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Let NO ONE
Extinguish Your Fire for the LORD
Well praise Jesus
today everyone. It's another day to praise the Lord, to worship Him, and to
cast out all the accusations from the devil, all the things that are sinful in
this world, and to truly put our faith in the Lord, having the fire of the Holy
Spirit in us. You know there's a lot of ways to lose our fire, especially when
we're new Christians and we're putting our faith in the Lord and we're trying
to get grounded, there's a lot of things that can try to distract us,
especially other brothers and sisters in the Lord that try to quiet us down.
I remember when I
was first hearing from the Holy Spirit and receiving the words of the Holy
Spirit into my heart, I was so excited to tell everyone about Jesus. I was
writing letters to people, I was telling people in my church.and man, I got on
Facebook I was telling people about Jesus. I desperately wanted people to
repent and to hear from Jesus the way I was. I was very zealous in the eyes of
people in my church. I remember one of the worship arts directors in the church
coming to me, and he just belittled me for my newfound faith in Jesus. He said,
“when I was young, I was like you. I was really zealous, I wanted to win people
to the Lord. But as I grew, I grew into maturity to know that we shouldn't act
like that, Andy. We don't need to be so vigorous about our faith like that. You
shouldn't offend people, you're just excited right now.” And he really tried to
cool down my fire for the Holy Spirit. Well, guess what guys, I have been
preaching Jesus and living for Jesus now about, I don't know, it's been about
13 years or so.
Since I left the
church, since I came out of dead religion, and the Holy Spirit has continued to
put His fire in me. That same fire, I have to continue to go to the Lord and
say, “put your fire in me, let me continue to live for you, to die to myself,
to pick up my cross, and to live for you.” And unless we continue to go to the
Lord to renew ourselves, so that He can renew our hearts every day, renew our
minds and give us this continued strength, we're bound just to become like all
the Christians who are in church, who have lost their joy for the Lord, they've
lost their fire, they're not evangelizing, they're not telling anyone about
Jesus, they're not helping anyone, they're just lukewarm and putrid. They have
fallen back to sin, back to all sorts of... ...connection, I'm driving right
now, so hopefully it'll be enough... ...but what I was saying was, we need to
keep that fire in us that we received from the beginning, we don't want to
become dead... ...
Don't let anyone
belittle you because you are new, or because you are young, saying that you
shouldn't be so eager to talk about Jesus, or saying that, well, why are you
speaking about God, you don't know the Bible enough, you haven't been to Bible
college. The devil will always try to belittle you if you're starting to catch
fire for Jesus. This is a huge tactic of the devil, so that the gospel will not
spread like wildfire. But if we can be concerned about the Kingdom of God, the
righteousness of God, and doing His work, then we will continue to spread the
gospel, and concern ourselves with hearing from our Lord and Master, and not
worrying about all these accusations from Satan, well, you don't know enough,
you're not a good enough person, what makes you good enough to speak about
holiness and righteousness, do you think that you're perfect? The accusations
of Satan go on and on and on. But we need to keep the fire of the Holy Spirit
in us, and keep rejoicing in the Lord, casting out demons in Jesus' name,
casting out doubt, casting out fear, of course casting out lust, and just
standing on the rock of our salvation, on the rock of Jesus Christ.
Following Jesus is
not about being in church, it's not about having a club, it's not having an
association to be with, following Jesus is about living on the words of life.
We have to truly eat Jesus' flesh, and drink His blood. And that's what a lot
of Christians don't know, they think that they will get fired up by being in
church, that's not true. The people in church are going to try to take your
joy, they're going to try to belittle you because they're jealous if you are
hearing from God, they only want the pastor hearing from God, because that's
how they make their money, that the pastor thinks that he is feeding the flock.
But Jesus is the one who feeds His flock, not the pastor in church.
If you want to be
daily fed, daily nourished, you have to be going to the one good shepherd, and
that is Jesus Christ, He feeds His flock daily. They don't listen to the
malicious voice, they don't listen to strangers, or strange teachers, or money
preachers, or false prophets on the internet. They listen to Jesus alone, and
they are moved by God, not by the accusations of Satan, or false brothers, or
false sisters. Satan uses Christians in particular to try to move Christians.
Satan doesn't use atheists to try to move Christians, but he uses supposed
brothers in Christ, or sisters in Christ, to try to influence other Christians
for evil. And that's why you have so many false prophets, so many false
teachers, so many money preachers, fellowship. Their rock of salvation, their
supposed salvation, is in their religious practice, it's in their Bible, it's
in their parents, it's in their pastor, it's in the people in their church, but
they don't have any genuine faith in Jesus.
If we want genuine
faith on the rock of Jesus Christ, we need to find our salvation in Him alone,
in Jesus Christ. We need to love Him, obey Him, every day when we wake up, we
need to say, “Lord Jesus, please speak to me, please guide me, let your fire be
in me, let me receive the words of the Holy Spirit in my life, that I may
overcome, and walk in the newness of life with you all the time.” We have to
purposefully deny ourselves, denying the things that we do, and we need to lay
down our life for the gospel, and truly living for Jesus with every breath,
every move, and everything that we're doing.
So are we living
with the fire of the Holy Spirit in us? Are you living with the fire of the
Holy Ghost in you? Or are you like the Christians who are backslidden, who
don't have any power to stand for what's right? Are you like the Christian who
is attending church and surrounded by a false brotherhood, people who encourage
them to keep sin, but in reality, they're encouraging you to sin because
they're not really preaching that you need to give up sin, that you have to
quit on addiction, that you need to quit on things that cause your mind to sin,
such as pornography and lust, things that cause broken marriages, addictions,
all those things in the world that cause you to stumble.
Is the joy of the
Lord really in your heart? I want to pray for those of you that do want the
fire of the Holy Ghost in you, that want to stand in complete righteousness,
not with the hypocrite, not with the sinful Christians that are acting like
they know God but have no power, but for those of us that want to just, in
humility but also in boldness, stand with Jesus Christ and live for Him. So “Lord
Jesus, I pray for your church, I pray for those that really want to be
empowered by your Holy Spirit, I pray for them that you would liberate them
from the evil doctrines of church that hold people to sin. I pray that your
Holy Spirit fire would be in us and that we would be burning and living for you
with all of our heart, Lord, and that we would be able to overcome sin,
overcome temptation, overcome all the addictions and evil that are in this
world, and that we truly would be salt and light for you and your sheep that
are ready to follow the Good Shepherd wherever you lead. I pray that we are not
distracted by all the things of the world. We know about the four soils and how
the seed that was in the soil that got choked out were those that fell into all
the troubles of the world, that listened to all the lies of the devil and were
choked out by riches, by church, for those that have an ear to hear and eyes to
see. And I pray that each of us would endure until the very end and that you
would empower us every day, Lord, to be able to overcome, that we may truly
worship you and honor you and worship you in spirit and in truth. In your name
I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.”
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