The Fire and Wood

Fire needs fuel to feed on; that is a fact we know...it isn't rocket science as they say. We also know that all life depends on heat and in order to have heat you must have fire. The sun for instance is a great ball of fire, fierce, self consuming fire. Nobody knows what the source of the sun's flame is but what we do know, we take for granted and that is that without it ...there would be no life. The fact is all life depends on light and heat for existence. The Bible says that the sun will last forever, does it not? In the heavenly city there will not be need for the sun because the Lamb is the light. PTL! Rev. 21:22 & 23, "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof."Hebrews 12:29, ""For our God is a consuming fire." We will worship like they do in heaven when we get there and that is continually. The fire at the Altar of Sacrifice never went out, the priest made sure of it and even took coals of fire to the Altar of Incense....God started the fire at the Brazen Altar which the priests took and carried to the Altar of Incense in the Fire Pans. The incense must have the fire that God provides..without the fire of God setting our hearts ablaze our prayers will not rise as sweet incense unto the throne of grace..we need the fire of God to set our prayers on fire at the Altar of Incense. Jesus offered Himself on the Altar of sacrifice...He went willingly. He laid down His life to take it up again on the third day because death could not hold Him. Fire is an instrument of God's judgement and Jesus took the judgement and paid the penalty for our sins on the cross.Sin brings judgement, remember God judged Sodom and Gomorrah by fire. There is a story in the book I am reading that the author tells of an airplane flight from L.A. to Toronto where he sat next to an Egyptian man who was a participant in the Six Day war of 1967 and this man related the following story. He said in what was almost a whisper, "There were balls of fire rolling across the Sinai desert. In an attempt to dodge them, our tanks ran into and over our jeeps and other means of warfare. " He went on to say, "Men were killed without an Israeli in sight. These things were not reported to Egypt for it was evidence that a supernatural God was telling us to go no further or He would destroy us." It happened before at the Red Sea and it will happen again as THIS NEW PEACE INITIATIVE PUSHES ISRAEL TO THE BRINK OF ANNIHILATION . I believe the Bush administration is treading on dangerous territory trying to establish a Palestinian state ...we just might see the "Fire of God " in judgement once again. We need to pray for Israel.

The old hymn says "Oh, the fire is burning, yes 'tis burning, burning, oh it's burning burning in my soul" Is the fire burning in yurt soul today?

Only God can ignite that fire; it is not ignited by human means. It requires the Spirit of God. Oh Lord send the fire just now...