BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE

In the year 2023, we will outrun and this is a continuous prayer that we overrun in our respective lives, although there are people ahead of us yet we will outrun. What is meant to be achieved after a certain period will be achieved in a short time. There has been a delay in believers’ lives, yet we should first outrun in prayer and Spiritual life.

Whenever one becomes born again, they get baptized with the Holy Spirit, every believer must be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Having the Holy Spirit does not mean one has fire(oil), hence we must be baptized with both the Holy Spirit and fire. Fellowship and prayer rekindle the fire. A man who carries fire, it becomes easy for him to be obedient.

[Luke 12:49-54]

Jesus came to set fire on the earth, there is a baptism to be baptized with, He was referring to His death – the crucifixion and suffering. Seating at the right-hand side of the Father is when the fire continues to burn within you. Jesus does not have the power to send the Holy Spirit but only the Father can release the Holy Spirit. Similarly, Jesus does not appoint those who seat on the right-hand side of the Father.

Jesus came to bring division but this is not fights and disagreements, the division that Jesus came to bring was in Israel and the temple because fire divide and separates.

(Verse 54)How is it that you do not discern this time when there is a cloud? It means the rain is coming. Jesus was telling the Pharisees to settle their matter as He had come to bring division, and the cross would bring judgement but yet they perceived not.

[Malachi 4:1]

A day is coming burning like an oval, and all who do wickedly, the day that is coming will burn them up.

[Daniel 2:31-35]

The vision of Daniel, when he saw a statue and the feet made out of clay and bronze, which means there was a mixture of uncleanness and holiness. The wicked is the iron and the clay represents the nation of God.  The rapture began when Jesus died and yet people are still waiting for the rapture, in the cross there were two thieves and one said “Jesus, remember me when you come into Your Kingdom” (See Luke 23:32-43) this was rapture as one thief believed and the other did not, this was division.

[Matthew 3:7-12]

John baptized people with water, but the one coming after Him is more mighty than him and He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. The One John is unworthy to untie His sandals, He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor. The Pharisees are the ones who go to the threshing floor to pray with uncleanness. (Verse 12) He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

The ministry of John was seasonal and he was there to prepare the way. Therefore, John could not continue operating after he paved the way for the One he testified about. A faithful servant lives in the Will. Fire can either keep you or destroy you. He is a consuming fire (See Hebrews 12:29) and when He comes there is what remains in Him and there is what gets destroyed. This should be our prayer and we should ask God to consume us, whatever is wicked in us will be destroyed.

[Acts 10:38]

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power(fire), we are not the first receivers of the Holy Spirit but it started with Jesus. Fire is power, we need fire to pray and meditate. However, whenever we hear the word fire, we want to use it externally and not internally. Power is only seen when one is prayed for to receive healing, but not to pray and meditate. We need to carry both the Holy Spirit and fire. Fire makes Him your God; fire gives one a personal encounter. Fire is not for prophets and teachers, but it is for believers.

[Jeremiah 20: 9]

Whenever one takes a decision to stop praying and meditating, but yet there is fire shut up in their bone and they cannot be quiet. The Word is like fire shut up in our bones and unwillingly we find ourselves praying and worshiping Him.

Your father through the Gospel

Revivalist Abraham Unknown