sin, sickness, baptized, and fill with the fullness of the fire of the Holy Ghost living in you like salt. It carries the meaning of one that is well prepared for their assignment. To minister effectively to the body of Christ drenched in the warm fire of God. The salted ones are quick witted, smart, and sharp in the fire. The active principles operative in the living Word of God have answers you need. They are sensible in the good sense of God’s wisdom. They are anointed of God as salted, committed ministers, intelligent in their ministry business or occupation.
Salt and Light
You are the salt of the earth. But if salt has lost its taste (its strength its quality) How can its saltiness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthews 5:13-14, AMP
The salt of the Holy Ghost preserves the truth in you in keeping your fire lit, while serving His body. It gives to you a liveliness and freshness which inspires and stirs a hunger for more in those in your sphere of influence. Saltiness with ion imparts; giftings, callings and anointings through the laying on of hands. When you as the salt of the earth connect with the active fueling principles of the Word, you will have a combustion from the oil of fire, a power source that lights
up the soul and the world with the ion of Jesus. As lights of the world, the Holy Spirit in you shines brightly through you in dark places overcoming the darkness lighting the way for others to follow Him. Light is confrontational and visible. Salt is non-confrontational, influential, and penetrates. If you can believe it, then receive it being done even now. Get this mind-set: you are complete in Him.
The Enemy Has to Flee
When the soul is salted with a ion for more of Jesus, it causes the enemy of strife to be at peace with you. They will catch fire too with a burning ion to succeed in the anointing to empower souls. There will come an automatic fleeing from jealous striving and warring against God’s anointed. They too will rise-up in excitement, inflamed with the glory light of His fire and love. Your saltiness in the comionate fire keeps you energized, thoroughly sanctified, and qualified to do all you are anointed to do in this world as witnesses. You can put your trust in Him and not in man. Man will disappoint you. Jesus will save and free you, for your purpose in life is to inspire the unsaved, drawing them to Him for their empowerment as believers. Those salted with the ionate love of God are the excellent, powerful, and wealthy in Him. They have the active living Word of fire in them. They are seasoned with wit, wisdom, and good sense as qualifiers that says they are experienced in the business of the church body, organizations, occupation, and private institutions. They are those with an exhilaration and enthusiasm for their purpose in life. Make God your light and heart’s desire; you can only win in Him. His light of genuine comion excites and wakens the lives of others. You want them to receive His heavenly fire of grace, love, and mercy to keep His body of believers revived, thriving, and on fire. The enemy to the soul can’t endure this; he has to flee from you.
Cast down the Negative
As salt and light stand confident in the arms of God’s strength and power,
steadfast, firm, and secure in Him, never weakening under harsh words coming at you from the fake, false, and well- intended. If the enemy can see your weakness as a failure in your mind, he will continue throwing cold water on your fire to put out its love and light of comion. Never attempt to stand down when your mind is being attacked. Stand up in the Holy Spirit, watching and praying, canceling out that assignment. You must follow up with speaking the active living word over your mind. Your core duty of your hope, your heart’s ion, is in what you believe and speak. Rejoice in Him as He pours in the oil and wine of His “liquid fire” into your spirit, soul, and body. In His presence of dynamic and vigorous power of fire, He sets you free from a barren soul with the promised river of life flowing out of your inner-being. Your need to serve well is like a burning fire of ion flowing from the heart of God through you.
Courage in the Fire
To be courageous with a ionate desire is having the courage to go after everything important for the journey. You need the supernatural empowerment to be brave, fearless, valiant, and eager to do the impossible exploits for God. It’s necessary to be full of life as a living person full of power, ion, and revival fire. Stir yourselves; get lively in the things of God; recharge and become fervent in taking charge of your work in the body of Christ. There’s a need for the active fire of God to be infused into the intellect by an act of God. Ask Him to help you keep your fire burning for a continual in-flow of new blood and the stimulating fire of His presence to carry out your function as a believer in Christ.
Shut up Fire
The pressures of the day will cause you to lose sight of your zealousness. The people are saying you are deceived, therefore they despised you and speak evil against your testimony. You have the power of volume control, turn that volume off. Keep your eyes on the Lord while progressing forward. You will get beyond the mocking. It will not benefit you to leave your post for invalid reasons. You
get salty when you lose your savory ability as salt and light to empower others; you are challenged to strive at keeping it. “Then I said, I will not make mention, nor speak anymore in his name. but his word in my heart is a burning fire, shut up in my bones. I was weary with forebearing and I could not stay” (Jeremiah 20:9, KJV).
Shut up fire is seen on your visible face as an illumination of God’s presence and a sign that it’s Christ in you, the hope of glory. A sign that you were with Him, allowing Him to pour His words of instruction into you to be ed on to others and kindle the fire in them. On Moses’s return from the mountain with God, he covered his face, for the bright shining glow was blinding to the natural eyes of the people. Moses and Jesus, they were always going yonder to pray an example for His people to follow. Or maybe you are on your face daily before Him, stirring up the glory fire and ri with a glow. You don’t worship the glow, worship God, He is the glow. The glowing fire of God in you beautifies as proof you have been in His presence.
Rekindle the Fire
There is a reason for the salt and light of the earth. The active principles of the living Word of fire are the reason. Focus on the reason, keep it in your heart to flow out of your mouth in your due season. The purpose is to prove the holiness of the comionate Jesus Christ--that He is real, He is alive and came to live in His people. The words you say are as important as what you don’t say. Speak life, and your soul shall live it’s in the word. Say to yourself, “I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord” (Psalms 118:17, KJV). There is power in these words of fire for your longevity. It’s a powerful principle set in place to shape and reshape the life of the believer. They are powerful and cannot be refuted, rejected, nor cast down and denied. Do not keep the treasure of fire you possess on lock-down share it. Be of noble courage and spirit, bravely building up others with that burning ion of God’s fire while ministering in His love. Salt in the believer gives inspired vigorous life to impregnate and preserve in a ionate life. It draws others into the atmosphere of His presence of fire and
glory. Salt in the natural is a preservative in the spiritual realm; it preserves the truth in you.
Good for Nothing Salt
Since you are the salt, the elect of the earth be seasoned in the word and in the things of the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves salted with ion, the empowerment for building the body of Christ with wit, love, and wisdom effectively. How do you do this? Through daily studying the Word, prayer, fellowshipping with God, trust and faith in His word, praise, worship, and giving thanks always. It will keep your spiritual walk salted and your light shining bright through the lenses of God, the Word. If you lose your seasoning ability, you are good for nothing, beloved. You want to be that effective witness your father expects you to be. He lives in you; use Him to bring glory to His name, get fired up and remain firedup and ready to tell others they can be salt and light in a dark world. How does it make you feel when a week, two weeks, a month, or even a year es by, and you talk to no one about Jesus the Savior of the world? Selah, pause and think about that, repent and ask God to lead others across your path.
Chapter 20 b
Heaping Coals of Fire God is the creator of heaven and earth by Him all things consist. He is the fullness of the Holy Ghost’s baptism power gift with fire received by you because you had a desire for it. Satan was the first one to receive the heaping of coals of fire on his head when God kicked him out of heaven with “I am the boss here.” It is written in the Bible, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18, KJV). Satan, the liar-in-chief in deep deception, thought he could take over the throne of the Almighty, the perfect and powerful God. God showed him how powerful He is by creating an earth and filled it with people for Him to love, protect, and save. But Satan is now running rampant through the earth, seeking whom he may devour, totally unaware he cannot deceive the Christian believer without their permission. Creator God of heaven and earth, He is the only dictator in the best and most profitable way and not the enemy. God loves His people like a good Father should. He always will be God of the whole world. When you speak these words, they are fire on the enemy’s head.
An Encounter in the Garden
God showed up scolding him, heaping more coals of fire on his head for tricking Eve with half-truths and half-lies. Eve fell for the lie and needed Father God to come to her rescue. The destructive coals of fire on the devil’s head were a curse: “You shall crawl on your belly eating the dust all the days of your life” (Genesis 3:14b, NKJV). My extrapolation was: Satan was the snake is no longer; standing upright, he had become a slithering snake. God forbade they would be slithering around in the house of God. When this is so, coals of the fire of love must be heaped on their heads by you, the believer filled with the love of God and the gift of His power with fire. Your concern for them is to avoid the enemy’s road to His destination. They should not go where he is going, it wouldn’t be a pleasant and peaceful stay.
A Transformed Life
What you are about to read is indicative of a transformed life for the Christians within God’s family.
“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. Therefore, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Romans 12:19-20, NKJV
This is the Christian spirit; some refer to this scripture as retribution with kindness. Avenging and retaliation are forbidden by God. We are challenged to behave like Christians should. This is the core of Christian living. If you and I love someone the way Christ loves us, we will be willing to forgive. Forgiveness breaks that cycle of retaliation and leads the believers into mutual reconciliation. You must be thinking what Paul is saying sounds impossible, but it’s not. Trust me, I tried it, and God worked it out and made things right in my life. He can do the same for you. What is your attitude regarding the hurt you are feeling? Put some action to it and show some love and forgiveness. Your forgiveness will heap burning coals of shame and guilt, which may lead to their repentance, making them want to change. Show them love; if necessary, buy them a gift or give them a helping hand, repaying them good for their evil. This is what overcomers do.
The Law of Love
God’s universal love is of infinite value, meaning it’s endless and has no limit. His love is exceedingly great and immensely long lasting forever. For God so
loved is an expression of the condition of God’s heart. What did He love? “The world and all he created in it that he gave his only begotten son” (John 3:16, KJV). To that extent, yes, He went that far! Why? Because of His love for the world He created, as well as His people and things He put in it. He is a not-only God, but an also God. He operates in His law of love; He abides by it fully and expects His people to do the same. What powerful love this is to give your only child, a beloved son, as a ransom for many. He enforced it, laid it down, and sealed it in His son’s blood as a law, a rule of action for the Christian believers who were baptized in the power of His gift of fire to follow Him faithfully. Love is something you do and not just something said without meaning. The enemy is one that hates and seeks to injure another, an opponent or adversary, a hostile force. Your worst enemy is God’s competitor and foe. All enemies everywhere opposing good and righteousness are overcome by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. When you give them food and water, surely they will say, “I’ve been so wrong in how I have treated them and yet they keep coming back doing good to me. What is this love”? Your friendly hospitality is their just desert of perfect love overwhelming the soul. This vim and vigor of returning good for evil is heaping burning coals upon the head of another. To rejoice when your enemy falls is not the God thing to do. Do your best to help them get up again moving forward.
A Believer’s First Callings
To have longevity in this life you must attend to your Christian calling and spiritual heritage of love by restraining your tongue. Resist the temptation to render evil for evil, shun harmful speaking and run from it. That’s how important it is to stay in right standing with God. It is your righteousness or right standing that leads to a fruitful life in Christ. Those things you are tempted to say, think before you act or speak, let the Holy Spirit speak through you. He knows the right choice words of wisdom to use through you. May you walk in the perfect and powerful gift of meekness, gentleness, comionate brotherly love, sympathy, kindness, and courtesy to all people. Seek peace and ensue after it with all your heart, mind, and soul. It’s your love for others that keeps the bond of peace strong, full, and powerful in unity.
Self-Sacrificing Love
This powerful love of God has been on the lips of men and women of God throughout the world. Let this message send an invigorating sensation of enthusiasm and excitement to your heart and the hearts of all mankind. It has brought multitudes to His feet in humble adoration and thanksgiving to the King of kings and Lord of lords. This is a tremendous reality of overwhelming love, and majesty for inspiration and exaltation to the soul of man. Who or what was the object of this regard, the entire world that was heading directly into the perishing mode? This stupendous gift of love from the Almighty God saved the world He created from impending destruction. The desire of His heart is for all to be saved. Wouldn’t it be great if all were saved? We have a deadly virus rampant in the entire world seeking whom it may devour. Some people stubbornly continue to follow after the devil’s deceptive lies, sacrificing their lives to obey the arch-deceiver of all people.
Let Go and Let God
Let go and love, let God love others through you. His love never fails. The gift itself is love. The present itself for the believer is: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with your soul and with all your strength, and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27, NKJV). Love must be your most important factor pouring from the whole heart. It is your duty to your neighbor. As it pertains to your enemy, keep on heaping coals of the fire of love, let it flow out of you, pile it up on the head of your enemy in hopes they will repent and be saved. Make it a point to tell others of God’s love. We are taught to bless those who persecute us. Bless them, speak well of them, speak respectfully to them, not rendering railing for railings. Offer up your heart’s desire to God for them in prayer. Those who take revenge are the conquered, those who forgive are the conquerors. Forgive and you shall be forgiven. We know of no one who wants to be conquered by an insult or injury. But God wants you to bear up quietly under the revengeful one, heaping coals of the fire
of love.
Active Principles at Work
Be bold in heaping the coals of God’s fire of love. Tell them, “God wants you to prosper, be in good health even as your soul prospers” (III John 1-2, NKJV). What an encouragement to continue living in brotherly love, for the inner life of the soul to be continuously prospering in spiritual growth. Their promise of physical health and spiritual joy is God’s desire for them. Tell them God’s fire of love is the greatest love anyone can experience; it keeps you warm in His loving arms. Tell them God yearns for them to possess His active principles of the living Word of fire power, a gift everyone needs to become effective witnesses and more than conquerors. Inform them I Corinthians 13 outlines the preeminence of love. It must hold first place in their lives; they must read about His unfailing love, study it diligently, and allow it to sink deep into their spirits and become a part of their lives. It’s a guarantee if they yield their hearts to it.
Chapter 21 b
Buffeted by a Thorn I have said, as well as others, that “when I sought after the fullness of the fire of the Holy Ghost and received it, I wasn’t aware God would allow a messenger from Satan to buffet me for the revelation He gives me.” There is a difference between being a thorn and having one. You can extract a real thorn. In the spirit, that thorn may be a person, an agitator in your side, tormenting your righteous soul. As a nit-picking, fault-finding natural physical thorn disguises in a person who is faking it until they make it. They are unhappy with themselves and everyone around them. If they want to leave you, let them go. They are not tied to your destiny. When God sets them free, they will be a changed, loving person altogether. The Bible says that God allowed a thorn from Satan to buffet the apostle Paul, because of the spiritual inspiration and revelation deposited in his spirit through the light of Jesus Christ. That light is the light of God in the believer. “But Jessie, that thorn was for Paul only, that’s not happening today.”
Many would like to believe that, but most of us know better. You and I are not excused from a thorn in the flesh. It implies revelation that discloses the life that is in Christ. It brings judgment from God to those who refuse it and illumination to the mind of those who receive it. “And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure” (II Corinthians 12:7, KJV). No one knows what Paul’s thorn was; it could have been a mark that was not beautiful on his body or something else. We get overanxious to tell all we saw and heard to exalt self, when that is not what the Father wants.
Miracles Glorifies God
God wrought special miracles by the hand of Paul. This apostle lived in continual communion with God; this empowered him with spiritual power and healing virtues flowing from his body. This is what many of us want, this is
what’s required. “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that sickness, and the disease left them and the evil spirits went out of them” (Acts 19:11-12, NKJV). This is the impact of the spiritual power for miracles because of your great faith in God and His empowerment to do what He told you to do when He said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthews 28:19, NKJV). Baptism is encouraged when giving the world the universal Gospel, leaving nothing undone in the name of the triune God.
Struck by a Malady
Resist in the spirit the urge to proclaim your third heaven experience. God is exalting you but wants you to remain humble. My extrapolations are the thorn blocks you from getting a big head over the divine revelation from Him. You cry out to your Father, “O God! Heal me!” He speaks in your hearing from heaven’s throne. “My grace is sufficient for you.”
“But God, that’s not what I wanted to hear.”
Instead, this should comfort the soul, whatever the painful thorn may be. We have His goodness to us that is sufficient to strengthen and comfort us while He’s doing a great work in us. You will experience His anointing power of fire balancing the remedy to your affliction.
Vexation of Soul
In many cases, you get a temporary fix, the affliction comes and goes, and it may go into remission for several years. But surprise! It is back again, vexing your
righteous soul. “God, I thought I was healed.” Your big daddy speaks again, “I never said you were healed, I said My grace is sufficient for you. Isn’t that what I told Paul?” You lie down in severe pain, you sleep comfortably throughout the night with sweet dreams and sweet rest, and wake up with pain again. In mild frustration, you say, “God, I really don’t understand your goodness, but I receive it with great joy in my heart.” The revelations put restraints on your ability to tell all. The good thing is you will always be able to endure the thorn. You will never have to suffer troubling critical times in and out of the emergency room.
Strength in Weakness
Let this sink deep into your heart. Those times when you are weak, call yourself strong in the Lord. The world takes great pride in the physical strength of athletes, the financial strength of companies, and the military strength of armies. The believer in Christ can do what Paul did; they can put a new twist on the empowerment of strength. You are anointed to give God the glory while enduring the infirmity with joy. Here’s one for you: Father, I thank you, all things are working together for my good. When I am weak, then am I strong in you.
The joy is not in thanking Him for a thorn. It’s in taking pleasure in worshipping Him no matter the cost because He cares for you. This gives Christ your Lord the opportunity to manifest His power in you. The all-sufficient power resting upon Him belongs to you. The weakness we experience makes us rely on God for more than what we can do in and of our own human strength. There’s a weakness in everyone’s life that He can use for His purpose and glory.
Ignore the Naysayers
The naysayers are quick to make a denial or a refusal. They refuse to accept a
thing for what it is and are happy to deny it for what it could potentially become. They always try to poke-a-hole in your third heaven experience of revelation. Know this, you have volume control--turn it completely off in Jesus name. They play church and are quick to say, “That’s too deep for me.” This is after forty years of being active as a believer. They are hiding behind much pain, suffering and bitterness of soul and need deliverance. They intently watch you abandoning yourself in praise and worship to God and say, “It doesn’t take all that.” They inevitably stay on the path of acting spiritually, unaware it’s just a fake religious stunt that is void of the anointing. Everyone around them knows it but them. You made a quality decision like Paul to take pleasure in your infirmities, losing yourself in God, and giving Him glory and praise. This does not at all mean you are thanking God for sending a messenger of Satan to buffet you with a thorn. Your heart is being drawn to Him in worship and humility for who He is and His saving grace that is sufficient for you. It is the activated fire of the Holy Ghost at work in you. The naysayers are bold in what they say. They plant the negative seed of doubt that the believer can’t have what Paul and Jesus had, meaning the anointing on their lives, but that was because Paul followed Christ, as should everyone. There is a failure to explain what is wrong with what they have in understanding.
Faulty Judging
That’s how loud and clear ignorance speaks. It can’t hurt you; the anointing power of the Holy Ghost is on you to protect and keep you safe in His arms. Out of a spirit of bitter jealousy, they attack you boldly and unashamedly to your face in the presence of others. When this happens, you know the time has come for their deliverance. Discernment or a word of knowledge reveals the anger at the root. There is hope for those who are spiritually blind, judging from a darkened soul without understanding. They say “These revelations are beyond me” while continuously watching, nit-picking, and judging others in the worship service. They will eventually get it at age seventy. A little spark of change will be seen for a turn-around in their walk with Christ; hopefully, it’s sooner rather than later. They are wasting their valuable time and missing out on their blessings by judging your honest worship. During that time, you stayed focus on God because you wanted to witness the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. At this
juncture, He is your champion who reigns forevermore and your soon coming King.
A Thorn not a Problem
Many would have no problem being used in their natural inability. As it pertains to God’s work, they say they are weakened by a thorn, and can’t do anything. You are empowered by God the thorn doesn’t take away the active living Word of fire in you. Moses told God, “I am a poor speaker,” yet God used him as a mouthpiece to deliver Israel out of Egypt into the promised land. Peter was hotheaded and impulsive, and God used him as one of the architects of the early church. So, you’ve been a liar, a cheat, a trickster like Jacob. God can use you too after repenting before Him in godly sorrow. But Jessie, I was a prostitute like Rahab, can God use me? Yes, He saved her and her relatives, didn’t He? He loves you, forgives you, and fills you with His Holy Spirit with the presence of fire. He plans to use you for His glory. (See Exodus 4:10; Joshua 6:22-23, KJV.)
Encouragement from Daddy God
The carnal mind is addicted to its own selfish need for instant gratification. Certain words from God make you want to take up an argument with your Father, knowing it would be useless. Here is food for the soul. Then comes a huge battery of encouraging words: will you reign with me? They keep coming: all things are working together for your good, to make you strong and able minded. More boosting comes, lifting you in your spirit. He’s always encouraging you to never forget His benefits to you and that your sins are forgiven. Encouragement keeps coming: if you wait on me, I will renew your strength, you will find yourself flying high like the eagle in the sky. With the reassurance of hope, you are inspired to surrender your heart, lifting up holy hands and blessing Him.
He’s A Keeper
Waste no more precious time. The God you serve is not limited by time. Jesus left us here to attend to His work and accomplish more in His name than He did in His short three years of ministry. We are His hands, feet, and the entire body of Christ. No longer do we have two hands but millions of hands and more. Be thankful, the Holy Spirit’s fullness of fire in you is your keeper; He has kept you for such a time as this. Reach out to Him for a new life and a new start. So what, you are buffeted with a thorn by a messenger of Satan? You have not chosen God. He chose you, ordained you to provide for the needs of others and bear fruit with a burning ion of love for souls. His active fire you desired keeps you strong in Him. Rise up! Get in the race and remain there hopeful, thankful, and satisfied in the triune--God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. There are many in this world who are waiting for you to come forth. They need your gifting, anointing, and calling with the burning desire and fire for the lives of souls. When the enemy comes in like a flood, He is your keeper. He lifts up a standard against the enemy. When a suicide spirit encourages you to take your life by starving yourself to death, tell him what is written is that God is your keeper.
Chapter 22 b
The Weight of the Anointing You desired the fire with a sincere heart and soul. It came, and now you are having difficulty holding up under it strong, bold, and steady in faith. There are times when in His presence, the anointing of fire is heavy. It seemingly weighs you down. When you do what you are supposed to do with it, it frees you until the next time. When God gives you a word for someone, but you think they won’t like the word, , you are not out to appease the flesh of the individual. Simply pray about it and watch God release you to give it in love, wisdom, and care. This means you will have to pull someone aside and tell them with your God-given wisdom what God is saying to them. It won’t always be what they think they need to hear. You must do it believing when you do, doubt leaves, and God is pleased with your action. The heavy weight of the anointing you were suffering under is immediately lifted from the mind and the heart. In your emptying out to others, you will receive back more from heaven’s throne. The overflowing well in you is always being replenished as you give it out. “Then the cows headed straight for the road to Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right hand” (I Samuel 6:12a, NKJV).
Obedient to a Command
When on a mission trip to Ethiopia, God sent a young babe in Christ, maybe in her middle twenties who had developed hearing ears and a willingness to obey His voice. She had a word of knowledge for me from Almighty God. Most of the young people who interpreted for us were college students. She didn’t know me, and I didn’t know her. God used her to prophesize truth to me about my husband being under an attack with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Oh, how awe-inspiring that was! She proceeded to ask if she could agree with me in prayer for him. My response was, “My dear, pray!” She prayed, and I listened in agreement.
If God can trust you, He can use you. In the same way He put His power on the
cows, He sent to Israel with the Ark of the Covenant. The two cows were obedient under God’s power to carry the Ark of the Covenant. It represents God’s divine presence. He anoints you with His presence of fire to show His mighty power to all growing believers what a leader, priest, apostle, prophet, pastor, teacher, evangelist, or a minister in position should do. There are leaders who need to get things right with other leaders before going further with God.
Fire! Fall on Me
When the fire falls on you, you can’t as a young babe in Christ contain it. One night, while we were rehearsing for praise and worship, the anointing was so heavy on me that I could not stand up straight without bending and bowing, weeping uncontrollably. One of the ladies standing next to me said, “Get a hold of yourself child.” I knew the anointing falling on me was setting me free from some things. I thought, that’s easy for you to say, apparently you don’t know what I am experiencing. If she had been empowered with the fullness of Christ and His baptizing fire, she could have helped me through it.
An Overwhelming New Thing
The new thing happening to me was killing my flesh for me to come alive in the power of the Holy Spirit. I learned as you mature, the strength, might, and power of the Holy Spirit enables you to stand up under the anointing, no matter how heavy it may be on you. This comes with spiritual growth in the Spirit. The next time God brought it to my attention, it was a heavy, lowing, anointing weighing on my soul that I was experiencing at that time. It was in the Holy Bible. It took the supernatural power of God for the cows to leave their young calves they had just given birth to, to carry the Ark of the Covenant (the presence of God). In this divine godly learning curve, your frequent lowing in carrying His presence of fire attest to your ardent longing to do the right thing. To have Him as your head and leader-in-chief in all you are asked to do. His powerful training and anointed teachings influence your movement in His direction that pleases Him.
Holy Spirit Awakens
The Holy Spirit sent by God awakens the believers to come alive with a great and mighty touch from heaven. To do something they have never done before. It revives you while the pure fire is setting captives free to live for Him. Ask Him to give you an experience you will never forget. Only Jesus can set you on fire, lowing heavily like the cow in the supernatural anointing of God. It’s a heaviness of the anointing to carry a thus says the Lord to a kingdom leader, a word that is not a happy, feel-good word no one enjoys giving. He gives you the ability to do the possible, and He does the impossible. I had to do it, so can you if you believe nothing is impossible for Him to do.
A Useless Complaint
God spoke in my hearing, “Go tell a particular leader thus and thus,” and I complained in my ignorance, not knowing it won’t work with God. I said, “God, why me? Get someone on their level.”
A response in my spirit was this, “You have a right to appeal to your delegated authority.” Totally unaware, I had reached a level of maturity where He could trust me to deliver a word of instruction from Him to my leader. My absolute sincere obedience to His will encouraged me to change my doubtful thinking. When He tells you, “You can do this, you have my authority,” you now have the desire to obey because of His fire in your spirit. The decision is made, and a definite yes is breathed with, “Father, I need choice words of wisdom to do this.” The heart is prepared, and so is the heart of the receiver for a word of direction from the Lord.
A Yoke Destroying Anointing
I prayed intense prayers to God to make it happen and He did. He had to know He could trust me, and I needed to learn how to trust Him and take Him at His word. When the delivery of the work was done, the Father allowed me to see them in a vision going to take care of the matter. The unfolding of this manifested act was not in the ability to do it but in the ability of the individual to carry it out. What a time of rejoicing in the Lord that was. The heavy weight of the anointing of God was imparted, empowering that leader with a desire to get it done quickly, without hesitation. You are convinced your God can do anything. He has His way of doing things. Who are we to tell Him how? His yoke destroying anointing sets the captives free. The question is didn’t they know they needed to take care of that matter? Yes, a spirit of pride sometimes blocks the ability to obey. Which is why God sends the messenger.
It Gets Better with Time
It would be great if learning and discerning His voice happened overnight, but it doesn’t, it’s a process of building trust. When there’s no more attempting to resist but a sincere eagerness of heart to be clear and precise in following His lead in everything. This is how genuine trust is built in you and your maker. Otherwise, how will He know you will obey if He doesn’t test and try your faith in Him? He will never know if He can trust you with His heavy anointing to deliver not just a word from him, but the message of the gospel, to all people. God knows all things before He asks, He knows if you will or won’t. Regardless the testing must be done for your sake, and not His. Keep in mind, He is sovereign, He does what He wants, when He wants, because He wants to. He doesn’t need my opinion or yours.
A Lesson from the Cows
The cows didn’t turn to the left or to the right; they were supernaturally led by God. So must you be. God had control of their minds. Their focus was straight ahead on a mission carrying the powerful ark of God’s presence. God took hold of two cows, causing them to leave their young calves, leading them in the way they should go. In Genesis, He spoke to the animals calling them into Noah’s ark two-by-two to procreate after the flood. God Almighty used a donkey to talk to a stubborn hard-headed Balaam who was against His people. He is doing the same today. Our God of heaven values His presence; it’s not to be neglected, played with, or treated lightly. He used Peter’s shadow to heal people when He walked by them. We have the same Holy Spirit fullness of fire-baptism Jesus and Peter possessed. The Holy Spirit came upon Jesus, filled Him with power, and led Him into the wilderness where He defeated the devil and put him underneath His feet. At the end of forty days, the devil departed from Him for a season. Do not let the devil get you weary in battle. Let him get extremely tired and leave you alone, although it may just be for a while.
The Sound of Lowing
Surely, the cows that were lowing, had a grunting unbearable sound underneath the heavy weight of the anointing, put upon them by God to obey. Although it was a natural, physical thing to carry, they had to be anointed by God to do it. The lowing under the anointing in the believer is a silent wailing, a cry, and a calling out to God: “O God, help me get this word out, this heavy load is too much to bear. It’s a hard word I do not care to give. The anointing fire in me is stirring me to do it.”
God speaks in your hearing, “It’s time, you got this, I am backing up your words. The angels are going before you to prepare a peaceful path. The exhilarating anointing and weight of the ‘fire’ you desired has been activated.” As you grow in the anointing of God, you become stronger to stand up under it while maintaining your balance.
Seeing in the Spirit
You will see in the spiritual realm how the enemy is influencing the soul of the believers and leaders in the body. You immediately go into spiritual warfare battle to free them, pulling down the strongholds, setting those captives free into their appointed purposes. When there is a need for you to see beyond the natural things in the world, you will be shown something you need to know well before hand. Before the individual arrives for their counseling appointment, you already have an important answer from heaven prior to hearing the problem. They are in awe about the answer you gave them. To know they were totally wrong in diagnosing and solving their own problem by their misinformed flesh. They leave your presence with more self-confidence than what they had when they came to you.
Unfruitful Arguments
The more you obey, the easier life in the Spirit becomes. The second time you don’t care to argue with God, you are stronger, wiser, and more stable under the heavy weight of the applied authorized power and anointing of fire. Be sure of what you heard is from God and quick to say, “Yes, Lord, I will obey. Give me meaningful choice words to speak on your behalf.” You can never win arguing with God; therefore, stop trying. The carnal mind doesn’t know that, it’s that part of you that fights against God in wanting to have its way known as the soul or psyche. The desire is to argue and not a yearning for the fire. The infilling of the presence of fire takes over your mind, freeing you from attempting to disagree with Him. The bending and holding up under the heavy weight of the unction of the Holy Spirit is what you were missing. The “lowing” eventually becomes light; you are able to stand up under it and proclaim what thus says the Lord with love for the receivers to take in and obey. The release from arguing with God is the principles in the Bible. “My soul shall make its boast in the Lord the humble, shall hear thereof, and be glad. Oh, magnify the lord with me, and let us exhort his name together” (Psalms 34:2-3, KJV). Will you turn your senseless argument with God into boasting in Him, praising, honoring, and glorifying His name? Try
it; you will like it, and your prayer, praise, and worship will actually be heard through divine deliverance from your deliverer.
Chapter 23 b
The Great House In a great house, many in position have had their desires met for the fullness of fire without measure. And yet all are not at the same level of faith and maturity. All must be working together as one in total agreement this is the Father’s heart’s desire. It can be reached for those who have not received the power of the Holy Ghost to be committed witnesses for Christ with love in the heart for others. This is sure to happen when the proper training is in effect. Everyone in the great house didn’t get started in their walk of faith at the same time; because of this, some are more mature and prepared to minister to others. The mature help in empowering the unlearned to arrive at a greater level of full maturity in Christ. They worship the Father together as one in singleness of heart, focusing on Him. Each one has a desire for a greater smearing of the anointing oil of the Holy Ghost, fire strengthening, and building up each other, mobilizing together for the good of the church body in Jesus Christ. Your company or business institution and the church need it for supernatural growth, success, and prosperity to finance God’s kingdom. We must have more of Him in our lives and less of the unimportant things to do His work in a world of chaos. This will get done in a spirit of profound meekness and greatness to benefit the work of the kingdom of God with the power of influence throughout the world.
When we were on a mission trip to Ghana, West Africa, the pastor and a friend took us through an area where the people were sleeping on the ground at night. He wanted us to see the conditions they were in. He asked us not to stare at them. It would make them angry, as they believed we saw them as inferior to us, resulting in a mean-spirited nature due to their demeaning circumstances. They may have been thinking, “What are you looking at? Do you think you are better than we are? Walking among us gawking?” I wasn’t there to appear lofty and prideful but to access the harsh conditions of the people. The consuming fire had done a thorough work in me. Everyone in the group should have risen above the place of inadequacy in a sincere spirit of humility. The inspiration of the electrifying fire within makes you weep for days, in brokenness of sorrow with an unbearable desire to help others.
Looking Down on Others?
When you rise up from your-not-enough state of mind to more-than-enough and are working in God’s great house, never forget from where you came and become prideful. With that vivacious desire turning in your spirit, reach out with some of your resources with a helping hand to lift up those in dire need. Pull them up to a productive life, help them by pointing the way. For some, their poor house didn’t remain a sore house forever. It’s easy to tell someone what the Lord has done for you. The presence of God touched your heart and set you free to serve Him. Your testimony stirs in their hearts a desire for the active profound principles of the living, fullness, powerful Word of the Holy Ghost power gift with fire. This desire is for an activated, prosperous, enduring life in Christ.
The Fire Excites Enthusiasm
There’s nothing wrong with getting excited with enthusiasm in the Lord to reach out with pure hearts of love to others. Listen to Peter’s words: “Silver and gold I do not, but what I do have I give to you: in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6, NKJV). Give them the healing power of Jesus Christ. They don’t have to sit and beg for money, but they can rise up, be healed, get a job, and themselves. They can give out of their earned substance. Then will the poor house become a house of more than enough. The true love of the fire in the heart anoints you with the capability to function fully engaged in the body of Christ.
After Jesus rose from the dead, He breathed on the disciples, and they received the Holy Spirit from God. The fullness of fire is needed to do His work saving souls, healing the sick, and raising the dead. The fire in your life doesn’t have to go out. You can keep your spirit alive, revived, and set on fire in the Lord. It can and will be done through fasting, prayer, fellowshipping, and quiet time with Him, daily studying, and feeding your spirit with the active principles of the living words of fire. By this, we will avoid the burn-out syndrome. “But in a
great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood stubble and hay, some to honor and some to dishonor” (II Timothy 2:20, KJV). Vessels are people in the house of the Lord. Those in a position of honor are prepared unto every good work they are qualified and useful for the master. The stubble is the lower part of the stock of wheat or other grain left in the ground by the sickle or reaping machine. The hay is the grass mown and dried for use as fodder or food for feeding cattle. The wood is empty and hollow on the inside; it’s only good for firewood, a non-renewable energy source. If you are wood in the body of Christ, fill your emptiness with His accessible professed rules of conduct the Bible gives. If you are stubble in God’s house, remain faithful, and you can potentially spring up in newness of life as you continuously water your spirit with the active words of life. If you are hay, you are a feeder of the Word to others in the house. No one wants to be dishonored; everyone has a desire to be honored. A great house is a house of God where He put His presence of fire. When you come together, the whole body becomes a light in God’s great house. All who enters can receive and experience the presence of His warm love, His forgiveness and peace. Everyone must be in their place. This position is where the love of God is demonstrated through His shining light.
Deep Calls to Deep
You ask, “Will He work through me?” Yes, if you have been faithful and eager to obey His will for your life. If you fear the mighty God with a godly reverence and submission. If you are trustworthy and have a serious dislike for dishonest gain, He can use you. If you have learned to sacrifice your way of thinking for His way, then you and those you minister to will benefit from being set on fire, as the believer’s work demands. When you step out into the deep waters in the spiritual realm, first you’re in the shallow realm, gradually you go knee deep, then waist deep, you find yourself in over your head, and God is ing into you as your head pouring into you things you may not readily understand. But you will know you are in the overflow of God as His explanations floods your mind with revelation knowledge. Its all because of what Jesus has done on the cross. Get excited and see Jesus the son of God in His majesty glory and presence, the bright and morning star, the lily of the valley, the sinless lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Tell it to others and watch them
receive a desire for the fire in their lives; they need for the work they are called to do. You can do this, you have suffered through many hardships, the floods and fires of life to fulfill your purpose and destiny, filled with all that are contained in Him.
The Bread of Life
Deliverance is the children’s bread in God’s great house. The watchman on the wall prays for the children’s release from sin to the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The power of fire is a devil destroying anointing oil of the active living Word of fire. This is why you must declare the decree of the Word. It removes heavy burdens, breaks the oppressive demeaning yokes, lifts depression from the tormented minds, and moves mountains of debts and discouragements. When you speak the Word in faith, trusting Him to bring it to , it shall be done. The active power of fire frees and delivers you from sickness to healing by a powerful purging, of the cleansing fire of the most-high God.
A word for you is, “Heaven’s vault has opened to a new breed of God’s apostles released from the dark room. They are dressed in their war clothes, wearing their combat boots, ready and armed, declaring war on the devil, setting captives free-they are filled with the fullness of the active principles of the living Word of fire which is and always will be the Logos written word of God.”
The Proof of Fire
The active fullness of fire implies all that is contained in Him abounding in abundance. It is an anointing to have success in life. In a great house, you must know the fire you were desperate for enables you to prosper. The abundance of prosperity is a generous reward from the Father for your firm obedience. The curse is the opposite; it causes the believer to fail. To never be in obedience to
His statutes or commandments. Not listening to the voice of God is a curse that becomes a harmful, dangerous blessing blocker in life. It leaves the disobedient with empty hands and hearts in sadness, gloom, and doom. The blessings come from commitment to the active Word you feed your spirit with using it in your life daily. When you speak the words of life to others, the power of fresh fire falls on them as long as your words are giving glory to God. When living in the abundance, you are seen as cheerful, joyous, happy, developed, and nourished in the living Word of God’s fire. You appear to others as encouraged, totally increased in faithfulness, and hopeful and confident in who God is and who you are in Him.
Weapons of Warfare
In a great house, let the active principles of the living Word of fire be in your mouth as a weapon and plan of attack against the enemy to your mind. Loosen the Word, the blood, and His presence of fire in your home and church often. Declare and decree this principle: we are under the blood covering of Jesus Christ. “No weapon formed against us shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from me says the Lord” (Isaiah 54:17, NKJV). Christian believers in Christ, this is your weapon. Your invincibility and security in Christ Jesus are your spiritual heritage. Let this sink deep into your spirit, flowing out of your mouths and penetrating the lives of others like fire. You will see the perfect and powerful God silencing the mouths of the enemy and restoring everything he has stolen.
You are challenged to take back all with the living active Word of fire. It’s powerful as a double edge sword; it makes the powers of darkness of this world to flee from you. Remain teachable, sharp, and discerning as you move forward in faithful, steady, secure, and sure aggressive action with the singleness of mind to aim your focus powerfully high in Him. You will never regret possessing an earnest desire for the fire sent to you from heaven. You will be more convinced: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God
to the pulling down of strongholds” (II Corinthians 10:4, KJV). Your spiritual armor is your supernatural weapon for warfare to obtain the victory in Jesus’s name. Your weapon is the principles of the living Word; anointed with fire, it is your sword. Use it well on the enemy’s head. If you are a quiet, shy Christian believer, you may be hesitant in using the Word as your weapon or sword in a warfare battle. It doesn’t mean God is not with you in the battle. Not everyone enrolls in a natural army where earthly warfare is being waged violently. There are spiritual warriors and natural army men and women. I submit to you there are times when spiritual warriors talk to God silently in their hearts about important things concerning them. God makes it happens immediately. Many people have experienced this. , David couldn’t operate effectively in Saul’s armor. It wasn’t made for him. It’s not about self-exhortation or spiritual pride in who you are in comparison to another. It’s ing the godly saneness of your mental faculty to win in obedience to Christ, to obtain the victory.
Chapter 24 b
Producing the Proof of Fire The God of all creation kept His word to send the promised power of fire on all who waited and prayed for it in the upper room. Those who doesn’t have it under grace, ask for it. The wonder working supernatural God can produce the proof of His miraculous power as evidence of who He is. He displayed the fullness of His Holy Ghost power gift with fire upon the obedient seekers. Some believers still don’t believe when you are speaking in an unknown heavenly language, you are speaking to God Himself. They are missing out on the exhilarating, endowing, strengthening, purifying fullness of fire pouring from heaven on that great and powerful Pentecostal day. They are saying today, “That was then and this is now, it’s not happening.”
This utter lack of understanding with critical judging is from a carnal mind rather than the spiritual mind of Christ. They cannot have what they stubbornly deny doesn’t exist under grace. They prefer to do without the refreshed invigoration of the fullness of the power gift of fire due to their uninformed doubtful mind-set in seeking understanding from God’s Word. If this power gift is to operate in the house of God effectively, we must believe it can be done in a spirit of excellence without error. There must be someone to expound the meaning of what’s being said for those without knowledge to learn and not walk away, crying-out barbarians.
The Outside Court
They were gawking, listening, and criticizing. This took place at the great celebration in Jerusalem. The great Pentecostal birthday of the church of God. The unbelieving nations destined to believe were in the outside court full of unlearned questions about God’s supernatural promised fire upon the people. “Others mocking said these are full of sweet wine” (Acts 2:13, NASB). They meant new, earthly, man-made wine. Some people today still do not understand or believe. What they saw was puzzling to their natural mind. The outside court
of justice saw a manifestation of God’s heaven-sent power they needed but their minds were blinded by a spirit of unbelief. When in serious bondage to spiritual blindness, uncouth questions are asked. “How is it, that we hear each of them, speak in our own language in which we were born” (Acts 2:8, NASB). They spoke great things of God; anyone can experience it for themselves and be convinced this heavenly power is from God. The Great God of heaven choses the weak and foolish things to confound the wise and mighty in their own eyes. Many are blinded by the darkness in the soul and unable to see in the spiritual realm to discern and understand who God is and what He is about. Were you like those curious, high ranking Jews who represented nations? They heard it in their ears, saw it with their eyes, and believed there was a God. His believing followers with the fullness of fire had no choice but to believe. They saw the evidence of the glowing power of fire upon those who believe. Surely they thought, “something is different with them, and we need what they have.”
Prayer Time Everyday
It’s up to each individual, you can make your life entirely destitute without the empowerment of fire by neglecting personal study time and prayer. Or you can sit speechless, devoid of biblical answers to inspire others. Begin your day fellowshipping with Him, offering your life unashamedly daily in humble prayer and submission. His presence fills your surrendered hearts, melting it before Him. The Holy Ghost and fire of God causes you to become weak-kneed, crumbling to the floor in lowliness of humility with not a strong leg to stand on. You who have the baptizing fire of His holy presence, inform those in your sphere of influence they can have this gift of power. If you don’t mind losing your pride of who you think you are, many stubborn and prideful sinners have fallen under the overpowering presence of fire. The Bible tells us that when the angry mob came looking for Him, Jesus said, “’I am He,’ they drew back and fell to the ground” (John 18:6, NKJV). They were unable to stand under the power and presence of fire flowing out of His mouth and His pores. The weight and glory of the Holy Spirit and fire of God brings you to a yielded surrendered life, sanctifying you as a whole person in Him. It brought you deep into a personal intimate relationship with the Father. Without prayer time, there will be no power, nor a yielded life to be used by Him. In Him, you live walk and have
your being as His sons and daughters.
Where Is the Proof?
The world must see, believe, and know you are dressed in the whole armor of God to withstand the wiles of the devil. Your good manners are telling the story that you have patiently and peacefully endured the development and refinement process. You have acquired the new anointing of rivers of living waters in your desert spirit. You have a fine sense of dignity, and you are well-bred and trained by the best. Your politeness and faithful endurance, love, grace, and peace empower you to serve diligently in a position of strength. Your house, the white house, and the church house can be full of people who are producing the proof of who God is. They are reflecting Him as creator producing the fruits of righteousness that are pleasing Him. We need this now. It is Christ in us, His love, presence, glory, and dunamis power, and His “miracle-working ability of God” is to be poured out into the world. This is the greatest tool of evangelism because the proof of power is in you. Rise up and rest in the confidence you have in Him. What are you waiting for? Jesus Christ is your rearguard; He has your back. He is pouring out the fullness of the oil and the wine of the Holy Ghost on your beautiful head. His activated fire in you inspires sharpness and keenness of mind, anointing you to be intellectually acute to be mighty and powerful in the heavenly sent fire.
A New Anointing
Your God wants you to be faithful with what He has entrusted to you. His new anointing of His river of life is flowing through you. Your spirit was dry and deserted but is now an overflowing deep well penetrating the souls of others. Do not sit on it, get up and be active in the power of fire you once yearned for and now possess. It’s working and prompting you in making progress, moving you forward in the new anointing. You have the get-up-and-go power of the Almighty God with a freshness of impartation to go and wake up a sick and
dying world that needs Jesus as lord and savior. To pray for and lay hands on the sick raising them up from their sick bed to a life of freedom in Christ. Rise and shine, O mighty people of God, it’s time to shift from the old to the new thing He wants to do through you. Take on your new mantle of success in Him to be those faithful ministers of His, giving glory to His holy name. You are wellgrounded in the truth of the Word. The uncompromised active living Word of fire has kept you alive, revived, and strong in the Lord, vigorous, stable, and mature in Him. Get up, O powerful ones, the active principles of God’s Word are your righteous standards to live by. The fire of God is lit in your soul, illuminating the understanding with wisdom and revelation. Expect new things you have never seen or heard before ing into your mind, stimulating, invigorating, fueling the inner man with strength. It’s not an option to give up and sit on the sideline. Speak the Word, be instant in season and out of season, and live by it. There’s life in the Word; keep it in your heart, flowing out of your mouth in power.
Ask and Receive
You have been given what you asked for; stir yourself, rub the sleep out of your eyes, and step into your future position. You are now full of vitality with a determined mind set in motion to fulfill your purpose. You will walk with the sword of the Word in your hands, and everywhere your feet step will be given to you. You are set free from the harsh faces of man. You are not self-centered but Christ-centered. Enjoy your ride, sow your ministry to the world. Go after the brokenhearted. Expect the power of the Holy Ghost and fire to fall fresh on you empowering everyone in your sphere of influence. The world is waiting to hear of the finished work of God in Christ’s death and resurrection, which results in repentance to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit without measure but in its fullness. By this, many who profess to being a true believer will become witnesses of God’s grace through faith.
Signs and Wonders
The miraculous signs and wonders must follow you. Study Jesus Christ, your Lord and savior. He is the active living Word of fire living in you. Let no one discourage you from your assignment. Let them know He gave His life that you and they may be free from the bondage of sin. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, gave His power and authority for miracles signs and wonders, healing, deliverance, and forgiveness to the sanctified holy and set-apart believers. It is those with the proper love for Biblical instructions to impart to the surrounding areas.
And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You, that You have heard me, and I know that You hear me always: but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”
John 11:41-42, NKJV
This work of Christ doesn’t stop with your area or community. Diligently take Him to the nations with the anointing, vitality, intensity, and drive you have been given by your God. Do the miraculous; bring unity in the spirit while sharing Jesus Christ. This is the revealed glory of the church, unto Him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ throughout all ages to come.
Live Coals of Fire
Then flew one of the Seraphim (heavenly being) to me having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with tongs from off the alter. And with it he touched my mouth and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity and quilt are taken away, and your sins is completely a-tone for, and forgiven. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, who shall I send? And who will go for us? then said I, here I am; send me.”
Isaiah 6:6-7, AMP
Surely this was a definite sign of the coming fire of the Holy Ghost.
Will you be one who will rise up and make a difference in the body of Christ? Resist that spirit of complacency, rise up and use the keys He has given you to unlock the written Word. Release them to be like Jesus in their changed transformed lives? Rise, O warring bride of Christ, pull down the strongholds and set the oppressed free and the world will know. We serve a devil-destroying God, His power of fire lifts and removes, weights of heaviness, sets free the oppressed and depressed in the mind. Believe you are endowed with power to speak to the unruly mountain to be cast into the sea. Produce the proof of the perfect and powerful God He is.
Timing of the Master
On your way forward, tell them the master of time is looking down through the telescope of time, placing a demand on their efforts to rise up and do something to help the body of Christ. He is giving them a Holy Ghost and a fire boost, reviving and restoring them to a life of victory. Rise up and teach this generation their identity is in Christ! Tell them God created male and female and them together in marriage. It must be His way; any other way is sin. Tell them they are the crucibles earthen vessels made to endure the great heat of every test or trial. They need to know you ed the test of the refiner’s fire that consumes the dross and scum of sin. You came out full of fire and courage to face the greatest dangers able to ignite and kindle a fire in them. Proceed to call down the active fire of God for them to catch on fire from the Lord.
The Right Timing
The fire of destruction has taken down the flesh fire. Your next level is calling you to come up higher. The fire of ion is pouring out of your pores and flowing out of your heart through your mouth, setting others on fire. God wants you to raise up an army of people full of a burning ion and words full of fire. In a short time, the people of God are coming out of their holding tank, ready for war and taking back all that has been stolen. Rise up, you who endured the test of waiting for your new order. The infilling of the fullness of the fire of God you yearned to have poured upon you. Your new order has arrived the old order is no more. When your fire goes out, how will you fuel it? Ask the Lord to blow upon you again the fresh oil of fire. Go forth with a fresh charge and a fresh anointing. Raise up a people who walk in the authority and power He has established you to walk in. Some will go with an apostolic anointing, some as evangelists, prophets, pastors, and teachers. God wants what’s best for all of us. He is opening the eyes of some of you to see that seed inside of others that is ready to shift them into their purpose and destiny.
Fired Up and Ready
There is no looking back now. Your eyes must be on the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus. Fix your focus on forgetting those things that are far behind you, especially those unprincipled and disappointing things for a believer in Christ. Stay on the safe path; God has planted your feet and centered your heart on the things of Christ. Be confident in this promised principle.
I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand; I will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light to the Gentiles, to open blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, that sit in darkness out of the prison house, I am the Lord, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, nor my praise to carved images. Behold the former things are come to , and new things do I declare; Before they spring forth, I tell you of them.
Isaiah 42:6-9, KJV
This is where your unshakable faith lies. In the fact that He is your divine messenger, He calls you in righteousness, He promises He will hold your hand to protect and keep you as a light to the Gentiles. He has given you a vision with spiritual liberty to bring them out of darkness in the name of the Lord, your God. He is a jealous God; do not cast His pearls of glory to the swine to be trampled on, those that are resistive. He has given you the foresight of new things to come for a new beginning. He has equipped you with new spiritual power and authority with fresh revelation knowledge, increase, and supernatural provision. You believe with all your heart you have His favor on your life to produce the proof of who He is. Others can possess it too, go declare and decree it.
Chapter 25 b
Calling Down the Fullness of Fire Some have received the fullness of fire they desired, some have not. The havenots, if that’s you, can possess what they don’t have through asking, seeking, and knocking on heaven’s door by faith. The word fullness is the condition of containing or abounding in abundance to the full. The believer needs all that is contained in God. The fullness of God dwelt in Christ, living and breathing in Him for your continual and righteous benefit. Jesus reacted in situations in accordance with the perfect will of God. He is God manifested in the flesh. The Greek word listed for fullness is, as we know it, pleroma. It means God in completeness of His being. Jesus prayed for the children of God to possess that same divine fullness. When you arise from your prayer closet, you feel full of the anointed principles of the living Word of fire, don’t sit on it. Give it out to someone you know will receive it and keep ing it on to those yearning for it. The more you it on, the more you will receive back in abundance in keeping you complete in Him.
Prayer for the Church
The greatest intercessor is praying for you. “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. And all mine is yours and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them” (John 17:9-10, NKJV). Christ is divine; He has oneness with the Father. The believers should possess the fullness of the Father in all working through all. They are the Spirit-filled people of God who have received the endowed, renowned note worthiness of Christ’s eternal fullness of God’s grace. “And He put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him who fills all in all” (Ephesians 1:22-23, NKJV). This makes the believing church His body to operate in the fullness of the Holy Ghost and power with fire because He is the head of all things to the church. Your duty is to pray for others to receive this perfect and powerful Jesus as their Lord and savior.
A Great Possession
You have Christ’s dominion, His name as King, the head over all things to the church the body of Christ. He is the one you have in you. He is exalted above all gods. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. You are created to be like Him. Legalism has left the premises of the soul. It is Christ in you, the hope of His glory. You have been bought with the special price of His shed blood and reconciled in Christ, the beloved Son of God. “For it pleased the father that in him should all fullness dwell” (Colossians 1:19, KJV). Are you grateful that He is pleased you have the fullness of Christ in you? Be encouraged, in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, comfort, brotherly love, a blessed assurance of spiritual knowledge, and the mystery of Christ. In Him there are steadfastness of faith and perseverance in your walk with Him. Surely, you are presently rooted built up and established in the faith of Christ for a better life to come.
Unity of the Faith
The church must have diversity of gifts, or division will be rampant causing chaos in the house of God. There is a reason for spiritual maturity: “Til we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God, to a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4: 13, KJV). Your Christian maturity is when you are like Christ. Has the body of Christ reached the level of maturity in unity and strength of the Almighty, the perfect and powerful God? Do we have the spiritual knowledge with understanding and clarity of the mind of Christ?
Is Christ the possession of all truly saved believers? Your answer is yes and no. Yes, for the spiritually mature, and no for the new, just-saved babes in Christ who are immature in the things of God and in need of teaching. Maturity is the condition of being full-grown. It is the perfection of your development and growth.
Rest in Christ
On your way forward, remain confident in His guidance in keeping your feet from slipping from the right path in following Him. Trusting in His Holy name, He will never fail you, His divine presence of the Holy Ghost and fire is with you. His heavenly joy is promised to you and all who will receive Him. Speak these words back to Him daily: “You will show me the path of life; In your presence is fullness of joy” (Psalms 16:11, NKJV). What this is telling you is you have put all your trust in Him when His presence fills the room where you are sitting quietly, meditating and praying. The fullness of joy rises up in your inner spirit when He is talking to you, refreshing your mind, preserving, and keeping you safe in Him. This makes you joyful and elated in singing new creative songs while receiving revelation knowledge with spiritual understanding in the soul. This is prompted by the Holy Spirit, as you praise and worship Him in His presence of fire that fills the room. Rest assured, great things happens when you spend time alone with the Father.
Lord over All
Be sharp in the spirit realm to discern false doctrine, philosophy, tradition, human precepts, and worldly wisdom which does not compare to the fullness of the divine Christ, who is head of all principalities and power. Trust in Him and know what the Bible says: “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the God-head bodily” (Colossians 2:9, KJV). This principle will keep you grounded and stayed in Him, not in any other deity. In Him dwells the fullness, keep saying it until it become a permanent part in your heart and spirit. Maintain focus on the head of your life Jesus the Christ, He is for your well-being and not against you. He loved you so much He died for you and rose again with all power in His hand, and He gave that power to you. Rise up! Forsake all that will lead you astray, mobilize with a changed heart of spiritual renewal in the power of His anointing presence of fire. Every believer yearns for it, which you now have, giving Him glory, power, and dominion for all He has done and continues to do in your life.
Maturity Kept in Control
Keep yourself in chastity like a rock that contains a great amount of iron. Live smart in your deliberate prompt actions as you continue your serious growth development in Him. Your intimate perfection of godly development you have accomplished is an empowerment in helping you hold your life together when under pressure. Restrain yourself and be content with where you are and what you have. Do not measure the gifts you have with the gifts of others. Keep what you have under control, be humble, and never attempt to flaunt it before men. Your gift will make room for you. This is your promise state of being mature and complete in His fullness to live, walk, and breathe in Christ, who is fully divine. He has always been God and always will be God.
The Thirsty Soul
Never lose your thirst for more or feel you “got it,” and there’s no need for more. Your God sits ready to fulfill the thirsty soul when it seemingly is depleted and yearns to be replenished. The more you pursue after God and His Word, the more your soul matures and begins to empower you. Your earthly body cannot resist the power of the soul when it’s in agreement with the Holy Spirit. There will always be a season and a time to experience a deeper refreshing than you have ever seen and never known before. Hold fast to the wisdom of God, seek His wisdom in every situation. It is the principle thing for others to grasp and apply in their lives. This is one of the ways God’s wisdom is greatly multiplied in His people. Increased hearing is going to open up in a greater way when everyone begins to listen to what others are saying before speaking. Therefore, never become sedentary and yes, lazy. It will put you in a mud-zone of apathy, and keep you stuck there forever. Beware and avoid it like the plague.
The Fullness of Time
“But when the fullness of the time was came, God sent forth his son born of a woman, born under the law” (Galatians 4:4, NASB). The fullness of time in biblical language is the proper or destined time. The fullness of time came to present His son born of a woman to the world, proving that Christ is truly human. There is a perfect time appointed by the Father to promote you from servitude to sons. The timing for graduating from one level to another is not the same for everyone. There is a diversity of people in Christ; their status varies, as does position appointment. When it’s your time to transition for your mature level of consideration, you will know it, and so will your delegated leader in authority. Your planned obedience and testing time is fulfilled, and your appointed fullness of time has come. You are full grown, ready, and fully developed in body and mind. This means you are mature enough to handle yourself appropriately in your service to the Lord. It is the allowed length of time sufficient, necessary, or desirable by God the Father for you to be ordained and established in your purpose. The Holy Spirit will launch you out into deep waters. There is a supernatural fresh anointing out in the deep for a fresh catch of souls to fill the house of God.
The Power Gift
Keep your unwavering faith strong and sure in Him. All that is required of you is to go wait and pray to receive the gift of power with fire. He made you complete in Him, He supplied you with what was lacking and incomplete. He satisfied your prayer desire of your hungry heart for more. As you look back, it wasn’t hard or overly prolonged, but it occurred when the time was ripe because God knew the perfect timing for you to execute His orders for your purpose in life. You earnestly complied with all His conditions to bring you to His expected end, mature and complete in Him to do His work.
There are many individuals full of bright promises that are never fulfilled. The Christian believer knows that God fills both heaven and earth with His presence continuously, His personal favor is on you and upon you. You surely possess the
fruit of the Spirit and His power with the Holy Ghost and fire a gift from Him to you. He will use it wisely in your life. Your life must be dependent on Him and not what you can do without Him. He wants you to do what you can do by the power He has invested in you, and He will perform what you can’t do. Many times, we step out thinking we know what to do to later find out we didn’t know exactly how and were sorry for it. Yes, we make mistakes, some say that’s how you learn, and yet caution must be used. the enemy to your soul keeps notes on all your wrongs; he never speaks of the good you do. However, if you are righteous, you may fall, but you will rise up again. It’s great news to know the powerful God you love and serve doesn’t hold your mistakes and faults against you. He lifts you up by your hands with “try again” and fuels you with the fire power you need to keep you from giving up and mobilizing backward. There’s nothing back there for you is there?
Chapter 26 b
The Liquid Oil of Fire Many believers in Christ who were desperately desirous to receive the promised power are glad they did. They are now enriched and flourishing in God’s supernatural anointing, jubilantly inspired in the empowerment of fire. If its liquid in a figurative sense, it is light, fire, air. It is clear, transparent, and bright. In the spiritual sense, the manifestation of a thing is clear illuminating the mind and spirit realm that it is what you see, hear, and understand from the Father. There is a flowing down of this liquid oil of fire upon you in your prayer, praise, and worship time; it is touching your yielded spirit, soul, and body, refreshing, soothing the mind and strengthening the spirit-filled believer’s inner-man from the inside out. This mighty and powerful flowing of stimulation power clears away the debris of false erroneous thinking from the mind and spirit, filling it with His new heavenly revelation. It pours upon your soul from the one and only undisputed God who sees, hears, knows, and is in complete control of all things pertaining to His people.
The Meaning of a Thing
The light you see from a spiritual perspective is the “power of vision and eyesight,” you have mental enlightenment to clarify and make plain what’s being heard from God in your hearing. All believers must know this: edification is possessed and inhabit by the mind which comes from the powerful God they serve. Ask Him in your study and prayer time to ignite your mind to receive what your ears hear and internalize it with understanding. The God-sent liquid oil of fire flows through you from the active principles of the living Word by the Holy Spirit. It flows from your entire spirit, soul, and body. This instruction emanates light in the soul, in the same way as does a candle or a lamp sitting on a stand. Light points to a particular understanding of a subject matter. Hence, it’s the aspect in which anything is viewed or judge with your spiritual senses. It may be a suggestion to help in the solution of a problem. When you dare to search it out, your exhortation is this: “Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you” (Isaiah 60:1, NASB). This heavenly radiance upon your countenance is your spiritual dawning in the amplifying of
God’s delightful glory for your life’s mission. God is light; He will rise up big in you, and His glory will be seen upon you.
An Assigned Mission
Various tasks are assigned to individuals for their life’s mission. Joseph was sent to Egypt to preserve his chosen family. (See Genesis 45:5, KJV.) Esther was called to preserve the Jews. (See Esther 4:14, NASB.) The disciples were sent forth to do their work. There are many with a powerful story to tell how God delivered and set them free from Satan’s grip. The liquid oil of fire is indicative of your constant communion with God. You carry it with you when on your journey to world-wide mission. While on your mission, never forget to give Him the glory for His mighty acts to the people. Exhort and praise Him in advance for all He is there to do through you. “Declare his glory among the nations, his wonders among all peoples” (Psalms 96:3, NKJV).
Liquid Fire
Fire is the active principle operative in the Word of God. Speak the Word, there is life and fire in it. In the natural, fire is seen as combustible and easily kindled to violence. But in the spiritual, as it pertains to the believer, fire ignites ion of agape love for one another in the body of Christ our Lord. Fire is seriously powerful in generating combustibility, this makes fire a combination of light and heat development when starting a car engine. In a disease such as arthritis, fire is a consuming agency unaccompanied by light but with heat. We know it as an internal combustion flaring up from a cause on the inside and effecting the outside. Spiritually, the liquid oil of fire is kindled inside your spirit by the Holy Spirit and bellows out of your mouth, penetrating the souls of others as a change agent in Jesus Christ. Some of you, including myself, experience it all the time. A sickness of some kind strikes certain organs on the inside of some individuals causing a burning, painful, unbearable inflammation with heat and huge swelling on the outside of the body. The Bible refer to as “The burning ague” occurring in
the lives of people today (Leviticus 26:16, NKJV). This is the kind of fire no one like but, when you began to eat right, you will see great results.
Breathe in the Air
The air we breathe is nineteen percent oxygen. This affects your manner of behavior, expression, demeanor, and your attitude, as well as how you choose to maintain yourself while functioning under the Holy anointing oil of His presence of fire. All these elements combined together with the feeling of ion especially love, temperament, and courage in all you endeavor to do is in your zeal, enthusiasm, and spirit. Air then is that combination of qualities which makes the impression received while in His presence of fire as a pleasant expression that comes upon you refreshing your dedicated soul for more of Him. The atmospheric air we breathe mingle with the active principles of the living Word of God’s power gift of fire gives rise to the desires of our heart. You cry out with a pure heart: “more of you O God and none of me.” The Father who loves His people answers with the presence of His glory fire falling down in the room touching and sitting upon everyone strengthening, and empowering them while increasing the flow of the anointing.
The Oil of Anointing
The liquid oil of the anointing is upon you because of your obedience to God. You, fortunately, deserve it. Cherish it and keep it flowing in and through your fellowship in drawing near to Him in prayer time, telling Him how much you love Him. To have no communion with Him is a travesty to walking in the liquid oil of fire exuding out of your pores to stimulate yourself and others. Moses, the called of God, told the people,
“You shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die for
the anointing oil of the Lord your God is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.
Leviticus 10:7, KJV
The liquid oil is your prized protection in you, on you, in times of great danger when the unexpected virus is raging throughout the entire world, destroying everyone it can inhabit. The door of divine protection is closed against any harm or danger. Receive it now; your sacrificial obedience has come into view and is recognized by the oil upon you.
Thankful for the Oil
Fear not to praise Him daily in thanksgiving for the joy it brings. “But thou hast exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil” (Psalms 92:10, NASB). The fresh oil refreshes, saturating the soul in exceedingly jubilant, exhilarating praise for His continuous love and faithfulness to you. The saints of the Lord are exalted in the anointing of oil because praise is an emblem of power in you. It is a means of defense or resistance from all dangerous attacks coming against the believers. The power becomes increasingly strong on your entire body, quieting the soul to see greater in the spiritual realm. Where there is praise and worship, the power of the liquid oil of the Holy Ghost fills the room. Everyone in it receives a rekindling of fire. You have the right to be thankful for the oil of fire poured on you and everyone around you.
Rejoicing in the Oil
These are facts, discoveries, and suggestions that apparently explain the subject
of the liquid oil of fire with understanding. Rejoice in the extraordinary capacity given to you, via your imaginative creations, your natural quality of mind, the natural character and inherent tendencies, your original thoughts and inventions are the make-up of your studiousness. The mighty God of power takes all these and more to endow you with genius to influence one another for good. Do not neglect your genius I refer to as brilliant insight endowed by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration and your glowing imagination. That is infused into you by the flowing authorized liquid oil of the power gift of fire from God. The Christian spiritual light is an object of visual perception; that is, what you perceive a thing to be by the Holy Spirit and is confirmed by others. You are the carrier of the liquid oil of fire. New revelation flows, spiritual eyesight and hearing opens up as God begins to speak a clear precise word of things to declare in His name. The Holy Ghost oil of fire makes you shine in dark places. Those in darkness will see the light and are drawn to the Father.
The Blessing
Thus says the Lord, now that you are blessed to walk in the liquid oil of fire, believe by faith in this logos word, “Righteousness and peace have kissed” (Psalms 85:10, NASB). It’s time for the blessings of God to come down on you and I and all who love and serve Him--this is a promise. “You shall have plenty to eat and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you, then my people will never be put to shame” (Joel 2:25:26, NASB). This is our restoration, the catalyst for the biggest and grandest revival the world has ever seen in its time. We will see great breakthroughs in the lives of God’s people. The liquid oil of God’s fire has come upon you to prepare you to be ready to receive all He has for your life, purpose, and destiny. If you are not ready, get ready, time is of the essence.
Do not procrastinate due to residue of doubt; get rid of that too, and be ye always ready and expecting to receive. The liquid oil of fire made it possible, you have no excuse. Your Father God deposited into the core of your inner being His liquid oil of fire, grace, love, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost. His timing is right
for you to take a leap of faith into the new thing He wants to do through you. Take the challenge, allow Him to make you like sponges saturated in the infilling of the Holy Spirit’s Baptism with power and with fire. It will set free many believers from the ego they are tripping on. Your enthusiasm and zeal for His work is His liquid fire burning in your soul. Give it out to be an inspired blessing to others you minister to. See them as vessels of honor to God.
Chapter 27 b
The Holy Ghost Dance When you desire the fullness of His presence, your entire house receives the blessing because the fire is poured into your home in the hearts of all who live there. Consider, your house and your family favored with all of God’s spiritual blessings in heavenly places without measure, including the principles of the living Word of fire. You’re not half full but over-flowing in His approval. There isn’t a believer on earth that doesn’t yearn for this. A point to ponder, when a believer not of your household knocks on your door, they will sense the presence of God before they enter in. How will you know this? They will testify to this fact that the Shekinah Glory of God dwell in that house.
Who Carries the Glory?
When the Holy Ghost and fire is in you, it’s resting upon you. The visible manifestation of the divine majesty is abiding in you, the temple of the living God. It is highly reflective of a glorious radiant light. Symbolizing and harmonizing His nature that you have a common union with Him while partaking of His qualities. Together, you are united in Him, and this makes you like Him. Be sure you agree in compliance and true harmony when you come together as one. It is a religious belief or practice you as a people hold dear in your heart. Now that you know you are one of those carrying the glory, be smart and guard it, it’s God’s precious prized possession to bring glory to His Holy and righteous name. It belongs to Him; you are just a carrier.
Did You Request It?
Riches and honor will come to you from God, and though you didn’t ask for it, here it is knocking on your door to be of benefit to you. The example is this:
The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom Gittite for three months, And the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his household. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with gladness. Then David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing a linen ephod.
II Samuel 6:11,12, and 14, NKJV
What we know is Obed-Edom did not ask for the blessings of God’s presence, but God gave it to him anyhow. God will use another to be a in empowering you. The glory will come in and stay for a while, never relax your prayer time or the glory will lift, which is why it becomes a temporal favor. It’s up to the believer to keep the permanency of the invigoration fire of His presence lit in the heart.
Loose Yourself
When you are in covenant with God, you can do anything, even dance before Him unashamedly with all your might, soul, and spirit. Another point to ponder is that when they brought that ark to the city of David, all of Israel was shouting with trumpets, dancing and praising the Lord. This is what the presence of the Lord will do it will make you lose yourself in the dance. When the believers are doing the victory dance in the church, those that don’t understand it will despise you in their hearts, which is what King David’s wife did. Let them, you can’t stop them. They will soon in the dance after the unction of the Holy Ghost and fire comes upon them. When the fire and glorious presence of the Father’s shekinah glory overcomes your soul and you find yourself caught up in praise and the dance, what others think is between them and God. What you are doing is a matter between you and God. Understand this, your sincere dancing and praising is loosening the glory as the anointing is falling on you. More reason for
victory is coming your way.
The Wrong Presumption
The powerful hand of God struck Uzzah for erroneously assuming and presuming upon God to reach out and touch the anointed ark and died. His sin arose from the fact that it was not being carried by a Levite, as directed by God. The violation of God’s holiness, represented by the ark, cost Uzzah his life. It was Obed-Edom’s receptiveness, his care, concern, boldness, and humbleness which made the presence of the ark to him a savior of life unto a joyful life for him and his household. When you welcome the presence of God’s fullness of the Holy Ghost and power in your life and heart without false presumption of any sort, it will never leave you. Where the presence of the Lord is there is love, liberty, and prosperity. Happy is the believer who reunites to God, and God reconciles Himself to them in a mighty way.
Anointed Dancing Feet
When the anointing is falling on your feet, you will begin to move into a dance weather you are sitting or standing. It doesn’t remain localize on the feet, it stimulates, stirs, and quickens your entire body. When an individual is set on fire by God, it is not a performance for everyone around in their sphere of influence to stare and gaze in iration of what the fire is doing in the holy dance. Surely, it is preparing you for more victory in Christ. Practically everyone will be ignited with fire. In the same way, the speaker arouses the people with a speech, teaching, or preaching that is full of fire for all to receive. Check yourselves; are you set on fire for the Lord? Your messages inspired by the Holy Ghost will touch the hearts of others to search out the active principles of the living Word of fire for themselves. To continue growing in God.
Exhorted to Praise
You ask, “Why, for what reason should I do this?” Even when you don’t feel like it, this is what you should do because of the greatness, power, and victories He has given to you. Ask the Holy Ghost to kindle the fire in you to praise Him in the dance. Offer up thanksgivings to your Father God, creator and king, for His love for withholding His punishment from you when you deserved it. He wants you to live your time on earth in fruitfulness of His divine favor, life, health, and overflowing prosperity. He takes pleasure in beautifying you in meekness and spiritual joy in praising Him in songs. Do it with all the musical instruments: the tumbrels, harps, psalteries, the loud sounding cymbals. “Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the tumbrel and the harp” (Psalms 149:3, NKJV). Ask Him to put “new songs” in your heart to convey them back to Him in the dance; expect it and consider it done. Put a writing pad or journal by your bedside at night to write down new creative songs, a word of encouragement, and instructions from Him.
Love for the Church
When you are excited about His love and mercy to His people, He is excited because you are jubilant, enthusiastic, and invigorated to do a praise dance before Him, thanking Him for His goodness. Take the challenge and make Him feel good while sitting on His throne with His son Jesus Christ on His right hand, interceding for us, His children. He loves, cherishes, and holds His dear children to His heart. He loves the praises of His people. There is no one like Him glorious in holiness and fearful in praise. He is greatly to be praised and worshipped in the beauty of holiness, for when you do, His power of fire invigorates and strengthens you. Let them say, “Praise is not pretty.” A dead oak tree drying up is not pretty either. The unction of the holy one is in you; He touches your spirit, soul, and body anointing you to sing praises to Him when thinking about His goodness to you. It’s not something you make happen. Praise and worship, whether it’s in the dance or not it, beautifies you and God loves it. His presence fills and declares your house sacred to him. It’s up to you to keep
His warm presence dear to your heart. Celebrate the goodness, the blessedness of God’s presence in the Holy Ghost.
Chapter 28 b
A Flame in the Glory You are a flame in the glory, because you had a great desire for the fullness of the Father’s promised power gift with fire. You ultimately received it with joy, unspeakable and full of the glory of God. Your readiness has arrived. Take the challenge and go to another dimension from glory to glory, strength to strength, and faith to faith. He’s calling His people to deny themselves and come up higher in him. Teach the unteachable about Jesus and what He’s done for them. Many are feeling the burn of sin and not the active principles of the living Word and fullness of fire. Some are burdened with a word for another and the world, and they are hesitant and afraid to speak against the sins of the world. Loose them to walk in the spirit of the living God. Beware, frustration takes over from trying to hold in a word from God. It may be harsh or displeasing to the spirit of another, but it must be spoken in love, wisdom, and understanding. The purpose is for the believer to become a flame in His glory. There is a way, when, where and how to speak truth in love, that draws some closer to the Lord and others to Him. The uneasiness continues when we keep quiet. Why allow the fire to burn in your heart, causing you pain? Release it to others. It’s not about false prophesying to draw others to yourselves which God forbids. It’s about speaking the truth of God in love. When the likeability of a person is low the frustration causes powerlessness to act on the Word for yourself and others. The prophet Jeremiah complained about his inability to speak against sin. He wished he were dead and never born. We forget because of our fears. People are waiting for us to be a voice to them and not hinder their potential to be on fire a flame in God’s glory. There is a failure to desire the active voice of the truth of the fire to set captive free.
Reviving the Purpose
Never fear what others will say about you and withdraw into a pity party in an effort to gratify self, influenced by negative opinions. Your function is weighed in the balance and found wanting; it’s waiting for you to get up and mobilize on the alert watchful in prayer. You have a purpose in life, and you will fulfill it. Target your intent and pursue after it with all your heart. Do not fear them,
ignore their trumped-up charges that say you are deceived because you say you are hearing from God. There are some who truly are hearing from God. If you don’t have spiritual ears to hear what God is telling you to convey to the people, ask Him to open them. It’s easy to get off focus and disobey God’s instructions, forgetting He has your best interest at heart. “And again when he brings in the first begotten into the world, he said, and let all the angels worship him. And the angels he said, who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire” (Hebrew 1:6-7, NKJV). This is the exaltation of the Son of God. You are His and He loves you as His child; exalt Him! Lift Him up. He is the Lord our God, and He is a Holy God. Worship Him in the beauty of holiness. His desire for you is to be a flame in His glory. You are schooled to rule in the kingdom of God, and you are just as capable as anyone to save souls, whether you are in the supermarket, the shopping center, or when you go out two by two and tell someone that Jesus saves.
The Fire Within
The presence of fire convicts and convince hearts drawing believers to God Himself. He turns you and them into a flame of fire to fulfill His mission to go into the highway and byways, compelling others to come to Jesus and be saved from a corrupt and sinful generation. It’s your time to go heal the sick and raise the dead; visit the sick, the shut in, and the prisoners in the prison house. Become effective witnesses at home and abroad to the uttermost parts of the world, if that’s your calling. Be that flame of God in the glory empowering others to help get the work done effectively and efficiently in this world now. The fire within is telling you, you are not a dry branch ready to be cast into the fire and burned. As flames in His glory, the living Word is setting you in motion with the inner direction of the Holy Spirit to point the way. The fire is your source of power for the work you are called to do. Soul winning is not just for a select few. It’s for you to be anointed with fire to help gather in souls for kingdom work that benefits the body of Christ throughout the world. At the judgment you won’t be asked what they did, the question will be, “What did you do?”
Keep Your Spirit Alive
Never let your spirit-man become dry and barren; keep it alive in the active principles of the living Word of fire. Stand up for God. You are in charge of your own life, if not you will fall for anything. Don’t let that happen. Your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man but in the power of God. Launch out into the deep spiritual realm, and go as far as He will allow you to go with Him. There are some that comes to the edge of the next level and become a frozen chosen they want the world of fun and frolic. They have a sincere yearning for the Holy Ghost and fire but don’t want to live it when they should be an ignited flame in the glory of Christ, which is what the world needs for empowerment in Christ.
Ablaze in The Glory
Once more there is an unfolding of a coming manifestation of a powerful mature flourishing of God’s people in His house because of the new thing he is doing. They are flowing together under the anointing of His fire, ablaze in the glory of it. The supernatural fullness of fire is poured out upon everyone. Many are being show-cased by the great El-Shaddai, the God that’s more than enough. He is bringing His anointed out of seclusion and putting them on display for the world to see that these are God’s set-apart people. One important reason is to be blessed and rebuild a caring, fatherly relationship with Him. God is restructuring and bringing stability to broken lives and relationship to a better and perfect state. Those walls of division in the body of Christ hinders spiritual growth, they must come down from their lofty and high perch. God is ushering in a powerful rebuilding and restoration of shattered and shaky foundations that is breaking-up godly relationships. He is resurrecting lives lost to a “give up” attitude. It’s taking the minds of those lacking discernment by surprise to set His ministers ablaze in the anointing power of Jesus Christ.
A Fire Wall
“For I saith the Lord will be a wall of fire round about, and will be a glory in the midst of her” (Zechariah 2:5, KJV). God Himself is a protective wall surrounding His people on every side. He is the glory in our midst. His children know His power is in His Word, which is why you must speak the Word and receive life. Do not keep silent. Rise, O mighty men and women of God Almighty. Defy the works of darkness remain secure, bold, and strong in the faith of your God, unafraid to do His work in demonstration of the Holy Spirit anointing and with power. You are ambassadors and representatives wherever you go. Do not fear the faces of man but tell them who you are that is, a representative of the king to speak on His behalf everywhere I go. It’s time to recover all you have lost and more. Gather together as a protective wall of fire endowed with the fullness of power from on high. Stand against the devil attacking in an effort to take over a system set up by God. The purging of crookedness with a spirit of dishonest usury intent must come down speedily.
A Fresh Charge
It is taking place now; don’t get left behind. This is not the time for your point of view. It’s time for God to shine. It’s time you stop complaining and rise up from your bed of ease. Your comfort zone of complacency content with the status quo things as they are. Do something that is worthwhile in the kingdom of Christ to empower His body. What you do for Him will have an everlasting effect. Why sit there until you die, physically, mentally, and spiritually? You have the active living Word of fire in you. It’s a new hour and a new commitment for the new thing God wants to do. He has given you a new anointing for empowerment to operate in the abundance of His power. Rise up and pray when you feel tired, worn out, and depleted of the oil of fire; the purpose of renewal is to recoup your strength again on your knees in prayer. If you want to receive a fresh infilling for spiritual renewal. There is a fresh charge of a new anointing from Him who gives you more of His new renewed strength consistently in prayer time with Him. The anointed master of time Jesus Christ has come on the scene, died for our sins, rose again, and returned back to the right hand of the Father, interceding for His people.
Fear Not
Rise up, O Mighty men and women of valor, kings, and priest. Do not leave your first love stay connected to Jesus the true vine. Put away all nonsense, those who only wants to play church and not be the church. Cultivate the word of God in you, strengthen yourselves. Take on your new anointing, yourselves together, and declare war on the devil’s war. You have an assignment on your life to take charge with your God-given ability for His powerful work. The fire of God in you is your get-up and go full of vitality and strength. You are ablaze in the Father’s anointing, and glorious fire. Everything you need is in Him. As you go, know the fire of the Father eradicates every false word and work and the hidden serpent that doesn’t know you have the power of God’s fire to shake it off and keep your life moving forward.
The Unexpected Viper
When shipwrecked at Malta, the Bible says the “Apostle Paul gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire. There came a viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand” (Acts 28:3, KJV).
He shook it off. God’s protection belongs to the believer. If by chance you pick up any deadly thing, no harm nor danger can come to you. His word is His protective fire on your life. Your trust in His sustaining, fullness of the power of fire you desired is with you. When you are sent to the nations or just down the street, go in boldness without fear. Your Father has your back; believe He will back-up every word you speak with great signs, wonders, miracles, and great deliverance. Trust and believe God has sent His warring angels before you to prepare the way for you.
Seers and Knowers
The world can see believers in Christ as refined by the behavior that reflects Christ in what is said and done. By this, Jesus is painted as a winner in what He came to earth to do as a man to save a lost and dying world. His work refines and develop even a stranger astray from Christ to a relationship with the “all sufficient God.” His warm fire of agape love in you is invigorating and revitalizing in the spirit, soul, and body while pouring it out to others. There are many in the world who are hungry for Christ, who lives in you. Show them Christ tell them the story of who He is and what He came to do for them. Ask the Holy Spirit to speak through you and set them on fire for the Lord before they leave your presence.
Spiritual Growth
Many have become more solid in the Holy Spirit. Sharp and quick-witted, discerning in spiritual eyesight, with hearing ears, and are true to their free gift of salvation. Their faithfulness to the Father has been rewarding into their senior years and continuing. You have become more endowed with the wisdom of God. They are more mature, prompt, active, and anointed in perception. Some have become more of an anointed observer, vigilant in taking in the active principles of God’s Word to live by. Those negative fault-finding words out of the mouths of some have been stricken with the coals of God’s purging fire upon their lips. Your heart and mouth are clean; watch over it and guard what comes out of it. Resist the temptation to repeat the negative because you possess volume control. Turn it off, not down but off. You came through amazed at what God can do and believe there’s nothing He can’t do. If spiritual growth never comes and you are still a babe in an adult body and the mind is not renewed, go back to God in earnest prayer.
The Next Level
Rise up to your God-given assignment and purpose in this life. Expect your Father God to begin to speak powerfully a thing, and it comes to immediately. He is moving in your life, and you find yourself humble in Him, alert, actively involved and full of energy. You have staying power, courage, aggression, and are militant in a good way under the anointing in the body of Christ. You find yourself speaking things prompted by the Holy Spirit, seasoned with wisdom and the fire of love. The mighty move of God’s glory has turned your life around and planted your feet on solid ground giving you a new direction. Those who have been in their wilderness experience of dryness and their inability to rise up and walk into the fullness of the power of God. Receive a boost from the Lord in the spirit realm to get you moving. Your preparation for your next level has more for you than you have ever experienced before. The mundane and the mediocre exist no more.
Fill Your Lamps
To maintain the flame in the glory of God. The soul life will come up with a million things to do other than spend time with God in the “secret place.” This is where the five faithful and wise virgins spent time behind the veil fueling their lamps. The lamp is the anointing with the oil of the Holy Spirit’s power of fire; you get in the secret place behind the veil in prayer. If neglected, there will be no power to keep the flame burning. The foolish virgins didn’t spend time fueling their spirit-man in prayer time with the Lord. They spent time with the merchandizer, in idle chatter not knowing idle words have no Kingdom assignment. They’re running here and there looking for a word, doing things God never said to do, and have brought regret to their lives. They had no flame of God’s glory burning in their hearts. Their false profession was birth out of a spirit of formalism that led to false hope. When it was time to meet the bridegroom, they had no Holy Ghost oil of fire exuding profusely out of their pores. It is the responsibility of the believer to always be ready when Jesus comes for His church. Otherwise, the opportunity to meet Him with joy will ultimately be lost. Self-deceptions with false claims of who you are but are not. It’s not the price to pay to hear these words, “too late.” The door is shut,
someone is caught unprepared, disowned by Jesus the Christ--may it never be you. Not even the sinner cares to hear this. The lesson learned, if there is never watchfulness and a prayer life, you will be left out. Everyone is responsible for their own relationship with God to enhance their spiritual condition. Your preparation cannot be bought or borrowed at the last minute or hour.
A Prayer Life
What does it do? It will keep your life fired up and ready at all times. You want need to say, “Let me first go into my prayer closet and pray about this when confronted with an urgent need or difficult situation.” You must stay prayed up every day of your life. The Bible says, “Pray without ceasing in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (I Thessalonians 5:17-18, KJV). Prayer, thankfulness, and thanksgiving are encouraged frequently. This is not telling you that you should do nothing but pray. It’s telling you nothing else we do should hinder prayer to God in its proper time. Your gratitude and joy in God should not fluctuate from one situation or feeling to another. The command to keep praying continually in thankfulness will always go against your natural tendency or disposition. The Holy Spirit prompts you to pray and press in with prayer to God, even when you don’t feel like it. He knows what’s coming down the road before it hits; your prayers bring everything into alignment.
Feeling the Burn
Your ion of fire must never go out; it must move from one to another. That burning feeling or ion especially of love, emitted to others to be the object of your love in setting them ablaze burning like flames. The Holy Ghost power and fire sets others free from captivity to freedom in Christ, feeling the burn of fire and glory. Every Christian believer must execute all they put their hands to do in the flame and glory of God. The glory of the latter will be greater than the first. Jesus Christ manifested that glory of God and gave it to us, the church, the
called-out ones. The purpose of Jesus was one with the purpose of God. He spoke God’s Word and did His work. You and I must do the same. The word “doxa” means glory, all that God is and all that He has accomplished for us in His kingdom people. You can be full of the Holy Ghost glory power with fire doing miracles, and wonders for God. The Christian believers are blessed to be united together through His glory. Your challenge is to look beyond personalities and see the glory in demonstration of the Spirit and with fire impacting the world. Guard your heart from becoming cold and hardened in any way that thwarts the anointing. Staying alert, prayerful, and focused on what you are called to do will be of great help. To continue being a flame in the glory is to remain in study and fellowship with Father God in His Holy presence, singing praises, worshipping, and glorifying Him. The glory of the Lord is always rion you with a word of exhortation for another in keeping them encouraged while they may be going through something and in need of a sure word from the Lord.
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The Empowerment to Act Now that your desire for the fire is fulfilled, it’s time for serious action on your part. Your charge of power and authority under the anointing is to carry out your commission as an ambassador on your Father’s behalf. Your heart is fixed, and your mind made up because you love Him with all your heart, soul, and mind. You are sold out to Him. It’s time to fulfill the Great Commission. The anointing on your life is sealed with the Holy Spirit’s gift of power with fire. It enables you to take your rightful dominion over the powers of darkness in this world. To strengthen the church and comfort the feeble minds setting them at liberty for the victory that’s in Christ. You have a charge to raise up a great army of people on fire for the Lord. Your authorization is telling them you are approved by God to speak on His behalf as His representative. Your gift and anointing on your life proves to them who you are in God. Your ministry as a servant is to fulfill the same covenant of promise in doing what Jesus did. Jesus Christ gave the authority and power to the people to bring light and illumination to the soul of the gentile. The promise is to deliver those who believe from the prison of sin holding them captive in the mind.
The Delegated Call
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and low, I am with you always, even to the ends of the world.
Matthews 28:19-20, NKJV
God’s covenant was wrapped up in the commission He gave to the Son. He made himself known by a royal title, and with this, He said He was the fountain of all living beings and the supplier of all power. He created the heavens and stretched it out; He spread forth the earth and made it a habitation. He gave breath to His people, spirit, power, ability, and faculty of a rational soul. He restored us to the allegiance we owe Him as our God savior and maker. God gave His Son the blessed presence of His assurance He was with Him. This makes Him “God with us.” its in Him we live, move and have our being.
The Great Authorization
We have the blessed confirmation of God’s perfect and powerful certification and authority of God. He is the one who qualifies to make this promise: He tells us His name is Jehovah. As a God of His Word, He gave birth to His promise proving the love and kindness He has for His people. His powerfulness gives Him the right to declare the decree, “Behold the former things have come to and new things do I declare” (Isaiah 42:5-9, KJV).
Your challenge is to look for the new promises and new favors to be bestowed upon you in doing His work. In the olden days, there were many people who experienced His blessings in abundance. But, in these new seasons of days and times, He declares spiritual blessings in heavenly places, that the windows of heaven are open, He’s pouring out blessings we cannot contain. Before they spring forth in the preaching and teaching of the good news of Jesus Christ. We can be assured He will tell us of what’s to come beforehand. Enthusiasm builds up, and you begin to experience the exhortation and praise. O Lord, to you who sits on the throne be blessings and glory dominion and power forever and ever Amen! As often as you do this the greater His anointing will be on your life.
Local Ministering
When we were ministering to the incarcerated at the county jail for several years God said, “Tell them just because your body is incarcerated it doesn’t mean you must be confined, on lock-down in your mind.” They needed to be told they have the ability to think clearly; we went to work on their understanding and thinking capacity. We began sharing the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, opening up their understanding with enlightenment in the Word of God. This is what they learn about the possession of a powerful mind given to them by God. This is it:
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:5-7, KJV
The mind of our humbled and exalted Christ was a spiritual mind of humility. He is the image of God who lived and walked in oneness with the Father. They are one, and we are one with them. Decide now to get up, O Christian believers of God. Yield your mind to Him; it contains your thoughts, and what you allow in is important to him. Shut out the negative and take in the positive that benefits the body of Christ. He has established you in His ability and power to operate effectively in stirring up the gifting, anointing, and callings in His people for empowerment to do what we are called to do for Him.
Your Duty Calls
This is your duty as a minister of the universal Gospel of Jesus Christ--to preach,
teach, and share it. You have left your father, mother, and everything you thought was too important for you to leave on the mission field baptizing the souls in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There are many far out to the four corners of the world. They need the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When I was on the mission field in Addis Aba, Ethiopia, my English interpreter and I counseled and prayed with a man who was approximately eighty years old. He told us he had never heard of the name Jesus Christ. In my heart, I was thinking, O my God, I have heard of the ten-forty-window where people have never heard the name Jesus Christ, and here I am? We gladly introduced him to Jesus. We sent him away, praising and thanking the Lord for saving him. Many disciples gave their hearts to Jesus that week in Ethiopia. The presence of Christ was there as a command to set captives free, and it was done in a powerful way by the baptizing fire of the Holy Ghost. It wasn’t us; it was Christ in us, the hope of glory. We believed in His spoken word: “and lo, I am with you even to the end of the world” (Matthews 28:20b, NKJV).
This Is That
You were told in previous chapters the state you were in as a believer. But this is where you are now, after receiving the fullness of the Holy Ghost and fire without measure. Joel spoke about it:
And it shall come to afterward that I will pour my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also upon servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Joel 2:28-29, KJV
The Spirit was promised by God for spiritual vision and utterances were given
by God it is here now. Your sons and daughters can have the desire for it. You are blessed to have it. Hopefully, you are drawing on it every day of your life in the living Word. The empowerment of the Word keeps your spirit, soul and body vividly refreshed, empowered and alive in God. You cannot afford to sit now; you must go forth under the anointing, breaking the chains of the past freeing God’s holy people to live in a life of victory, regardless of what the circumstances are or what they look like. You are convinced you serve a devildestroying God who lift heavy weights of burden from the shoulders of His people, and you are convicted even more in your heart with this: “O my, this is the kind of God I serve!”
This said with a “thank you, Jesus” at the end of your exclamation. You saw it with your own eyes; He is a mountain moving God. You took Him at His word and spoke to that mountain of debt you made. Maybe you had to or maybe you didn’t, but God knows whatever the cause, His loving kindness and tender mercy showed up on your behalf with the answer and help you need. You learned He is a freedom releasing God, from sickness to healing.
Humbled by a Thorn
You ministered to your family and got them saved, you sang in the choir, worked in the jail ministry, preached the Gospel at home and abroad. You prayed for others and saw them through to some victory in their lives. You did all that for thirty years with a thorn in your flesh, which was enough lupus in your system to kill a horse. Yet you are still here doing the works of Almighty God and nobody knew it but a select few. Those you knew could get a prayer through and those who discerned it. One Sunday after the pastor preached, all the ministers and I would go down to pray for them at the altar. One humble individual with the gift of discernment was on her knees in front of me praying, she looked up at me with these words, “O the pain, the pain, the pain.” My response to her was, “Pray for me,” and she did. That was discernment at its best.
The God of Impossibility
There isn’t anything He can’t do; greater works we shall do in Him. When God says to you, “Come on, I am vindicating you with signs, wonders, and great deliverance,” you must mobilize the people of God. “The day of the Lord is at hand” (II Thessalonian 2:2,3, KJV). This is telling you, a falling away from the church is upon us. Your Father wants to use you to set the people free, propelling them forward into their new destiny with a fresh charge to charge others. It’s time for the manifestation of the Sons in demonstration of His Spirit and in power. There are second chances of God, that awaits some of you. , God’s ultimate objective for earth is kingdom authority impacting His people. God has given you freedom from doubt and firmness of mind and spirit in the fullness of His fire. Stand up and think big; low-level thinking exists no more. Nothing is impossible for Him to do. He is not a man that He should lie; if He said it, He will bring it to . Rise up! O mighty men and women of God, the born-again ones, fire baptized, spirit-filled with the fullness of power a gift from God. Tell the unsaved world they have the power of choice given them by Jesus Christ. They can choose to follow the pattern of sin or not. So what if all your family were of the mafia, con artists, liars and cheats, prostitutes, and pimps? Or that some expired suffering from life-threatening diseases such as cancer, lupus, anxiety, diabetes, high blood pressure, crippling arthritis? It doesn’t mean that is your path to follow. I think not. The believer in Christ can get beyond the siege of bondage in the mind that is telling you, it’s your lot to fall into the same sins and sickness of your beloved forefathers. If your desire is to come out victoriously full of fire and courage, speak the life-giving Word daily over your mind, the minds of your family, and the body of Christ.
Aggressive Action!
As you continue to walk in your empowerment for aggressive action with singleness of mind and focus on the higher calling on your life. This endowment will lead to victory in Christ Jesus. It breaks every chain of bondage, even now the chains are falling of many lives. In Him is where your hope lies. For your
blessings and victories as an overcoming church. Encourage yourself with this, God’s supernatural abundant grace covers you because you desired the fullness of His fire. To take aggressive action in pursuit of all, you believe He calls you to do. All your struggles are over and done, but it doesn’t mean the enemy to your soul will not tempt you anymore. You must know you are fully armed and dangerous to rebuke and refute every negative word thrown at you. Many have fallen prey to the deception by not staying planted in the active living Word of fire to wake you up and keep the mind activated. Your appointment with destiny is upon you. Your mind is capable of containing the mind of Christ. When the mind is tempted to go astray from its ability to think clearly, you must monitor your mind by the Holy Spirit in you. Access your ability to say no to the impression in the mind you perceive didn’t come from God. Periodically, check to see if you are overly anxious in thinking, “I can’t wait to go aside to the old way for a smoke or a drink.” If that’s you, it’s possible you are straying away from the mind of Christ. A smoke or drink diffuses the effective workings of the gift of power with the Words of fire flowing out of your mouth.
Rebuke the Temptation
Temptation is always lurking around the corner to catch you off guard. Rebuke it with the power principles of the Word out of your mouth. Simply speak out of your levelheaded assurance in who you are: “My mind belongs to God, I rebuke this thought in my mind by laying my hand on my head.” You and the Holy Spirit have control over your mind in faith, speak to it. He immediately puts a check in your spirit to resist. It’s a hard thing to ignore the unction of the Holy Spirit when He is saying no! You have been set free, why entertain that thought again? Will you be about the Father’s business? Do not waste any more time entertaining worldly things. If you don’t know where you came from, you will never know where you are going. If you have missed the way, quickly seek after God in prayer to show you the way He is able to do it. The warning sign is your watchfulness in prayer, resisting the temptations of evil examples, false teachings and apostasy. Your encouragement is to remain steadfast unmovable in the Word and work of God, which you love and hold dear in your heart. The Lord is saying the cavaliers are coming. The ones that are lovers of God and lovers of people. Many waters cannot quench this true agape love of God
flowing from their hearts. Neither can the floods drown it. It penetrates the spirit, and soul of everyone it comes in with changing lives for the better.
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Quench not the Spirit’s Fire Now that you have received your desire for the fullness of the Holy Ghost power gift with fire, beware of those who will try to put out your fire with erroneous negative talk. You have “volume control,” turn it off! Do not let them sin against the spirit in you. You are sure of what you have, defend what you have. When the Holy Ghost fire falls in your church house, you don’t need a nurse dressed in their nursing suit with a fan in their hand to blow away the fire of God off the people. Ask them to show it to you in the Bible, if they cannot do this, tell them to put down the fan and allow the Holy Ghost to do a work in them. I don’t see it in the Bible, do you? What we see is this:
Quench not the Spirit, despise not prophesying, prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify your wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I Thessalonians 5:19, KJV
The principles of the living Word are being despised with a thwarting of the fire with a fan in the hand. My perception is they must be thinking, we don’t need that Holy Ghost in here, get a fan and cool them down or give him or her some water to drink. Not knowing Jesus is the cooling water to quench the thirst for more in their spirit, while His fire is doing a supernatural purging work in the inner man. God is bringing sanctification to His body, and many are fighting Him off at the same time with a fan without understanding.
Tossing Aside Gifts
This warning from the Apostle Paul is telling the believers not to smother the Holy Spirit. You should not ignore or toss aside the gifts of the Holy Spirit. To be very sure we are profoundly clear, He mentions prophecy and tongues. (See I Corinthians 14:39, KJV.) He is saying this because many Christians believe spiritual gifts are controversial and cause division in the church. Instead of getting the proper and clear understanding to solve the problem, they prefer smothering the gift, by speaking against it. By doing this, the church is made weak or poor in quality exhausted of their godly strength to move forward. Leaders must be educated in the area of the gifts. , you are empowered to act wisely for the benefit of the people. Beware of stifling the Holy Spirit’s work in the lives of God’s people. Your teachings and learnings in the Bible received under your mentors are acquired from the active principles of the living Word of fire. Its fullness is your method for empowerment. Ask the Father for the impartation with the full expressions of the gifts of the Holy Ghost in the body of Christ with wisdom knowledge and understanding in a spirit of excellence.
Demeaning the Gifts
It’s no laughing matter, the youth must know this from their beginning stage in receiving Christ. There should never be a cause for demeaning those with the gifts when they are teaching others the importance of the Holy Spirit’s gifts in the believer. Many laughed, poked fun because the understanding was darkened and void of the light and illumination of the Word. You must not hold them at fault; when they learn better, they will do better. If they are not told, how will they know? Tell them the Holy Spirit is likened to fire. When its ministry is quenched, it is stifled in the believer or in their ability and authority to deliver a direct and sure revelation from God. And when God begins to speak through them, they will not resist. The lesson learned is: Do not put out the Spirit’s fire, do not treat prophecies with contempt. Test everything by the spirit, hold on to the good and avoid the evil.
Make Them Aware
Make them totally aware of John’s baptism and his announcement of the coming of Christ, that He must be first in their lives. The Spirit was promised, and their lives will be tried and tested by fire. Christ has the power to bring them through every test, He deserves the glory. There is a need to know the difference. John’s baptism seen in the Bible symbolizes the washing away of sin. Jesus’ baptism by fire is the power needed to do God’s will. It’s crucial for the new Millennials to get it into their spirit; the most important meaning of the fire among others is that the fire is the active principles of the living Word of God. The power of fire then is the word of God in their mouths, your mouths, and everyone’s mouths, speak life and live. They must speak the Word by speaking life to themselves and others.
Anointed Leaders
Keep this in mind as you step out into leading the flock of God, acting in His name on His Word. You are fully clothed in the full armour of the Lord, tried and proven and able to stand up against the powers of darkness that be. You are anointed, Spirit-filled, qualified leaders capable of rai an army fully clothed armed and dangerous ready for the battle. Anointed leaders are raised up for God, they are anointed spirit-filled people with the fullness of the baptism of the Holy Ghost power with fire from God. The greater the anointing on you and your congregation, the greater the work you will accomplish together as one body. You as head and leader must periodically refresh yourselves at least three times yearly. The people must do likewise. With everyone operating on the same page fully equipped in unity and empowered to help the pastor/leader to meet the mandate of the vision, the church will prosper. There must and should be a vision; without one, the people will perish. Without the people, the vision will perish.
Be Secure in Him
It’s okay to be anointed and secure in your humble God given authority, no one can effectively carry out God’s mission while fearful and not knowing who you are. Insecurity is for those who have never had any form of training for winning in the Holy Ghost school of ministry, which everyone needs. The mature are comfortable in knowing who they are in God; they have ears to hear with an understanding heart. They are ministry and witnessing ready; they are living and walking in the active principle of loving the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, and mind while loving their neighbour as much as they seemingly love themselves. They have programmed their minds to be like the mind of Christ. Jesus was highly focused to react according to the perfect divine will of Almighty God. So must the believer. This ensures our security in Him.
The Overflowing Well
As the river of the life-flow of God continues to flow out of you, know that it lights up the lives of others saturating the soul in dry seasons. Jesus, the overflowing deep well living in you, should never run dry. Everyone has an open invitation to keep coming back to Him in prayer and fellowship for a refreshing drink from Him. Your fullness of the life flow of Jesus is a fact but also an act. As you act on pouring out of the deep well of Christ in you to others, He’s obligated to pour back into you to keep you fuelled with fire. The desire you have in your heart is ed on and becomes someone’s hunger; as long as people are procreating on the whole earth, it will always be others yearning, hungering, and searching for what God has for them that they don’t possess. Tell those who want to thwart your fire Jesus said, “He came to send fire on the earth” (Luke 12:49, KJV). It brings judgement on the fleshly works, it saturates the soul, penetrates the inner-being, rooting out, purging out everything not like Him. They can have it too. Their lack of understanding can be full of the knowledge of Him and what He came to do. He came to kindle a fire in the believer’s heart to enable and empower them to carry out their assignment. This fullness of the baptizing fire is here to stay. The deep well of Christ is calling you to come get filled with your heart’s desire. This word fullness is the condition of containing the Holy Ghost gift of power with fire in abundance to the full.
New Wine Infilling
Who are you now? You are now gold in the sight of God, tried in the fire lacking nothing. At this point, you are destined to go beyond praying for blessings for yourself and others. It’s Christ living in you, the believer by the Holy Spirit, and He brings hope to the hopeless who follows His leading. He did not go to the pool of Bethesda to pray a simple prayer of blessings on the people during prayer time. (See John 5:2-9, KJV.) His assignment was to abound in the fullness to perform a miracle on a man who was lame for thirty-eight years. Peter and John, being full of new wine of the fullness of God’s power contained in them duplicated him by doing the same. Peter said to the man at the gate beautiful begging for alms, “Silver and gold I do not have, but such as I have I give to the, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6, NKJV). His power and authority are invoked by using His great name. If their faith requires inspiration for activation, take that one by the hand. Urging and aiding them to rise up and walk. Healing is the people’s portion in their poverty-stricken mind and body. The question to you is, what are you doing with your assignment? The disciples were active in doing miracles, signs, and wonders as they were told by Jesus to do it. Please understand, the Bible tells us to give alms and help those in need, but there’s more. Where are the Peters and Johns of today who have taken the fullness of the Holy Ghost power of fire to the next level working miracles signs and wonders with kingdom authority imparted to them. You have the same empowerment of great faith, as Peter in the name of Jesus Christ.
Chapter 31 b
Reformation of Great Improvement Now that you have reached a desired end of the gift of the Holy Ghost fullness of power with fire, elevate your level of expectation for the greatest reformation coming upon the world now. It’s an alteration, a removal, for the rebuilding and improvement in the existing state and government of things pertaining to His people. It’s a radical change for the betterment effected in political, religious, or social affairs in institutions, churches, and homes throughout the world. When the status quo of something has been torn down or the foundation have been chipped at for the purpose of bringing it down, reformation is needed. Some corrections and alterations to a better form must be sought after and brought into existence. This is not just for the natural, it affects the spiritual realm people and things. There must come the action work of reforming one’s own conduct or morals, it must be formed again to a second or new formation and brought to a better or purer state by the removal of errors or abuses. Take the example of the ex-convict who has reformed and is now a productive member of society. They have change for the better, restored, rehabilitated, and has abandon their contrary conduct, converted, and atoned for by the shed blood of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. At the appointed time, they are welcome, accepted, and embraced by the mature mentors of the church for their spiritual endurance, to become more than conquerors to empower others. They should be able to function in all that is contained in their maker God. A new start is inevitable for a new revival in life.
The Returned Exile
The Bible said:
I will hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to the people and to his saints; but let them not turn again to folly. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Psalms 85:8,11, KJV
Pray for mercy, while meditating on the excellence and goodness of the Lord. Fear Him and believe by faith, salvation, peace, truth, plenty, and spiritual abundance is promised to all. These characteristics of mercy, truth, justice, and peace are not opponents who have made a truce, but co-laborers who have ed hands and working together in a spirit of true love, peace, and unity. They are the ones walking in the outflow of God’s righteousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Ghost power baptized with fire on the earth.
His Glorious Presence
When the glory of the presence, power, and fire of the Lord exercise authority in the land, the people will experience the characteristics of salvation, mercy, truth, righteousness, justice, blessings, and peace in these millennium years, where we are now. In every congress, mercy and truth must meet and embrace in honesty common interest among each other. First the natural, then comes the spiritual. The powerful favor and mercy of God will come and abide in the land with His people because righteousness and peace have kissed each other. When God’s truth springs out of the soil of the hearts of the righteous to grow in righteousness, God’s mercy shall look down from heaven as the sun does upon the world to shed its influence on the productions of the earth, cherishing them with His kisses of blessings. This is the divine attributes of God in the Messiah Jesus Christ. Everything and everyone will harmonize together in His truth. Well contrived and concerted that God may have mercy on the poor sinners and be at peace with them without any wrong done to His truth and righteousness.
Yielding Increase
There will be great plenty of everything desirable to His people, all that is good the Lord our God will give it. When the glory of the Gospel lives in our land, then it shall yield its increase, as a sure guidance in a magnificent way. Indeed, the land we live in is blessed, but there’s more than what many of us have ever seen pouring from this perfect and powerful God we serve. There is coming greater increase for all and not just for a select few who wants it all for themselves. His promises are yes, yes, and amen to all who love Him and keep His commandments. We His people are promised the assurance of righteousness and sanctification going before us preparing the way, to set us His people in the steps of His ways, while pouring out His goodness, mercy, and peace.
Kisses of Blessings
God is stopping some mouths from begging Him with the kiss of His blessings, His affection of love for you. He is bringing a great outpouring of blessings, kissing you with His kisses of blessings. This will cause the enemy to the souls of God’s people to kiss the dust overthrown, humiliated, and ruined. He is cursed already to crawl on his belly. But we, the Christian believers filled with the desired gift and power of the Holy Ghost and fire, have the authoritative declaration and invocation of great favor. It is a prospering influence a boon to make you joyful in Him, grateful in adoration and praises to Him. All the blessings of the proud Father God are given to you to recover all, as it pertains to eminence and wealth in a great way. God is about keeping you upwardly mobile, opulent and wealthy to help in financing his kingdom. Reach out and grasp hold of the blessings. You are adorable, consecrated, holy, happy, fortunate, beautiful saints. You are pleasurable and blissful, endowed with healing virtues, full of the favor of God to be a blessing to others. Bless them with a prayer of protection because you are who God says you are, you can share with them God’s mercy and grace. Pronounce words that confer life, well-being, and favor that they may call themselves blessed of the Lord.
A Great Restoration
The glory of the land is to have the worship of God settled and established among us throughout the world and the land we live in. Supernatural change comes through the principles of the living active Word of God by the empowerment of the Holy Ghost gift and power of fire flowing through the Christian believers. It will reset, and build up a strong, committed, submitted body of people to carry out the work of God effectively and efficiently. Your endowment of restoration will bring back and reform lives in the anointing of fire, a desire everyone yearns for. The word restoration is restoring people and things back to their rightful place. Reformation is the action of forming again. This is a refreshing time to restore the kingdom to Israel to witness in the power of the Holy Spirit to all people. This age is a fulfillment of the promises of God as to what will happen when His people operate in His fire as He makes all things new in the time of reformation of all things.
The Time of Perfecting
Things, lives, and people must be made straight and set right. These times are for perfecting things by changing the external forms and norms of worship into vital and spiritual worship relative to the time of Jesus Christ the Messiah and the salvation He brought. This is reformation: setting right and making things straight before the coming of the Lord the second time. For many, the concern is for food only. “Concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation” (Hebrew 9:10, NKJV). Surly, this is not all we care about, ritualistic cleansing, rigid, stiff, meticulous formalism. Be it known, the fullness of time is God’s appointed time when everything is changed and ready. The government, Congress, the White House, the church house, and our house must be perfected God’s way. When Jesus began His Galilean ministry, the Word proclaimed, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15, NKJV). Faith must be encouraged for the people to repent and be saved and transformed into a new life with Christ.
Omit Carnal Ordinances
They are opposed to the sacrifices of God. They don’t make you mature in your conscience; this is where you know who you are in Him and you have presented your body to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to him. It’s your reasonable service, and that you are not conformed to this world but that you have a transformed renewed mind. You have graduated from carnality the outward forms for show affecting the flesh only. You seek after spiritual things now. The spiritual supersedes carnal ordinances; they cannot make you perfect, and mature in Christ from whom the reformation or rectification emanates and frees you from the yoke of carnal ordinances. You are totally free now from carnality. Gradually, we are seeing it take place now to be perfectly done in the world to come, spirituality as opposed to carnality. However, it’s not our righteousness, but it’s Christ’s alone, the one who atones is coming back for a mature church. Prepared and ready to receive good things, which are the better promises the eternal inheritance the things hoped for in heaven and on the earth as we speak.
No Wasteful Desire
You are presently seeing some results from the desire for the fullness of God’s gift of power with fire. In these last days of reformation for radical change in your life and the lives of others including family, that straight road ahead is clear to help in empowering the world for Christ’s return. Never forget this change that has come over you is a “new order” brought about by the completed sacrifice of God and His entering into heaven by His own shed blood once for all and has obtained eternal redemption. His blood is sufficient to purge the soul and conscience from dead works to serve the only true and living God. Some don’t know this. Will you tell them the blood, the power of the Holy Ghost fire, is sufficient to enable them to serve the living God. That it’s the sanctifying and renewing of the soul through the Holy Spirit’s power of influence? Their yearning desire will be thoroughly awakened, eager to be satisfied.
A Changed Life
Change is not change until you can see, feel, and reap the benefits of a change lifestyle in Christ. What does it mean? The act or fact of changing it is a substitution or succession of one thing in place of another. You personally give up something, you give up a worldly life in exchange for a spiritual walk and life with God. You must never revert to the old. Listen to what God said, “I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6, KJV). Because God does not change but is faithful to His covenant, His people survive. When the shifting takes place and we make a change, you turn and face another direction. Your tone changes, you alter your manner of speaking and speak more respectfully. Many oppose change; others willingly go with the flow of change that effects their lives in powerful ways. It keeps your life moving forward on the straight and narrow path of righteousness. God lives in us by His Holy Spirit; we are endowed with His attributes. He changes not, and the same applies to us. On our way forward, our lives will be more pleasing to God and more peaceful in our living on earth.
A New Covenant
This is a better covenant bought about by the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from Jerusalem; above it brings life in the Spirit that is perfectly fulfilled by our Lord. It removes sin once and for all while cleansing the conscience. This new covenant opens up access to God for all people who trust in Him by faith. The driving motivation for this new covenant is God’s powerful love, His grace, and the desire to restore people into His families He loves dearly. This new covenant makes God’s forgiveness of sin possible and eternal life to all placing their faith in Jesus Christ. This new covenant opens up the way for all Christian believers to receive the promised gift of the Holy Ghost fullness of power with fire from the Lord. Have you responded? Is there someone you need to inform of this great offer to enter into covenant with Christ and receive His power gift of fire to be witnesses for Him?
If your answer is yes, rise up and test yourself and experience the refreshing of a radical change of invigoration from the reformation taken place in your life.
Remain excited and thoroughly revived the improvement has made you stronger and wiser in all that pertains to life and godliness to continue your great and profound work of making disciples for Christ and His kingdom on earth. Never venture to think this reformation for improvement is just for ordained leaders and the five-fold ministry gifts. To all Spirit-filled believers who love the Lord and are set on fire for Him, you are empowered to do kingdom work by the leading of the Holy Spirit. How difficult can it be to ask someone, “Are you saved, do you have the free gift of salvation?”
The answers will be yes or no. If the answer is, “I don’t understand,” it’s your great opportunity to explain and introduce Jesus to a dying world in love, mercy, goodness, and peace. They will love it and come back for more in pursuit of this reformation for a changed life. But, Jessie why all this? Because “righteousness and peace have kissed, and the father wants to pour down blessings on you” (Psalms 85:10, KJV). The world should be seeing the church from a different point of view than what most of them see now. Not weak and powerless, defenseless, and spiritually handicap but as the unconquerable, able-bodied, mighty, vigorous, authoritative, and effective church exemplifying the God they serve and follow. There are some, walking into the church called, sleepy, hollow, and walking out yawning and sleepy, not on fire for the Lord. This is not what the perfect and powerful God has for His set-apart people He loves so much He gave His power to the church. The church must be found abounding in all that’s contained in him. Therefore, you must wake up, take the limits of God, and meet the day full of power and authority to give salvation help in building up the body of Christ to do a great work for Him.
Chapter 32 b
The Fleshly Life Tested by Fire For some, the unbroken soul is continuously being asked, “Now do you have a desire for the Holy Ghost fullness of the power gift with the presence of fire from God?” The fullness of the power is the condition of being full in various senses of the Word of God.
They say, “No, I haven’t heard of such a thing.”
This word “fleshly” is the opposite of spirituality; it’s carnal. It is more in tune to carnality and sensuality. To be carnal simply mean not spiritual, to be sensual is telling you one is absorbed in the life of the senses, indifferent to intellectual and moral interests. They are destitute of spiritual life, worldly and irreligious, not holding religious beliefs. This has been the status quo of all humans before we came to know God as head of our lives. It means one is highly fond of their independence: what I want, when I want it, and how I want it. I don’t need this God of yours to tell me how. I am a Christian, I believe in God, and that’s as far as I want to go. Therefore, the soul or mind is unbroken and hardened to the leading of the Holy Spirit sent from God. The “unbroken soul” is not broken or infringed upon, it’s totally unviolated by the God they cannot see or hear. It is sealed and hardened in stone and not broken; nor is it tested and tried by the fire of God. Now everyone sees why the Bible says that it’s not good for the soul to be without knowledge; it struggles and fights against God’s way. “The carnal mind is at enmity with God” (Romans 8:7, KJV). I declare and decree this coming year 2021 to be “the year of change,” when many will die to the life of the flesh. Those whose eyes have been opened to see the Lord high and lifted up on His throne, causing them to conclude they are not the greatest, there is a God greater than they are. They need His guidance. There has to come a shifting from a selfish independence to depending on Him for sustaining life. (See it in, Isaiah 6:1-5, KJV.) The purifying coals of fire are implicated in purging the unclean lips. Then comes a godly reverence to Him, self-abasement, glorifying God, when illumination comes in the soul from seeing Him in His glory and splendor, the magnificent God He is.
The Saved Remnant
The left-over remnant is satisfied and know how to stay filled. Surely you can say, “My life has been tested by fire, and I came out of the fire as pure gold.” The fiery trials came to season you, it brought some correction in your life in building you up, making you strong, anointed, and sure of who you are in Him. In the Levitical law, every animal sacrifice had to be sprinkled with salt. When done in the country where I was born, it was to inform the people of the goodness, sweetness, and its acceptability to be consumed by them. But it had to be roasted by prolonged exposure to heat or laid on top of a burning fire. Spiritually, every follower of God must be “salted with fire.” Are you now an acceptable offering to God, salted with fire? Many can respond with “yes,” some will say, “not yet,” but I know it will be soon rather than later.
For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.
Mark 9:49-50, NKJV
Salt without a taste to it is worthless. What does it mean to taste something? It is the act of tasting or perceiving the flavor of a thing with the organ of taste. You are looking for a certain flavor. So it is with the Christian believer. God wants to see the results of a tested life, so should you. You like and appreciate what you experience, when you see and feel the good qualities, the mannerisms, the harmonious and beautiful natures and spirits of excellence in others, you enjoy exuding from them perceived by the gift of discernment. Nothing could be in better taste than a believer with salt in themselves, a spirit of warm love, kindness, gentleness, and peace with one another. All these attributes abound in him in abundance to you.
Cleansing by Fire
God has got a holy remnant of people in Zion today with an entitlement of oil reserved for them, those who have had their spiritual renewal by cleansing for religious reform. They are being anointed with fresh oil by a fresh infilling of the Holy Ghost fire for renewal of strength when they become exhausted, used up and drained. God knows you can’t fight battles in your own strength, which is why you are required to have mandatory, frequent infillings to be endowed with renewed strength in mind, thoughts, and body. Can you say now, “God has refined me as silver is refined and tested me as gold is tested”? Sure you can. In your furnace of afflictions, you called on His name and He answered with His promise to you. You have the proof of your faithfulness and prayerfulness to God, you are thoroughly convinced in your spirit He answers prayers in your due season. The fire has been and always will be your purifier. Your life is tested and so is your spiritual work. May there be no spiritual loss found with you on that day when He comes again for His Church that is without spot or wrinkle. Your foundation will be strong and sure in Him. Tell your story. When the lives of others are being tested, they will know what God can do.
Your Genuine Faith
Your genuine faith has kept you and preserved you for such a time as this.
That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
I Peter 1:7 NKJV
Do you see it? Your life was tested, and your faith is tested in the spiritual refining process. The afflictions, testing, and fiery trials of serious Christians are appointed for the trials of your faith and not for your destruction. Simply see yourself as being on probation and the test, all the good that’s in you will come to the surface during the testing process of your faith. The Savior Jesus Christ is praying for all those going through the test that their faith doesn’t fail them. Faith that has been tried is much more precious than gold tried in the fire. Your faith has been tried by the Holy Ghost power with fire through the principles of the living Word of God. While you are surviving in the fire, He’s giving you a new make-over of tough skin. At the same time, you are studying the Word, in fact, eating/consuming it, and calling on God to do a complete work in you. While going through for your breakthrough, you learn gold is the most valuable and durable of all the metals--so is faith among the believing Christian virtues. It is long lasting until you reach heaven’s doors. Gold doesn’t increase and multiply by the trials and testing by fire, it becomes less of what it is or should be. But your faith is established and multiplied by the trials and testing of afflictions and other unscrupulous things. Your faith doesn’t get weaker; it becomes stronger, it should when you keep your mind focus on Him. Many believers have learned gold eventually perishes but their faith will never cease to exist.
New Found Hope
The Bible says,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
I Peter 1:3, NKJV
Perhaps you can say, I believed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Therefore, if I received a living hope from the living Word of God, so can you. Now for one more quick run before the end comes. Jesus came and took the veil of darkness off the heart, opening up the mind with the surgical procedure of His Spirit on the souls of His people. He is the one with access to your spirit to bring about a real immediate change, from not being very keen in the things of the spirit to a sharp intellect with clarity, clever, smart, and bright in the thought life. Many have said, “I am a good person, you know.” Even good people need to have their understanding opened. Be encouraged, in this hope the veil had to be removed from off the eyes and heart to believe in Him for understanding of the scriptures. The Holy Spirit comes into the soul by the doorway of grace through faith. Not that you may be wise above what is written, but that you may be wiser in what is written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Holy Bible. The book many people use for manipulation. Will you allow your desire for the Holy Ghost fullness of power with fire entrance into your human spirit with absolute power over it? He gives hope, through it you will receive unspeakable joy, as your proof for the hope that is in Him. Let your faith in God be your desire accompanied by expectation for the fulfillment of a thing.
A New Anointing
You are not forbidden to possess His authority; a new anointing is upon you now to walk in it with His permission and endowment in the fullness of His gift of fire. The Word of God in your mouths is alive and full of invigorating power. The continual cycle of defeat in the body of Christ has been broken by the savior, but it must be received by faith. The ones that were once unstable and not ready yet are now ready to take part in God’s work. There should never be a desire to go back to the old way again. When God wants to move you forward to a fresh new thing with a new charge under a new anointing. Rise up and walk into a new dimension of God’s favor on your life. Do not let your fears keep you from your future. With your heart’s desire and great opportunities looming ahead, you are embarking upon a new season of change with a new anointing to do the new thing God wants to do in and through you. His Word is so powerful;
it’s provoking you to action now, empowering you with the desire to do kingdom work. It’s time to take the limits of God and be who you are called to be. Pick up your confidence, trust, faith, and your belief in the only true and living God who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, and above you are able to ask or think according to the Holy Ghost power and fire that is working in you. Get up and beware of the orators, political leaders, who gain power and popularity by arousing the emotions, ions, and prejudices of people to gain a foothold on the unbroken soul. If it’s unbroken, it is still intact; it will follow after anything or anyone, even the liar-chief running rampant on the earth seeking whom he may devour. Tell that lying spirit where its destiny is. It’s coming up in the next chapter. Don’t forget to speak these words loud and clear, and the enemy to your soul will hear it: “The fullness of time is the destine time for me to be endowed with power from on high and I claim it by faith in the source of power God Himself.”
A Pleasantly Tested Life
They have an agreeable spirit when in agreement. They carry the odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to God. It’s a mandatory must have for life in the Spirit. Everyone loves being in their presence, partaking of the nature, and character of such a person gleaning from their spiritual refining experience, basking in the love, blessings, and protection of God together. There is never anyone running away from you. When they see you coming, they run to you. You carry the fragrance symbol of God’s presence and power. You have heard His voice and still do hear it. Out of heaven, He let you hear His voice and see things in the spirit realm you have never seen before that He might instruct you with an explanation of what it mean. You claim Him now as your divine teacher who instructs you in the way you should go. He has shown you His wonders. He has baptized you with the Holy Spirit and fire that was promised. A stranger’s voice you will not follow.
The Baptizing Fire
The pure fire of God makes you clean, and the principles of the living Word for you to live by is true. Therefore, the words of God are trustworthy and honest words for the believers and are pleasant to the ears of others. The Bible says, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” (Matthews 5:8, KJV). There is great power and fire in this biblical, fundamental truth given here. Much attention was given in the Old Testament regarding ceremonial purification and external moral lifestyle. (See Exodus 33:20, KJV.) The purity of heart begins with those whose hearts are released and discharged from an evil conscience to an inward knowing of right and wrong, and a liberation from dead works. The gift of the fire that cleans you is for you to see God. Do you see Him now? With the veil removed, sins purged, and the heart illuminated with the light of God shining bright from within. The vision from God becomes clear with the inner man in harmony with God. He sees you for who He wants you to be in Him, and you are grasping hold of who you are in Him and not a copy of someone else. You as well as everyone who believe by faith are changed into His image and likeness. Your challenge now is to “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man can see the Lord” (Hebrew 12:14, KJV). Let this be in your heart, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord and behold His face in righteousness. King David said, “I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness” (Psalms 17:15, KJV). A heavenly vision of Him is destined to bring satisfaction deep within the heart, while looking towards heaven we know to be the hereafter.
Time Wasted, Time Lost
The time you have now, don’t waste it. Give it to the Lord. There’s work to be done, the fields are white, and the laborers are scarce. Get up, sow the fields, plant the seed of the Word in good ground, many times another will water your seed sown. The objective is to see life spring forth in the Holy Spirit, full of power and fire. A life that has been tested in the fire is a person God can use for His glory. Spend some valuable time making known the way of life to others on the earth. You won’t need this in heaven. The words you speak to others are “Spirit” and “life” when you let the Holy Spirit in you communicate to the souls of others through you. Be confident the words of the Bible you speak with understanding are Spirit in the highest sense and not in the lowest sense of the
word. When they exit your mouth, they affect others as the power and presence of fire falling upon them, causing an exhilarating reaction. Certainly, they are not mere flesh. It’s up to you to be sure of your God who lives in you. Speak the truth so others can live by the leading of the Holy one in you. Will you let Him light up their lives and rekindle His powerful fire in many who have grown cold without it? Give the Word to them in plainness of speech for clear understanding. Granted, there will be someone who, no matter what you say, will not believe. What you must do is shake the dust of your feet and keep your life mobile, inspiring, and motivating in the Holy Ghost and fire you desired and now have. What you have gained has become their loss. What can be done about that? Nothing! It’s up to God to change hearts and minds. You are just His anointed instrument He uses to draw people to Himself. Think on this, the Holy one in you is faithful, therefore, you can be devoted, and unwavering to the cause believing trusting by faith, there should come a mighty change in the souls of many.
Chapter 33 b
The Supernatural God of Fire There are many Christian believers who now possess what they prayed and waited for. Be advised, it is the Baptizing fullness of the Holy Ghost power gift of fire. They are blessed, jubilantly happy, and pleasingly pleasant, inspiringly knowledgeable to be in possession of it. If you haven’t received it simply go back to your manual the Holy Bible. There are some like Moses who are running from something and some who are running from God, and some are doing a sprint towards God. Moses was running from a murder he committed to save one of his people. He ultimately ran into God unexpectantly.
The time has come, and the God you are avoiding is saying, “Your time is up for trying to escape the call on your life.” Enough running is enough He is pulling the reign on you drawing you to Himself. I it, not everyone has the same calling, there are different gifts but different istration. Everyone possesses a gift to do something in the body of Christ. Why sit there until you die, doing nothing? Rise up and do something and stop being in denial of your gift. Say no more you don’t know what your gift is. If you didn’t know it, God doesn’t believe in leaving His people in the dark. Ask, seek, and knock, and you will receive your answer.
Reflection Time
The years, times, and life of Moses were divided into three forties: the first forty was spent as a prince in Pharaoh’s court. The second, a shepherd in Midan, the third a king in Jeshurun. He had finished the second forty when he received his calling to deliver Israel out of Egypt’s bondage. Now it’s your time to reflect back on your life’s journey. Some of you will say, “Well Jessie, I have been going back and forth working two jobs to make ends meet. I haven’t found the time for God in my life.” Another would say, “I am too tired when I get off work to give Him some of my time.” The lady said, “I have been procreating babies for the last several years, haven’t had time for God or anything else, I don’t have
a job and don’t want one, I can do better on welfare, what are you talking about a job? No job here there never will be one.”
A man stood up with, “I have been running from God for the last forty years and haven’t got tired yet.” But I say unto you, “You can run but you can’t hide your time is up now! It’s your time to run into His loving arms of goodness and mercy, His goodness is your rightful possession, His mercy you didn’t deserve and yet you have it extended to you.” May He do to you what He did to me. That is, call you by your name. He never stops calling you by your name when He desires your attention to serve Him in some way. He is speaking to you in season and out of season.
The Supernatural God
God knows how to authorize the believer in Him with His super on their natural body to enlist their attention to do what He told them to do. He did it to me; you are not exempt. He knows how to introduce His power; you cannot do anything about it but answer, Here I am Lord, send me. He appeared in His light of glory in a burning bush to Moses. What a grand introduction, Moses saw that bush burning but was not consumed. Take off your shoes, the ground where you stand, Moses, is holy ground. It was too holy for dirty shoes on a man’s feet who didn’t know Him. He saw no living person, but God’s voice was in the bush speaking to him in the midst of the flames. He knew him and addressed him by name.
An angel appeared in my room, lit in his glorious light of fire, speaking words of peace like an overflowing river unto me, and as quick as he came, instantly he left. If and when God has to get your attention a second time, believe me the second won’t be as great as the first. He is serious about His calling on your life. I was caught in my folding of the hands to sleep in the peace given to me by Him. Early one Saturday morning home alone, He entered the room again with a rushing back and forth sound in and out of the room. My eyes became tightly
shut, my body was paralyzed. I couldn’t move but could hear the sound. When He let me rise up from there, need I say anymore, I was convinced to stop running from Him with my own created excuses He completely ignored.
Yes, He answers by fire in a bush that never stop burning announcing Himself to a man who couldn’t get his words out right. He used an excuse not to lead God’s people out of bondage. He answered me by fire at age sixteen; He sent me into a burning house with flames coming out of the top portion of the door to save a six-month-old baby. I was surely led by the Holy Spirit on that day; otherwise, fear would have taken over my soul. Unafraid, I bowed my head under the flame blasting out of the door to save a baby boy asleep on the bed. Quickly, I caught up the baby in my arms, and, holding Him against my body, ran back out the same billowing fiery door where flames were rolling out fast and furious. God showed me that day what He is capable of doing supernaturally. When I looked at the baby, the skin from His forehead had rubbed off on my clothes which left a small scar on his forehead. As for me, no scars. My nephew and I rejoice today to be alive at age sixty for him and seventy-seven for me. I stood outside on the ground watching the house burn down to dust and ashes. I was the only one there, babysitting the little ones in a huge country house.
The Action Work
The accomplishment of making all things perfect came to an end in six days by the perfect and powerful, omniscience, omnipotent everywhere present God. He accomplished and fulfilled a supremely qualified and finished work that was made perfect. The six days were between the beginning and finishing of bringing the world to completion. Reflect on something you have brought to completion and are proud of. Share it with someone to encourage them. The supernatural God of fire is above nature transcending the power or the ordinary course of nature. He has all knowledge and yet He is pleased and excited about a completed work. Are you pleased? You didn’t run out of energy, courage, faith, and quit before your project or work was finished. It encourages you more just knowing you are like Him; you have the breath of His life in you by the Holy
Ghost fullness of the power gift of fire. He stood the course and finished what He started, so can you. He has your back as your rearguard. Because He is supernatural, He empowers you to do the impossible.
Miraculous Ability
Many are suddenly energetic with strength and courage to do the extraordinary achievements for God when He anoints you with spiritual power with fire. You are not afraid, and He can trust you with the presence of His fire. Every supernatural act is time for perfection by the all-powerful God to do great unbelievable things above measure, above nature, for His miraculous ability you can’t give nature credit for it. It’s all about His anointing power gift of fire upon the natural carnal mind. The pestilences which desolated nations were referred to as supernatural powers by the great and awesome God, creator of heaven and earth. He is the perfect and powerful miracle-working God who looks down from heaven, He steps down from His throne in heaven to create the earth and everything in it. After creating man who sinned against Him through an act of disobedience in rebellion. Here God comes walking through the garden in the cool of the evening. Now , no one has ever seen God and lived. But His voice is heard because He is the supernatural working miracles on the natural. The unseen God came on the scene with the big question for the hour. “Adam where are you?”
This same question is being asked today. What will your answer be? May it never be the words of Adam; see it in the book of Genesis. It is the Almighty perfect and powerful God; the time for chastisement had come. Your challenge is to take courage and, “Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; But rather fear him which Is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell” (Matthew 10:28, KJV). The Bible also said, “If you will diligently obey the Lord your God being careful and do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth” (Deuteronomy 28:1, NASB).
The God of our salvation makes it conditional upon you if you can hear His voice and obey what you hear. You will be exalted in Him above measure. However, it’s all for His glory, no matter what is done in His name, great or small.
The savior’s miraculous power exceeds all the power on earth, none can compare to the Father’s Son sent to earth to redeem man. The triune God created all things, by Him do all things exist. Miracles are done by the special divine intervention of Jesus Christ. Chiefly, an act of healing or His exhibiting control over the laws of nature when He speaks peace to the winds and the waves, and they obey His voice, as must you and I. He is divine and specially favored by God the Father. Who do you know on earth that does this: “A nobleman said: ‘Sir come down before my child dies!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go your way your child lives’” (John 4:49-50, NKJV). How easy and simple it was to work a miracle. He sends His Word and heals them to work a miracle. It’s extraordinary, marvelous, and astonishing. It’s not you doing the miracle, it’s God. Give Him the glory. We must never get so caught up that we would give man the glory for the miraculous, like the people did at Solomon’s porch. They began referring to them as: a god from another universe. Beware and be humble, never take the glory that belongs to God. He deserves the glory, honor, and the praise.
Your Timing is Now
Rise up! O mighty Christian believers in God filled with the fullness of the Holy Ghost power gift with the presence of fire. It’s time to lay down your fears and phobia trusting in God to do supernatural miracles in your life and the lives of others. Ignore those quick to inform you healing miracles are not happening today. You know better than that. When God says its time, believe Him; His timing is everything. You who believe God is a powerful God, ready to heal and mobilize into action. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils. Freely you have received, and freely give of your time, effort, and substance. Approximately thirty-five years ago, my sister Shirley was hospitalized in University Hospital Baltimore M.D. She was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm.
Blood was flowing rampant throughout her brain. Surgery was scheduled for early Monday morning, I flew in late that Sunday evening I was taken to the hospital to pray the prayer of faith over her, “commanding the blood to dry up in Jesus’ name.”
God did it. On Monday morning the doctor took another test and had to cancel the surgery because the blood was completely dried up. This is a portion of abounding in the abundance of your heart’s desire, that is the fullness, of God’s power. I was with my sister for a few days when she asked me to go with her over to a friend’s house. I well going up those narrow stairs to the second floor. There lay a young man on the bed. We prayed, God healed him, and he still lives today. There was a lady in the Church where I was first licensed to preach the Gospel, after the service I was asked to pray for her surgery--“a tumor removal” scheduled for the next day. Jesus cursed the fig tree, and we cursed that tumor. When the doctor took it out the next day, it was dried up and flat as a pancake. Off course, God had already done a similar work in me as it pertains to tumors in my body. Except the doctor found a hidden sack filled with multiple cysts behind the large tumor, not seen on x-rays or testing. However, they were dried up too and unable to live! One day my husband and I were sitting in the doctor’s office, and he was on the phone talking to another doctor, saying she, meaning me Jessie, has enough Lupus in her body to kill a horse. Apparently, that horse is dead by now, and I am delighted to be alive in the land of the living. You see me here, don’t you? Giving God all the glory, honor, and praise forever more!
There are many souls waiting on you in fact. The whole creation is groaning for you to be birthed into the kingdom of God and His righteousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Ghost baptizing power of fire! Your elder brother Jesus Christ ed that gift onto many of you, be free to use it when needed to bring glory in the earth, through supernatural impartation. Teach, preach, and simply share the glorious words of life. The word impart illumination in their soul. Let them know, they can be partakers in His power. Everyone in the sphere of your influence should be able to live in the supernatural, miracle working power of God. Let no one talk you down from your calling. Do your part in battling and building up the kingdom and the body of Christ, tell the story of how you
overcome through the power of Jesus who walk the earth as a man and as God. I give to some and present to others the old-rugged cross for you and me. They beat Him and put a crown of thorns on His head. They made Him carry His cross up the Dela-Rosa road to Golgotha. He never said a word. You will find Him in the book called the Bible. He never wrote a book, He is the book, the Word was walking and still is walking around the world over land and seas in the hearts, and hands of many. Who wouldn’t serve a God like this? He lives in you as Christ in me, the hope of glory, while sitting on the right hand of the Father interceding for His people. He achieved His work on earth as the supremely qualified savior He professed to be, and we know Him to be. He brought it to completion and concluded with it is finished. Will you be able to say something similar to this? Created in His image and likeness, we can do this together. Say no more, I can’t. You have His supernatural protection under the covering of His precious shed blood. Be encouraged and inspired to carry the supernatural anointing with fire everywhere you travel over land and seas, nothing shall be impossible with Jesus on your side. O but Jessie, I don’t want to suffer like He did. Then it means you don’t want to reign with Him. Be advised, your God wants you to know, if you suffer with Him you will reign with Him, no suffering, no reigning. If it’s alright with you to sit idle, doing nothing and watching others taking up their cross and following Him, that’s between you and God. Know that it’s never too late to make a quality decision to go to the cross and die spiritually to your carnal self life, and seek what He desires of you. It is a mandatory thing for all believers in Christ.
The Idle Empty Mind
Never let your mind be a playground for nonsense and become the devil’s workshop. Guard your mind and heart with all diligence in them; you have life more abundantly. Consistently repeat this: I have the mind of Christ Jesus, I have yielded my mind to His mind, I will have good thoughts abilities and strength to be an effective witness for Him, winning souls and more. I will keep my mind filled with the Word of God, speaking it, living it, and teaching others to do the same. I declare and decree, my thoughts, purpose, desires, and intentions, thinking and feelings keeps my moral disposition intact. My direction and thoughts must line-up with the words of Christ. I will keep my attention fixed on
Jesus and the higher calling He has for me. The state of my thoughts and feeling as they relate to dejection and rejection will be focused on the fortitude and firmness of unshakable faith and belief in the fullness of the Holy Ghost power with fire Jesus has endowed me with. I will always be conscious of where I have been, where I am going, and the purpose for why I do what I do. My mind is the faculty of thoughts, with the Holy Spirit as my comforter, leader, and adviser. My mind is bent on directions of thoughts; it keeps me safe in the soundness of mind. It cannot and will not become mentally deranged. When I cannot something, I will ask the Holy Spirit in me to bring things to my remembrance.
Rise up and declare: I will let the supernatural mind be in me that was also in Christ Jesus.
What better mind to have than this if you want it. He always debunked what the enemy spoke to His soul. He went several rounds with the devil in Luke 4. You don’t have to pay a fee to read about that fight in the ring; the savior Jesus Christ never gave up. Every time Satan threw an “if then” statement at Him, Jesus would hit Him again with the Word, and they went back and forth as the battle continued for forty days. Most battles in the ring last ten rounds. For your information, the savior Jesus Christ won the battle for the mind, He gave us the same ability and authority to keep the devil on the run. When you know who you are and whose you are he will tremble when you get up. Always hit him with the word it has power in it. It’s an example for you and I to follow.
Chapter 34 b
The Lake of Fire Closes the Book Those who have desired and received the fullness of the baptism power gift with the Holy Ghost and fire, what you are about to read does not apply to you if you have stayed the course in Christ. It applies to those who have rejected God’s free gift of salvation and don’t believe there is a God who created all things and by Him do all things consist. Some suffer from lack of understanding while others seemingly don’t care. Their desire is to burn in the lake of fire throughout eternity. There is a contrast between, overcomers and unbelievers.
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Revelations 21:7-8, NKJV
Those lives characterized as these are cast into the lake of fire because they have shown themselves to be unbelievers. They don’t mind burning in Hell throughout eternity without ever receiving mercy from the eternal God.
The Overcomers Reward
Overcomers are God’s sons and His spiritual heirs; should be, and I believe they are endowed with the fullness of all that is contained in Him, abounding in the abundance of God’s power. These carry the anointing of the Holy Spirit and fire of God with vigor. They humbly possess the entitlement from their master to wear the white robe of righteousness after their work is done on earth. On your
way forward fill with the fullness of God’s fire, power, and authority share the good news. Show your love, and care for others while you are doing a great work. Will you stop what you are doing! And ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to someone who is on their way down to the lake of fire that burns forever. Ask them this question, “Do you really know there is a difference between an overcomer and an unbeliever?” Regardless of their confused answer, proceed to give them a quick lesson on the two, it may be their last chance to make a quality decision on which way to go.
The Overcomers Win
Heaven is the home for the overcomers who have conquered the world and what it has to offer. It is those that are possessors of the baptizing power gift of the Holy Spirit fullness of God in them. Those who won the battle for the mind in every contest or struggle and gain the victory. These are they who over-power, exhaust, and render the fleshly mind helpless from control. They are the ones who bring under control, dominate, and possess their carnal minds, bringing it under subjection to the power of the Holy Ghost and the living Word of fire. The believers rise above and go beyond obstacles, to prevail over their circumstances to gain the better of them and rise above every difficulty. They are the ones who mount upon and get on top of the circumstances of life. They have reached the point of never returning back to the bondage of sin again. They are running and not fainting in the present battles of life reaching back with a helping hand to others along the way.
The Mansion in the Sky
In this mansion are many rooms; it never runs out of rooms, for all who elect to go there. It’s in this place we know and believe as heaven. The believers have looked away from everything that would distract them aiming their focus high on Jesus, who is the author and finisher of their faith. He’s the one who brings their faith to a mature state. Heaven bound is their ultimate destiny. They may
have fallen in the battle but not conquered, overcome by sickness but not defeated. They got exhausted sometimes and came aside to rest on their journey, but they never give up, they always rise up again and kept their lives moving forward. They never got overconfident their incentive was to continue trusting in the Lord. All of the way, all of the time, until eternity rolls.
But the stubborn, head-strong unbeliever with a determine mind in denying there is a God doesn’t have a yearning for the in-filling of God’s gift of fire power. God is giving them time by waiting for them. Didn’t He wait for you? He waited for me also. They can be convicted by the drawing of the Holy Spirit.
The Great Consoler
The Great Consoler comforts His followers and professes Himself as the way, the truth, and the life. His words seal the truth in the heart. “Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:1-2, NKJV). Jesus Christ, who sympathize with you, is quieting, calming, soothing, and comforting you now, empowering you with spiritual composure couple with faith in His promises from the affliction in the soul. Will you let this be your preparation for your heavenly home and citizenship in glory, the mansion in the sky? I have never been there, but I believe in it and you can too.
The Heavenly Expectation
Heaven is God’s throne the earth is His footstool. If you present it, maybe someone will listen. Claim it as your home where you are going when your time comes to leave the earth. Several years ago, on one of my trips to Israel, we took a boat ride over to the Isle of Patmos. What a great and awe-inspiring time it
was. we visited the room where John had a vision of the throne room of heaven. There he saw God’s throne and its beautiful surroundings. The control center of heaven’s historical origin. His testimony is this:
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.” Immediately, I was in the Spirit, and behold a throne set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones, I saw twentyelders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads…
…the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne saying: “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by your will they exist and were created.”
Revelation 4:4,10-11, NKJV
Surely, He is worthy to receive glory and honor here on this great earth. Ask God to open up His magnificent, heavenly revelation, spiritual receptivity, and understanding of His divine worthiness and His great glory for a greater godly reverence in your life. The glory of His mighty and powerful throne is of jasper, rainbows, and emeralds--the appearance of Christ. You are encouraged to read the entire book of Revelations. While you are enjoying the pure essence it has to offer you, inhale and exhale the exhilaration and exhortation for your inspiration. Indeed, you are moved by the fullness of the Holy Spirit’s infilling. You are encouraged to give to the God of Holiness, righteousness joy and peace, glorious praise, and worship.
Worthless Flesh Fire
This is a hard word for some. I believe, many believers should quit basing the fire of God against their flesh fire. The flesh fire is a fire they created, they got in the flesh trying to make something happen God didn’t use them to do. This trickery is to convince the innocent that God did it. I spoke about it in chapter two. False prophets who do and say things, using trickery to deceive the innocent is not of God. I didn’t share this to get your mind off balance in fear but to encourage you to sharpen your discernment and you won’t be tricked by the worthless flesh fire. Study it for yourself (II Chronicles 18:10-27, KJV). God put a lying spirit in the mouths of the prophets. They tell the innocent what they know they want to hear by prophesying lies. But Micaiah, a true prophet, believed in speaking and prophesying truth. Beware, be warned, and discern truth from error.
The Church’s Victory
This is a shared vision everyone has a part to fulfill before departing this world. I repeat, this is the end of the beginning. The end of what you began prior to today. You are reaching that end with joy, to pursue your next forward moving beginning, a season you don’t want to miss. The new thing is a great manifestation of the anointing of the smeared oil of the Holy Spirit and fire flowing out of your belly upon many of God’s people. It will perfect a supernatural change in your movement, location and a shifting and repositioning from one place and position to another. Your preparation has empowered you to walk in the overflow of this great manifested authority and power. Encourage yourselves with this scripture:
In this freedom Christ has made us free (and completely liberated us); Stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery (which you have once put off.
--Galatians 5:1, AMP
This is your call to liberation from the bondage of the law. You are under the covenant of grace the empowerment to keep you standing fast and focused on the Lord and who you are in Him. The fire of God is on you too, back up and start now. You will reach the utmost height of your calling in Him, which is the hope of His manifested glory.
A Divine Appointment
Divine appointment with destiny is upon you. God is making a way where there is no way in sight. Your victory is His will for you. You have learned how to stand enduring the heat of trials, test, persecution, and rejections over every attack the devil launched at you. God used it to grow and season you in Him. Jesus was rejected and didn’t let it stop Him from pursuing his mission and purpose on the earth. Like Jesus, you didn’t spend precious time mourning over rejection by others. It’s a waste of time, your time wasted is valuable time lost from reaching your appointed time in God. Better days are upon you. Rejoice, it’s your time to step out in your new beginning of the end-time fullness of the Holy Ghost power with fire. Your Father wasn’t just keeping you alive and well for no reason, He was preparing you to live in a victorious life of service in complete devotion to Him.
A Heavenly Mind-Set
There is no looking or turning back. Look up, your redemption draws neigh. “Now, may the Lord God of your father make you a thousand times so Many more as you are and bless you as he has promised” (Deuteronomy 1:11, KJV).
Your desire must be full throttle ahead in the fullness of the principles of the living Word of fire in God with daily applications. You have reached your ultimate desired end. When your work is complete and you take your last breath, one thing should matter that your name is written in the Lamb’s book of life. You are looking forward to your heavenly home, gates of pearls, streets of gold where there is Hallelujah! Praise the Lord Jehovah all the time. May you say, “Hello heaven, here I come to live in my second home with my God and Father.” The desire for the fullness of the power gift with the fire of God has been fulfilled in your life. You believe you received and have met the condition of containing in abundance all that is expressed in Him. You did all He put your hands to with joy, and your soul is satisfied. You believe, you kept the faith, and you fought a good fight to finish strong in Him. You are jubilantly elated, and God is pleased as well. Your desire for the fullness of the Holy Ghost with the presence of fire were fulfilled in your life. Jehovah God your righteousness welcomes you with open arms into your new home in glory. To those who are still here, your desire is His desire as long as it pertains to all He has for you to abound in His abundance.