FIRE OF THE Holy Spirit
God has called us to experience the
adventure of life in the Holy Spirit. We
all need His fire burning in our
hearts. In fact, Ephesians 5:18 urges us to
be constantly filled with the
Spirit.
So if you hunger for more, you will
be blessed by this teaching, “Fire
of the Holy Spirit.”
The Holy Spirit is not an “optional
extra” for Christians. He is the very
essence of our relationship with the
Father and the only way we can accom
-
plish what God has called us to do.
Our nation needs a move of God, and
you can be part of it.
We have generations of people who
have never expe
-
rienced the Holy Spirit, which is
heart-breaking to me. However, ordinary
people filled with fire can make all
the difference, opening the door for
others to enter the Spirit-filled
adventure of life in Christ’s Kingdom.
For over four decades our ministry
has seen the Holy Spirit radically
transform people’s lives, bodies,
relationships and circumstances. We’ve
FIRE OF THE
Holy Spirit
seen millions set on fire from
above, and we want to see that same fire
released in you.
Now Moses was tending the flock of
Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian, and he led the flock to the
far side of the wilderness and came to
Horeb, the mountain of God. There
the angel of the Lord appeared to him in
flames of fire from within a bush.
Moses saw that though the bush was on
fire it did not burn up. So Moses
thought, “I will go over and see this strange
sight—why the bush does not burn
up.” When the Lord saw that he had gone
over to look, God called to him from
within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And
Moses said, “Here I am.”
“So now, go. I am sending you to
Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites
out of Egypt.” But Moses said to
God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh
and bring the Israelites out of
Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And
this will be the sign to you that it
is I who have sent you: When you have
brought the people out of Egypt, you
will worship God on this mountain.”
Exodus 3:1-4 and 10-12
Your Wilderness in Life – the
Perfect Conditions
to Catch Fire
Notice Moses’ location when he
encountered God’s fire. It doesn’t say that
Moses encountered the fire as he lay
next to a lush green pasture near
a cool bubbling brook of water
surrounded by lilies. Nor does it say he
encountered God’s fire while sitting
in a five-star resort getting a massage.
The Bible says that when Moses
encountered the fire of God, he was in the
desert. The desert is a dry place,
the desert is a thirsty place, the desert is a
lonely place. Yet that is exactly
where God chose to reveal himself to Moses
through the burning bush.
We all go through difficult times;
we all face trials. Maybe even now, as
you read this teaching, you feel
alone without God’s presence. Perhaps
you’re going through the most
challenging wilderness you’ve ever experi
-
enced. I have good news for you: the
drier the wood, the quicker it catches
fire. God’s fire burns the best
during desert seasons.
The Fire Comes First
Notice something else about this
story. Moses’ encounter – in the driest,
loneliest place – was the launching
point for the greatest story of God’s
deliverance and supernatural power
ever recorded in history, before the
cross. God was calling Moses to represent
Him, confront Pharaoh, unleash
the ten great plagues and transform
the Hebrews from a nation of slaves
to a nation of priests. And it all
started right here – at a bush burning in
the desert.
I see an enduring principle here.
Before God sends you to “Pharaoh,”
before He launches you into your
destiny, before He releases you into the
calling for which He made you –
He first sends you to the fire.
The fire always comes first. That
defining encounter with God’s presence
in the wilderness always comes
first. Before His ascension, Jesus com
-
manded His disciples to go to
Jerusalem – and do what? Wait.
Think about this for a moment. These
twelve men were now the most
experienced, trained and qualified
men in things pertaining to Jesus
Christ that have ever walked the
earth. Who else spent three-and-a-half
years, day and night, with Jesus?
Yet He still told them to wait. And wait
for what? “The promise of the
Father.” And what had the Father prom
-
ised? The outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. Jesus knew that those men, if they
were really going to make a
difference in the world, needed the power of
the Holy Ghost. Though their
training was crucial, it was not enough to
fulfill their mission. They needed
the power of God’s fire.
I am convinced that one of the main
ingredients for getting filled with the
Holy Spirit – if not the main
ingredient – is hunger. Just hunger!
You can
be as full of God as you want to be!
Do you want Him today? Are you
hungry for Him today?
Lasting Fire of the Spirit
I remember when I was first filled
with the Holy Spirit as a teenager. That
was over 20 years ago. But I have
good news for you. I’m burning brighter
today than I was back then. And I
believe in another 20 years, I will be
burning even brighter. The fire of
the Holy Ghost never goes out! Some
-
one may ask me,
“How do you keep the fire burning?”
But that’s the
wrong way round. The fire keeps
me
burning.
The Lord spoke to Moses when He saw
him turn aside to see the fire.
People ask me all the time how I
hear God’s voice? Notice that the burn
-
ing bush didn’t start shouting to
Moses as he was walking by on the path
taking care of his sheep. It just
kept burning until Moses turned aside.
The Holy Spirit is patient; He can
wait for a long time. What is He waiting
for? He’s waiting for you to turn
aside and listen.
So Moses turned aside, and the Lord
spoke to him. I don’t know how many
bushes there were in that
wilderness. I assume there were many. But one
thing I do know – there was only one
bush burning with the presence of
the living God.
What is the world looking for? Are
they looking for us to build nicer build
-
ings? Are they looking for us to
have more eloquent preachers? Are they
looking for us to have better music?
Or better marketing programs? What
is it they want? What we think is
relevant to the world is completely
irrelevant. The church has tried to
reach the world by becoming like the
world. We too often refuse to be
distinguished by God’s holy fire. We
won’t confront people for fear we
will offend them. So we try to win them
by becoming like them. But God did
not draw Moses to Himself through a
bush that looked like all the other
bushes. He called Moses through a bush
that burned with the fire of His
presence.
English
June 2016
Postfach 60 05 74
60335 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel
+49 (69) 4 78 78 0
Fax
+49 (69) 4 78 78 1020
info@cfan.eu
www.cfan.eu
What Are You Burning For?
Some of us are way too dignified,
often
caring more about what people think
or how
we look than what God is doing. But
if you
care more about how you look to the
world
than receiving the Holy Ghost, then
you are
not hungry. A hungry man doesn’t
give a
flying leap what anybody else
thinks. He
has one agenda: to get food into his
empty
stomach. And when you’re hungry like
that
for the Holy Ghost, everything else
in your
life will fade into a distant second
place.
You will desire Him more than the
air you
breathe, more than food, more than
dignity,
more than your reputation, more than
your
ministry – more than anything!
Reach out and expect a new touch of
the
Holy Spirit. Ask Him again for His
fire and
allow Him to set you aflame.
He is waiting for you...
Daniel Kolenda
Some people
burn for sports,
some people
burn for
money, some
people burn
for popularity
and power and
sex and style
and fashion.
But everybody
burns for
something.
The difference
between them
and us is that
WE BURN FOR
SOMETHING
THAT
MATTERS!
Comments
Post a Comment