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A Holy Fire In Our Souls

Light Your Holy Fire in our Soul

As we enter another year, may we be conscious that Jesus is coming soon.

May the Lord enable us to look beyond the small circle of self, beyond our own self-centered agendas, to embrace the purposes in God’s heart. What are those? To build his church and to extend his kingdom in his way, and for his glory alone.

Is it surprising that our generation is called the “broken-up people”? We have broken up homes, broken up churches, and a society that is fragmenting fast. Children, young people, marriages, even leaders are broken up and hurting. People are looking for lives that can have meaning and newness and purpose. Hoe should we respond?

Focus on God

Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life; noone comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). He also prayed to his Father, “Your word is truth” (John 17:17).

God’s value system forms the basic principles of his kingdom people. If we are following after the world’s criteria of identity as is found in our prestige, power and possessions, one day we’ll find we have been trying to build on sand, and our house will collapse.

The world’s value system is rooted in “self”. God’s value system is founded on God Himself.

In God’s value system, God is central and the Cross is central. Today, very subtly we see a dangerous shift from God to self. And Jesus weeps because we have turned away from the fountain of living water to broken cisterns that can hold no water!

Focus on the Cross

In Luke 9:23 Jesus said, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself take up his cross daily, follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it”. We cannot overlook the place of the thorns, the blood and the cross.’

We must do something about the Cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do: flee from it, or die upon it.

“The man or woman who has died to self 

Has no ambitions – and so he has nothing to be jealous about 

He has no reputation – and so he has nothing to fight about

He has no possessions – therefore, nothing to worry about

He has no rights – therefore he cannot suffer any wrongs

He is already dead – so no one can kill him.”

If I deny myself and take up his Cross and follow Him, my attitude to others will also change. It is then, and only then, that the world will look upon us and marvel that we have been with Jesus!

As we enter into another new year, may the love of God transform us, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ strengthen us, and the power of the Holy Spirit enable us to become and do all that Christ has died for.

Juliet Thomas

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