Exodus
13:21 And
the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a
cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a
pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day
and night
Fire is
mentioned as fires for sacrifices to the Lord and
the fire He sends down from Heaven. The Lord sends
His fire to consume and cleanse. Many times, from
Sodom and
Gomorrah and on
through the Bible, God sends His fire as a
punishment to cleanse evil from the earth, and
then there are times He sends His fire at our
request as a sign.
I saw something
very interesting. The Lord didn’t just send His
fire. In each and every case there was
a ”magnet” for His
fire. There was something to draw the fire. This,
of course, got me thinking about all the times I
have prayed for His cleansing fire. I had been
praying for Him to “Let the Fire Fall”, to send
down the pillar of fire as if He would just let it
fall.
This is not the
case. His fire, when it comes down, is an
interaction between Him and us. Whether the fire
is for a guide as in the desert or a cleansing
fire or a punishing fire, there has been a “rod”
to draw the fire. Just like a lighting rod draws
the lighting bolt to itself, His fire is sent down
to a “fire rod” or a magnet.
I started to
really think about this, how did I expect the
“Fire to Fall” if there
is nothing to draw the Lord’s fire.
I 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 licked
up the water that was in the trench. Elijah
calls the fire down to defeat the priests
of baal. If it were
not for Elijah, the fire would not have been sent.
In II
Chronicles 6 Solomon prays and builds an altar
then, in II Chronicles 7:1 Now
when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire
came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt
offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the
LORD filled the house. If it were not for Solomon,
the fire would not have been sent.
We must become
“magnets” for the Lord’s fire. This brings the
question, how?
I look at
Elijah and see a man who did everything the Lord
asked of Him without hesitation. Elijah heard what
the Lord said and he did it. The Lord sent His
Fire.
Solomon had his
faults but he built the
Temple to
praise and worship the Lord in the Lord’s
Holy
City. Solomon
did as the Lord instructed him but also added
repentance, praise and worship. He heard what the
Lord said and did it. The Lord sent His Fire.
We have to work
at being a magnet to draw the FIRE.
These are
questions I have asked myself:
Have I forgiven
all that I need to forgive?
Do I live by
the Written Word of God or my own interpretations?
Do I pray
everyday?
Do I read the
Word everyday?
Do I live by
the Word or by what is convenient for me?
When I pray, am
I only asking for Father to do things for me or do
I pray Praise and do I worship Him?
Do I do all
things He tells me to do?
Am I
pure enough to be a FIRE ROD to draw His fire from
above.
Do you need to
ask the same questions?
Thank you
Father for all that you do for us. Thank you for
the things we see and the
things we do not see.
In the name of
Yeshua
Amen
