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Light a Holy Fire in my Soul

It is not suprising 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 which can have meaning and newness and purpose. Alas we are living in a world with upside down values! Black is no longer black! The Hebrew prophet Isaiah warns us in Is.5:20 of what will happen to any society that has upside down values: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness ………..” God wants us to wake up before it is too late!

Our Focus is on God

Jesus said: “I am the Way the Truth and the Life, no man comes to the Father but by Me”.

Jesus also said “Thy Word is Truth!”.

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 family background, our possessions, our successes —- one day we’ll find we have been trying to build on shifting sand and some day our house will collapse. Is our value system based on Prestige, Power, Possessions? 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!

The Church today must therefore recapture the view of God which places Him above the times, the High and Holy One, in all His majesty and power, but also in the times in weakness and suffering love.

Our Focus is on the Cross

In Luke 9:23 Jesus said “If anyone wishes to come offer 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“.

Tozer the 20th Century prophet writes “We have become to soft to scale spiritual heights. Our hymns and sermons create for us a religion of consolation and pleasantness. We overlook the place of the thorns, the blood and the cross.’ He further explains this about the Cross

The Cross us the most revolutionary thing ever to appear among men. The Cross of Roman times knew no compromise. It never made concessions. It won all its arguments by killing its opponent and silencing him for good. It spared not Christ but slew Him the same as the rest. He was alive when they hung Him on that Cross, and completely dead when they took Him off it.   That was the Cross the first time it appeared in Christian history.

With perfect knowledge of all this, Christ said “If any man will come after me let him deny himself take up his cross and follow me”. So the Cross not only brought Christ’s life to an end it also ends the first life, the old life of everyone of His true followers this and nothing less is true Christianity.

We must do something about the Cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do: flee 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 – so 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. We will esteem each other, encourage, build, and honour one another. We will not be like “crabs in the basket” pulling each other down! We will enjoy transparent and open relationships not only in the surface but in depth. We have no testimony before people except in loving one another! It is then, and only then, that the world will look upon us and marvel that we have been with Jesus! Our service to one another will be out of genuine love not only in public but in private- an offering of love to God.

May the love of God transform us, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ strengthen us, and the power of the Holy Sprit enable us to become all the Christ has died for.

A disciple once came to Abba Joseph saying “Father according as I am able, I keep my little rule, my little fast and my little prayer and according as I am able, I strive to cleanse my mind of all evil thoughts and my heart of al evil intents. Now what more should I do?

Abba Joseph rose up and stretched out his hands to heaven and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire. He answered “Why not be totally changed into fire?”

“Burn in me, Fire of God”

Burn till my heart is pure

Burn till your life shines out in me

Steadfast and strong and sure.

Pray this prayer with me in your heart – this beautiful prayer of Lesley Dewel in his book “Touch the World through Prayer :

“O Lord give me a new joy and expectancy in prayer, holy boldness to see the Church triumph and Satan defeated. Give me dear Lord increased faith to see God’s promise fulfilled and Satan put to shame.

God, light a holy fire in my soul by the power of the Holy Spirit, to transform my praying from weakness to prevailing power and an urgent insistence to see God’s will done on earth as it is in Heaven.

Clothe my praying, O my God, with the authority of Calvary, the power of Pentecost and the Almightiness of Your Name.

Holy Father may this be the hour when You lead us to triumph on our knees with Christ, our Sovereign Lord! May this indeed be the hour when we see your power revealed and your purposes fulfilled for the great glory and honour to Your Name alone.” AMEN

Juliet Thomas  MTh. DMin
President/Editor-Life Media and Communications

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