June 20 – The God Who Answers by Fire
Matthew 3:11: 11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
God very often speaks by fire. Fire comes in the form of great blessing, the Holy Spirit fire that baptizes us. With this fire, we are ignited with His presence, equipped with His power for healing, and for greater works for the Kingdom of God.
The second kind of fire comes in the form of calamity on earth, as we see in the verses above. In one dream, that fire was a calamity fire. This disaster could either cause people to draw nearer to God and perhaps even through prayers prevent it as He did with Nineveh where God did not allow disaster to strike the people due to their repentance.
The third kind of fire is the final judgmental fire at the end of time, the lake of burning fire. Revelation 21:8: “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars-their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” This fire is also for the demons and Satan.
With all this said, there is hope:
Hope to believe that our prayers can reverse the disasters to come, that people praying will start exercising their spiritual authority over powers, kingdoms and principalities and pray as never before even over the Corona virus and other dreaded plagues striking our Earth.
1 Corinthians 3:16: Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
May the fire of God consume us and blaze brightly within us more and more.
Rita
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