Daily Bread - DEC/19/14 Genesis 15:17 - And it was as the sun was going down at dusk a smoke of a furnace of fire and a torch of fire which passed through these halved pieces. The first time that God manifested Himself surrounded with fire was when He appeared to Abraham. God had come to Abraham to assure him that he would have a son and that he would inherit the land that had been promised to him. God would not manifest Himself like this again until the time that He brought Israel up out of the land of Egypt. Then on mount Sinai God appeared once again in a very similar way, And Mount Sinai was completely wrapped in smoke when the presence of Yahweh came down in fire and the smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace of fire and the whole mountain greatly trembled (Exodus 19:18). After this Gods fire cloud of glory remained over the tabernacle and in the Holies of Holies for forty years. The cloud of Gods glory would not be seen again until Solomon had finished building the Temple. In an act of acceptance of what Solomon had built and in a display of His power God came and manifested His glory again in the fire cloud (2 Chronicles 5:14, 7:1-3). The association of Gods fire cloud with the demonstration of His power and the acceptance of those things offered to Him is unmistakable. When God empowered the church He gave the church His fire (Luke 3:16; Acts 2:2-4). We are to live in the midst of the fire as we walk out our relationship with God and present ourselves as living sacrifices holy and acceptable to God. We are commanded not to extinguish the fire by quenching the Spirit who has given us the fire (1 Thessalonians 5:19). The fire of God is far more than a purification agent it is actually a manifestation of His power and glory that subdues all things to His nature. Even as the fire that burns across the great forest of the earth and transforms the trees and the vegetation into a flame of fire subduing all things there is nothing that can withstand that which Father has purposed to accomplish. When we yield our lives to Him He comes with His Spirit and power and fills every dimension of our lives with His all consuming fire. There is no power of darkness, no devil of hell, no principality or power, no sickness or disease that has a chance when the fire of God is present.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:48:01 +0000
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