WHY DO WE FEAR THE FIRE OF GOD? - A Prophetic Word

By the Holy Spirit through Mary Lindow

In one of His most confrontational statements Jesus said, 

“I have come to bring fire on the earth.”

There are times in the Scripture in which fire is a symbol of judgment but in the great majority of references fire is used to point out God’s divine presence. His words make it clear that the meaning behind His words, “I have come to bring fire” refers to something more than a cozy flame to cuddle up to!

In this unique statement from Jesus the fire He is speaking of is not literally fire as in flames but a spiritual representation. He is speaking of the burning, exciting, dynamic presence of God in the lives of people. The fire that illuminates His incredible presence, produces unlimited power, burns away the dross and impurities and attracts people to Him.
That is the Fire of God.

THE FIRE OF GOD IS NOT GIVEN TO MAKE US COZY… 

…But holy, and to stir us up. 

When Moses saw the burning bush God first warned him that he was standing on holy ground, and then told him of the great thing He was about to do, to release Israel from the captivity of Pharaoh (Ex 3).

When Isaiah was in the temple and it filled with smoke of the burning holiness of God, his awareness of being unclean came first, before God equipped him to be His messenger. When God’s fire comes to the hearts of men and women their spirits are freed from the awful bondage of idolatry.

When God’s fire comes, the enemy will be destroyed. That is why we should pray,
“O, Lord -send the fire. Your fire. Send your consuming, changing, restoring, victorious fire!”

WE SING ABOUT THE FIRE OF GOD IN MANY OF OUR HYMNS. 

There is a song I have known for years that says,

“Oh, Lord, you’re beautiful. Your face is all I seek. 

For when your eyes are on this child, your grace abounds to me.

O Lord, please light the fire, which once burned bright and clear, 

Replace the lamp of my first love, that burned with holy fear.”

Lord, send your fire! 
May we sense and know Your burning, exciting, dynamic presence in our lives and among Your people.”

“OH HOW YOU FEAR THE FIRE!” - A PROPHETIC WORD

“It is as if you think that I might truly do something unloving to burn you or disfigure you!

I am a God of fire! Yes! But a HOLY fire! 
A fire that burns away wood, hay, and dead scraps lying around 
in your heart. They are littering the places that I want to bring My Glory into!

When My Fire pursues you it drives away any voice or lust or 
any other enemy of your soul!

You will come to a place where 
you no longer need to have the splash of fanfare or the 
rumblings of the earth to know that I Am in your presence!

Instead. 
The Fire brings you to a place just like it did Moses!
 He saw My Holy Fire in a bush on a hill.

I spoke to Him and told Him He was on HOLY ground!

"Is not my word like fire," declares the LORD, 
 

"And like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?”
 Jeremiah 23:29

I was a still, small voice, speaking out from inside of a fire!


Listen! 
I am calling out to you!

Be quiet! 
Silence the noise around you! 


Get quiet with Me. 
Put away the busyness that you get caught up into!

After the “Fire” a still small voice. 


1Kings19: 12

My Passion Fire is calling out to You!

I have things I want to whisper into your spirit-man!


I have words that will sustain you through all of the
 fiery trials and tests you will inevitably pass through!

“If this is so, 
 Then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials.” 
 

2 Peter 2:9

If you want the Fire of I the Living God to be evident
 in your ministry, whether it is in the marketplace, the home,
or abroad, Listen to My still small voice. 

It will in turn resound like a roaring ocean to those whom 
you will minister to.

“O Lord of hosts, 
 How blessed is the man who trusts in You!”


Psalms 84: 12

Trust. 
The issue that everyone on earth deals with day in and day out. 


Putting your trust in things that last for only a season or a few years can be very risky and very disappointing.

I have told My people to trust in ME with ALL of their heart
 and I will make their paths straight.

Yet - continually they put
 their trust in people, and idols made of gold, positions of power, 
and in themselves and invented doctrines of seasonal passing!

Lasting blessings can only come from trusting in Me. 
 

The real issue is that you don’t really think that I will do
 what I say I will do! 

So... You take it into your own hands! When you finally lay down your need to control those all around you and trust in Me, then you will be blessed! Blessed with safety, peace of mind and above all, 
blessed by My pleasure in your resting in My plan.

“See to it that you do not refuse HIM who is speaking!” 
 

Hebrews 12:25

Oh how many times My people have said to Me, 
 “Later Lord! I will do it Later?” 


You exhort others to obey quickly and yet you will drag your
 feet and put Me off until you “feel” like following through!

“It is the LORD your God you must follow, 
and him you must revere. 


Keep his commands and obey him; 
serve him and hold fast to him.” 


Deuteronomy 13:4

Do not refuse Me when I speak to you when I send you to do
 something in My Name! 

You might fear for your own reputation, 
but a life could be hanging in the balance! 


You do not have the luxury of “denying your King!”

If you wish to be caught up into higher dimensions in My Spirit, 
and, if you long for the “deep that calls unto deep", be faithful 
to ACT when I give you a command!!”

Psalm 119:57
 "You are my portion, O LORD; 
 I have promised to obey your words."

Psalm 119:60
 "I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands."


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"LOT'S WIFE - A DIVIDED HEART" - THE WORLD TRAPPED BY PLEASURE, PAIN & POWER

By Mary Lindow

How can we explain this wave of the loss of spiritual discernment and power?  

How does the seductive darkness steal the very heart out of the Christian experience?

One thing is for certain: it doesn't happen suddenly or overnight. 

People lose their love for the truth by degrees. 

Little by little they lower their standards and compromise their faith, until nothing remains except a dead, empty, angry and bitter form.

Some, like Lot's wife, will be so married to the world   so enmeshed in its delicious intellectual and sociological "oneupmanship" that they cannot let go in time. They will suffer with terrible and shocking consequences over the things which they loved more than they loved God.

Others, like Lot, will awaken just in time to choose very quickly and decisively. Without taking a backward glance, they will move out in complete obedience to the will of God. My friends, This is the choice everyone faces. 

Lot's wife suffered terrible consequences when she played with the word of a holy God.

She was dragging her feet and resented having to leave the life she had grown to adore in every way. The offense of looking back upon the luxury, sensual and "modernized" lifestyle that she had grown to love, exposed her divided will. It also revealed the fact that her heart was still bound up with the affairs of a corrupt, and condemned social order. 

Two voices were competing for her faithfulness and steadfastness in the face of temptation.

The voice of heaven–the voice of God calling her to liberty, purity, and salvation. The other voice, the voice of the darkness–the voice of popularity and pleasure, the voice of Sodom. Slowly the voice from beneath gained a foothold in a badly bent conscience, and Lot's wife stands as a tragic example of a divided heart.  

Jesus said, "Remember Lot's wife,"

and He said it to those who were going live through the final traumatic moments of earth's history. He is saying it to the believer ( you and I ) right now–"Remember Lot's wife." We need to hear it again and again. The message that says "Obedience is better than anything else, in revealing our love." Jesus said so. "If you love me, then keep my commandments." 

Disobedience is worse than anything because it is an act of disloyalty in its very nature.

It says, "I can handle this. I'm clever and informed!" But that's not what being obedient requires. It's willingly and honestly walking away from anything that keeps you from allowing your heart to be "re-created" and cleaned. Don't risk the "look back" - upon the pleasures of being in the "vibe" of the humming world machine. The result will be the loss of the "homing device" of God's directional Voice, and the absence of the Holy Presence of the fullness of God's Spirit. 

Whisper this prayer and verse with me, into the ear of God. 

"Create, form in me a new, clean heart, O God, 

filled with clean thoughts and right desires. 

Don’t toss me aside, banished forever from your presence. 

Please! Don’t remove your Holy Spirit from me. 

Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. 

AMEN

~Psalm 51:10-12

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“THE SECRET OF INDIVIDUAL RESTORATION”

By Mary Lindow


I invite you to step out from the familiar comfort zone in which you now 
are and take a risk. 
In the body of Christ today there are many different kinds of comfort 
zones. Step out from your comfort zone that leaves you in the place of 
being a “Fallow ground- Christian.” 


What I mean by that statement is; 

“Being currently inactive but with the 
possibility of activity or use in the future.”


THINK HONESTLY 


Are you living as unto yourself, basking in self-approval or self hatred, or 
are you self-consciously living for God’s glory and for the encouragement 
of others? 

Is there joy in your life, and a deeply developing love for God, in the 
“routine” you have carved for yourself? 



We all need the discipline of doing something that goes beyond our 
comfort zone. Some of us need to risk being at an event whose only 
purpose is to pray instead of going to get something or hear something 
that will feed our own need for more attention and self-focus. 



How many times have your heard the line, “If I won the Publisher’s Clearing 
House Sweepstakes, I would do sooooo much to help others who are poor 
or are going through difficult times?!” Or, maybe you have said, “When I 
close this business deal, get my family inheritance, sell that piece of 
property (uh…brings to mind a certain Ananias and Sapphira from Acts 5) 
then I will obey the prompting of the Lord to “Do something to help.” 



A MOVE FROM GOD’S HEART 

If we are truly going have a move of God’s Heart not just His Hand in the form of a “Harvest”, we need to start living the lifestyle that sets a 
precedence for such a move!

Meaning?

Prying our fingers away from what 
we will not share with others until “we” are first satisfied and justified in 
our own “Self preservation.” This does not just apply to material goods. It 
means sharing from the heart humbly, partaking openly with others 
allowing them in, and allowing tears to flow in vulnerability.

These make 
us equals in painful times and equal when we rejoice. 

If folks can’t share during their good times and seasons of abundance, 
they will not fully obey the Lord in caring for their brothers and sisters 
when times are difficult.

SHARE WHAT? 

Time, resources, wisdom, counsel, transparent dialog. And, how about a 
focused “Listening ear” instead of a benevolent sort of “tolerant” dead-pan 
stare as someone pours out their deeply bruised soul, looking for a 
handhold or foothold that will assist them in grappling with the 
overwhelming “mountain” of life.

“For the LORD searches every heart 
and understands every motive behind the thoughts. 


If you seek him, you will find him; 
but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. “
 

1 Chronicles 28:9


Woe to those who think they are fooling themselves when they say that 
they “need to be careful” when they give so people don’t “depend on them 
or expect more from them! 

 Imagine Jesus saying that! He would never withhold from us in order to 
protect “His” investments or hard earned, “worked to the bone” assets! He gave ALL with no guarantee that we would ever appreciate or value it. 



JUST DO IT! 

Invite another family or friend to your home. Don’t wait to be invited. Take 
the initiative. Eat together around the table in your dining room or kitchen. 
Talk together. Pray together. Start a plan of blessing someone in need that 
you know of - together.


DO YOU HEAR VOICES? 

Stop the mindless chattering that is allowed in most of our self-talking 
heads that allows the flesh to push aside the promptings of the Lord! 


Times are getting tough, and those who have been reluctant to share when 
the times were not nearly where they are heading now, will be called up for 
service again, and asked by the Lord to assist those who 
are perhaps weaker, lesser, and much “leaner” in their provisions. 



Start with something small, something useful. Keep it going. And whatever 
you do, keep it between you and the Lord, where your reward is given 
weight in the records in heaven for eternity, not just for a few fleeting 
strokes of the ego here on earth.


THE “PRIVATE THINGS” OF PERSONAL RENEWAL… 

…EXPOSED! 

Begin a private life of personal devotion. 

Rediscover your prayer closet.


”Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, 


Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, 


Where he prayed.” 
 

Mark 1:35

GUT IT OUT WITH GOD

Confess your dissatisfaction with the stale places 
where you have allowed “moss” to grow over in your devotion to the 
discipline of Reading the words of Jesus, Heeding the words of Jesus, and 
then Feeding the Words of Jesus to the hungry, lost, and scared people 
around you in your daily “Missionary calling” as a follower of the Great Reviver of your soul.


”For this is what the high and lofty One says— 
He who lives forever, whose name is holy: 
 "I live in a high and holy place, 
but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, 
 to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.” 


- Isaiah 57:15

“FLAT LINING” 

Personal revival is usually needed when something in our walk with the 
Savior has gone into a “Flat line” and needs to be “shocked” back into a 
proper heartbeat. 



The closer we become devoted to and more intimate with The King, The 
Comforter, and Savior, the more near He is to us and, will reveal His daily 
“Divine Appointments” for our lives and for His Glory. 



If Jesus did it to survive- so must we! 

“But Jesus would often go to some place where he could be alone and pray.” 
 

-Luke 5:16


WE NEED TO BE ALONE! 

Why? In order to not have the distraction of leaning on someone else to “do the praying or talking” for us for one! We gain 
perspective, and refreshing after repenting, and a “reality check” regarding how we are to live the lifestyle of a Christian in an ever-darkening world 
where morals and values are crumbling at an uncontrollable speed.


LET US SEE AND HEAR AND ACT! 

As we face the fallow ground left unfruitful (through intentional denial that we allowed this) in our lives and allow the Father to create a clean heart in us, and renew or “Revive” a right spirit (godly attitude) within it, the soil 
can be a host for seed and harvest. 



He gladly does this! WE are His faith seeds in the soil of Earth!

"He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, 
will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him." 
Psalm 126:6 


"He restores my soul. 
 

He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake." 


Psalm 23:3


WISDOM FROM THE SPIRIT 

 

If you want present day revelation, you must have a level of solid Christian 
maturity to not only discern it, but to apply it. There are more and more 
”Muddy” approaches regarding how to be wise or savvy in living your life
being sold in bookstores and every media venue out there!

If you want to 
drink or eat re-cycled food…well, be my guest. BUT! If you truly desire 
depth and a secure anchor for surviving and flourishing in any 
circumstance that you surely will have attempt to sidetrack and undermine 
your Godly Destiny, you and I will have to go to THE SOURCE of Wisdom 
and stay there until we “Get it.”


”We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, 


but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, 


Who are coming to nothing.”


1 Corinthians 2:6 


”But solid food is for the mature, 


Which by constant use have trained themselves 
to distinguish good from evil.” 


Hebrews 5:14

GIVE JESUS JOY 

 

"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." 

- Romans 12:12 


These are the attributes of the faithful and true follower of Christ. And, as Jesus watches over our coming and our going, every moment of every day, 
His joy is made complete when He sees the evidence of a restored life being fruitful and steadfast, no matter what the condition of their 
circumstance or surroundings.



Believer. Let us press on into the walk of maturity in Christ where nothing 
shakes or shatters us anymore, because we live in the light of His Glorious Grace.


”So we praise God for the glorious grace 
he has poured out on us 

Who belong to his dear Son.” 


- Ephesians 1:6

~ QUOTE FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS ~  

"Whenever we are obstinate and self-willed and set upon our own 
ambitions, 

...We are hurting Jesus.

Every time we stand on our rights and 
insist that this is what we intend to do, 

...We are persecuting Jesus.

Whenever 
we stand on our dignity we systematically vex and grieve His Spirit; and 
when the knowledge comes home that it is Jesus Whom we have been 
persecuting all the time, 

...It is the most crushing revelation there could be.” 




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