EPISODE 455 – BURN LIKE WILDFIRE

Monday 22nd April, 2024

BURN LIKE WILDFIRE

“Do not quench the Spirit”

1 Thessalonians 5:19

Our Lord Jesus didn’t only come to die for your sins; He also brought you His life. He translates you from darkness into the Kingdom of light and transfuses His life into you through the administrative force of the Holy Spirit.

As part of transfusing His life into you, the Lord baptizes you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. To be baptized with the Holy Spirit is to be immersed or submerged into union with the Holy Spirit and with His fire.

You come under the influence of the person of the Holy Spirit and His operative ability.

The impact and influence of the Holy Spirit in your heart is as fire.

Get this: the Holy Spirit is not fire; fire only depicts the character of His influence and operation. Fire is a universal language; everything responds to fire, and nothing denies its impact. No one rejects the benefits of fire. That also gives a picture of the operative influence of the Holy Spirit.

At your new birth, the Lord ignited the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out. (See Matthew 3:11, Message Translation).

This was what happened to the disciples of Jesus on the day of Pentecost. As they obeyed the instruction of Jesus to tarry:

“On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place. Suddenly, they heard the sound of a violent blast of wind rushing into the house from out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear!  Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfed each one of them. They were all filled and equipped with the Holy Spirit and were inspired to speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned!” Acts 2:1-3 (TPT)

The impartation of the Holy Spirit happened to them as of the experience of fire. The influence of the Holy Spirit in your heart will always be as of fire. This is how one can articulate the burning influence of the Spirit.

IT IS AS OF FIRE!

This fire of the Holy Spirit must burn in you if you want to saturate your sphere with the gospel.

It takes the Holy Spirit and fire to be a witness of Jesus.

“But you will receive power and ability when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses [to tell people about Me] both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 (AMP).

When the Holy Spirit came upon you, you received:

1. Power and ability.

2. You were made a witness of Jesus.

God doesn’t send anyone out without His fire burning in him/her.

For Moses to bring deliverance to Israel from Egypt, he encountered the fire of God (Exodus 3).

As part of the Priest’s ministry to God, He has to keep the fire of God’s presence burning on the altar. (Leviticus 6:12)

The fire of God in you is an eternal fire; however, its glow must be intense.

To continue to bless lives and spread the gospel, you must continue to burn.

“Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame…” Romans 12:11 (MSG)

You have to continue glowing with fire, and everyone will respond to you.

It takes the fire of the Spirit burning in you to ignite the Kingdom life within others.

A man of fire is the one who can boldly saturate His sphere with the power of the gospel.

As a beacon of light, you must burn like wildfire!

You glow as you continue to:

–  Pray in the Holy Spirit. Your prayers burn as an incense (Psalm 141:2; Revelation 8:4).

– Meditate on the word of God.

“…HIS WORD was in my heart like a BURNING FIRE shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not… ”   (Jeremiah 20:9)

When this truly happens, you just can’t keep quiet or stop speaking what you have beheld of the Lord. (Acts 4:20)

If you want hearts to burn for Jesus, your heart must always burn for and with Him!

Hallelujah!