Holy Fire

How hot shall we make the fire?

Seven times hotter said Nebecenzza when his will (the will of the emperor god) was defied by three Jewish exiles (slaves). 

I guess He was a little bit ticked off!

Keep thinking about the contrast in status between an emperor and a slave.

Is not our God Truly the only Emperor worthy of worship? The name emperor does't amply discribe Him because an Empire is just a portion of the earth or just earth (antichrist will rule all the earth). God rules all the Heavens and the Earth. No king has ever come close to his supreme majesty, nor will any in the future. He is God alone and there is no other. So high is He that he is almost unknownable. And he was largely unknown in the Old Testament except by the prophets, to be Truly known God had to come down and live amongst us, He did this in His Son.

Then The Lord also disappeared again (after redeeming the world) up to the highest heavenly realm. But He said that we are now better off since he returned to the Father, because now is the Age of the Holy Spirit being poured out on all flesh!

Young men see visions and old men dream dreams!

His spirit is no longer given to just a few Jewish witnesses Adam, Noah, Abraham....Moses.....Samuel.....David.....Christ. Abraham is the father of many now because his faith has been given to Gentiles by the Holy Spirit. The increase in the Kingdom of God since pentacost has been expodential! And still is despite the apostasy of the west, it is the time of the east to shine now, many wonders are occurring there and this is now the forefront of the battle. The devil is largely reclaiming the west but the Glory of God  still lives in a sprinkling of light, little pockets of Holy fire. 

But how hot shall we make the fire!! Shall we call down fire??? How can we cause this fire to sweep across our nations again?

Our father in heaven is still very hard for our minds to comprehend. What exactly is He???? A spirit.Yeah but what is that? How much do we really understand about who or what or where or how He is????

Almost nothing except what has been written.

He is a unquenchable fire! He is not just a camp fire, No no no, there is nothing hotter than the flame of God, He is a 'refiners fire'. There is nothing in this phyiscal universe that can even exist in His presence because of the heat!!!

The father had to separate himself from His creation to remain. His fire is hotter than Nebecanezza's oven. Seventy seven times hotter! This is the fire that we must call down, can any sin remain in us when this fire lives in our hearts? 

A 'fullers' soap not bathroom beauty bar. God tells us something In these descriptions, a fuller Cleans all impurity's and oils from sheep fleaces. 

Can any stain remain when we a scrubbed with such a vigorous cleansing agent?

All our works will be tested by this fire. Will they be Gold or Silver (metal not destroyed by heat just refined and reshaped.)

Or wood, hay, and stubble ( regularly destroyed utterly by ordinary fires).

The tounges of fire at pentacost where a sign that the men present had instantly been tested by this fire and remained, thus they were made of heavy metal, rare earth, whatever you like to call it they are the good stuff. They where also radically transformed by this process into men of power and faith, where as before they had run before the enemy and denied The Lord. When the holy fire fell at pentacost it swept the world.it came roaring through Jeursalem, Damascus, Ephesus, Antioch ......America, Australia.

There are many bush fires at the moment and most want them to be put out. I want all 'flesh' life to be consumed out if this nation, out of my own wicked heart! 

I want Holy fire to burn in me uncontrolled by my flesh, In fact I don't want my 'flesh' to remain at all it can go with all the other wood, hay and stubble. Turn up the tempreture Lord, may your spirit burn so hot in me the atoms explode!

This is the fire we call down.

This is the spirit we host in our 'temples'.

Come Lord Jesus come!

Who will join me in calling down this fire?

Others see numbers, we see blessings.

The prophets of anti-population have done their work well. 

Our family size has launched out into the great unknown now. We left the ground when we went past three, four was out of the atmosphere, at five we crossed over the lunar zone and at six we left the solar system. Now with number seven bearing down the birth canal we are about to go intergalactic!!!!

When we move about the community in our family group or part thereof we attract attention almost immediately,

 even when wifey has a rare shopping trip alone, people always ask if she is enjoying some 'time to herself' noticing the absence of children almost as much as the presence. But when they look, most onlookers don't see people, they don't see an healthy functioning unit of interconnected relationships. They see a crowd.

They fear us as a 'planet destroying juggernaut' that is consuming air, water and food like a swarm of Loucusts! Not to mention government benefits!

The green eyed monster has gotten a hold of the majority of the population to the point where they are jealous of our carbon footprint!

It's like the earth is a pie, it gets placed on the table and divided up into portions, usually there will be some left over after every body has had a piece. There are some who will be satisfied with their portion. Others will want more still and they will keep a watch on the distribution of the remaining pie. If they feel any injustice has taken place there will be an outcry, and they may want it to appear as if they have no personal interest in what happens to the pie, they are just 'champions for justice' but this thin disguise is easily seen through! 

We meet many 'champions of Justice'.

They hold the high moral ground because the are the majority and in democratic countries the will of the majority is law! Unless you happen to belong to the homosexual minority or the Eco worshiping faux Buddhist minority! Then the will of the minority is law!

But back to the numbers. Are numbers important. We are good for the mathematical skills of the community because as soon as we appear wheels start turning in observers minds and the counters start whirling!

I also speak of number six or seven child, firstborn or middle child.

All these numbering are of great significance to earthly life but are they important to God? Does he inwardly groan at the appearance of yet another swollen belly or howling infant? Does God wish we would just get a TV or 'the snip' like normal people!

If we go back to the pie analogy we who keep a watch on the pie are so concerned only because we know that there will be no more pies a-comin.

Where as this doesn't trouble God I the slightest because if he needs another pie there are plenty more where he got the first one from....

'For He spoke and it came to pass, He opened His mouth and it stood firm!'

God is not limited to a single pie, He has 'pies for Africa' on tap. The only reason we seem to have only this one pie to diviee up is so God can see how well we share and consider our neighbour. In the one pie God has provided enough sustenance for all the creatures that He has willed into existence, yes that's right I just said our children exist according to the will of God, that is if he did not will it they would not exist!

If there is an abundant quantity of pie why do some die of hunger and some grow fat?

Greed and selfishness.

Says the man who just spent enough on a luxury coffee maker today to feed an Indian orphan for four months! (Just so you know I'm not looking down on anyone.)

I pray that someone might gain a new insight into life on this planet as a result of reading this, please Lord make it so, Amen.

Wounded Heart

Today I felt loneliness.

Do you ever wonder what us wrong with yourself? Why do people not notice or seek you out? Why does God just let me be a nobody that it seems people have very little consideration about. A Nothing, I feel like I could disappear tomorrow and hardly be missed????!

I seek the attention and Glory of man that is why.

And God wants my undivided attention that is why.

I have to learn to be content to be a nothing. So that God himself will come to me and He only shall be the One who seeks me out. For thou oh Lord art a sheild for me, My glory and the lifter of my head.  :)

Born Free

As free as the wind blows!

I am a lover of freedom. But I am now a tame tiger, not a wild cat!

Because freedom is always limited. Even the Almighty has limited Himself!!!!!Selah.

We are made in the image of God. Free and powerful. Each one of us has the power of life or death over others at some point in our lives. This is an amazing power and much abused of course. 

If we as free beings contemplating the universe can not reach this conclusion We are fools: "it is God who has made us and not we ourselves!"

All fools are destined to perish.

The universe testifies so loudly that there must be a God that the only way to not hear is to stop listening, stop looking, smelling, touching, tasting, and ultimately thinking!

I pledge my freedom to Father God because he is greater than I. He gave me my life and daily sustains it. He loves my life! He loves me ! I need His love and I can literally can not live without it so I seek it day and night. 

In my freedom I subject myself to the good master. To Persue freedom outside of God is death. Which isn't very free now is it?

Walla walla bing bang

Did you ever stare a an empty page wondering what to write about? I have read about writers block where people who have had terrific output suddenly find their 'inspiration' has gone dry. Has this happened to me? Maybe but I hope only temperarally. 

Like this once abundant land I live in, becoming more waterless as the days go on. Not much to cheer or lift heads here at the moment. A decent shower would do some good but I feel about as keen for that to happen as I was for the All Blacks to win the rugby world cup. I hoped they would be beaten.

Why do I want the drought to continue? Because people need to know where rain comes from!!!

When time stands still

Time. Our ultimate master. We only get the number of ticks on the clock that have been allotted to us.

 Like other things it never seems to come in the right amounts. Either not enough when times are good, or to much when we are suffering or have nothing good to fill our lives. 

Time never seems to be our servant. Same as money, rain, human love and so on.

Time is a cruel master though.

When our time is up there is no recourse but to accept its power over us.

Or is there?

There is a servant that always serves us. Always in the right way, in the right amounts, He is the perfect servant. 

It is His joy to serve us. He asks no wages for His work only our love.

This same servant conquered time for ever in a single moment. An earth shattering, sky darkening, veil tearing, blood dripping moment.

When he became the lamb of God.

All the courses of history past and future came crashing to a Hault. When he became sin for us and took our punishment. 

In doing this The Lord of eternity, opened a door for all men into everlasting joy!!!!

He made an end of sorrow, he destroyed death, he took captivity captive. 

Jesus triumphed over time.

 Time is no longer the master. When we choose to follow Jesus we follow one Greater than time. 

I am so glad about this I will never cease praising Him for it. I will sing His praises for ever and ever and ever, Hallelujah Hallelujah!

positive and negative

It might not rain here all the month of January, so we are informed by the weatherman.
Is this a positive or a negative.

I expressed the fact that we have no guarantee of rain all year when someone asked how I would celebrate News Years Eve. If it doesn't rain all month that is negative but if it didn't rain all year......

And yet I am right we have no guarantee of rain. We presume it will rain because it has in the past. We presume positivity from the elements. We presume rain and we presume fire will not come near our homes, we presume we will survive floods and high winds.

When I made the expression above about to possibility that it might not rain all year and therefore we might have nothing to celebrate (very Eore I know, "its earthquake weather") I was urged to remain positive because the consequences of a negative outlook actually coming to pass are unthinkable.... No body wants to consider the possible ramifications of a rain-less year.

It would mean devastation for us. We would lose our jobs and property. Maybe if we lived in another country our lives.................

I subscribe to a school of thought that has an Absolute authority as its foundation. I believe God is All Powerful and Sovereign over All things including rain wind and fire.

God is merciful so he does send rain or he has in the past. The right amount of rain at the right time  is a blessing from heaven and we presume our blessing will continue.  But if we consider that we have been blessed in the past not because we deserved it but because of the abundance of Gods love and mercy to all men, then we will realize that because of His love and mercy he cannot keep pouring out blessing on undeserving men. He cannot REWARD THE WICKED forever.

there comes a time where God says they are not responding to my blessing so I will have to try cursing. God really has the same adgenda with blessing and cursing. To get all eyes on Him. He desires to be the centre of our lives and if we do not respond to His kindness and be thankful to Him for all the positive things we have received then we will have to experience life on His bad side.....

we fall into shadow, separated from the light of day we enter into the curse of night.....

The right response for Christians living in a community where this is taking place is.............. sorrow and weeping, tearing of clothes and repentance. We need to begin grieving our lost blessing. Just being positive will not change anything, we have nothing to be positive about. It is our own failure to preach and live Christ in our community that has brought this curse to bear. Many people have turned away from God in our town. Who should we blame for this.... Ourselves.

Jesus gave us the job of making disciples of all men, we have failed to do this and now we must bear the consequences.

God will respond to our prayers if we come to him with broken and contrite hearts, he desires to break our pride. so let us be broken friends.............