Send The Fire You Promised

Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Baptize means to be totally immersed with Holy Spirit.
Every part of you.  And the same with His FIRE.

Isaiah saw this fire and the coals from it touched his lips and changed him forever.

Ezekiel saw the throne of God ablaze with fire.
Jeremiah felt like this fire was shut up in his bones.

Jeremiah 23:29
“Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

That’s why we must read it; it’s like a fire that will consume you.

That same Holy Spirit and fire showed up in Acts 2:2.  And when that fireball from heaven hit that room it divided and rested on every one of them.

And that day the Holy Spirit turned the Word of God into the SWORD of the SPIRIT with a fire tip.

Now prayer would have fire with it, effective prayer.
And now we would be able to understand His Word.

Now we would have POWER to witness.
GOD & FIRE go together.

Sacrifices are consumed by His fire.

When you give a sacrifice of praise, His fire falls in there.
When you bring sacrificial prayer, His fire falls.
When you give sacrificially, HIS FIRE FALLS.

Leviticus 9:24
and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.

Church, His fire purifies so allow Holy Spirit to separate the chaff in your life, the waste and burn it up.

Some never see God move because they won’t let God burn up the junk in their lives.

Let His fire burn up the root of murmuring/complaining, the root of control/pride and rebellion and criticism.

Did you know that your heart is God’s fireplace?  So are some other places.

God has always had His fireplaces.  The burning bush, the brazen altar, Mt. Carmel, the Upper Room are just a few of His fireplaces.

Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.

He desires to have and will have a Church that is ON FIRE with His divine presence and power.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong