On Fire

A bit of revelation came to me just yesterday...

There is a duality in praying for fire to come. On the one hand it can mean "Lord let us move in Your power." Yet on the other, we are actually praying for judgement to come. It is in His fire that His power is displayed, "for the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God" (Deuteronomy 4:24). Fire is powerful and it is consuming, yet it is also cleansing. Could it be that the only way to walk in the power of God is to first allow His fire to burn up the junk, so that we are completely purified, or become consumed by this fire (judgement) because we do not yield to it? Hm. Something to ponder a bit more.

Lord, bring more revelation of your fire...

Revelation on Revelation

So tonight I went to hear Billy teach on the book of Revelation at IHOP. It was mostly on the 144,ooo and the Seven Thunders/Little Book. My mind is once again on overload and I realize that I have to get into the word more. Studying escatology is not easy folks. It takes a lot of time and a lot of big books with commentators' names I can't even pronounce. How am I supposed to lug all those books around? I hear there are a few good ones online...

What I really realize most and am reminded of each time I leave this class is that we must be rooted and grounded in the love of Christ (Eph. 3:17) so that our hearts don't become offended when all the real bad judgements commence. Yes, this is the truth folks. I want to love Jesus through it all, because He is worth it.

First Post

Well folks, I'm getting caught up with the information age. I finally have a blog. I must be the last one in my generation on my block to get one. Even the 14 year old that I live with has had one for months now and she's egging me on. I really don't know why I got one. I'm not that great of a writer and when I think about having to write something I get stressed like when I was in school and waited 'til the last minute to write a term paper. I guess it is mainly to let friends and family in on my life when I am not able to keep in touch. I tried a website for a while, but it took to long to update and it was much more complicated. We'll see how this goes.