Consuming Fire... Burn Away... Our desires for everything that is not of you, and is of me...We were called everyday to take up our crosses and follow Jesus, and yet day after day in our lives we turn our backs on God and defile his name.
Having great faith takes time, prayer, study, and hearing God's voice.
Last night I heard a great man of the Lord speaking about hearing the voice of God in our lives.
He has been trying to hear it for almost eight years now, struggling to understand when and how it comes. He said it takes diligent patience and longing to hear the voice of God so much that our heart aches when we don't hear it. We act like it doesn't matter in our lives because we just block him out after Sunday and the occasional in the middle of the week service. We need to long for him, praise him for what he has done and hope that maybe we can here that still small voice through all of the noise we have in our lives everyday.
Elijah had so much faith in God that he called down a fire from heaven, knowing in his heart that it would happen because he believed in God that much.
Elijah let the holy fire of God burn away the excess in his life, can we?
Are we ready to lose ourselves to live for God?
Are we ready to come into such a fellowship with God that the things of the Earth just fade away from our lives and we become eternity focused?
I know that I am.
So I say bring on the holy fire...
It could be the best thing to ever happen to me
